Titles are a tiny part of the film that somehow generate a wildly disproportionate share of complaints. A misspelled name. A font that dates the entire piece. Text parked over somebody’s face. Get them right and nobody notices them at all. Get them wrong and they’re the first thing anyone brings up. Here’s how to handle them.
What wedding video titles are actually for
They have three jobs and no others. Identifying the couple and the date. Marking a section or a location wherever the film jumps. Carrying your studio branding at the end. Everything past that, decorative quotes and animated flourishes and lower thirds on every guest, adds runtime without adding anything to the film.
Pick one typeface and keep it
One typeface, used the same way across everything you deliver, is what makes a portfolio read as a single studio instead of a pile of separate jobs. Go clean and legible over ornate. A heavy script that looks elegant on a still turns unreadable at small sizes on a phone. Settle on one size relationship and one position, then reuse them both.
Timing and duration
Give a title long enough on screen to be read twice, which is roughly three to four seconds for a couple’s names. Fade in and out instead of cutting hard, and land it on a shot with some space in the frame rather than mid-action. A title that comes and goes too fast reads as a mistake. One that overstays brings the film to a halt.
Placement, and the safe margins
Keep your text well inside the frame. Players and platforms crop differently, and a title sitting flush to the edge on your monitor can get clipped on a phone. Never put type across a face, and stay out of busy areas where the letters end up fighting the background. A subtle shadow or a slight darkening behind the text fixes most legibility problems without ever looking like a graphic.
Check every spelling
Cheapest error to avoid, most damaging one to make. Names, the date, the venue: check all of it against the brief rather than against your memory, then check it again before you export. A misspelled surname in a wedding film is the single mistake a couple never entirely forgets.
Build them as templates
Set your title style up once as a reusable template in the Essential Graphics panel, then drop it into every project. It kills the temptation to redesign from scratch each time, holds your house style steady, and turns a ten-minute job into a thirty-second one. It also means anybody else cutting your work produces titles that match your own.
Restraint with motion
Nothing in a wedding film dates faster than an animated title. A simple fade still looks fine a decade later. A title flying in under a light sweep looks precisely like the year it was made. If you’re using motion at all, keep it slow and keep it small. The type wants to feel like it belongs in the film rather than like it arrived from a template pack.
Consistency across a season
Titles are where a house style drifts first, particularly when you’re cutting under pressure. Locking the template, and passing it along with the project whenever somebody else edits, is what keeps thirty films reading as one body of work. Your titles and style come back exactly as specified from Love Story Editing. Send a project through our wedding video editing service, or choose a teaser edit, ceremony edit, or full wedding film. The work is on our video portfolio, or you can request a quote.
The takeaway
Titles work best when nobody notices them. One typeface. Consistent placement. Three to four seconds on screen. Safe margins. Minimal motion. Every spelling checked twice. Build it as a template once and it stops being a decision you’re making thirty times a season.