--- title: "Lebanese Wedding Highlight from Your Footage | WeddingEditor" url: https://www.weddingeditor.ai/wedding-video/lebanese/highlight/ last_updated: 2026-10-11 --- # A five-minute Lebanese wedding highlight that keeps the drums in Five minutes is short for a night that can run past two in the morning. A good Lebanese wedding highlight usually carries the arrival through the zaffe, a few seconds of the ceremony the family is happy to show, at least one full dabke surge with the floor packed, the parents' toast and the cake. With WeddingEditor you upload the night's footage, list those moments in order, and the AI editing cuts a Highlight Reel of about 5 minutes and delivers it to your project. One Highlight Reel per project. If the family also wants a teaser, that is a second project. [Start your first wedding](https://app.weddingeditor.ai/sign-up?redirect_url=/dashboard) ## How to brief a Lebanese wedding highlight 1. **Upload everything you shot** Add the clips from the bride's home, the ceremony, the hall entrance, the dabke rounds and the speeches into one project, from every camera. You do not need to cut them down first; the AI editing chooses from what is there. 2. **Name the beats of the highlight** In the must-include question, write the moments in the order they happened: the zaffe doors opening, the rings, the first dabke with the groom on someone's shoulders, the father's toast, the sword and the cake. Say how much the drums should carry the film against speech. 3. **Watch, download, revise** Once you pay or spend a credit, the Lebanese highlight typically comes back in 24 to 72 hours. Watch the highlight in the app, download the MP4, and send up to two rounds of notes by email if a beat needs changing. ## Must-include moments for a Lebanese highlight - **The entrance**: The hall doors opening on the zaffe drummers, the couple stepping in, and guests rising around the dance floor. - **A dabke peak**: The moment the line is longest and fastest, with the leader at the front and the bride and groom pulled into the middle. - **Lifted onto shoulders**: In many weddings friends lift the groom, and sometimes the bride, onto their shoulders during the dancing. One of these moments says a lot in a few seconds. - **The family's words**: A line or two from the parents' or the best man's toast, chosen by you, so the highlight has a voice and not only drums. - **The cake and the sword**: The sword handed to the couple and the first cut, a moment many Lebanese families expect to see. - **A quiet close**: The couple alone at the end of the night, or the grandparents watching from their table, to let the film land. ## What a Lebanese highlight has to balance - **Energy and story**: The dabke and the zaffe give a highlight its pulse, but a film made only of dancing loses the people. Plan for the speeches and the quieter family moments to break it up. - **Religious moments, briefly**: If the family wants the ceremony in, a few chosen moments usually serve the highlight better than long passages. Which moments are appropriate is for the family and the officiant to say. - **Many relatives, little time**: Lebanese families are often large and close, and a five-minute film cannot show everyone. Name the people who must appear so the AI editing spends the time on them. - **A Highlight Reel is about five minutes**: The edit is one Highlight Reel of about 5 minutes per project, delivered as a 1080p MP4 in your project. - **Your notes steer it**: The AI editing follows the preference answers you write, so the order and the names you give shape the cut. ## Highlight moments and how to brief them | Moment | Why it matters | How to brief it | |---|---|---| | Zaffe arrival | Sets the tone and the sound of the night | "Open on the drums at the doors." | | Rings or vows | The reason everyone is there | "Two shots from the ceremony, the rings and the kiss." | | First dabke | The emotional peak for many families | "Keep the round where the grandfather joins." | | Toasts | Gives the film a voice | "One line from the father's toast, in Arabic." | | Sword and cake | A moment families watch for | "Include the best man handing over the sword." | | Closing image | Lets the film breathe at the end | "End on the couple outside, not the DJ." | ## What is a Lebanese wedding Highlight Reel? In WeddingEditor, the Lebanese wedding Highlight Reel is one edit of roughly five minutes, cut from the zaffe, dabke and reception clips in your project. For a Lebanese wedding it compresses the zaffe, the ceremony, the dabke and the reception into a short film that follows the order and the people you name. Not the same as: It is not the complete record of the night. If the couple wants every speech and every dabke round, that longer film is yours to cut from your own footage. ## Lebanese highlight questions ### Can the highlight keep the drums under the speeches? The edit uses the sound your cameras recorded, and WeddingEditor adds nothing on top. Say in the audio question whether you want mostly natural sound with the drums or more weight on speech, and the AI editing follows that. ### How much dabke should a five-minute highlight have? That is the couple's call, and it varies. Many families want one full round that shows the line and the leader, plus short glimpses of others. Write which round matters in the moments question. ### Can I include part of the church service in the highlight? Yes, if the family and the church allowed you to film it and you list the moments you want. WeddingEditor does not decide what is appropriate to show; you and the family do. ### What if the best moments were filmed by my second shooter? Their files can go into the same project. If they are signed in to your WeddingEditor team, a team upload link that WeddingEditor sets up lets them add their clips. ### Can I get a longer film than five minutes? No. A Highlight Reel is about 5 minutes. For a longer version, download the MP4 and build it yourself from your own footage in your editor. ### Who receives the highlight first? You do. WeddingEditor never sends anything to the couple; it waits in your project until you decide to deliver it. ## More for this Lebanese wedding - [Lebanese wedding video editing](https://www.weddingeditor.ai/wedding-video/lebanese/): The whole wedding, one project or several - [Lebanese wedding teaser](https://www.weddingeditor.ai/wedding-video/lebanese/teaser/): A shorter Social Teaser - [Dabke highlight](https://www.weddingeditor.ai/wedding-video/lebanese/dabke/): The dance as its own project - [Zaffe highlight](https://www.weddingeditor.ai/wedding-video/lebanese/zaffe/): The drum procession - [All cultures](https://www.weddingeditor.ai/wedding-video/cultures/) ## Five minutes that still sound like the night Upload the wedding, list the beats in order, and let the AI editing build the highlight around them. [Start your first wedding](https://app.weddingeditor.ai/sign-up?redirect_url=/dashboard)