Los Angeles Wedding Videography Packages Explained: What’s Included at Each Price
Two Los Angeles videographers can quote you the same number – say $4,000 – for completely different days. One is six hours with a single camera and a three-minute edit. The other is eight hours with two filmmakers, drone footage, and a full ceremony edit on top of the highlight film. The price tells you almost nothing until you know what is inside it.
This guide breaks a wedding videography package down to its parts, then walks through what each price band in LA actually includes and who it fits. We are Andrew and Roma – Andrew directs and shoots, Roma produces and runs the second camera. We film weddings in Los Angeles and New York and edit every film ourselves, so the package details below are our own 2026 structure, shown next to the wider market. If you want the market-average numbers first, our Los Angeles wedding videographer cost guide covers those; this article is about what the packages contain.
Quick answer: what's in an LA wedding videography package?
Los Angeles wedding videography packages run from about $1,900 for four-hour elopement coverage to $5,890 for ten hours, with photo-and-video combinations up to $11,190. Every package is built from three things: how many hours the crew is with you, how many people are filming, and how many edits you get afterwards. Price follows those three.
At the low end you get fewer hours, one videographer, and a single highlight film. As the price climbs you add a second filmmaker, drone coverage, longer edits, Super 8 film, and full ceremony and speeches edits. The rest of this guide is what each band includes in detail, and which one matches which kind of wedding day.
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What do wedding videography packages include?
Almost every package is assembled from the same short list. Once you can see these parts separately, two quotes that looked identical usually turn out not to be.
Hours of coverage. The base of the price. Four hours reaches a ceremony and portraits or a full elopement. Six covers the ceremony and part of the reception. Eight runs getting ready through speeches. Ten covers a full day end to end.
Number of filmmakers. One camera or two. A second means the ceremony can hold both faces at once, and someone films the room while the other stays on the speaker.
The edits you receive. A highlight film is one edit. A highlight plus a trailer plus a full ceremony edit plus a speeches edit is four separate pieces of work, each priced by the hours it takes.
Audio. How your vows are recorded – wireless mics on the couple and the officiant, versus sound picked up from the camera. On an outdoor LA venue that is the difference between a film you rewatch and one you mute.
Add-ons. Drone, Super 8 or other film formats, extra hours, raw footage, vertical social edits. These sit on top of the base package.
Delivery. A written turnaround window. Peak-season backlogs are real, and a date in the contract is worth more than a promise on a website.
What should be in any package at any price: a highlight film, professionally recorded ceremony audio, color grading, and a written delivery window. What is normally an add-on: drone coverage, Super 8 or film formats, a full ceremony edit, a full speeches edit, raw footage, vertical social edits, and any coverage beyond the booked hours.
How to read a videography package in one minute
Line up two quotes in this order and the real difference shows up fast:
1. Hours first. Match the coverage windows before anything else.
2. Then the crew. One filmmaker or two.
3. Then the audio. Wireless mics, or sound from the camera.
4. Then the edits. One highlight film, or a highlight plus full ceremony and speeches.
5. Then the delivery window, in writing.
Two packages within $500 of each other almost always differ on one of those five, and it is usually the audio or the delivery date.
What's included at each price
Under $2,500 — elopement and short coverage
At this level you are buying four hours or so with one videographer, one short highlight film, and a trailer. Audio is recorded from the camera or a single lav mic. It is enough for a courthouse ceremony followed by dinner, or a genuine elopement that is four hours long start to finish. It does not stretch to a day that begins with getting ready and ends with a last dance.
Our elopement package, Runaways in Love, is $1,900 for four hours with one videographer, a 3–5 minute film and a 1–2 minute trailer.
Best for: courthouse and city hall ceremonies, Joshua Tree and desert elopements, and weddings with under 20 guests where the whole day is short.
$3,000–$4,000 — six hours, one videographer
Six hours reaches the ceremony, portraits, dinner and the first dance. This is where professional audio becomes standard – wireless mics on the couple and the officiant – and where color grading and a proper trailer come in. One videographer covers it well when the day happens in a single venue.
Our Whispered Vows package is $3,500 for six hours with one videographer: a 4–5 minute film, a 1 minute trailer, professional audio, and color grading.
Best for: intimate weddings in one venue, short timelines, and couples who care most about the ceremony and the toasts rather than a full getting-ready-to-last-song record.
$4,300–$5,500 — eight hours, two videographers, drone
Eight hours is the most-booked length in LA because it covers getting ready through speeches and into the dancing. This is the band where a second filmmaker becomes standard, which changes the ceremony – one camera holds the couple, the other holds reactions – and where drone coverage is usually included when the venue and airspace allow.
Our Endlessly Yours package is $4,800 for eight hours with two videographers: a 6–8 minute film, a 1–2 minute trailer, drone footage where conditions allow, professional audio, and color grading.
Best for: a standard full wedding day, guest counts up to around 150, and any timeline with a getting-ready block worth filming.
$5,500–$7,000 — ten hours, two videographers, film formats
Ten hours covers a large day end to end, including an extended reception. Along with the longer film and the second camera, this is the band where analog film formats appear. For us that means Super 8 included at this tier.
Our Moving Symphony package is $5,890 for ten hours with two videographers: a 7–10 minute film, a 1–2 minute trailer, drone footage, Super 8 film, professional audio, and color grading.
Super 8 is real 8mm Kodak film shot on a Braun Nizo 3056 alongside the digital cameras – visible grain, slight gate weave, about three minutes of usable film per roll, so it goes on the moments we know are coming. In the edit it sits as its own texture next to the digital footage, which is a different thing from a filter applied afterwards.
Best for: large weddings, more than one location, extended receptions, and couples who want analog film in the final edit.
$8,000 and up — luxury, multi-day and destination
Above the single-day packages you are buying multiple events, a larger crew, and custom edit formats – a welcome dinner, the wedding day, and a morning-after brunch, each with its own film. This is also where destination coverage lives, because a wedding two states or an ocean away is rarely one day of shooting.
Our destination packages are $7,990 and $10,990, both photo and video together, with travel and multi-day shooting included.
Best for: multi-event weekends, destination weddings, and days run by a planner on a production schedule.
Our LA wedding videography packages and prices for 2026
Every package is one format and one block of hours. Coverage length sets the price, and each length is available as video only, photo only, or both.
| Package | Coverage | Team | You receive | Price | Best for |
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| Runaways in Love | 4 hours | 1 videographer | 3–5 min film, 1–2 min trailer | $1,900 | Elopements, courthouse ceremonies, desert days under 20 guests |
| Whispered Vows | 6 hours | 1 videographer | 4–5 min film, 1 min trailer, professional audio, color grading | $3,500 | Intimate weddings in one venue, short timelines |
| Endlessly Yours | 8 hours | 2 videographers | 6–8 min film, 1–2 min trailer, drone where conditions allow, professional audio, color grading | $4,800 | A standard full wedding day — the most common choice |
| Moving Symphony | 10 hours | 2 videographers | 7–10 min film, 1–2 min trailer, drone, Super 8 film, professional audio, color grading | $5,890 | Large weddings, more than one location, extended receptions |
Every package includes a private online gallery for a year with unlimited downloads. If none of them match your timeline, coverage can be built element by element from $250.
What's included vs what's an add-on
Included in our packages: the highlight film, a trailer, professionally recorded ceremony audio, color grading, a private gallery, and – from eight hours up – a second videographer and drone coverage where the venue allows.
Add-ons on top of the base package:
A second videographer on the six-hour package. Worth it when getting ready happens in two places, or the ceremony has a wide aisle where one camera cannot hold both faces.
Drone coverage below eight hours. In LA the permission is the hard part: airspace near LAX, Santa Monica, Burbank and Van Nuys is controlled, county beaches and most city parks require a permit to launch, and Santa Ana winds in September and October ground a drone regardless of the contract. Worth it for estate, vineyard and open-landscape venues; for a downtown loft the same money does more as a second camera.
Super 8 film below the ten-hour tier. Real 8mm Kodak stock, roughly three minutes per roll, used on the moments we know are coming. As an add-on it runs about $1,500–$2,600 – typically one to three rolls and one short edited reel.
A full ceremony edit or full speeches edit. A separate 20–30 minute edit, color-graded, with the vows and toasts kept in full. Worth it for religious, bilingual and long ceremonies, and for family who could not travel. This is what most couples actually want when they ask for raw footage.
Extra hours. Cheaper booked in advance than added on the day, because a crew that has to stay late was scheduled to be somewhere else.
Raw footage. Rarely watched – three to four hours of ungraded, unedited footage in chronological order. It is the request we most often talk couples out of in favour of a ceremony edit.
Vertical social edits. Worth it if you know you want something to post in the first week. Ask before the edit starts, because reframing a finished horizontal cut costs more than shooting with both formats in mind.
How much do photo and video together cost?
Photo and video together costs $3,600 for elopement coverage, $6,800 for six hours, $9,120 for eight hours, and $11,190 for ten hours. Each includes a dedicated photographer and a dedicated videographer working the same window, with separate deliverables – a highlight film with trailer, and an edited image gallery.
Booking both from one studio costs less than hiring two teams of the same level, and it removes a problem you would otherwise solve on the day: two crews who have never met competing for the same position during the ceremony and the first dance. Ours divide the angles before anyone arrives.
Best for: ceremonies where the key moments pass in seconds, weddings across more than one location, and couples who want both prints and a film without choosing
What are you paying for after the day?
Most of a package price is work that happens after the wedding, and it never appears on the quote as a line item. A ten-hour wedding produces two to four terabytes of footage across two cameras, plus audio from wireless mics and, where there is one, the sound desk, plus whatever the drone captured. The first pass is syncing all of it and finding the takes that are usable – the vow that landed, the speech that got the room.
Then the edit: cutting to music, matching color between two cameras that shot the same ceremony in different light, and mixing three audio sources so the vows sit above the wind and the guests. Between 30 and 60 hours of it for a single ten-minute film. The two of us do all of it with no outside editor, which is why our delivery is photos within a month and films in four to six months, with the trailer arriving first. When a studio promises a finished wedding film in three weeks during peak season, the edit is going somewhere else.
How to compare two packages that look alike
1. Watch a full film, not a showreel. A 60-second reel is the best six seconds of ten weddings. A full highlight shows whether they can hold a story for eight minutes and whether the audio holds up.
2. Check how ceremony audio is recorded. Wireless mics on the couple and officiant, or sound from the camera.
3. Ask who is actually shooting your wedding, and to see that person's work – not the studio's best-of.
4. Ask what happens if a camera fails. The answer is a second body and recording to two cards at once.
5. Get the delivery window in writing.
Line those up against the price and the cheaper package sometimes turns out to be the better one – and sometimes turns out to be missing the exact thing you cannot redo.
FAQ
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At any price you should get a highlight film, professionally recorded ceremony audio, color grading, and a written delivery window. From around $4,500 in LA, expect two videographers and drone coverage where the venue allows. Full ceremony edits, speeches edits, Super 8 film and raw footage are normally add-ons rather than inclusions.
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Full-day coverage runs $2,500 to $5,500 in 2026, with the market as a whole spanning about $1,000 to $20,000. Our packages are $1,900 for four-hour elopement coverage, $3,500 for six hours, $4,800 for eight hours with two videographers and drone, and $5,890 for ten hours with Super 8 film added.
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Hours, crew and film formats. $3,500 is six hours with one videographer and a 4–5 minute film. $5,890 is ten hours with two videographers, drone coverage, a 7–10 minute film, and Super 8 film included. The longer package covers a full day end to end where the shorter one covers the ceremony and part of the reception.
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For a wedding under about 100 guests in one venue, one is usually enough. A second becomes worth it when getting ready happens in two places, when the ceremony has a wide aisle where one camera cannot hold both faces, or when the timeline is tight enough that details and speeches overlap. It is included in our eight- and ten-hour packages.
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In ours it is included from eight hours up, when the venue and weather allow. In LA that permission is the limiting factor: airspace near LAX, Santa Monica, Burbank and Van Nuys is controlled, county and city parks require permits to launch, and Santa Ana winds in autumn can ground a drone on the day.
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It is worth it if you already like how film looks and want that texture inside the edit rather than a filter over digital footage. Super 8 is real 8mm Kodak film, roughly three minutes per roll, so it covers the moments we know are coming. It is included in our ten-hour package and available as an add-on below that, at about $1,500–$2,600 depending on how many rolls you shoot. It is not the right add-on if you want full redundant coverage of the day
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$6,800 for six hours, $9,120 for eight hours, and $11,190 for ten hours, with elopement coverage at $3,600 for four hours. Each includes a dedicated photographer and a dedicated videographer covering the same window, with separate deliverables – a highlight film with trailer and an edited image gallery.
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We deliver photos within a month and films in four to six months, because every edit is done in house rather than outsourced. A ten-minute film takes 30 to 60 hours of post-production on its own. The 1–2 minute trailer comes first. Whoever you book, get their current delivery window written into the contract.
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Nine to twelve months for a Saturday in autumn or late spring, the dates that go first. Six months is often still workable for a Friday, a Sunday, or a winter wedding. Booking a year ahead also locks the current season's pricing before the next update.
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If you are comparing videography packages and trying to work out how many hours your day actually needs, tell us the date, the venues, the guest count and what matters most to you. We will tell you which package fits and which one would be overselling.