Asta Video Productions

890 Radford Street, Christiansburg VA 24073  540-381-2294   Hours: Monday - Thursday 9-5 and By appointment

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We serve the Greater New River Valley Area of Virginia including:  Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Radford, Elliston, Shawsville, Pembroke, Newport, McCoy, Floyd, Snowville, Hillsville, Dublin, and Pulaski and we also Serve the Roanoke, Vinton Area

 

 

 

 Wedding Consulting

 We offer one hour of free wedding planning with videography.  It's not directing, it's planning. The more your photographer and videographer know, they better your wedding and reception coverage will be! I personally have seen things happen that are just unbelievable and embarrassing to the bride, groom and their families because of not enough planning or basic knowing, how or what to do. You really need one person in charge of the day, a good close friend. We can teach your best friend how to be the best wedding director ever, and she doesn't have to know the first thing about it!

Our consultant will meet with the bride as often as needed.  Our company charges by the hour and therefore,  you can use her services as little or as much as needed.  She will help you with wedding planning, etiquette, budgeting, give you a list of vendors in the area and vendors we can recommend, help create your Growing Up Photograph Montage, edit your music for the wedding and more!  She can offer you several choices on how and what order to do important wedding events, (i.e. when to do the unity candle, first communion as husband and wife, when to have a solo, and what do the guys do with their hands?) 

Our etiquette will include sharing with you what is of good taste and share with you what other brides are doing at their weddings in the 21st century. We have sample videos of different types of weddings. 

We can take charge or let you in be charge with just a little professional suggestions.  You let us know how much help you need. We also do work/planning between each session. Such as preparing your program, calling vendors, typing your wedding outline (to give copies to each attendant, groomsmen, parents, minister, etc. at the wedding rehearsal) and to changing the key of the soloists song and more!

      

Here is a sample of what we can do for you.

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Organizing

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Taking a load of work off your shoulders

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Leaving NOTHING to chance or to "make-up" at the rehearsal

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Help with locating vendors

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Budgeting

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Etiquette

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Planning your wedding & reception events and writing up your plans to give copies to your attendants, family and your reception entertainment. You be in control when and where something happens at your reception!

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Sharing with you alternate times to do highlight events at your wedding and or reception (i.e. at least two options (and possibly more) of when to have

            1.  mothers light the Parents candles,

            2.  Bride & Groom light Unity Candle

            3.  Soloists to sing

            4.  un-roll the aisle runner

            5 . Having first communion

            6.  First Dance

            7.  Cutting Cake

            8.  Bouquet or Garter Toss      

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Ever wonder why we do the traditional things we do at weddings.  Where did the unity candle originate? Why do we have an aisle runner? Why do we have the sharing of the wedding cake and the couples traditional toast? Why does the bride throw her bouquet and the groom remove her intimate apparel? We have the answer to these and other traditions.

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Preparing your Ceremony Program. (includes layout on a disc and laser printing on our wedding programs).  We have a wide variety of programs in stock and can special order others in our catalog.  Wedding programs are $8.95 plus tax per 100, to purchase blank programs.  You may purchase them here and have them printed somewhere else.    We carry a variety of wedding programs. 

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A Photograph to Video slide show. Your Growing-Up montage.

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Create your wedding music on one CD for your church sound Tech. (or have it done as a back up in case your original CD is damaged.)

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Edit music for soloist or processional (shorten, lengthen slow down, speed up, key change and if you only have the song with a lead vocal in it, we can remove the lead vocal and make a CD for your soloist!)  This has been one embarrassment I have seen over and over at weddings. Songs in the wrong key for the soloist!

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Wedding Directing (ask for more information)

 

If we can be of help with planning your wedding and taking some of the stress off of you, we would love to help.  We know that planning, working, going to school and getting organized takes a lot out of you.  Don't you want to enjoy your wedding too?, instead of wondering, "What else could I have done to make my wedding more elegant, more tasteful or did I do something wrong and my guests are not being taken care of?"  Don't let these feelings ruin your wedding day. 

 

Call Christina Webb at 540-381-2294 to set up your appointment. 

References available.

 

Cost: 

$60.00 for the first hour and $20 for each additional billable hour

(we do work even after you have left from the consultation)

 

Flat rate of $295 for up to 20 hours worth of service.

                 $395.00 includes consulting, invitations and programs for your wedding.

 

Brides who hire us for videography - Free for the first hour and $10.00 for each additional billable hour.

Key Benefits

bulletWe don't limit ourselves to what the books or mail order courses in Wedding Directing have to say. We have years of on-the-job experience.
bulletWe specialize in listening to our brides and giving them options for each of their special requests.
bulletWe attend 20 or more  wedding rehearsals a year and see what other wedding directors are planning. We adapt information to our planning that we like and make sure to point out what went wrong and instruct our brides about it.  (We learn from others mistakes).  So far all weddings we have helped plan have gone off flawlessly.
bulletWe have the take charge attitude needed, yet with a soft gentle, comforting approach. 
bulletWe can let the bride be in charge with just a little steering and a soft "push" in the right direction.
bulletWe are diplomatic between other vendors and treat everyone fairly.
bulletWe are there to take charge. The on-site wedding director at the reception site that comes free with booking that site, may not be what you expect.  I have seen directors be at the rehearsal for those weddings, but don't actually appear at the wedding, and they are in the reception site, but they DON'T take charge of certain things that come up. And think about this.  What if she quits that company a day or two before your wedding. No-one there is prepared to know what you ACTUALLY wanted to happen at your wedding/or reception.  Share this info with your photographer, DJ and videographer.  Don't keep any secrets from them!

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