By Ian Godfrey

You are getting married and you want to immortalize the special day in photographs and video. If you want high quality pictures, you should go to one of the many professional photo studios around Louisville. One such studio is Wettig Photography, which has been capturing the magic of weddings for more than thirty years. Their philosophy about weddings is that it is the bride & groom’s day to show off, let loose, and be in control! They don’t want the only thing they remember about their wedding to be the photographers buzzing around them all day. Obviously the photographer has to spend a lot of time with the bride, groom, and the wedding party, but they try to make it fun, and artistic.

But what if you want to make your wedding into a movie? The Wettig Videography crew is made up of self-proclaimed, die-hard, Macintosh fanatics! All of their DV footage is shot with a movie director’s awareness and creativity. Their wedding videos end up looking like short films. All of the DV footage is shot, captured, edited and output digitally. Everything is edited in Final Cut Pro on the Latest Editing hardware APPLE has to offer. Your wedding video tape package will include one videographer using a 3 chip digital video camcorder and two high-grade, digitally captured and edited VHS Tapes. Digitally captured and edited means during the mastering process, they use only firewire in and out to produce and master. This allows the highest quality VHS recording.

You might want to try Eternal Reflections Photography, which specializes in taking pictures but no videos. They offer their services in affordable packages so that you can customize exactly what kind of photos you want. Packages range from $500 to $1400. Need more 8 by 10’s or 5 by 7’s? Well, you can add extras so you get the right number of each size. They also offer several special features like black and white photos or black and white with color tinting. Negatives are available for sale a year after the wedding.

These companies have great websites online where you can go for more information on styling and prices. You can even look at their portfolio of other wedding shots to judge for yourself the quality of their work. Their websites are:

www.wettigphotography.com and www.eternalreflectionsphotography.com.