Here are some tips to for all you lovely people who will have your wedding day taped:
1) Make sure you know how many camera angles you are paying for, how many of those camera angles are manned, and how long it will take for the video to get made. The footage from unmanned camera angles that I’ve observed are usually pretty uninteresting, so you want to make sure you know what you are getting into.
2) Ask the video production company for a couple final products. You should review it to make sure that they fit your standards. Some companies just film the basics, while others go for artistic shots. Likewise, some companies use one camera lens, while others use multiple (such as fisheye). Some companies bring lights and special tripods, some don’t.
3) Communicate with the DJ’s, photographers, videoographers and anyone else that you hire. You want your video to come out well, and the more details everyone knows about the wedding, the smoother things will run, and the better the video will come out to be. For example, at one wedding I attended a woman began singing at the ceremony, and I had a hard time taping her. If I knew she would have done that, I would have positioned myself at a different spot.
4) Always smile! I like to use footage of happy people, and the more you smile, the better footage the videoographer will have!
AND MOST IMPORTANT:
5) The videoographes may attach a wireless mic to certain speakers sometime before the ceremony. Make sure to go to the bathroom beforehand, otherwise they will be listening to you doing that thing you do.