VideoBro / Weddings
Your guests already have angles no hired camera gets near.
Your videographer covers the ceremony. Everyone else is filming too, and none of it reaches you.
You already know this is happening
Look around during the toasts and count the phones. Your wedding party, your parents, the friend who never puts theirs down: they're capturing angles no hired camera will ever get near. The table you weren't sitting at. The look on someone's face during the vows. The dance floor once it actually gets going.
None of that reaches you. A few clips land in the group chat, and the rest stays on other people's phones until those phones get replaced. So how do you collect videos from everyone at a wedding? Not by asking for it afterward. You give guests one place to put their videos on purpose, while they are still filming.
Why a shared album never becomes a keepsake
Couples try the usual fixes: a shared album, a Dropbox link, a hashtag. They collect, sometimes well, and what you're left holding is a folder of unsorted clips with no order and no shape.
Collecting was only ever half of it.
That's a chore, not a keepsake. You open the folder once, maybe twice, and then never again, because sorting through clips with no order is work, and nobody signed up to do the work.
How a wedding tape actually works
Set it up before the day, and the day mostly runs itself.
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Start the tape ahead of time
You, with an account, tap New Tape a week or two out and name it like a label: Sam & Alex, June 14. That's the only decision.
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Invite the people who'll actually film
Tap Collab, then Invite, and send the link to the people you actually want holding a phone: the wedding party, a parent, the friend who's always filming anyway. A tape holds 8 people total, including you. Anyone on the tape with an account can invite more people, Develop, and share the film. A friend who joins from your link without an account can film, add clips, and watch the finished film, and nothing else. Invite links work for 7 days, so send them the week of the wedding, not when you first create the tape.
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ARM, then shoot like normal
On the day, each filmer taps ARM and shoots with the iPhone Camera app they already know, held horizontal. Every horizontal clip they shoot while ARM is on lands on the tape automatically, uploading quietly in the background.
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It assembles itself, in order
The ceremony, the toasts, the first dance: clips land on the tape in the order they were actually recorded, not the order they happen to finish uploading. Nobody sorts anything.
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Run a second tape for the after-party
A tape holds 2 hours of footage. If you want the ceremony and the evening both covered, start a second tape for the reception, the after-party, or the rehearsal dinner rather than cramming the whole thing into one. You can keep several tapes going at once.
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Add anything you missed, the morning after
Tap + to pull in horizontal video already on somebody's phone: the bit filmed before they thought to hit ARM, or the clip a friend AirDropped over. It slots into the tape at the moment it was actually shot.
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Develop when you're back
Anyone on the tape with an account can tap Develop, whenever you're ready, not only the person who started it. It comes back as one film: everyone's clips, in order, your trims applied.
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It lands in the Cabinet, and out to everyone else
The film lands in the Tape Cabinet of everyone who was on the tape at that moment. Share one unlisted link for the guests who never filmed a clip and the relatives who couldn't make it: it opens in any browser, no app, no account.
A wedding guest video checklist
Hand this to whoever's filming. It's not "27 must-get wedding shots," it's what a hired camera won't be pointed at.
- The morning, at both getting-ready rooms. It happens in two places at once, and a professional camera can only be at one.
- The room before anyone's in it. Chairs set, nobody seated yet.
- Whatever's happening away from the aisle. The wedding party pacing, someone fixing a boutonniere, the minute right before you walk out.
- The table nobody official is filming. Whatever your actual friends are saying to each other partway through dinner.
- Getting people onto the dance floor, not just once they're already on it. The ones who need convincing are usually the better footage.
- The cleanup, or whoever's still around at the end. The part of the night nobody photographs because the photographer's gone home.
- The next morning. Whoever's still there, telling the story back to each other.
Different friends end up standing in different places for the same ten minutes, which is the real advantage of a crew of phones over one hired camera: you get vantage points a single photographer physically can't be in.
Two more things to know before the day
The crew size and the footage limit are already covered above. These two are about storage and what phone your filmers need, and we'd rather you found out here than on the day.
- Storage comes out of your 2 GB. A tape's footage counts against whoever owns it, not against the guests filming into it. If your shelf fills up, nothing already there is deleted, but new clips and Develop are blocked until you clear room. Paid plans with more room are coming.
- Filming needs an iPhone. Watching needs nothing at all: any browser, any device, no app, no account.
This is not a replacement for your videographer
If you want the ceremony and the speeches covered properly, the vows in focus, real audio, two cameras on the kiss, hire someone. They will do a thing that eight people with phones cannot, and this doesn't pretend otherwise.
This is the other film. The one nobody was ever hired to make, shot from inside your own wedding by the people who were actually in it, with all the parts a professional was politely not standing next to. It's the one you'll probably watch more often. Neither one replaces the other, and plenty of couples reasonably book both: a professional for the ceremony and the portraits, a tape for everything happening around it, including the bachelor or bachelorette weekend that led up to it. The same idea works for the rehearsal dinner or the engagement party, and for the family who couldn't make the trip but would still like to see it.
Questions couples ask
Does this replace our wedding videographer?
No. If you want the ceremony and the speeches covered properly, hire someone. They will do a thing that eight people with phones cannot, and this doesn't pretend otherwise. This is the other film: the one nobody was ever hired to make, shot from inside your own wedding by the people who were actually in it.
How many people can film into one wedding tape?
Eight people total, including you, on every plan. It isn't a limit a paid plan lifts. In practice you pick your filmers rather than inviting the whole guest list, which is what makes the film watchable.
Do our guests need to download an app or make an account?
To film into your tape, they need the iPhone app, but not an account: they open your invite link and start recording. To only watch the finished film, they need neither. Send the link and it opens in any browser, on any phone or laptop.
When do we actually get the film?
Whenever someone on the tape with an account taps Develop, which can be any of you, not just the person who started it. It's real processing in the cloud, a few minutes, longer for a bigger tape, not a wait measured in weeks.
Can we fix the tape after it's developed?
For 30 days after you Develop, yes, and only the person who started the tape can do it. They tap Continue Editing on the film, which pulls it out of everyone's Cabinet and puts the tape back on Active with all its clips, and you Develop again when you're done. Any share link you already sent out stops working for good; once you've developed again, tap Share on the new film to send out a fresh link. There's no undo on that, so it's worth knowing before you use it.
How do I collect videos from everyone at a wedding?
Start the tape before the day and invite the people you actually want filming, up to eight total including you. Whoever films needs VideoBro on an iPhone, but not an account of their own: your invite link is enough, and it costs them nothing. Starting the tape, inviting people, Developing it and sharing the film all need an account.
Do guests need to do anything special to contribute their videos?
No. They open the invite link, tap ARM, and shoot with the iPhone Camera app they already know. Every horizontal clip they shoot goes onto the tape on its own, uploading in the background, no extra step at the end.
More questions like these, for every kind of group, are answered on the questions page.