Every family has their go-to tech person. You know, the person they call when their internet goes out or when their printer stops working. It is great having a person like this as a close friend or family member. Most of the time they are happy to help with all of your tech needs, but you need to know what it means when you are asking them to be in charge of your wedding livestream.
Most people think that when livestreaming a wedding online you just push record and go, and that’s true to an extent. If you just want to livestream to all of your friends on Facebook through your phone, then all you really need in a wedding livestream videographer is someone to hold your phone during the ceremony.
If you want a more private option then a YouTube wedding livestream can be set up so that only people with the link can view your livestream. This requires some finagling, though, and an experienced techie who hasn’t done any livestreaming before will still need to devote a few hours to calculating the ins and outs of how they can set up and share your wedding livestream with your remote guestlist (and only your remote guestlist). Your quality could depend on whether your tech person already knows how to livestream a wedding on youtube, and preparation could take anywhere from 15 minutes to 10+ hours.