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How to Price Wedding Videography

Determine your pricing by the hourly rate you want to earn.  If you're just starting, you'll probably have to charge 50-60% of what a full-time professional charges for wedding videography.

Expect to spend about 40-60 hours editing the full-length wedding film, depending on if you provide a 40 minute or 60 minute finished video.  Expect to spend one hour per edited minute of video.

If you want to earn $40 per hour, then you need to charge $1,600 minimum for any wedding video.

Sample expenses and profit breakdown for wedding videography:

$2,000 earned for wedding video
- 400 (second videographer)
- 40 (rent an extra wireless mic)
- 50 (rent a 70-200mm zoom lens)
- 30 (purchase of a professional DVD case with cover art)
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$1,480 tentative profit

Also consider:
- Travel costs
- Housing/meal costs if the wedding is more than one hour away
- Batteries (shotgun mics often use 9V batteries, portable audio recorders usually use AA's)
- renting professional zoom lenses for the other videographer(s), depending on what equipment they have.