More Cables and Less Cake
Let’s get one thing straight: video production and weddings are basically the same event… just with fewer toasts and more tech support.
Before you argue, hear me out.
You spend weeks — sometimes months — planning every detail. You hire a crew of professionals to make things look beautiful. There’s a minute-by-minute schedule, a Pinterest mood board, and people wearing headsets who say things like “standby” and “we’re five minutes behind.” And at the end of it all? Something still goes wrong with the sound.
The Guest List: The Crew Nobody Knew They Needed
Video Production is just like a wedding. At a wedding, you’ve got your photographer, planner, DJ, caterer, Aunt Susan who keeps sneaking wine…
Video Production is just like a wedding In video production? You’ve got your director, DP, gaffer, boom op, script supervisor, and Steve, who somehow has four walkie-talkies and still manages to whisper directly into your soul:
“We’re rolling in 30. Don’t breathe too loud.”
Both teams are over caffeinated. Both teams wear black. Both teams act like the world will implode if someone moves a flower arrangement three inches to the left.
The Timeline: Meticulously Crafted, Completely Ignored
Video Production is just like a wedding. Weddings and shoots both have a schedule that looks great on paper — and then real life shows up.
• 9:00 AM — Set up begins. Except the venue locked the doors and the keyholder is “on their way.”
• 10:30 AM — Talent arrives. One of them is stuck in traffic and the other brought three outfits not on the call sheet.
• 11:00 AM — Audio check. The lav mic crackles like a bag of chips and someone in the distance is mowing grass — despite being told there would be “no landscaping today.”
It’s chaos. But it’s organized chaos. Like a wedding where the groom forgets his vows and someone’s yelling, “Cue the flower girl!”
The Ceremony: All Eyes, All Pressure, All Improv. Once the cameras roll, it’s go time. People stop blinking. The script becomes sacred text. But just like a wedding, someone always forgets a line, cries too early, or walks into the shot holding a half-eaten granola bar.
The Director yells “Cut!” The makeup artist sprints in with a blotting pad. Someone’s checking continuity like it’s life or death.And then, like magic… it works. Just like the kiss at a wedding — one perfect take makes it all worth it.
The Reception: Where Everyone Pretends It Was Smooth All Along After the last shot or the final dance, everyone packs up with aching feet and emotionally fried brains. And what do they say? “That went really well!”
Sure, there were 48 tech issues, the schedule imploded by noon, and someone dropped a light stand into a catering tray — but the footage looks incredible. Everyone’s smiling. Nobody knows what actually happened behind the scenes. Just like a wedding.
And Yes… The Sound Was Weird
Despite all the planning, the backup mic, the backup to the backup mic, and the perfectly placed boom…there’s always one audio file that sounds like it was recorded inside a blender full of bees. It’s tradition at this point.
Conclusion: Forever and Ever (Until the Next Shoot)
Video production is like a wedding because it’s one part dream, one part disaster, and 100% storytelling chaos. It’s messy. It’s stressful. It never goes exactly to plan. And yet — when it all comes together, it’s beautiful, unforgettable, and definitely worth it.
Just… maybe bring a sound guy and a priest next time. You never know.
