Weddings Winter 2011 > Planner

Aldo Studio

Aldo makes wedding montages look like music videos—in a good way. Editors splice in baby photos, honeymoon snapshots, interviews with couples and guests, and, of course, music. From $2,300.

Asymmetric Pictures

As a freelance documentary and dramatic filmmaker, Alan Roth has an unobtrusive, detail-oriented approach to shooting, plus he’s a fan of natural sound. He’ll capture the day’s important moments and whittle his takes down to a tightly edited one-hour DVD. From $2,800 to $3,800.

Bond Street Productions

Robert DiScalfani of DiScalfani Photography also has a video company composed of expert visual artists and filmmakers. Since the photography company is housed under the same roof, this is a one-stop-shopping experience for couples looking to document their wedding in multiple formats. Videos start at $4,000, photography packages at $4,500.

DMS Video Productions

This outfit combines high-definition imagery, Super 8 film, flashbacks, voice-overs, and sound design to create emotionally provocative, one-of-a-kind DVD productions. From $5,000.

Film Arts Video

This team works to build a narrative into the video, interviewing the bride and groom, the wedding party, and other key players—and capturing the whole day on film. Packages with interviews start at $5,400; more bare-bones packages start at $3,000.

Fred Marcus Photography & Videography

Led by Brian and Andy Marcus, this company has been producing wedding videos for more than twenty years. Their films aim to capture the emotion and excitement of a wedding day in a cinematic way and can incorporate interviews of varying levels of formality. From $3,800.

Hart Pictures

These award-winning filmmakers create wedding videos that resemble feature movies. Armed with state-of-the-art HD cameras, they’ve filmed everywhere from the Plaza to St. Barts to Istanbul and can capture decisive moments with both stills and video. Their work has screened at Sundance, and they’ve collaborated with such top planners as David Reinhard and Sofia Crokos. From $4,750.

Hello Super 8

Brooklyn videographer Megan Hill and her team shoot exclusively on Super 8 film to produce softer, nuanced, and more intimate results than HD often does. (Think Grandma’s sixties-era home videos or the opening credits to The Wonder Years.) Clients—who include Juno scribe Diablo Cody—retain the original reel as well as an edited cut on DVD. From $4,000.

Joseph Edwards Wedding Filmmakers

This outfit offers two types of film—a contemporary short, which runs fifteen to twenty minutes, or a nostalgic feature. The filmmakers like to shoot in natural light to make the video as authentic as possible, and can alternate between a Steadicam for a feature-film look and a Super 8 for a more nostalgic vibe. From $3,500.

Kiss The Bride Films

Seasoned filmmakers Leslie Satterfield (who has screened at Sundance) and Natalia Amaral, along with their team of shooters, create films with a timeless sensibility. With backgrounds in fine art and fashion, they specialize in postproduction and coloration techniques. From $2,500.

Lifefilm

Peilin Chou and John Brancaccio, both working film and television producers, create Lifefilms—high-end, personal documentaries that tell the narrative of a couple’s relationship from inception to engagement. Designed to be shown at the wedding or rehearsal dinner, their crowd-pleasing mini-flicks are typically ten to fifteen minutes long. From $5,000.

The Light Mill

The Light Mill’s Geoffrey Boka has been filming weddings for more than ten years. A storyteller at heart, he and his team focus on capturing the emotion of the day without interfering. An online short film to music and an archival DVD of the full event are available. From $2,700.

Love in Progress Video Producions

Motoko Fukuyama shoots in color, black and white, sepia, wide screen, and split screen, evoking everything from thirties Hollywood to MTV-style fast cuts, per the clients’ preferences. From $2,900.

Mad Props Productions

This innovative husband-and-wife editing team won’t shoot the actual wedding, but they will create a documentary-style tribute that can be screened at a reception. They’ve done work for Bravo, MTV, and VH1, among others. From $3,500.

Magic Flute

Award-winning documentary filmmakers Renzo Zanelli and Annika Beaulieu aim to make your wedding video both cinematic and natural. Brides and grooms looking for something upbeat can create a lip-synched music video set to their favorite song. Raw footage starts at $1,895 and fully edited high-definition packages at $4,195.

McKenzie Miller Films

Miller excels at discreetly capturing every detail of the wedding day, which she parlays into high-definition films that reflect each couple’s unique celebration. Full packages from $2,500.

Michael Justin Films

Justin and his team specialize in short-form storytelling, and create three- to twenty-minute films that capture the essence of each wedding through cinematic images mashed up with voice-overs from vows and speeches. They also hand over all the raw footage. Packages from $2,500.

Milestone Video Productions

The videographers at Milestone capture a wedding using documentary-film techniques but without employing the corny on-camera interview, preferring instead to allow the event to unfold naturally. From $1,595. (good value)

Milk & Honey Productions

Documentarians Zev Greenfield and Johnny Boston won’t use obtrusive lighting or interrupt party guests for interviews—unless asked to—and when it comes time to edit, they treat the footage like an actual film, complete with cinematic perspectives and split screens. Their standard package includes six hours of shooting with a videographer and an assistant, plus a 40- to 60-minute feature film. From $4,750.

From the Winter 2011 New York Wedding Guide