How to Locate Samples of Wedding Slideshows

Wedding slideshows offer an extra personal touch to your wedding and are always a guest favorite. When making a slideshow for your wedding, it helps to look at samples of other people's slideshows for inspiration. It's also important to check out samples from professional slideshow companies if you choose to outsource the job.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Ask friends who had slideshows at their weddings to loan you a copy of their slideshow. Most people keep their wedding slideshows as treasured mementos. If they don't want to give you the DVD, ask if you can stop by and watch it at their house.

2. Use a comprehensive database like the one found on the National Associate of Professional Wedding Videographers (NAPWV) to locate videographers in your area who offer slideshow services (see Resources below). Many videographers in the database have websites where you can view samples of slideshows, but you can also contact these individuals and request email or hard copy samples of their work.

3. Locate a company online, such as DVDPhotographs.com or Picture Perfect Slideshows, that specializes in creating picture slideshows for special events like weddings, anniversaries and birthday parties (see Resources below). While using a local company may be convenient, the Internet gives you access to videography companies nationwide, many of which offer extremely competitive pricing for superior work.

4. Attend a bridal exposition in your area to locate samples of wedding slideshows. Most large-scale expos have videography booths set up where future brides can view samples and obtain pricing information from companies across the country. The Great Bridal Expo, which is one of the biggest expositions in the country, has upcoming tour information on its website (see Resources below).

5. Note what you like and don't like about each of the sample wedding slideshows you watch. This can help you create your own slideshow or choose a company to create one for you.

Tips & Warnings

• Ask your photographer whether he makes slideshows for clients and whether you can obtain samples of his work. If he doesn't offer this service, ask whether he has any recommendations for companies in your area that offer this service. As part of a reciprocal agreement, he may even have samples of the recommended company's work that you can have.
• Check out samples of slideshows from events other than weddings as well to get ideas for your own slideshow. Sometimes the types of transitions or effects that you will want are demonstrated in these samples.
• Don't just trust that a professional slideshow company knows what it's doing because it has some nice samples on its website. It's important to be as specific as possible about what you do and don't want so that your slideshow lives up to your expectations.

Resources

• Sample slideshows at DVDPhotographs.com
• Sample wedding slideshows at Picture Perfect Slideshows
• The Great Bridal Expo website for tour information
• The National Association of Professional Wedding Videographers for videographers in your area

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on 11/19/2008 We used Acadia Cove Media for our wedding slideshow, http://www.acadiacovemedia.com
They were great, easy and fun to work with. There are some examples on their site too.

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[AWilkins]

on 8/26/2008 Thanks for the informative article. I used your suggestion and checked out http://www.DVDPhotographs.com and ended up using them for our wedding slideshow. Very happy with the work