The tale of recording your marriage onto film to capture those memories of the big day evermore.

One of the most significant and joyest days of your life is going to be the day that you get wedded and so it is likely that you are going to desire to hang on to a record of it in the best achievable ways. So together with a set of competently taken photographs, you are also likely to want to have a video, or these days a DVD, of the event. And for this a professional videographer is the greatest way of ensuring a quality result.

Filming weddings is nothing new. For a long time the rich and famous have had their big days recorded on film for distribution throughout the world's news reels. As home cine cameras became all the rage, a friend or a relative would record the day's proceedings for prosterity using unwieldy picture only cameras, which would create a low quality film that was shown on the cine screen to the clatter of the projector. If any editing was done, it was a complicated and manual procedure of carefully cutting between image frames and sticking them back together again in order.

But even with the low quality of the final result, the lack of sound and the amateur's ungainliness of getting in the way and not knowing the best ways to set up shots, they were very admired. Looking back on old wedding films with favourite traditional music added to them can still bring back the tears to many. They were never planned as a proxy to the traditional wedding photographs. Filming weddings is intended as a enhancement. An extra way of recalling the delights of the day.

At some stage in the mid of the 1990s the digital camera came along and took the professional videographer from the days of 8mm tape into the digitial age. The cameras became smaller and more subtle and the professional was able to hide out of the way at an event rather than being in the way all of the time.

With the enhancement in home computers and digital editing suits becoming obtainable that enabled the meticulous editing and re-editing of every frame of the video, together with retouching of frames, addition of special effects to scenes and simple addition of music background tracks, the whole process of constructing a professional wedding video has improved significantly. No longer is a film of the wedding day the preserve of the rich and famous, an brilliant recording of the day is something that every couple can pay for.

You might question whether you could use all of these superior methods yourself to make a satisfactory wedding video of your big day. You might even attempt to record some of it on your mobile phone. But one part of the process has not moved on from the days of celluloid. That is that an amateur recording remains just that. Unless you have the specialist know-how and long standing familiarity of creating the correct shots, the finished product just won't quite have the outcome that a professional wedding video will have.

Keith Lunt works in support of Impressions Video, who present a range of Weding Video Services Merseyside.

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