Lucid Wedding Videography

I hired Marco to do the video for my wedding. I have to say, I initially picked him after a lot of research because his prices were much lower than competitors and his portfolio seemed solid on his website… but I was really blown away with the quality he delivered! Especially considering he is on the lower end of what you’d pay for wedding video, I was a little worried it would be pretty poor quality. This wasn’t the case at all.
Some highlights:
–Highly responsive (I don’t live in San Diego, so this was important to me) — he replied quickly to my emails and was happy to jump on conference calls with me + my parents to understand what we wanted
–Super flexible — he was happy to split up his time (6 – 7 hours on the day) between our ceremony and reception, which had a huge gap in between.
–Able to interpret our needs — we weren’t his usual customers, given we had a Hindu ceremony + Western reception. We wanted the final product to not just be a highlight reel and instead capture most of the 3 hour ceremony, cutting out the boring/​dead periods between ceremony steps. We also wanted video messages with some of our closest family and friends (I was worried this would come out corny but was so glad we did this, since with a 200 person wedding you really don’t have time to see everyone). Marco gave us a final product with about 1.5 hours of the ceremony, 30 minutes of video speeches, and 30 minutes of toasts, first dance, cake cutting, the usual highlights. I know that it would actually be harder for him to produce a longer video, since he needs more high quality footage and can’t cut as much, but he did a great job with this.
–Worked well with our photographer — I was worried he might get into shots or mess with our photographer, but Marco was happy to work with him and stay out of his way when needed. In the end, this didn’t hurt the quality of our video at all.
–Great final product — the sound, framing of shots, image quality were all superb for a one man show!
If you really want video for your event and are looking for someone competent and skilled to do it, reach out to Marco. If his packages don’t fit your exact needs, definitely talk to him about what you want and see if you can work something out. He was a pleasure for us to work with!

Marco is amazing! So sweet, professional, and talented.
I hired him as part of a seasonal deal he was having, so the video was extremely affordable!
The raw video was beautiful, HD quality and crisp pictures, and he captured all the perfect moments of our day!
We loved having him be a part of our wedding!

Marco did an outstanding job of filming our wedding and creating a video that will keep the memory of our special day alive. I was blown away by the end result of his efforts. He was thoughtful and creative in his process down to every detail. I especially appreciated how he somehow picked just the right scenes and paired them with the most beautiful and appropriate music to suite my personality and taste. He was very stealthy and quiet during his filming, so much I was barely aware of the equipment and filming during the ceremony. My husband and I both loved our video very much and will enjoy years of splendid memories. He really captured the nostalgia of the beach setting and the very meaningful and deep gathering of friends and family.
I highly recommend his services for anyone desiring an absolute beautiful memoir of any special occasion.

Marco, the owner is amazing. I saw the website and almost didn’t believe it could be true to get a videographer for $ 500. We paid $ 100 for the additional microphone throughout the reception. Our DVD was short and sweet, which was fine but my fault that I didn’t read the contract that it is only for about 15 – 20 minutes of video. I later paid an additional amount to receive the raw footage so I can make it my own. Even the raw video is beautiful.
He records all the little details of the day and things I didn’t even know that happened. It was beautiful. Worth every single dollar.
He is very professional and very kind, I would recommend him to anyone.

Determined to be able to have video of my wedding & for an affordable price that my now husband and I could fit into our budget, I scoured the internet and found Lucid Wedding Videography. They have a $ 500 videography package for 4hrs of coverage and a 15min edited highlight DVD. They also have a $ 500 photography package but we already had hired a photographer. Through e-​mails and phone calls they seemed promising & I had my wedding coordinator look over their contract and she said it was fine.
I was worried since I could find absolutely no reviews online for them. And they seemed to operate their business strictly from their website. When I asked about meeting with them they said they didn’t actually have an office. I’m guessing the address on the website is their home. They are probably a small business run out of someone’s home I would guess. They said they would be happy to meet in person at a Starbucks for us to go over the paperwork and sign it.
We ended up not meeting and I just faxed and snail mailed them the paperwork due to me and my husband’s busy schedules and took a chance. I figured worst case scenario they don’t show up on our wedding day and we could chargeback the cost. The chance we took paid off! They totally showed up for our wedding. The videographer was very nice and professional. We had requested for them to give us the unedited raw footage and did not want the edited 15min highlight DVD.
The footage is AMAZING HD quality!!! I’m so glad we have video of our special day! The videographer taped 30−60mins preceremony, the ceremony, and 2 – 2 ½ hrs of the reception and dropped the tape off with us before he left. It was one of those mini DV tapes from the camcorder though and we had to go find a place ourselves that could transfer it to a DVD & a hard drive for us — no big deal though. I only took off 1 star because there are some angles of the footage that are questionable. Zooming in closer than necessary on people’s faces and angles where you can’t really see much. But for the most part they got everything.