Our 1 Day Cultural Wedding Package provides you with 3 cinematographers for 16 hours on your wedding day capturing all the essential elements of your wedding professionally and creatively. We will create a gorgeous cinematic feature film telling your wedding story. This package is perfect if you have combined your wedding ceremony, reception and other key events into one day. Keep in mind that you can always add on any pre-wedding events/functions to your package.
Our 2 Day Cultural Wedding Package provides you with 3 cinematographers for 10 hours on your wedding day and 6 hours on your reception day capturing all the essential elements of your wedding professionally and creatively. We will create a gorgeous cinematic feature film telling your wedding story. This package is perfect if you have split your wedding ceremony, reception and other key events into two days. Keep in mind that you can always add on any pre-wedding events/functions to your package.
The cinematic short film is the master piece in our base cinema packages. It’s a beautiful story highlighting your family, traditions and your love on your wedding days. Our creative and cinematic approach to filming along with our storytelling in editing allows us to create a beautiful memory that will last forever.
Depending on your wedding, a feature film is about 6-8 minutes.
Pre-wedding events are a big part of your South Asian wedding. The colorful and classical footage from these events are added into your feature film to drive your cultural wedding story.
Coverage of each pre-wedding event starts from 2 hours with one cinematographer. Additional hours are $150 /hr. Some larger pre-wedding events may require an assistant and/or an additional cinematographer. Traveling may apply for each event.
Your wedding story, special moments, emotions and the unique details of your unforgettable day edited into a beautiful and cinematic feature film. We hand-pick the best moments from all your pre-wedding and wedding events, key speeches or toasts, beautiful shots of your venue and decorations and put together a movie-like film that shows off your wedding in a cinematic and powerful way – a feature film. Usually 12-15 minutes in length, they are a perfect length to have more content from your wedding days.
Upgrade the Short Film in the base package to a longer Feature Film for only $950 more. This may be a great idea for you as it includes more content from your wedding days.
For historical purpose, a documentary edit is a perfect video that presents an event from your wedding in it’s entirety. You choose which special moments from your wedding you would want us to document in this way. We recommend a documentary edit from your wedding ceremony and your reception. Each edit will perfectly cut between all the camera angles and mixing the audio – creating a professional documentary edit. That means you are able to have your full wedding ceremony – from beginning to end. And the Reception – all the speeches, toasts, and special dances in one long video.
This type of doc. edit does not includes pre-ceremony footage (for example bride prep, baraat or milni). You may extend documentary edits with this type of footage for an additional fee.
We film and produce an epic film of your wedding events leading up to your reception and premier the film on your wedding reception. Your guests will love it! Your family will love it! More importantly, you will love it.
Projector for the SDE is not included.
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A 1 minute Instagram Teaser perfect for sharing online with family and friends. Delivered within 2 weeks after your wedding.
A 3-5 minutes story of your relationship (interview based). Your wedding guests will enjoy getting to know you as a couple on your wedding reception. Project not included.
A 1-2 minute cinematic video featuring you and your fiancé. Can be used as a Save the Date Video or an elegant and intimate representation of you as a couple. Includes 2-4 hours of filming at 1-2 locations. Traveling may apply to areas outside of Northern, CA.
Your wedding ceremony streamed with a 2-camera professional setup to YouTube and/or Facebook Live. Add reception program for $600.
The Motion Books are beautiful linen bound video albums that feature a gorgeous display, built in audio and most importantly – your wedding film. Simply open the cover and your wedding film will come to life.
We recommend this for large events of 300 or more guests. This allows us to capture more angles of your event and more importantly, more shots of your wedding guests.
Adding hours to your Wedding or Reception day allows us to capture a few more moments that happen throughout the day. Pre-wedding events additional hours start at $200 per hour.
Add a Blu-ray to your wedding package to enjoy the best possible HD experience.
Add a DVD to your wedding package. This classic delivery method ensures that your wedding video will be able to be watched on older “legacy” devices.
A hard drive full of ALL of the footage we captured on your wedding days. Unedited. 1 Tb hard drive included.
Send us an email with your wedding date(s), your information and the package options you are interested in. We will send you a proposal that you can accept and sign. A 40% non-refundable retainer is required to book Aperina Studios for your wedding day. Another 40% is due 1 week prior to your events, and the remaining balance in exchange for the final product.
We travel all over the world! In addition to filming weddings all over US from coast to coast, we have filmed in Russia, Ukraine, Mexico, and Punta Cana! So we will go wherever you’ll have us! We provide a custom package built specifically for your event so that you will know exactly what the expenses are.
When you invest in Aperina Studios for your wedding videography – you deserve the best! We have invested in cinema grade cameras and lenses that give your wedding a more cinematic and hollywood look. More specifically, we use Canon EOS R5 cameras and Canon L series lenses to capture your wedding in stunning 4K quality. We also use professional grade audio equipment, stabilizers, sliders, monopods and tripods. Lighting equipment is used as well to capture your event in the best possible light while keeping your wedding mood!
We need to be honest with you. We are a little bit selfish regarding our motives for NOT making your wedding day a “production” either. We simply can not afford for you or your guests to notice us. So relax. Wedding films, if chosen correctly, are the best investment you can make in your wedding. We don’t set up shots, and we don’t have cameras in anyone’s face. We certainly don’t conduct cheesy table interviews. We try to capture the “genuine” moments you have felt watching our films in our portfolio.
Yes and No. For both creative and legal reasons, we have full control over the music selection for your film. Not only do we have a better perspective on the ‘flow’ of your wedding day, we also utilize properly licensed music. Additionally, all the beautiful films you have seen on our website, we have personally selected the music. The newlyweds absolutely love our music selection. However, feel free to send us a few tracks – they will inspire us to find the perfect track for your wedding.
Not by default. The morning preparations, first look, pre-wedding events, cake-cutting, and party dancing are filmed subjectively for creativity, not for entire coverage. The parts of the day that are filmed entirely are the ceremony, formal dances and any toasts. These, in their entirety, are included in the Documentary Edits (Documentary Edits are offered as an add-on to our base package). You may also add-on a documentary edit for each pre-wedding event for an additional cost. In contrary, you may want to add on “RAW footage” into your package. We’ll give you a hard drive full of ALL of the footage we captured on your wedding days. Unedited.
Think of documentary edits as a LIVE feed of your wedding ceremony and /or reception. So once the ceremony starts and the groom starts walking into the church/temple/venue, the edit starts there even though we have film prior to that. We finish the ceremony documentary edit when the ceremony is complete – when the officiant says “amen.” So if the ceremony was 1 hour in real life, the documentary edit of the ceremony will roughly be 1 hour. As for the reception. The documentary edit of the reception will start from the bride and groom entering the hall, continuing with any toasts, speeches, formal dances or anything that we felt should be captured in it’s entirety. You don’t loose any footage that we have filmed throughout the wedding days (for example, before and after the ceremony/reception). That footage, including footage from the ceremony and reception, will be beautifully edited into the wedding feature film. So don’t worry, you will get to relive your full wedding when watching your wedding film.
Depending on the season and the amount of pre-wedding events booked for your wedding, cultural wedding films are generally delivered 4-6 months after your wedding.
Absolutely! Every film is delivered online on your custom Aperina Studios page (here is an example). If you have ordered any add-ons, they will also appear there as well. You can share your private link with your family, friends or strangers. Our website is designed to work with all mobile devices as well. Best of all, all your wedding videos online are in 4K and are downloadable to your computer. We actually recommend downloading all your videos we created for you onto your computer.
Yes. Our photographer is amazing. What is even more amazing is that we are brothers and we work together perfectly as a team. Instead of competing for a shot, we compliment each other, creating exceptional photographs and extraordinary films to make your story truly and unforgettably yours. As an incentive, we give you a $250 discount on both cinematography and photography packages (that’s $500 total saving when simply booking both). Check out our South Asian Photography Packages.