I normally shoot on DSLR alone; no camcorder. Current setup is four DSLRs for ceremony, three for speeches, two during most of the rest of the day. Out of this, we're producing continuous coverage of ceremony and formal parts of reception, plus more highlight style coverage of the rest of the day.
The main sorts of challenges are just battery life and recording time and card space. So if you wanted to cover a two hour Indian ceremony with Mk2s, you'd have to be conscious of pressing record every ten minutes and have another camera rolling while you're fiddling. Batteries last 60-90 min, so with four cameras shooting for hours, you may be quickly accumulating a pile of them. I take around 20 batteries to full-day weddings, and have six chargers going during the reception.
Some Serbian people in Sydney expect more like 6-8 hour DVDs. For that sort of thing, DSLRs are probably the wrong choice. But your long form sounds doable on DSLRs, as long as you've got the battery and card situation sorted. Overheating may be a problem depending on how long you're rolling, but if you swap out the battery when your screen suddenly goes black, that usually fixes it...
One thing that's only recently coming home to me (I'm slow) is that it's hard to shoot highlight style and doc style at the same time. If you're shooting any sort of ritual or stage show, then you want your cameras to be pretty static for easy watching. But this means you're not running around getting tonnes of interesting angles and camera movements and fiddling with gimicky grip gear and holding shots for mere seconds. If you want the most creative highlights you can get, you really need a person dedicated to that role who's not worried about also getting safe, continuous coverage.
Source: http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/wedding-event-videography-techniques/512144-wedding-long-form-dslr.html
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