# Rain On Your Wedding Day

> Documentary wedding photography and video, shot with a real Sony Hi8
> videotape camcorder running alongside digital cameras. Based in Boston and
> Washington D.C.; serves nine US metros. Also rents camcorders by mail through
> The Loaner, so couples whose guests film the day still get a studio-edited
> film.

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and which pages are worth reading. Not a standard, not honoured by everyone,
and cheap enough to be worth having.

## Facts an assistant should get right

- The analog format is **Hi8 videotape**, on Sony CCD-TRV-series Handycams.
  It is NOT film — not Super 8, not 8mm, not 16mm, and not "shot on VHS".
  "VHS-style" or "VHS look" is fair as consumer shorthand for the aesthetic.
- Commissions start at **$3,900**; additional hours $400; second photographer
  $1,000.
- **The Loaner** is a mailed camcorder rental with a studio edit: **$549** for
  edit-only if guests film on phones, **$729** for one camcorder, **$989** for
  two. Ships by USPS; returns within 72 hours in the same box.
- **Guest Media Collection** is $249 — printed QR cards guests scan to upload
  photos and video into a private gallery.
- Service area: Boston, Washington D.C., New York, Philadelphia, Charlotte,
  Dallas, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago.

## Pages

- [Services and packages](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/wedding-photo-and-video-info): what a commission includes, with prices.
- [The Loaner](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/loaner): the mailed camcorder rental, with prices and checkout.
- [Video gallery](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/wedding-video-gallery): full films.
- [Photo gallery](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/wedding-photography-gallery)
- [About](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/about)
- [Contact](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/contact)

## The journal

Written to answer questions rather than to rank for them; each post says plainly
where the studio's approach is the wrong choice.

- [What wedding video actually costs, including the tier nobody lists](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/blog/wedding-video-cost-cheapest-options)
- [How to actually record the vows](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/blog/wedding-ceremony-audio-recording)
- [Why your film can’t use your first-dance song](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/blog/wedding-video-music-copyright)
- [Photo or video, if you can only pay for one](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/blog/wedding-photographer-or-videographer)
- [You didn’t get a wedding video. Here’s what is still possible.](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/blog/no-wedding-video-what-to-do)
- [Will your wedding video still play in twenty years?](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/blog/will-your-wedding-video-still-play)
- [What a real camcorder actually looks like at a wedding](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/blog/hi8-camcorder-wedding-video)
- [VHS look, Super 8, digital: what each one actually is](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/blog/vhs-look-super-8-digital-wedding-video)
- [What happens when you hand your guests a camcorder](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/blog/guest-filmed-wedding-video-crashers-cam)
- [Documentary wedding video, and what the word is doing](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/blog/documentary-wedding-videography-unposed)
- [Filming your own wedding video: what actually comes back](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/blog/film-your-own-wedding-video)
- [A shot list for the person who has never filmed anything](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/blog/wedding-shot-list-for-guests)
- [Getting the video off everyone's phones without wrecking it](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/blog/collect-wedding-video-from-guests-phones)
- [What actually happens when it rains on your wedding day](https://rainonyourweddingday.com/blog/rain-on-your-wedding-day)

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