I got married years ago, way back in the VHS age. I carefully preserved my wedding and my wedding rehearsal on video to make sure I could share them with the kids. Who could forget those classic moments? When I walked down the aisle my dad managed to step on the long train of my dress. As we proceeded down the aisle, he moved further and further onto my dress until I was being pulled to one side. “You’re on my dress!” I whispered. “What did you say?” he asked. Being hard of hearing, I had to bend over and tell him in a normal tone, “You’re stepping on my dress!” Everyone in the church heard it.
Or when one set of Bryan’s grandparents told the usher, “Bryan”, and he thought they said “Bride.” They were promptly seated with the bride’s side of the family. The kids giggle whenever they hear the two of them arguing.
Grandmother: “We’re on the wrong side. We’re supposed to be over there with Bryan.”
Grandfather: “Just sit still. It will be fine.”
Grandmother: “No. No, it won’t. I moving.”
Grandfather: “Sit still!”
Grandmother: (moving) “I will not. I am going over to the right side of the family!”
The wedding rehearsal was just as bad. My dad was performing part of the ceremony and didn’t want to use our vows. The ensuing argument over his changing the ceremony involved all the women in my family taking my side, while the men rolled their eyes. Thankfully, the cameraman turned off the recorder after a few minutes, but I laugh now when I see all the women rushing to my rescue.
All of our memories were preserved, but as the vhs age passed, the tapes were placed in the back of closet, unused and forgotten. When I was offered a chance to preserve our memories with Yes Video, I happily agreed. They accept VHS tapes, Camcorder tapes, movie film reels and 35 mm slides and offer a safe and secure ordering process, guarding our memories like their own, with surveillance cameras at every stage, and digital copies of the transferred videos are archived for added security.
My dad has several old film reels of his family members, most of whom have since passed away. I know this would be a special holiday gift for him. .
The kids and their friends have had a blast watching the wedding video and teasing Bryan about, “The shortest kiss we have ever seen at a wedding. Why even bother?” I’m glad we have our memories preserved once again.
Do you know someone that would appreciate seeing their old movies or videos again? What moment would you preserve?
We have been watching old videos from when the kids were little. I found a tape with my sons first birthday on it. Now i just need to get the tapes transferred to DVD.
I’d love to get some of our old home movies (that are just taking up space under mom’s tv) converted. I’m sure my boys would love to see mom singing in the talent shows!
I have old dance videos I’d love to convert. Glad you were able to preserve these memories!
What a great story! I am happy you can keep those memories even longer.
We have some old VHS tapes from when my husband and I were dating. Would be really cool to be able to watch them again!
Your wedding rehearsal and wedding sound so funny! Those are definitely things you will always remembered. I really need to check out YesVideo. We have a lot of home movies I would love to get on DVD.
Oh this is so great! I actually have a few VHS tapes myself of memories that are packed away somewhere. If I get them switched over, I can actually watch them again. 🙂
Mine is on VHS tape too! I can’t even find my video….#oops
I have some videos I would need to convert to DVD. It is crazy how VHS became obsolete in a matter of just a few years. This service sounds really helpful!
My mother actually has a few videos that I would love to have converted so I can watch them once again.
Old movies are awesome…I am so glad we have the ones we do, and wish we had done so many more. It is one of those things that you cannot overdo.
My dad has been slowly converting our family videos to DVD now. It’s hilarious to watch myself when I was little with my sisters 😛
I really need this because my dad also has old tracks that need to be preserved. I think it will make of a great family hiday gift and event watching my parents at their fort home video!
We just attended a wedding for my husband’s cousin that was full of mishaps. The funniest one was when the preacher called the husband the bride. He’d had so many mistakes by then, that it broke the camel’s back and everyone just laughed. Fortunately all were good sports about it, but it’s not going to make for good video, lol
I like Yes Video. Transferring tapes is important because they deteriorate.
I’ve heard of people doing this, but I honestly always forget. Thanks for the reminder!
I love the old wedding video! So sweet! I want to take all the video clips of my kids that I have on my phone and put them into one long video!
That’s pretty neat! I knew there were services that did this, but I didn’t know how to find them, so thank you!
At one time I looked into buying a vhs to dvd converter because I have a ton of them. But, I do have a working vcr still, too. LOL
Id love to get my mom’s photos and videos archived. I need to work on making this a priority.
I had my VHS tapes converted to video last year and I’m really happy that I did. There are no better way than to capture the memories of the past.
My son has helped me convert a lot of our old VHS tapes to DVD but since he now lives on the other side of the country, I have to wait for him to come home for a visit to finish them!
Gosh I have a bunch of my kids when they were younger. This is a great idea.
I have so many home VHS tapes that I’ve completely forgotten about! Oops. Lots with great memories too! We don’t even have a VCR anymore!
I’m sure we have some VHS about of old family moments that could do with being revived – it’s a shame how we lose things as technology progresses.
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I want to try this service but have been afraid to. I have some videos of my dad who passed years ago, I would love to have them preserved in a better more updated format.
I know that I have some very old VHS tapes that I would like to have transferred to dvd. I can’t even figure out what is one them anymore but I know that I wanted to have them for some reason!
I love that you were able to preserve these days! I have a VHS from my childhood I’d like to do the same thing too.
I love services that allow you to preserve all of those amazing memories! I wuold love to send in all my grandparents videos
It is so great that there is a service to save all those VHS memories. It is crazy to think how much technology has changed. I am sure I have videos that could be transferred as well!
My grandma has old movies from her wedding forever ago that we did have transferred to DVD. I need to back up videos of my son, so they don’t get lost or obsolete. What a great service!
This is incredible! I had no idea I could get this done at Costco I have a few really important VHS cassettes I would love to have transferred over. I am so glad to read this!
Awww what a lovely wedding day! That’s so cool that you can put video from the VHS onto a DVD.
That was so sweet, Pam! It made me all teary-eyed, especially since I know you so much better now.
Aww those special moments will never be forgotten. I wonder how it would be when I get married then lol.
Aww, I smiled at some of the happenings with your wedding and rehearsal. What precious memories! My Grandma might still have some VHS tapes that would be fun to convert.
Arent these old tape funny to watch now? we have several that I love sharing them with our kids, who relentlessly make fun.
When my older kids were little I had so much video on VHS and I finally got it transferred over 5 years ago. They are so so fun to watch. So many I have forgotten about since they were stored away for so long.
We didn’t have a video camera growing up so we have no videos. As for my wedding video well my brother recorded over it years ago.
Cute story about your wedding. This would make a great holiday gift. I am sure my Mom would love family videos saved to DVD. Perfect gift!
I got married in Vegas, so I got a DVD of the ceremony that day. I do have a lot of other stuff on VHS, though, that I would love to have converted.
I have a few old VHS tapes, but no way to watch them. I need to have them converted to DVD.