Why to Hire a Wedding Photo and Video Team for Your Destination Wedding or Elopement

One of the perks of having a small destination wedding or elopement is that you don’t need nearly as many vendors as you would for a traditional wedding – some couples opt to just hire a wedding photographer and videographer. It can be a challenge to find a vendor you want to spend time with and can trust to capture your non-traditional wedding authentically, so hiring a separate photographer and videographer just multiples that concern. What if you could just hire a photo and video duo to handle everything? Good news – you can and you should! 

We’ve identified the three main reasons that hiring a wedding photo and video team is more lucrative than hiring these vendors separately.

Hiring a destination wedding photographer and a separate videographer is going to be wildly expensive.

Destination wedding photography services can range from $5,000 – $10,000, and that’s just wedding day coverage. Oftentimes when you’re traveling for your wedding or elopement, you want moments captured on the days before and after your wedding to chronicle the whole experience. 

A destination wedding videography service can range from $3,000 – $9,000 just for day-of coverage. You have to keep in mind that this may or may not include travel fees, which will depend on where your wedding will take place.

A wedding photo and video team is a phenomenal solution when it comes to overspending.

Your photos and videos will be more cohesive and reflective of your overall vision.

When you’re hiring separate vendors for photo and video, you never know if they’ll capture your wedding cohesively. You may have a spectacularly talented photographer and a remarkably creative videographer, but if you’re someone who doesn’t have a specific vision, the photos could turn out quite different from the video stylistically. 

Some photographers and videographers even end up butting heads because they accidentally get in each other’s shots, or feel like they don’t have the creative space to use their skills to the best of their ability.

When you hire a destination photo and video duo, they plan ahead to work together and bounce off of each other, ensuring that your wedding archive is harmonious in the way it’s depicted.

You only have one relationship to build with a photo and video team, making them more of a friend than a vendor.

Your wedding photographer and videographer are arguably the most important vendors you will hire for your wedding. They’re responsible for preserving memories that you’ll look back on forever. It’s important to get to know them so that they can get to know you and your love story, in order to accurately depict your individuality. 

When you hire these vendors separately, there are two separate relationships that you’ll need to build, which can be overwhelming. These relationships won’t look the same and may reflect different sides of who you are. 

The best solution to this is to find a photo and video duo that wants to really get to know you and experience your love story from the perspective of a friend. A team that values you and wants to be a part of your life, even after you embark on your marriage journey.

The bottom line is that combining two vendors into one is so much more lucrative, especially for destination weddings and elopements. It’s important to find a team that will get to know you and genuinely capture every aspect of your wedding experience. LUVIA is a high end but affordable option for someone wanting an experienced destination photo and video team that can archive your love story in all its glory.

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