F.A.Q.s

What is a Day of Content Creator? 

A Day of Wedding Content Creator follows you around on your wedding day and captures, using their cell phone, 15 second to 1 minute videos, of your wedding day. All videos are shot in portrait so you can post them to your TikTok, Instagram and Facebook stories and reels.

What's the Difference Between a Videographer and a Content Creator?

A videographer makes polished, professionally edited highlight films, shot in landscape on equipment worth thousands of dollars, that range from 3 to 8 minutes. Videographers typically send their films two to 12 weeks after wedding after extensive editing. A content creator, on the other hand, creates portrait style raw videos using an iPhone that are designed to be posted on social media stories and reels and are delivered days after the wedding. Many weddings have both a videographer and a content creator because the mediums are very different.

How Long Will It Take To Get My Videos? 

You will get a link that has a file with all of your videos within 24 hours of your wedding. Most of our clients get them by 8am the next morning. This way you have plenty of content to post to your social media accounts the day after the wedding. We also include a minimum of one edited one minute reel within 48 hours of your event, in which you will be a collaborator, so it'll post on your Instagram feed as well.

What's The Advantage of Your Dream Day vs My Friend? 

A wedding photographer's number one pet peeve is when a videographer or content creator gets in their shot. Wedding ceremony venues, in particular churches, are very particular about where you can stand and what you can shoot during a wedding. A professional understands this, a friend doing this for the first time does not. We also have special equipment, including gimble stabalizers that allow us to zoom in and out smoothly and seemlessly, bluetooth wireless handheld and lavalier microphones, special lighting to capture those videos during the reception, and a ringlight with adjustable lighting for your guests to capture those well wishes videos for you.

How does my time work with my packages? 

We offer three wedding day content creator packages. Up to eight hours, ten hours and 12 hours. We can also create a custom package for you if your event is over several days or involves multiple events.

Do you travel? 

We absolutely do! Although we are located in northern Cincinnati and the south Dayton, Ohio, area, we travel anywhere. Travel fees will be applied to any wedding more than 50 miles from Sharonville, Ohio. Travel fee includes our cost for airfare, overnight accommodations at a minimum three star hotel, and a meal allowance of $100.

How many wedding content creators do you sent? 

Our packages include either one or two content creators. It depends on the package you book.

Do you offer any wedding planning services with your wedding content creator packages?  

Your Dream Day will provide wedding vendor referrals and help you with creating your final timeline for the wedding day. You'll receive a special link that you can share with your vendors, family and friends as well. (However, if you have booked a separate wedding planner, we will let them handle this portion for you and simply provide our piece of the puzzle to them.)

What do you consider your work style?

 Kathy is a quick communicator with email, text messages and voicemail. Most communication is returned within hours, but no longer than 72 hours. She is excellent with social media, extremely creative, and loves to brainstorm ideas with you. She has an outgoing, energetic and bubbly personality, and a quick sense of humor. However, she is very laid back, easy going and can quickly adapt to last minute changes and demands. Many of our couples and parents keep in touch with us after the wedding because we have developed such a strong bond with them.

Do You Offer Rounds of Revisions to Reels?

We recommend that you allow us to post the first initial edit of the reel so that you have the flavor and feel of Your Dream Day's signature editing style for your friends and family. However, if you wish to view and have revisions to the reel we've created for you prior to it posting, we will email you the initial edit for feedback instead of posting it within 24 hours on social media. There is a $150 fee per round of edits. It will also not post within 24 hours of your wedding, but 24 hours from the time when you approve the edited reel. This takes away from the timeliness of the wedding day and the impact that a timely social media video has. 

How Do I Book Your Services?

 You can reach our to us to check availability. From there, we will quote the package that is the best fit for your needs, email you a contract and sent you an electronic invoice. A 50% non refundable retainer is due upon signing and the remaining 50% is due one week prior to the wedding. All payments are non refundable.

Are Your Licensed and Insured?

Your Dream Day is a licensed business within the State of Ohio and is fully insured.

What Equipment Do You Use?

We use an iPhone 16 and an iPhone 11 camera. Both have triple cameras. We record 4K and 24 fps settings. 

How Many Videos Will You Provide?

You will get a minimum of 100 video vignettes that are unedited within 24 hours of the wedding and one edited 1 minute reel on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.

Who Will Be My Content Creator?

Kathy is our lead content creator. However, should a situation arise, we have three other members of our team that can step in at a moment's notice to create the magic for you.

What methods of payment do you accept?

Personal checks, cash, Visa, MasterCard, Discover & American Express.

What happens at the first meet and greet wedding planning consultation? 

Like you and your fiance, Your Dream Day wants to have a first date with the two of you and anyone who will be a decision maker during the wedding planning process. With a wedding planner you aren't buying cake -- you are buying personality, work style, contacts, and nearly two decades of event planning experience. We want to be a good fit for you AND for us. We will give you a flavor of what to expect from our planning style at the appointment, but we will not give you advice or referrals like our paying clients get. After that we determine whether we go on a 'second date' -- moving forward with a planning package!

Who is my consultant? 

Through the years we have had up to three teams of consultants per weekend, but now, we are being choosier about the weddings we do. Kathy Piech-Lukas is now our only lead consultant and she is only accepting one event per week. She loves to spoil couples and being able to focus on just you allows us to do that. She brings a team of consultants with her to assist on the day of the wedding. Should Kathy be ill or not in a position to do the wedding due to unforeseen emergency circumstances, she has relationships with dozens of experienced planners in Dayton and Cincinnati that can assume responsibility of your wedding day management. The dream team is also composed of wedding planners and wedding assistants with at least ten years of wedding planning under their belts.

Do I need a planner? 

How do you help me when there are wedding planning websites out there? Wedding planning websites are a great resource; however, they can become overwhelming with all of the details that need to be done, how much to spend on what, and sifting through the thousands of wedding vendors. It is enough to make your head spin. Hopefully this is the only wedding you will ever plan, whereas we have planned more than 265 weddings.

How does my time work with my packages? 

The procrastinator's package (up to 30 hour package) is a partial planning package (vendor referrals, schedule appointments, pull the details together a month prior to wedding, schedule, day of coordination with a team of a minimum of two people.), procrastinator's plus is up to 50 hour package, while the full service package (event design, vendor referrals and attending all appointments, checklists, vendor confirmation, schedule development, pull details together month of, rehearsal, day of wedding, and any other activities that week like rehearsal dinner, day after brunch or other party) tends to be around 150 hours of work. Quick answers to text messages or emails are unlimited. Anything that requires specific follow up, prescreening vendor availability, scheduled in-person or conference call meeting time, or going to meet you at a location, is deducted as time from your package.

What is your cancellation policy? 

It depends on how you paid. If you do our installment option all payments are nonrefundable. If you paid in full at signing, the refund is based on the number of weeks out from the wedding. Since we are a service business and we only book one wedding per weekend, we likely turned other business away to keep you as a happy client of ours.

Do you offer discounts? 

You get 10% off when you pay in full at signing for your package. If you are active military, you get 15% off when you pay in full at signing for your package.

How do you save me money? 

We are a 'returning' customer with most vendors, which allows us to negotiate for you. You won't make common rookie mistakes, which in most cases equal or exceed the cost of our service. When you don't hire a wedding planner, you will have a part time job from the time you become engaged to the time you walk down the aisle. The big question is, what is your spare time worth to you?

What do you consider your work style?

 Kathy is a quick communicator with email, text messages and voicemail. Most communication is returned within hours, but no longer than 72 hours. She is excellent with social media, extremely creative, and loves to brainstorm ideas with you. She thinks of herself as glue -- keeping you as a couple, parents, vendors, and details together so they all flow together smoothly. She likes to anticipate, predict and recognize a problem before it becomes one, and nips it quickly. She has an outgoing, energetic and bubbly personality, and a quick sense of humor. However, she is very laid back, easy going and can quickly adapt to last minute changes and demands. Many of our couples and parents keep in touch with us after the wedding because we have developed such a strong bond with them.

What areas do you serve? 

Though the majority of our business is in Southwest Ohio (Cincinnati / TriState area and Dayton / Miami Valley) we travel anywhere we are needed as long as the client covers our transportation, lodging and food for any wedding more than 50 miles away from Cincinnati or Dayton, Ohio.

What methods of payment do you accept?

Personal checks, cash, Visa, MasterCard, Discover & American Express.

Can I choose my own vendors?

We will recommend wedding vendors to you, but ultimately the choice is up to you. We do require that your vendor team is compromised of real business owners that are registered with the State, licensed and insured up to 1 million dollars. To ensure that your day is designed and executed to perfection, we need the third party services you receive from your vendor team to be second to none. For full service clients, we do require that you use one of our preferred floral designers and that we take care of coordinating your rental decor for you, This will help us to make sure that the exact items you need to achieve the look you desire are achieved. If a venue requires, per their contract, that your rentals go through them, we will work with them directly to ensure that the correct items have been ordered.

Will you set up decor for us?

We charge an additional setup fee to set up any major decor that you provide such as silk centerpieces, arches or large custom decor pieces, because we have to bring additional staff to unload, setup, and tear down the items. Our staff will not setup or move anything weighing more than 20 pounds or get on ladders. We do include smaller items, like place cards, signs and favors, with your package. Check with our staff prior to the wedding to see what items are acceptable for setup by our staff.

Will you serve food, remove trash and run the bar?

Like most wedding planners, Your Dream Day is not licensed to serve food. We do require that you hire a full service caterer to take care of serving, transporting and disposing of food on your wedding day.