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Capturing a wedding on video used to mean bright lights, cables, and microphones. But technology has changed, bringing smaller, more light-sensitive cameras; today, most videographers strive to be as discreet as possible. The freedom to move about unnoticed has also allowed videographers to develop their own distinctive styles, which means couples have plenty of variety to choose from.

A videographer who works in any of the following styles will be able to cover the essential scenes of the wedding in their entirety; it's also a good idea to provide him with a list of people the couple would like to have in the video. Many videographers work in both black-and-white and color, and most can lay a soundtrack -- perhaps the first-dance song or other suitably festive music -- over appropriate parts of the video. Special effects such as fade-outs and fade-ins, animated images, and graphic titles ("the first dance," "cutting the cake"), as well as baby pictures and honeymoon photographs can also be edited in.

Documentary-Style Format
Just as a documentary filmmaker films hours of footage and winnows it down, a short-form wedding videographer will cover the pre-ceremony, ceremony, and reception, then edit it into a video of up to an hour in length.

Straight-Cut Format
Produced with either minimal or no editing, this is the predominant style of wedding video. A straight-cut video running up to two hours in length is usually much less expensive than an extensively edited video and can often be ready just days after the wedding.

Moderately Edited Format
Somewhere between the documentary-style video and the straight-cut video is a third choice: the "in-camera" edit. The couple sets a time limit for the video; the videographer first makes sure to shoot the events and moments the couple has requested, then he'll use the remaining time to capture whatever else seems appropriate.