reel talk: your wedding video

DON’T INCLUDE a photomontage

Don’t get us wrong—it’s always fun to look at baby pictures and honeymoon snapshots. But you don’t need a reel of both to start and end your wedding video. (We suggest saving any childhood photomontages for your rehearsal dinner or cocktail hour. If you’d like to share it afterward, upload the file and send around a link.) When viewing your video, you’ll most likely lose the attention of your friends and family after 20 minutes tops, and you don’t want to waste five of those watching still photos of you two morphing from infants to schoolchildren to awkward adolescents to newlyweds. Get straight to the action. If you’re investing in a videographer to cover your entire wedding, you’ll have plenty of footage to condense into a 20- to 30-minute clip,