Wedding Videographer Dallas Shares Wedding Wire Message

Wedding Wire Live

On Tuesday, Wedding Wire premiere wedding referral site, hosted a group of local wedding professionals at the Tower Club in Dallas.  What a cacophonous crowd!  The venue was stuffed with wedding coordinators, florists, videographers, officiants and other wedding vendors, all networking elbow-to-elbow with the volume set on high.

Online Reviews are the New Word of Mouth

Along with the libations and snacks, Wedding Wire corralled the highly energetic crowd into a meeting room for a little training. The wedding professionals were inundated with facts and figures related to their business.  Things like:

• the amazing growth of Wedding Wire
• other sites related to Wedding Wire, like Prom Wire, Mitzvah Wire and even Birthday Wire
• the phenomenal migration from PC to phone for internet searches
• online tools for wedding vendors

The goal of the all of this training was to encourage wedding vendors to solicit reviews from their customers.  On the surface, this seems like a pretty selfish undertaking, but Wedding Wire pointed out another aspect of it.  The overwhelming majority of brides actually want to see reviews.  When a newly married bride takes time to review her vendors she’s paying forward for the brides who follow.

How to Write a Helpful Review

Though all vendors want to hear they are great and that they did a wonderful job on your big day, prospective brides are looking for a little more information.  They’d like the answer to questions like these:

• Why did you choose this vendor?
• Was their price fair and competitive?
• What sets this vendor apart from others?
• Was your experience a pleasant one?  Did you like their personnel?  Their taste?  Their courtesy?
• Did the vendor respond quickly to your calls and emails?  And were their responses informative and helpful?
• Did the vendor have the necessary equipment and was it in good condition?
• Did the vendor provide what they promised in a timely manner?
• Did the vendor provide something exceptional you were not expecting?

Answering these questions and others similar to them will help another bride decide whether or not to use a vendor.  Sometimes things do not go well and brides need to know this, too.  In those cases specific details are even more important.  While “WORST FLORIST EVER” will convey your dissatisfaction, telling future brides the florist delivered your flowers 45 minutes late, used the wrong variety of lily and forgot the corsage for the Mother of the Groom is more valuable.  “WORST FLORIST EVER” could be perceived as a purely emotional response to a misunderstanding.  Outlining the real issues is more helpful.

Don’t Forget the Photographers and Videographers!

While caterers and florists provide their services on your wedding day, photographers and videographers don’t deliver their goods until many weeks later.  Sometimes our brides and grooms are so busy immediately after their wedding that they don’t get around to approving our proof copy until months after the event.  We can’t even produce our discs until we have that OK.  Still future brides are looking for your reviews, so add them as soon as you’ve seen the finished product.

Our Brides Love Us!

We’re proud to say that all of our reviews on Wedding Wire are from very happy customers.  We promise our couples, “No matter what happens – good or bad – on your wedding day, you’re going to love your wedding video.”  For twelve years we’ve been keeping that promise.  Call us at 972-378-0446 or email us at infor@lenicam.com to find out how we’ve done it.

LeniCam Video Productions – Wedding Videographer Dallas

Arrive in style!

Wedding Videographer in Dallas Recommends Limousine Service for Your Wedding Day

Make Your Wedding Day Memorable

A celebrity climbing out of a long stretch limousine is one of the most iconic scenes in America. The audience immediately realizes someone important has just arrived at a very special event. A bride is the star of her wedding and the event is one of the most special in her life. If you’re the bride, hiring a limousine sets an elegant tone for your special event. If someone special to you is getting married, imagine how much they’d appreciate limo service on their landmark day. You can be the hero who arranges it for them.

Make Your Wedding Day Convenient

As elegant and iconic as it is to step out of a limousine, it’s also very convenient. A wedding day can be a logistical nightmare, but with a hired car and driver at her beck and call, a bride can avoid a lot of bad dreams.

Limousines come in many shapes and sizes: a sedate black town car, a long white stretch Hummer, a great big party bus or even an antique car. Limousine services come in many shapes and sizes, too. They can be hired by the day, the hour or the trip. Drivers can wear uniforms, street clothes or tuxedos. Some limo companies provide extras like concierge services or extra personnel. According to the specifics of the wedding, one limo might not be enough.

The bottom line is this: A bride needs to research local limousine services and choose a company that fits her budget, while offering the vehicle wants and the services she needs. She’ll also want to book it as far ahead as possible. While there are a lot of limousine services in the DFW Metroplex, there are only a limited number of vehicles, especially if you’re interested in a particular type of limo – like that white stretch hummer or an antique Rolls Royce.

Limousines in Wedding Videos

When LeniCam Video Productions, Wedding Videographer Dallas, discusses a wedding with a bride, we’ll be looking for is the logistics of the wedding party. What time will the bride arrive at the church? Will she arrive in her wedding gown or will she be dressing at the venue? Who will be with the bride when she arrives? We’ll want to know the same information about the groom. If the wedding is at a different location than the wedding, then we’ll want to know how the couple is being transported to the second location. And finally, we’ll have questions about the end of the day. How will the bride and groom depart from the wedding?

The final scene of a wedding video, which shows the bride and groom riding or driving away, is one of the most important. All types of vehicles have found their way into our videos: horse and carriages, sports cars, antique cars, pick-up trucks, SUV’s and economy cars.  We also see a lot of limousines. Whatever vehicle(s) are chosen, we make them a part of your wedding video, so the memories will remain fresh forever.

Who Do You Call?

So, if you’re considering using a limousine in your wedding, who do you call? Metroplex brides are lucky, because they have many, many services to choose from. One that we’d suggest calling is Dallas Limousine Services (link). They have an extensive stable of vehicles and their pricing is structured specifically for your needs.

For your wedding video call LeniCam Video Productions, your Wedding Videographer Dallas.

 Good Relations:  Ashton Gardens

Wedding Videographer Dallas Recommends Ashton Gardens to DFW Metroplex Brides

Where will we have our wedding? It’s one of the first things a newly engaged couple has to consider, because venue determines other things, like budget and theme.

A destination wedding requires spending money on travel expenses, but there are usually fewer guests and the feel of a wedding on a beach is very casual. A wedding in a church may be free if it’s your home church, but the ceremony is likely to be more formal and if you have a large guest list, you’ll be spending a lot on your reception.

Some brides know, long before the planning process begins (often before they’ve even found their groom), exactly where they want to be married. Others don’t have a clue. If you’re unsure of where you want your wedding to be, we’d like to recommend visiting Ashton Gardens.

A Beautiful Chapel

Behind the Ashton Garden’s chapel is a densely wooded forest. To take advantage of this view, three walls of the chapel are glass. A ceremony in this chapel is like an outdoor wedding without having to worry about the chance of rain.

But the view’s not the only thing to love. The chapel with its arched beams and ivory pews is a canvas a bride can paint anyway she wants or she can keep it simple with attractive décor provided by the facility.

A Gorgeous Reception Space

Imagine being announced as Mr. and Mrs. and then sweeping down a curved staircase lit by crystal chandeliers into a room full of brocade chairs and white linen tablecloths. Sounds elegant doesn’t it? You can just see the silver gleaming and smell the aroma of a delicious catered meal, right? That’s the Ashton Gardens experience and the reception space is just steps away from the chapel. And pleasant steps they are, because the grounds and gardens of Ashton Gardens are perfectly manicured.

Ashton Garden’s reception space is bride-ready. The dance floor is there and the room is stunning. All you need to do is choose your menu and invite your guests.

It’s in There

You might call Ashton Gardens the Prego of wedding venues, because pretty much whatever you’re looking for, “It’s in there,” just like the old spaghetti sauce ads used to say.

Need separate rooms for the bride and groom before the wedding. It’s in there. The bride’s room is well-appointed with plenty of light, lots of mirror and space to spare. Right outside is a place for the bride’s family to congregate without cluttering up the dressing room. The guys have their own nicely turned out room, close to the reception space.

Need a balcony for your ceremony for your videographer and musicians? It’s in there.

Need a holder for your unity candle? It’s in there. Need a table for your favors? It’s in there. You name it – it’s in there.  You’ll love Ashton Gardens weddings.

One Number Does It

Your wedding is just days away and you need to make some calls. You need to call the wedding chapel to discuss some last minute changes with the day of wedding coordinator, contact the company handling the sound and lighting, check with the rental company for all those tables, chairs and candelabras and give the caterer a final head count. If your wedding is at Ashton Gardens, then all those calls become one call to (940) 498-4273.

Why We Love It

We do weddings all over North Texas and each venue has its own assets. However, we do particularly enjoy weddings at Ashton Gardens, for reason such as these:

• Only one set up and take down.
• The loft in the chapel is convenient
• The bride’s room large enough to accommodate our camera without being disruptive
• A lovely trellis and gardens for outdoor shots
• Stunning background for ceremony and reception
• An attractive room for the groom’s party for pre-wedding shots
• Plenty of electrical outlets where we need them and a good sound system

For us, the number one attraction at Ashton Gardens is the Day of Wedding Coordinator. There’s no question of who’s in charge. If we have a problem, it gets taken care of. If things change along the way, we know about it before it happens. When the logistics are easy, then we can focus more of our energy on the creative part of our job and that’s the part we like best. They even feed us!

We Sweat the Small Stuff So You Don’t Have To

Wherever your wedding is, we’re ready to make your wedding video. We have the experience and equipment to capture your special day. No matter what happens on your wedding day, good or bad, you’re going to love your wedding video from LeniCam Video Productions. So call us now at 972-378-0446 or email info@lencam.com to set up your videography appointment.

Here’s a promise we make to all our brides: No matter what happens during your wedding day, both good and bad, from beginning to end – you’re going to love your wedding video. How can we make that promise? Allow us to explain.

We Record a Lot of Video Footage

LeniCam Video Productions, Wedding Videographer Dallas, will arrive at least an hour and a half before the ceremony and shortly after we arrive we’re ready to start shooting. We offer a variety of packages, so the actual number of cameras and camera people will vary, but our mission doesn’t. We work to be everywhere, see everyone and record everything – and remain virtually invisible while we do it.

We Tape a Lot of Audio Recordings

During our set-up, we’ll hook up to the venue’s audio feed, put a wireless mic on the groom and go through the order of the service to make sure that everyone who will be speaking as a part of the ceremony will be recorded. We take extra care to insure the music and musicians you’ve selected will be captured.

If we’re a part of your reception, we take down the equipment from the ceremony while your still photographs are being taken and then hurry to the reception site and set everything up again. When the reception starts, we’ll have set up our audio feeds and microphones to do the same thing for the reception activities.

We Spend a Lot of Time in the Studio

With so much recorded, we have plenty to choose from when we get back to the studio. We pick the very best moments from your wedding and piece them together into a visual feast, which tells the story of your wedding day just the way you wanted it to be. If there were wardrobe malfunctions, they disappear. Any awkward expressions vanish. Embarrassing mishaps? Erased! All you’ll see is the wedding you imagined in your mind all along.

Just as much time is devoted to the audio track. The beautiful music you selected will be interwoven with the magical moments of your ceremony. If the splashing of a fountain kept your guests from hearing your vows, those words will be on the video. We’ll also tame the fountain’s noise down to a pleasant background sound. If a train came by your outdoor reception just as the best man made his toast, the train will be minimized in your video.

Aperfect example of what we can do is the video of an outdoor ceremony which was rained out moments after the first set of parents lit their candle for a unity candle observance. Everyone ran inside and we just kept filming. Soon the second set of parents lit their candle inside the venue. The transition was so seamless no one realized what we’d done until we asked them if they liked the way we had handled the interruption on the video.

We Sweat the Small Stuff So You Don’t Have To

LeniCam can’t promise you that your wedding day will be perfect, but we can promise that your wedding video will be. Call us now at 972-978-0446 or email info@lenicam.com to set up your videography appointment.

What is a Wireless Lavalier Microphone?

The term “lavalier” is borrowed from the jewelry world, but the more you research the actual use of the word, the more confusing it becomes. (To compare various definitions visit http://www.memidex.com/lavalier.) Apparently the word originally came from the name Louise, Duchesse de La Vallière, a mistress of King Louise XIV. However, the use of the word for a type of jewelry is directly related to an actress whose stage name was Eve Lavallière.

Even the jewelry world can’t make up its mind about the necklace. If you search “Tiffany Lavalier”, sorority and fraternity pendant jewelry is what you’ll find. However, several sources quote Hans Nadelhoffer from Cartier: Jewelers Extraordinary (http://www.amazon.com/Cartier-Hans-Nadelhoffer/dp/0500513619) and he describes it as sort of lasso necklace.

Jewlery aside, the first lavalier microphones were actually worn around the neck and were quite awkward looking, but the devise freed up the hands. Today a lavaliere microphone is not worn around the neck, but will be found clipped to the edge of clothing or hidden behind a lapel. For this reason, they are also referred to as lapel or personal microphones. You see them used frequently in public speaking and entertainment.

A wireless lavalier microphone comes in three parts. The first part is the clip which picks up the sound and transmits to larger transmitter. We usually affix the clip to a lapel, but we’ve hidden them in everything from a podium to a flower arrangement. The transmitter is a small box, which is usually attached to a belt or slipped into a pocket. The third part of the microphone is the receiver; it is located on the camera and receives the sound for broadcasting or recording or both.

Why You Should Invite at Least One Wireless Lavalier Mic to Your Wedding

Over the course of a wedding day, LeniCam may use many types of microphones and audio feeds, but there is one we always use and that’s a wireless lavalier mic on the groom. We’ve found it’s the absolute best way to capture the vows during a wedding ceremony. That’s justification enough for the mic, but we’ve also found it serves other uses.

Though we try to capture every single detail of a wedding, from exterior views of the ceremony venue to the couple’s departing vehicle, our primary concern throughout the day is keeping up with the bride and groom. If there is any question about where we need to be to get our shots, it’s possible to get several different versions of the couple’s whereabouts. The wedding coordinator may tell us one story, the DJ may explain it another way and the mother of the bride will have a completely different idea about it. When the groom has on a lavalier mic, we can turn to his frequency and listen in to his conversation. Usually within a few words we can decide whether we need to move the cameras or just wait a moment.
Perhaps the best reason for the lavalier mic is how easy it is to forget it’s there. As the bride and groom make their way through the wedding festivities, they share private jokes, whispered endearments and funny little secrets. These off-the-record words inevitably become the favorite moments of the video for the bride and groom, even if they have us hide them on a portion of the video no one else has access to.
We’d love to show you other ways our equipment is used to capture the special moments of your wedding and explain how our compassionate approach to vidoegraphy will make a difference in your wedding video. Call us now at 972-978-0446 or email info@lenicam.com to set up your videography appointment.

LeniCam Video Productions – Dallas Wedding Videographer