Grape VIdeo

I purchased the cabernet package. It included two cameras. The cameramen were unobtrusive and professional. I love it and look at it more than the photos!!! I am so happy I have the day captured forever on dvd!

We ordered «Grape Juice» raw footage. We were not looking to upgrade or get special camera effects. So we did not upgrade because this is what we wanted and were looking for. We just wanted to simply «document» the story of our wedding day in a natural way with excellent video quality — at a competitive price.
On YouTube, I saw the styles of other wedding videos by other companies. They usually appear fancy with over the top video editing effects. I didn’t get their point or story. Actually, those other videos by other companies mostly seemed borderline guady.
Grape Juice, on the other hand, impressed me. The package simply captured my wedding day as if it was a natural story unfolding with beautiful raw footage.
My husband and I are very fortunate we had a naturally photogenic wedding — so we did not need those fancy camera effects. If our wedding was not as photogenic, I don’t know how else the raw footage would have turned out.
All in all, I did not choose to upgrade because honestly, I am very content with the raw footage they gave me. It was excellent quality, and something we could work with.
By the way, GRAPE Video staff also had prepared very flexible payment plans and Sharon was very sensitive to my concerns. It takes a long time to compile the footage together, and I wanted this footage quickly. Sharon and her staff were always responsive, and did their best to work WITH me.
Again, I ordered the «raw footage» and we did not choose to upgrade. Overall, we are very content and more than happy with the quality.

Jesse and I recently got married on October 8, 2010 in Big Sur, CA and Grape Video filmed our wedding.
We opted for a large package because the wedding video was extremely important to us.
Love Love Love the packages. We went with the Champagne package (2) Cameras at both the Ceremony and Reception. We also had a pre-​done photo montage along with a engagement story of the two of us. They did not charge us for the pre-​done photo montage and it was only $ 300 or so for a 8″ projector and screen for the reception /​half the cost of what the facility tried to charge us!!!
The wedding video is AMAZING! I have nothing but the best to say about the professionalism and artistic ability of the company. Our video is by far the best video I have ever seen and all my friends are envious of our video. Some of my friends paid more and got a video half as good as ours.
Would highly recommend Grape Video for your wedding video you will not be let down.
Major Plus: Accept American Express — During our purchasing process Grape Video was the only company (including the facility) that took AMEX. Really helped.

Videography was not high on our wedding priority list. After talking to Brandon, we were sold that we needed to hire a videographer. We just got our wedding DVD back and we were very disappointed and we wished we didn’t spend the money on it. Here are the reasons why I wouldn’t go with Grape. The quality of the video was not that great. The videographer placed his camera in front of a window. The sun was bright in the background. I didn’t realize my husband had a microphone on so the DVD captured many comments through the ceremony that really should have been edited out. I’m actually embarrassed about some of the comments that were captured on the DVD that I don’t even want to show it to anyone. I wasn’t sure what time the videographer actually left the wedding (because they didn’t say one word to me) but there were only shots a little bit of dancing (maybe about 2 songs). I would have liked to have a video clipped of a few songs so the same people weren’t always in the shot. The videographer also didn’t move very smoothly where I felt that the shots were making me dizzy while watching. We had a lot of wedding guests say they did «best wishes» on camera. We only got a few put on the DVD. I’m not sure how they made the decision on who made the cut. I would have liked to have seen more. Our DVD came in a clear plastic case. One of their competitors offered a better case which had a nice cover and would fit nicely in a DVD stand. Lastly, I sent them a document with the names of our bridal party to put at the end of the DVD as credits. They spelled many people’s names wrong! So given how much we spent on videography, we were really hoping for a lot more. This is really unfortunate because this is the only thing we are unhappy about in regards to our wedding.
Update ⁴⁄₁₅: Due to my Unilocal feedback, I was contacted by Matt Stevens who was saddened by my comments. He offered to re-​do my wedding DVD and after several back and forth emails, I still have not received anything from them. My husband and I have almost been married a year! He said that since our edits were primarily preferential, they were not able to fit it in their schedule yet. If this was the case, then they should have never offered to re-​edit our video. I would have rather not heard from them than to have waited this long for NOTHING. Don’t waste your money on this crappy service.