Where’s the DIY line?

If I won $10,000 for my wedding, this is what I would do it with.

Glyncora + Mark (Wedding Video in Maui, Hawaii) NDE by Marrone from Marrone Video on Vimeo.

I’m sure you can see why I love – now please give me the $10,000 it probably cost to make this.

Like, I love it. It’s beautiful. My friend Fussy Russy sent it to me last Fall, to rub it in my face that my wedding was about a year away.

Well, GUESS WHAT FUSSY > The wedding is in 29 days and I’m ready to rock.

So I have been doing some snooping around on how I can get a video like this done. I would love a wedding video – to remember the day, to send to friends and relatives who couldn’t make it, to have just one more way to cherish it and see it from perspectives that maybe I couldn’t or didn’t and to catch moments I didn’t see.

On the one hand, there are some seriously talented videographers in Southern Alberta – SNAP Weddings has great stuff and came recommended as did Imago Cinematography. Seriously, go to their sites. Check out their stuff – that is talent.  They do beautiful work, and just seeing their demo sites makes my heart melt. I want that.

On the other hand – that’s gonna set baby back. And this is a bit of a game time decision, something that I absolutely KNOW that I want, but to call a spade a spade, I don’t have the kind of cash to make this happen at the level I know I want it.

When you are hiring a vendor, you are always taking the risk that it won’t turn out exactly how you want it. When you are doing something yourself, you are always risking that it won’t turn out the way you want it. It will come as no surprise to you, that I am someone who prefers to take risks and ownership myself, instead of having someone else to blame if something doesn’t turn out exactly how I want it. I feel bad fugging around with other peoples work – I will fug around with my own stuff until I am blue in the face.

So here is my rather hilarious dilemma.

1. Hire an amazing company to do it for me – to capture it all. For a rather large price tag.

2. Buy three good quality, hand held cameras and have select guests film for portions during the night. Then, buy a Mac and do all the editing myself.

Both will set me back in the k’s, but one less so than the other. One will be a professional job, one will be a hack job. One will leave me with a cherished memory for the rest of my life, one will leave me with a cherished memory and a MAC I need rather badly for my consulting business.

Thoughts??!?!??!