Wedding video pricing calculator your package price from your hours, crew and costs.
To work out what to charge for a wedding video, add up the hours of the day, the edit of each deliverable (highlight, feature film, teaser), the client calls, revisions and travel. Multiply by what an hour costs you, add the second shooter and expenses, then build in taxes and margin. The calculator does the math and drafts the quote.
Free, no sign-upExample numbers, only there to show the method. They are not market rates: swap in your own.
Your month
What your work has to pay for every month, even when the calendar is empty.
The job
Hours for each stage, from the first call to delivery.
The wedding
Hours on the day, editing each deliverable and revisions. Leave 0 for anything not in the package.
The subtitling job
Your pace: how many minutes of work each minute of video takes in each pass.
The clip package
Your pace per clip and the fixed monthly hours with the client.
Result
Fill in your month and the job's hours to see the price.
- Package price
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- Your hourly rate
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- With taxes and margin. This is the hour you charge.
- Cost of your hour
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- Job hours
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- Price per hour of this job
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- Jobs like this to cover the month
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Where the price comes from
- Gear wear per month
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- What the month has to cover
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- Your hours
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- Crew
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- Other expenses
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- Job cost
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- Taxes
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- Margin
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- Price
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Taxes and margin are a share of the price, not something added on top of cost: that's why the cost is divided by (1 minus taxes minus margin).
Quote for the client
The couple sees each deliverable and the total. Taxes and margin sit inside each line.
The feature film edit is where the hours go. We transcribe vows and speeches with every line timed and mark the wedding's moments, like the Vows. Try it with my footage
How to price a wedding video package
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Set up your month
Enter what you want to take home, your overhead, what your gear is worth and how long it lasts. Add taxes, margin and the hours you can bill in a month with weddings.
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Count the wedding's hours
Fill in the calls with the couple, the coverage hours on the day, the travel and the edit hours for the highlight, the feature film and the teaser. Leave 0 for anything not in the package.
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Send the couple a quote
Add the second shooter and expenses, check the price and download a PDF quote with each deliverable on its own line and the total.
How much to charge for wedding videography: the hours nobody sees
Couples see the day: eight, ten, twelve hours of coverage. Your price has to see the rest. Before the wedding come consults, a venue walkthrough, calls with the planner and the day's timeline. After it come offloading and organizing cards, syncing audio from several sources, picking music, editing each deliverable and working through revisions. At many weddings, the edit takes more hours than the shoot.
That's why the calculator asks for edit hours per deliverable instead of one number. A short highlight, a long feature with the ceremony and speeches, and a social teaser all move at different paces, and some couples only want part of it. With the hours split out, you see what each deliverable adds to the price and build packages that work for you.
- Consults with the couple, venue walkthrough and timeline
- Coverage: from getting ready to the send-off
- Travel and lodging when the wedding is far away
- Backups, audio sync and footage organization
- Highlight, feature film and teaser edits
- The revision rounds in your contract
How to price a highlight film, feature film and teaser
Each deliverable becomes a quote line: its hours times your rate, with taxes and margin already inside. If the couple only wants the highlight, set the feature and teaser to 0 and watch the price change. If they want the full feature, the price goes up by exactly the edit hours it costs you.
This lets you answer discount requests with numbers: dropping the teaser saves the teaser's hours, not a random amount. It also shows what a bigger package has to cost so it doesn't come out of your pocket.
| Quote line | Where it comes from |
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| Pre-production | Consult and walkthrough hours × your rate |
| Shoot | Coverage hours × your rate |
| Highlight, feature, teaser | Edit hours of each × your rate |
| Crew | Second shooter and assistant |
| Expenses | Mileage, lodging, licensed music |
Second shooter, travel and wedding expenses
What you pay other people goes in the crew field as a total: second shooter, assistant, drone pilot. Costs that only exist for this wedding go in other expenses: mileage, tolls, lodging, a rented lens or recorder, licensed music. Both go through the same tax and margin math so neither comes out of your pay.
Hours on the road are yours and count as hours. A destination wedding often adds a travel day; if it isn't in the price, you're the one paying for it.
How many weddings a month cover your costs
The calculator shows how many weddings like this one fit in your billable hours for the month. If that's more than your real calendar holds, the price is too low or the edit hours are too high. Since wedding season isn't the same all year, run the math with the hours of an average month, not a peak one.
The calculator's example numbers only show the method. They are not market rates: your package comes from your month and your pace.
More than a package price. Fewer hours on the feature film.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I work out what to charge for a wedding video?
Add up the wedding's hours (consults, coverage, travel, each deliverable's edit and revisions), multiply by what an hour costs you, add the second shooter and expenses, and divide by (1 minus taxes minus margin). Your hourly cost is your month divided by the hours you bill.
What's the average price of a wedding videographer?
This page doesn't give an average, because an average says nothing about your costs. Two videographers selling the same package can have very different edit hours, crew and expenses. The price that works is the one that comes from your hours.
How do I price the highlight and the feature film separately?
Put each one's edit hours in its own field. The quote shows a line for each deliverable. To drop one from the package, set its hours to 0 and the price changes by the hours it costs.
Does the second shooter go into the package price?
Yes. Enter what you pay them in total in the crew field. The calculator runs it through the same tax and margin math, and it shows up as the crew line on the quote.
How should I charge for a destination wedding?
Put the travel hours in travel and the mileage, tolls and lodging in other expenses. If the trip takes a full day, count those hours too: they're hours you can't sell to anyone else.
Can I cut the time it takes to edit a wedding film?
You can shorten the part where you hunt for lines. With vows, speeches and toasts transcribed word by word and timed, you read and pick instead of watching hours of footage. Then rerun the math with your new edit hours.
Charge for the whole wedding. And edit the film in fewer hours.
Upload the wedding. We transcribe vows and speeches with every line timed, mark the moments and suggest captioned clips. You review and finish in your editor.
See the result on your own recording before adding a card.