UPDATE ---------- How long was your Wedding Video?

Our videographer siad our video is done and it's 15 minutes long. Isn't that too short?

UPDATE:

Well girls, we got our video in the mail yesturday.......and it was as he said it was. SHORT! The main part of the video was 16.23 long and the bonus part was 10 minutes long.

It was a highlighted video, and in our contract, we were to have a full length video with bridal prep, photo shoot ceremony and reception. Well, I guess you can say we got all of that, but in a very CONDENSED version

I phoned them right away and asked them to explain to me why in my contract it said one thing but we received another? They told me that on our wedding day, the videographer's battery died and was only able to film the last 10 minutes of our ceremony He got our vows, but only the end part of them......when we were exchanging rings. He had to drive an hour back to his office to get another battery and missed A LOT of things in between being that he was gone for over 2.5 hours........... So we never got our bridal party entrance, we never got my husbands reaction when he saw me, we never got the majority of our ceremony..........we never got our bridal party shoot........nothing. I am so upset about this.

This is something that they can not give back to us. NEVER! I told them that I don't care what they do or how they do it, but we want ALL of the raw footage of our wedding day. EVERY last bit of it. I just can't beleive it!

Also, my sister wasn't able to make it to our wedding as she had my little neice 3 weeks prior, so she send an email speech that my mom read to me.....which I cried my eyes out while it was being read, but on the video, he started filming half way through the speech!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways, I am just to upset to deal with this right now. They said they are going to try to get all the raw footage from our wedding and send it to us.

Our friends said that we can ask for a refund or sue if they don't give it to us, and that's fine and dandy, but that won't bring back the memories that we paid to have on our video, you know?

And don't worry, this company is not from around here........

Thanks for listening girls......I really hope this does NOT happen to anyone else!

that is impossible. my editied video is 3 hours and the unedited was almost 5 hours. call back, maybe you misunderstood him

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Posted by BEANS

that is impossible. my editied video is 3 hours and the unedited was almost 5 hours. call back, maybe you misunderstood him

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I questioned him when he told me and he said there was some bonus feature from the reception added on the end of the video too. He's mailing it to us today, so we should get it on Saturday, but I thought that sounded really short! He was with us from the rehearsal night all the way through to midnight at our reception. So I am totally confused.

15 minutes????? Hmmmmmm, it better be longer than that.......for the amount of money we paid, that's ridiculous!

Maybe he meant that the bonus feature at the end of your reception (recap?) was 15 minutes long.

There's no way that's your entire video!!

OK, I just phoned them back and it's still the same. The entire video is 15 minutes long and the bonus feature is 10 minutes. We had him from 6pm -10pm on the rehearsal night and then 8am - the end of our reception on our wedding day. I am so upset! 15 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got this video and spent all this money to send this video to family members who couldn't make it to our wedding

I'll have to wait to see when we get it, but I am just devastated right now I asked him about the raw footage......if we can have that and he said he's not sure if they still have it, but will look.........

That is way too short. My unedited video was 3 1/2 hours long and the edited video was 2 hours.

I don't possibly see how it can only be 15 minutes. Maybe they only did some highlights!

15 MINS??? thats probable the highlights. the whole video with ceremony and reception should be longer..

That doesn't make any sense! Our video is over 3 hours long. Does your contract say anything? I'm sure it wouldn't say the exact time of the video, but maybe what it would contain. For example, if it says your ceremony will be included on the video...that itself would be more than 15 minutes.

I would definitely complain about that. I hope everything works out for you!

It makes no sense to me that the recap would be almost as long as your entire video. What's the point of having a 'recap' of a 15 minute video? I'm sorry you are going through this

btw, our raw footage was maybe 3 hours or longer. The edited video was around 2...and it was our choice how long it would be, btw

ours is 2.5 hours.

and i have about 8 hours of unedited footage

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Posted by billandme

OK, I just phoned them back and it's still the same. The entire video is 15 minutes long and the bonus feature is 10 minutes. We had him from 6pm -10pm on the rehearsal night and then 8am - the end of our reception on our wedding day. I am so upset! 15 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got this video and spent all this money to send this video to family members who couldn't make it to our wedding

I'll have to wait to see when we get it, but I am just devastated right now I asked him about the raw footage......if we can have that and he said he's not sure if they still have it, but will look.........

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Mine was almost 2 hours and I am still waiting for the unedited version (mine was there for 12 hours).
I don't understand how that is even possible. 15 minutes for and entire wedding day and then some.....IMPOSSIBLE!!!
If you find that this is true, then I would SUE, SUE, SUE! This man should be hung, that is ridiculous. Something must have gone wrong if that is all the footage that he was able to make into your whole video.

Mine was over an hour and a half... the recapt was really short, like 3 minutes or so (If you blinked it you could miss it).
Give us all the update when you get it!
Do you know anyone who used your videographer and can possibly tell you how theirs was?