Wedding Recap Video
The professional film covers the day. What it cannot cover is the week around it: the arrivals, the rehearsal, the morning of, the recovery brunch. That is the part that lives almost entirely on phones and is never assembled into anything.
The week, not the ceremony
A wedding generates a strange amount of footage across several days, most of it short, handheld and unglamorous in a way the official film deliberately is not. That is precisely why it is worth keeping: it is the only record of what the week actually felt like.
Set the date range to cover arrivals through to the last departure and Dayjavu will show you which days hold video. One moment per day gives a short film that sits alongside the professional one rather than competing with it.
Working with guests’ footage
Ask guests to AirDrop their clips before everyone scatters. It is far easier on the day than a month later. Once the clips are in your photo library they carry their original dates, so they land on the correct day of the calendar automatically, whoever shot them.
Because Dayjavu works from creation dates rather than from when a file was added, footage collected weeks afterwards still sorts itself correctly.
Keep it short enough to send
Two to three seconds per day works well for a wedding week, where individual moments need slightly longer to read than a normal day does. A five-day span lands comfortably under a minute. Short enough that people watch it to the end and forward it on.
Practical notes
- Cover the whole week, not just the day itself.
- Collect guests’ clips before everyone leaves.
- Two to three seconds per day reads best.
- Clips sort by their original date, whoever filmed them.
FAQ
- Will guest footage land on the right day?
- Yes. Dayjavu uses each clip’s creation date, so footage added later still sorts to the day it was shot.
- Can I combine this with the professional film?
- The export is a standard video file, so it can be edited alongside anything else. Most people keep them separate. They do different jobs.
- What if several people filmed the same moment?
- You choose one clip per day, so pick whichever take is best and the rest stay untouched in your library.