Creating Your Wedding Hashtag!

Hi friends!

Many couples enjoy all elements of social media during their wedding planning process and creating a fun hashtag is a must for their big day. Creating a hashtag is a great way to get your family and friends engaged in your wedding day and pre-wedding day festivities. It is also a way for you to locate and keep the photos taken by them. Candid photos are special keepsakes for years to come so and having a way to consolidate all the photos in one place with a hashtag is convenient and super easy!

Below are a few fun tips to think about when creating your hashtag:

• When trying to brainstorm wedding hashtags try incorporating your first or last names, wedding location, the state you're getting married in or perhaps where you both met. Look for alliterations, rhymes, synonyms and puns for a hashtag that are both clever and memorable. Remember that cutesy name your friends gave you guys in college that stuck for some reason? This could be a fun way to bring it back. :) Tip: Capitalizing the first letter of each word can help with readability if guests can see where each word starts and ends. 
• Once you and your fiancee chose your wedding hashtag let everyone know what it is! You can do so by sharing on your wedding website, save the date or on the signage on your wedding day.
• A lot of couples start using their hashtag for all wedding-related events like showers and bachelor/bachelorette parties so spread the word on Instagram or Facebook right away. :)

Happy hash-tagging! :)

5 reasons to hire a wedding videographer

A question we get at Kristine King Events often is “should we hire a wedding videographer”? Our feeling is “YES!” You'll hear brides raving about their florist, their planner and amazing photographer, but a videographer is always seen as an added expense. Trust me, you may see it as an unnecessary expense, but here are a few reasons to reconsider splurging for an elegantly documented video of your wedding day!

• A keepsake for years to come - Having a cinematic wedding video that you can watch on your anniversary really helps to remind yourselves of why you love each other so much. With modern technology your wedding can be viewed for generations to come! 
• You can relive your big day - Everyone will tell you this and it’s true: your wedding day will fly by! Having a video to look back on truly lets you get back in the moment and relive the event you spent so many months planning.
• Capturing movement and sound - Still photos provide an image of a moment in time, but wedding videos capture both movement and sound. For as artistic and beautiful as still photos can be, they cannot capture motion or sound—which makes a wedding video a must-have!
• It captures those special, unseen moments - That sweet smile you gave your husband during your first dance, the warm hug you gave your grandpa after the ceremony or the words of your father giving his father of the bride speech are moments that can be missed by the photographer. Not to mention a videographer will capture all the fun dance moves your guests bust out on the dance floor! Videos catch those rare moments that you’ll be excited to look back on!
• Easily shareable - Videographers are able to upload wedding videos onto platforms such as YouTube or Vimeo which allows you to easily share your wedding video with family and friends. Your videographer may also be able to create highlight reels for you to share on social media. It makes hiring a videographer ideal for those who are having smaller or destination weddings by allowing family and friends who were unable to attend feel like they were actually there!

While we think hiring a videography is worth the splurge for your big day, oftentimes the budget simply has no wiggle room to allot for one, which is completely understandable. A great alternative is having a friend or family member videotape some of the bigger moments from the ceremony, first dance, speeches and the cake cutting. Happy planning! :)