The High Cost of Regrets

Regrets are expensive.  Regrets are painful.  Ah, let me just say it…Regrets suck!  The worst part of regrets is that we never see them coming.  If we could see regrets coming, we would take steps to ensure they don’t happen.

Future brides (and grooms), I’d like you to fast forward to your wedding day.  Now imagine saying your wedding vows in front of all your guests.  Can you hear yourself saying them?  You’ll sound a little nervous.  Maybe your voice cracks.  Still, they are your vows and they are coming from the heart.  Then when the officiant declares you are husband and wife, do you see yourself going in for that first kiss?  How long will you hold the kiss?  Now imagine being able to see what all your reception guests see when you make that big, grand entrance.   Everyone is cheering you on as you come out holding hands!  Pretty exciting stuff, isn’t it?  Will you charge out when you’re announced or will you enter the reception hall with poise and grace?  What song will you dance to for your first dance?  Imagine your Best Man’s toast and the laughs that he’ll get.

Did you picture all of those things?  How did they make you feel?  Did you smile?  Did your heart light up?  With a wedding film, you’ll get to experience all these emotions and feelings every time you watch it.  You will get to enjoy your wedding and see it as your guests saw it.  The wedding film is going to reinforce all your memories of the wedding day and ensure that these memories are preserved forever.  So in twenty five years, you’ll know exactly how long you held that first kiss and you’ll hear your voice quivering as you say your vows.  How valuable will it be to retain these memories forever?  Maybe a better way to ask this is this; how priceless is it to have these memories forever?

Yes, a quality wedding film isn’t cheap.  But the regret of not having a wedding film costs more.

What do you think?  Please share in the comment section below.

Steve Schumacher is an Atlanta wedding filmmaker and can bench press 50 boxes of Little Debbies. You can reach him at help@sterlingcinematics.com and tell him which kind of Little Debbie is your favorite!

(Note: This is my third blog post in my series about wedding film education.  I’ll be touching on several topics about wedding films, the wedding day, and why a wedding film is as important of an investment as the wedding photography.  Click on the “Education” category to see all the blog posts thus far.)

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