BigTime Video Services

I am truly happy to have met Peri and the rest of the staff at Big Time Video. From the very beginning Peri and her staff made me feel very comfortable and happy. And now my wife and I have this absolute gem of a wedding video that we are blessed to have. Peri and her staff will go above and beyond to make sure that your video is of superior quality.
Thank you Peri!
Our wedding video is amazing!!!

I had some family vacations, holidays, and other memorable occasions recorded on many VHS tapes. Big Time Video did a fantastic job consolidating and converting them to DVD. Their price was very reasonable. Jayna was friendly, accommodating and very interested in making sure the conversion was done to my satisfaction. She even called me to verify if I wanted to transfer duplicate portions of the tape. Great communication! Above board and honest. I would highly recommend this company.

I was at first reluctant to have a videographer for my wedding. I was not impressed with the ones I had seen from other weddings that consisted of interviews of guests primarily and people acting foolishly, and thought the money would be better spent elsewhere. However, I was persuaded to have one anyway.
We are so glad we hired Peri. The videographers were unobtrusive, but caught all of the important aspects of our wedding, before and during the ceremony and after. It is absolutely lovely and captured the feel or our wedding perfectly. The editing was superb, and the audio clear. I highly recommend her for anyone who wants a timeless and beautiful film to enjoy for years to come.

I had the pleasure to work with Peri! She made my special day less stressful. She was wonderful and knew exactly what she was doing. She replied very fast to any text or email I would send her with any question or concern. I never had trouble with her, and as a bride to be, who wants to be stressed with a vender? I truly recommend her and her team. You won’t regret it! Thanks Peri for the amazing video you put together! I never get tired of watching it.

We worked with Peri and BigTime Video Services for our wedding. It was a great experience! We LOVE our edited 10 minute video as well as the chapter titles for events throughout the day! The sound, footage, and quality are superb. During the wedding the videographers were discrete and blended in with the day. We highly recommend BigTime Video Services!

I worked with Peri in the initial booking process and Jayna was our videographer. Both were easy to correspond with and were able to answer all my questions promptly. Jayna did a wonderful job capturing all our beautiful moments throughout the wedding day. She was very friendly and super discreet — our guests don’t remember a videographer being present! The highlights video came out wonderfully. The editing, music, and footage were all superbly done. We look forward to seeing our full wedding footage once it arrives.

Jayna is so flexible and reliable. Prices are great. She goes above and beyond! Love this company!

I chose Big Time Video because they were on the preferred vendor list for the Monterey Plaza Hotel and Spa. They were willing to work within my budget and made signing up and reserving the day easy. Jayna was great! I am so glad she did our wedding. She is upbeat and fun to be around, which is exactly what I needed on the big day. The final result was awesome! The short video makes me cry every time I watch it, my family has also loved it. Plus I have all of the extra footage to watch at my leisure and to fully remember the day.
Definitely make sure you review your contract often. The dates and what you need to do are referenced there and are adhered to strictly. The contract itself is your best form of communication for all of your deadlines and responsibilities. I am very happy with the short video and the level of professionalism that Jayna displayed.

I hired them just for raw video footage one week before our wedding. They were very responsive to what I wanted and Peri even helped me refine my wedding timeline to make things flow better. I did not get a music video, but I am very satisfied with the raw footage.

We were so impressed with the amount of footage they were able to get. The videographer was interactive which got a great response from the crowd. Our edited version exceeded or expectations & truly was a touching, artistic portrayal of the event. Thank you for everything & we will highly recommend to anyone.

Our video was beautiful! Peri was a pleasure to work w/​and she did an awesome job.

Peri and her team did an excellent job both at our wedding and with the video production afterwards. You can tell a professional’s work when you see it, and multiple guests have told us that our wedding video is the best one they have ever seen. They were great with our feedback and requests and handled everything in a timely manner. I’m so glad we made the choice to do a wedding video, and BigTime was the perfect partner to make it happen!

Peri and her staff were incredibly priceless at our wedding! I know everyone says the one thing they regret is not having a videographer — so that’s the reason I hired Big Time Video Services to film our wedding. However, I didn’t realize HOW MUCH the video means! This was going to be one of those options I «cut from the budget» — never EVER will I tell a bride to do that after the amazingness captured from our day on video. Every detail mattered to me, but I didn’t realize how important the video is to capture the emotion, excitement, and love of the whole day! The staff made me and my husband feel incredibly comfortable and excited for our special day. We’ve watched our highlight reel numerous times and have ended in happy tears each time. I can’t speak highly enough about this company. Peri is AMAZING with her communication, makes you feel comfortable, and never oversells. She tries to find the right package for each client depending on what’s important to them. I want to get married again to my husband just for another video! ;-) Thank you Big Time!

Jayna was great! We hired her for 6 hours and it cost about $ 1500. She captured a lot of great moments and put it all together in a tasteful video that we will cherish forever. I would definitely hire her again!

Our first wedding videographer bailed and we needed a last minute fix. Peri at Big Time Video worked with us right from the start and finished off with a darn good representation of our Big Sur wedding! We feel she captured the essence of what we were dishing out to our family and friends. We really enjoyed the final product and posting it on Vimeo made it easy to share with more than just the close ones. Highly recommend if you need video in Big Sur area, especially at the Henry Miller Memorial Library!

They did an awesome job on our wedding video! Very friendly and easy to work with! I love that they interviewed our guest and loved ones, made the video very special.

We hired Big Time Video last summer for our wedding. We loved the quality of the video and are happy we decided to have one made, but overall had a miserable experience with Peri (the owner and videographer).
We decided to hire 2 videographers for our event, both of whom were pushy and in-​the-​face of our guests the entire cocktail hour/​reception. My photographer was blocked from many shots by the big lighting systems the video crew had attached to their cameras (photographer gave us this feedback after the wedding). One guest actually overheard one of the videographers state «this is my first wedding»…not ok for the amount we paid them.
The production of the video and delivery was what really disappointed. Not only did it take months, Peri’s customer service was simply awful. Even though we had placed the order and prepaid for everything (including the finished video), we were told post-​wedding that: 1) video needed to be delivered on a storage device because it was HD and DVD’s would ruin the quality, 2) buy our own storage device and ship it to her for downloading the video and raw footage 3) send her a pre-​paid shipping label in order for her to mail our video to us.
We were surprised (to say the least) that she insisted we pay for and mail a pre-​paid shipping label in order to get our video. One would think this might be included in the package rate?
It was a big headache working with Peri. With so many fabulous video options for your wedding or important event, I would steer clear of this business.
I have never before written a Unilocal review but felt compelled to share my experience with this specific vendor.

Peri and Jayna are totally awesome helpful! Stayed in our budget and luckily they convinced me to get a wedding video otherwise I would have missed out on most of the ceremony, I highly recommend getting a wedding video for your special day these moments are priceless.
Jayna and Peri were incredibly helpful even 6 months after our wedding! They are everything I hoped for.

During our planning phase, we were contemplating whether or not to use a videographer for our wedding but we were convinced by some of our married friends to do it as a great way to capture the day for posterity. We are so happy now that we decided to do it and are especially lucky to have found and used Big Time Video Services. Picking Peri and her team was one of the best decisions we made for the wedding.
We first met Peri at her studio in Monterey and found her to be very personable, friendly, and warm. We liked her immediately. It was obvious to us she is very passionate and loves what she does.

On the day of our wedding Peri and her colleague were very easy to work with. They made us feel very comfortable and not overly directed. She is a true professional who also worked along very well with our photographer and wedding planner.
When we got our ceremony and reception highlights DVD we could not have been happier. It was brilliantly edited and showcased the best moments of the day. Peri is a talented videographer and editor who knows how to capture the right moments of the wedding without it becoming tedious. We felt very proud to share this video with our family and friends and to other relatives and friends who could not attend. We will cherish this video for years!

Working with BigTime Video Services and Peri Basseri, the owner and visionary, was a great experience. From my first phone call with Peri, I knew I liked her. She was extremely helpful, down to earth and just sort of got it. She makes modern wedding videos that don’t go on for hours, and finds the most touching, poignant moments.
Truth be told: I was not 100% sold on a wedding video, but my mom (a psycho-​therapist) told me it was a good idea for years to come of how we felt on that day. I’m very glad we did do the video because it captures the day’s emotions in a totally different way than still photography and with all the excitement of the day, its hard to remember every detail (or impossible otherwise to see different perspectives)… and our wedding was only a few months ago!
I really appreciate Peri’s genuine/​positive/​caring attitude, there is nothing pretentious or high pressure about her. She is extremely responsive and present. These characteristics are important in enjoying the time we spent together, around our guests and to getting the best, most authentic wedding video. Peri obviously loves what she does, she listens to clients and provides a great end product. We will enjoy our wedding video for years to come!