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
Other events, priced locally
Not every celebration is a wedding, and the pricing does not behave the same way.
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, the edit, and a vertical cut for social. 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.