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Planning a wedding on a tight budget or simply want a more personal touch to your wedding video? Don’t worry, you can still capture the magic of your special day with a DIY wedding video! While hiring a professional videographer may not be an option, with the right tips and tools (and a little help […]

Weddings are beautiful celebrations of love, and capturing those precious moments on video is a must for many couples. While hiring a professional videographer is the traditional route, an emerging trend is to shoot the wedding video yourself, using the power of smartphones… With the right guidance and tools, you can transform your guests’ phones […]

Happy New Year, from all of us here at FIY Wedding! Okay, it’s still just me here really. Anyway, since 2023 is now upon us, I thought it’d be a great time to look at the year ahead and what trends we can expect to see in the wedding industry this year. Here’s what’s going […]

We could go on for a whole article about how difficult wedding videography is with only 1 camera, and then right at the end swoop in with our plug – “with FIY Wedding all your guests use their own camera!” … but that would feel a bit obvious. So we figured we may as well […]

A wedding video is one of the biggest costs of a wedding, so if you’re working to a tight budget and want to cut costs, one option is to have your friends film it. How would your friends film the wedding? The easiest way for your friends to film your wedding is to have them […]

For many of us, editing a wedding video is a skill we picked up on the fly (with a lot of trial and error). Maybe we’ve seen other people do it, tried our hand at editing some footage for fun and gone from there. However there’s only some much you can learn from trial and […]

Imagine this scenario. The year is 2023. 90% of your wedding guests have a camera in their pocket, capable of filming 4K. You pay £1,500+ for a professional videographer. This is the reality for tens of thousands of couples that get married every year in the UK. Ok, we were being a bit dramatic there. […]

When we got engaged, I knew I wanted to having a wedding video. At the time, I thought that meant I wanted to hire a professional videographer, but as explained in our About section, I started to realise they weren’t necessarily the same thing. When you’re looking to start married life together, it’s hard to […]

The entire premise of FIY Wedding, is that your friends film your wedding video. For some people though, this raises the question… can my friends do that? We’ve spoken to a few brides that buy into the idea of a DIY wedding video, but they’re just not entirely convinced that their friends are capable. We’re […]

You’ve got the dress, the venue, and the photographer. What’s missing? A wedding video. Wedding videographers are one of the suppliers that tend to book up quickly, so it’s important to get yours sorted as soon as possible if you want one. Unfortunately, it can also be one of the biggest wedding costs in the […]