Here’s my honest take, and it might sound strange coming from someone who sells full-day packages: if the budget only stretches to one part of the day, make it the ceremony. It’s the reason everyone’s there. It’s where the vows happen — the words you spent weeks writing and will remember about four seconds of, because the day genuinely flies past in a blur. Every couple tells me the same thing afterwards: “I can’t remember a thing.”
A ceremony film means you get it all back. Not just how it looked — how it felt. Your partner’s voice cracking halfway through. The celebrant’s joke. Your mum in the front row.