Toast to This!

We love giving out our best tips and advice to the newly engaged. If you or a loved one is planning a wedding, share this blog post with them. As videographers, we want to share our thoughts on when to plan your toasts during the reception. The best and most effective time to give your toasts to the bride and groom is at the beginning of the reception, right after the first dance. This timing benefits not only us, but you as well. If you choose to split up toasts throughout your reception, you will be taking away from the quality of the video, as well as the attention of your guests. From experience, when toasts are happening simultaneous to the food being brought out, not only are your guests distracted by their food and servers, but the video quality will drop due to the sound interference of clanking forks and knives, too.

Let's be real, we know you don't want a final video of your wedding day where you can't hear the best man's speech over the sounds of utensils hitting plates, or servers walking in the way of the shot to pass out trays of food. When you have the toasts right after the first dance, you avoid this issue, and you will be sure to have quality sound and shots in your final video; making our job run much smoother, and your video top notch. Not only does this appeal to our benefit and yours, but the guests as well. You're going to want your friends and family to hear these heart-felt speeches (that probably took quite a bit of time to write), and if they are being interrupted by servers or stuffing their mouths with food, chances are they're going to miss it. Additionally, at this point during the reception, guests are back and forth between the bar and the bathroom, missing toasts or walking back in in the middle of it, missing important parts and disrupting the video. So, to keep everyone's attention and have the most effective toasts and reception video, we suggest to our brides and grooms- plan your toasts at the beginning all together, BEFORE any food begins being passed out. Thanks for reading! :)