I recently sat down with my videographer and discussed the upcoming wedding season. He and I and the rest of the team coordinate and attend hundreds of weddings a year and over the course of our careers we’ve gotten pretty good at picking up on trends as they start to emerge early in the year.
If you’re a 2025 couple, consider adding these elements to your upcoming wedding day in Las Vegas.
Wedding Teaser Video
You’ve possibly seen a wedding teaser video and not even known it. A teaser video is a slickly produced short preview version of a longer full version.
Couples are asking for teaser videos that they can post within a week or two that highlights the longer video that they will be sharing once the full length video is available. It’s a new way to maximize your day for social media content and the younger generations are eating it up.
These are hitting so hard right now as short formats take over the social media world and shorten attention spans. The teaser works because videographers and audiences are agreeing that shorter is sweeter.
Video Walking Tour
Couples that come to Las Vegas for a quick all inclusive micro wedding or luxury elopement aren’t stopping at the standard 60 to 90 minutes of photo/video coverage they get in their non traditional wedding packages. Now they are adding second and third locations to their photo and video add-ons so that they can make their special day last longer, capture more of it and experience more of what the Las Vegas Valley has to offer.
Couples who want a stylish and adventurous ceremony at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, or the Valley of Fire State Park don’t want to miss a fun evening on the town in Downtown Las Vegas. So they are adding an extra photo/video location to their package. This can be done on the same day of the wedding ceremony or couples can meet back up with their camera persons on a second day.
I’ve been touting the fact there’s more to Las Vegas than the Strip for years, but it’s also fun to embrace the city, the neon, the street art, and the landmarks and turn things into a full weekend of filming.
Dedicated Scheduled Video Time
It’s long been acceptable and expected that following the ceremony the couple escapes for an hour or so of scheduled photography time before joining their guests at the cocktail hour. But as posed portraits are gently being phased out and giving way to more candid wedding photos, this time is slowly being gobbled up by the videographer. There’s only so much time in the day, and as photography shifts so too does videography, so that no time is wasted.
Weddings Video Trends From 2024 That Have Staying Power
Wedding Content Creation
2024 was the year of content creators. Half way through the year they really gained popularity and I see them becoming even bigger in 2025.
Having a social media expert capturing video and snapshots specifically for online posting is becoming a must. It’s no longer an option for many couples, it’s a necessity now.
Millennials love the ability to share their most special moments quickly (within 24 hours) while Gen-Z desires the authenticity that these content creators are able to collect. As a result the raw footage is in demand like never before. They don’t yet need or have the capacity to manage their own un-edited professionally shot footage with the loads of drive space and processing power that comes with it, but they are savvy enough to take iPhone footage and put reels and shorts together.
Vintage Camera Format
Chaulk this one up to all the nostalgic vibes going around. How do you add timelessness, authenticity and a classic look and feel to your wedding video? Shoot it with a vintage camera! 16mm and Super 8 have been hot for a little while and will continue to be a big request. And now I’m starting to see early digital video take off.
The first consumer grade digital video cameras came out in the mid ‘90s. Believe it or not, that was 30 years ago, so it’s decidedly in the old-timey wheelhouse for today’s couples. Some people like to mix it into their videography plan alongside the latest hi-res technology, drones, gimbals and all the rest, while some are ditching the latest tech fully in favor of vintage formats. God bless the camera equipment nerds that saved these relics and are pulling them out of closets and attics now for the rest of us to have fun with once again.
That being said, I don’t think the VHS video tape trend will last. It was a cheap and lower quality format to begin with. Sure, it beat out Betamax in the 1970s and ‘80s format wars, but only because it was cheaper and offered longer recording times for the home consumer. Let’s kill it for good this time around please.
Trends My Videographer is Trying to Make Happen in 2025
Creating Surprises For The Couple
My team and I always try to blow our couples out of the water with our personalized service and attention to detail. That includes the work my videographer does to get to know the couple.
During our planning process we ask our couples about their favorite songs, which I think is kind of a standard practice these days, but once the couple is onsite for their wedding day my videographer goes the extra mile so that he can really wow them with their video. He talks them up and gets to know them a little better, asking questions about what sorts of music they’re into, concerts they’ve been to, etc. Personal stuff like that comes in handy during the editing process as he slips personalized details into the final video. He can drop in some surprises here and there because he took the time on the day of the wedding to get to know something about them.
Personal touches like this are always on trend and I love it!
Taking Editing Risks
I’m really loving the couples who aren’t afraid to have their wedding videographer take a more modern and riskier approach.
I like the videos that push the envelope of what a wedding video can be. Maybe it’s because my team and I operate in Las Vegas, but we love the chance many of our micro wedding and elopement couples give us to have some fun with their videos.
Vegas is a high energy town and it allows us to forgo the traditional piano and strings music with more up tempo beats, do higher energy edits, keep things shorter, cut out the filler and use a balance of movement and static.
I know these aren’t meant to be music videos, but they don’t have to be done by a video camera hobbyist with a tri-pod either. “Oooh look it pans and tilts!” Dynamic videos are fun and more watchable and I’m glad the days of asking your dad’s racket ball partner to bring his MiniDV camcorder are behind us.
Trends I Want to See Happen Sometime Soon
6K Resolution
Every generation of video gets bigger and better, and I like seeing video resolution go higher and higher. 2K is still dominant in most homes, movie theaters and on phones. But 4K is seeping in and is taking off faster than expected, with 5K and 6K just behind.
Most consumers have a hard time telling the difference when placing 1080p and 4K side-by-side, but if you’re a true audio/videophile, then every new development is exciting. Bring on the 6K!
Personalized Video Invitations
This is an idea I actually haven’t seen anywhere, I just think it could be really cool. As couples look for more and more ways to personalize their wedding and provide immersive experiences for their guests, wouldn’t it be neat if each guest got a personalized video inviting them to the wedding?
Couples could record a video message to each of their guests. And say a few words about what the guest means to them and why they want them at their wedding. This would fit well into an engagement shoot. How special would that be?!
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As you formulate ideas for your wedding, take a look at the photo and video options making waves and add them to your all-inclusive Las Vegas micro wedding or elopement. Let my team and I know what you’re envisioning so we can help make it happen.
