What filming your event actually costs, market by market
A wedding videographer averages $2,300 nationally per The Knot and $3,993 per Zola, and neither number tells you what it costs where you live. These pages do, one market at a time, with every figure attributed to the source it came from.
Set against that: four Recorderly 4K cameras with a wireless microphone on each, shipped free anywhere in the country and back, for $795.
As of August 2026. Prices and averages change.
Wedding videographer cost by metro
The figure beside each city is what hiring locally typically runs. Every one is sourced on its own page.
- Austin, TX$3,500–$4,500
- Denver, CO$2,800–$6,200
- Nashville, TN$2,000–$6,000
- New York, NY$6,064
- Los Angeles, CA$4,795
- Chicago, IL$6,392
- Miami, FL$2,500–$4,500
- Dallas, TX$2,000–$5,000
- Houston, TX$1,500–$3,500
- San Antonio, TX$3,000–$6,000
- Phoenix, AZ$2,500–$6,000
- Scottsdale, AZ$3,000–$7,500
- Las Vegas, NV$2,000–$3,500
- Salt Lake City, UT$3,005
- Seattle, WA$2,000–$5,000
- Portland, OR$2,000–$4,000
- Sacramento, CA$2,000–$5,000
- San Francisco, CA$6,091
- San Diego, CA$4,000–$8,000
- Santa Barbara, CA$5,000–$12,000
- Orlando, FL$2,000–$6,000
- Tampa, FL$2,500–$4,500
- Jacksonville, FL$2,500
- Atlanta, GA$2,500–$5,000
- Charlotte, NC$2,000–$3,500
- Raleigh, NC$3,000–$6,000
- New Orleans, LA$1,200–$5,000
- Minneapolis, MN$2,000–$6,000
- Columbus, OH$2,500–$2,800
- Boston, MA$3,900–$4,500
- Long Island, NY$2,800–$3,500
- Northern New Jersey, NJ$2,000–$4,000
- Hudson Valley, NY$2,500–$5,000
- Pittsburgh, PA$1,500–$3,000
- Baltimore, MD$4,500–$6,500
- Philadelphia, PA$1,900–$3,000
- Charleston, SC$2,595–$3,171
- Savannah, GA$2,176–$2,660
- Detroit, MI$2,479–$3,029
- Memphis, TN$1,527–$1,867
- Honolulu, HI$3,520–$4,302
Statewide guides
The regional videographer average, the state's average wedding, and every market inside it.
- Alabama$27,000 avg wedding
- Alaska$19,000 avg wedding
- Arizona$27,000 avg wedding
- Arkansas$19,000 avg wedding
- California$39,000 avg wedding
- Colorado$31,000 avg wedding
- Connecticut$42,000 avg wedding
- Delaware$39,000 avg wedding
- Florida$33,000 avg wedding
- Georgia$29,000 avg wedding
- Hawaii$33,000 avg wedding
- Idaho$18,000 avg wedding
- Illinois$38,000 avg wedding
- Indiana$24,000 avg wedding
- Iowa$21,000 avg wedding
- Kansas$20,000 avg wedding
- Kentucky$23,000 avg wedding
- Louisiana$34,000 avg wedding
- Maine$37,000 avg wedding
- Maryland$38,000 avg wedding
- Massachusetts$45,000 avg wedding
- Michigan$29,000 avg wedding
- Minnesota$28,000 avg wedding
- Mississippi$21,000 avg wedding
- Missouri$26,000 avg wedding
- Montana$21,000 avg wedding
- Nebraska$22,000 avg wedding
- Nevada$21,000 avg wedding
- New Hampshire$37,000 avg wedding
- New Jersey$57,000 avg wedding
- New Mexico$22,000 avg wedding
- New York$49,000 avg wedding
- North Carolina$29,000 avg wedding
- North Dakota$22,000 avg wedding
- Ohio$28,000 avg wedding
- Oklahoma$19,000 avg wedding
- Oregon$23,000 avg wedding
- Pennsylvania$36,000 avg wedding
- Rhode Island$51,000 avg wedding
- South Carolina$35,000 avg wedding
- South Dakota$21,000 avg wedding
- Tennessee$24,000 avg wedding
- Texas$31,000 avg wedding
- Utah$18,000 avg wedding
- Vermont$47,000 avg wedding
- Virginia$34,000 avg wedding
- Washington$26,000 avg wedding
- West Virginia$19,000 avg wedding
- Wisconsin$29,000 avg wedding
- Wyoming$17,000 avg wedding
Every event we ship a kit for
Same cameras, same free wireless mics on each. The difference is what we cut.
Where these numbers come from
Four cameras, four mics, $795
Shipped to your city and back, and the edit. Nothing held on your card for the equipment.
Recorderly is not affiliated with any company or venue named on this page. Third-party figures are reproduced from the sources cited above for comparison. As of August 2026.