r/weddingvideography

I don't find myself looking at other videographers' works like I do photographers. Especially now that we're in our busy season. Who do you all think is out there right now really doing their thing?!

Hey all. Quick question for everyone:

I'll sometimes receive Modmail inquiries from users/companies seeking permission to post a thread to promote their product release or looking for beta testers.

This violates rule #3 "No Self-Promotion or Advertising", however I do think some of the products that come through could be genuinely helpful for the community and small businesses.

I'm considering a few options:

• Relax the rule and allow these posts
• Constrain product self-promotion posts to a dedicated/pinned "Product Promotion" Megathread where all of these types of posts can go in order to avoid front-page spam. Self-promotion of services would not be allowed in this thread and will still not be allowed in the subreddit - only products.
• Keep strict policy - no advertising whatsoever.

Thanks for the feedback!

Hi all! My friend and I are starting out as wedding videographers. Do you record vows and speeches audio separately from video (meaning you have an audio recorder and then a video recorder and you layer them when you edit) or do you do them together (meaning the audio recorder is connected to your video recorder)? Thank you!

Hey everyone,

I’m have several upcoming wedding projects this season and want to connect with experienced freelance video editors.

Most of these projects average 200GB+ of raw assets (typically 2–3 camera angles shot in 4K 10-bit Log, plus separate high-quality audio tracks).

If you have open capacity and are interested, please drop a comment or send a DM with your portfolio, along with answers to these quick questions:

1. Your Starting Project Rates: Do you charge a flat project rate for a standard edit, or do you scale based on the deliverables?

2. Your Delivery Plans: What does your timeline look like? How many weeks do you typically need from receiving the footage to delivering the first rough cut?

3. Standard Deliverables Included: What do your base editing packages cover? (e.g., 5-minute highlight film, full multicam ceremony/speeches cut, etc.)

4. Your Workflow: Briefly, how do you handle a 200GB data transfer.

5. Your location.

I am looking to build long-term relationships with a few reliable editors who can maintain a consistent story flow and clean color grading.

Please drop your links and info below, and I’ll reach out directly to those who look like a good fit!

Hello, long story short. The videography team I hired for my wedding lost all the footage. I have a video clip from a guest's phone. I want to turn that into high-quality, professional footage. Can this be done, and how?

Hello Everyone,

I'm an amateur videographer and photographer, its really just a hobby for me. My cousin is getting married this June and she asked if I would be able to video her wedding. I said that I could, but warned her that if the wedding video is very important to her, she really should pay for a professional, but she explained that her wedding budget is very low, so she's really depending on pro bono (I believe the photographer is a college friend of hers.)

So, I'd really appreciate any advice and tips on what gear is worth purchasing, and what else I should know for my first wedding shoot. The other posts on this sub have already been very helpful.

My current gear list:

> Sony a7III

> Tamron 28-200mm f/2.8-5.6 Di III RXD - Sony FE Fit

> Joby Wavo Plus, On camera shotgun Microphone

> One Tripod

> One Battery for Sony a7III

> One SD Card

Edit: I have multiple SD Cards, just only one with a high enough write speed to record 4k onto.

Additionally, I have a friend who agreed to let me borrow some of their camera gear if I want, here's what they would allow me to borrow

> Sony a6300

> 16mm lens

> 35mm lens

> Sony E PZ 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS (kit lens)

> Sony E 55-210mm f/4.5-6.3 OSS (kit lens)

> Three batteries for a6300

I'm willing to spend a few hundred dollars on gear, as I really like my cousin and would love to be able to make them a decent video and can make use of anything I buy or rent for other projects. Thanks for any suggestions!

Hi everyone, our wedding was a while ago, and though it was an awesome event, we were disappointed that our videographer went MIA afterwards (to us and seemingly every couple she worked with during the span of many months). Eventually she resurfaced, explained that she got overwhelmed, and also that she would not be able to reimburse the payment nor do the editing. A bummer for sure. She did give us a link to the raw footage, which we downloaded.

Anyway, now I want to finish the video.

Is using an AI editing program and then doing a bit of simple editing myself reasonable? I don’t know much and have limited time, but wouldn’t mind working on it.

And how would that compare to hiring someone else to do it?

Would appreciate any advice!

Context:

8 seasons in, rebranded 2-3 years ago from my own name to AdamariFilms since I didnt want my name to turn out to be a wedding film brand, it already started happening and I was getting booked left & right for weddings without doing almost any marketing. Usually hot leads were coming from recommendations from different local photographers who loved my work or loved working with me, or fellow videographers who were booked on the same date so they were recommending me. Also word of mouth & a had a few trendy wedding reels that looked good. All of this was just local area.

I never planned on being a wedding videographer, tbh probably the least favourite type of gig, but I somehow became one because I needed money through school & college. People started associating my real name with weddings and I hated it because my dream and true passion is to become a narrative, doc. & commercial director. So I rebranded 2-3 years ago, opened up a new profile and been doing fine since.

Had one major burnout, did like 25 weddings in 3-4 months, while each wedding offer was around 4-5 different videos. At that point of time it helped me jump up to pricing range where 1x wedding = 1x monthly average salary. For a guy doing it through summer while also in a college, financialy it was amazing but when the backlog started pilling up I lost 10kg only in December, averaging a 4 hours of sleep a night. Since then I promised myself that I will do weddings because I now need to survive like everyone else but I am going to shrink my packages to 2-3 videos per wedding, and its mandatory for me that I atleast after all expenses earn one average salary per wedding.

Here is the problem...

I only had like 2 weddings booked this season, we are already approaching the end of May. This never happened till now, had a nice number of leads from Sept.2025 to Jan.2026 although most were windowshoppers, after sending my prices I was getting left on "seen" like 80-90% of the time. Whats the best thing to do starting right now to atleast book 10-12 weddings for this summer?

also, even bigger problem in my opinion...How do you manage to go through editing a wedding, even if burned out, without passing deadlines? I dont have extra money to outsource editing since my margins are not big enough for me to mathematically do around 15 weddings a year, pay myself a salary and pay editor despite me teaching my 18 year old sister editing for the past few months, hoping that I can provide her with an editing part-time position this season. Aaaand to be honest at this moment I have a wedding that needs to be edited and I feel like throwing up when I think about opening Premiere.

Bare in mind that I am doing this all in just a local market, which isnt an extremely rich country like USA, England, Germany, etc...I am in eastern european area.

Hey all! I've been researching videographers for a while, but I'm struggling to find what I'm looking for, regardless of our budget.

We are getting married in Brooklyn on October 3rd. Our ceremony and reception are in the same building (the ceremony is upstairs), and our after-party is directly next door.

I'm hoping to find a videographer who can simply follow this physical journey and make anyone watching the footage feel like they were completely a part of the night. I think I'm looking for a documentary or candid style, but almost all the portfolios I see feature heavily posed shots, slow-motion, or elaborate cinematic edits.

Ideally, we only want a few specific things polished: our full ceremony, a few different dances, and one segment of our after-party. For those, we just want the natural live sound—no added music overlays. Raw footage is fine for everything else.

I’m looking for feedback on a final payment delivery process.

For client video deliveries, I’m testing this flow:

1. You (videographer), upload the video. The platform creates a link.

2. Client gets a watermarked preview

3. They approve the work

4. They pay the final balance through the same link

5. The clean files unlock automatically

The idea is to avoid the “final video is delivered, now I’m chasing the last payment” problem.

For wedding photographers/videographers:

Would this feel normal to clients?

Would you use it only for new clients, or for every final delivery?

Does “pay before clean download” feel professional or too aggressive?

I’m building around this problem, so I’m asking for blunt feedback before I overbuild the wrong thing.

The bride and groom have both said they don't want to use lav mics. There will be handheld mics and mic stands for both of them at the venue. I was thinking of using XLR splitters so the mics can provide amplified sound for the ceremony event and I can also record directly from the mic into my Zoom recorders (I have 2, just in case).

The officiant will have a lav mic on them, but I was hoping for a backup audio option for the bride and groom. Ideally I'd like something like the Sony TX660 that can be attached to the handheld mics, but those look like they're not available in the US. Anyone have suggestions for what else I could use?

I booked a wedding videographer last September that I was really excited about. He’d filmed at our venue once before, we loved his style, and the price seemed reasonable. I recently went to look up his website because I needed to provide contact info to my venue coordinator and his website no longer exists. He also hasn’t updated his social media since December and he’s not tagged in any posts from recent weddings. I emailed him and texted him to check in and while the text is showing as delivered, he never responded. We’re 2 months out from the wedding, should I start looking for a new videographer?

Hello Wedding Videographers,

I have a wedding coming up that will likely have a dark reception hall. I want to pick up a second light, but not sure which way to go, as I tend to go ambient light (haven’t yet had many situations where I needed to light). I currently have an Aputure 60x flood which has been awesome when I need it, especially because of the color temp adjustment.

I’ve been thinking about picking up a second 60x flood, or stepping up into storm 80c with cf4, as I do video work that isn’t just wedding. Which would you pick up for a second? Any light other than those? Not concerned with budget. Thank you!

Hello! I'm wanting to add more cameras to my kit for a more fleshed out ceremony setup. I was wondering if anyone has used the Canon R50V as a C/D cam for ceremony and how well it grades in clog3 beside an R6ii. I currently use 2 x Canon R6iis, one on a gimbal and then another on sticks, and am considering upgrading my A cam to the new R6V. For that same price though I could get two R50Vs and another lens. Obviously I also need it to last for 30+ minutes without overheating too. Does anyone have experience using these cameras? Does anyone also think that a 3/4 camera setup for a solo shooter is unnecessary?

Ok so I’ve been going back and forth on this for a while. I dont want a full videography package with the cinematic film and the dramatic music over slow motion footage of someone lacing up shoes. What I actually want is someone filming raw behind the scenes content on their phone for our instagram and tiktok, the getting ready chaos, candid moments, stuff that feels real and not produced.

Is that a wedding content creator?? Is that even a thing people book now and if so where do you find one bc googling it mostly gives me articles explaining what they are and not a way to hire one lol

Hopefully this post is allowed, as I'm not a videographer myself. I am not familiar with the world of videography and was wondering if you could help point me in the right direction?

I am essentially looking for someone who uses the same beautiful filming style and audio quality as what's in cinematic videography (or similar), but who does not take us aside to do tons of different poses. I essentially am looking for someone who can take beautiful shots of the setting, decor details, and general atmosphere of the day in addition to capturing our full ceremony and reception speeches.

I know it's essentially the default right now for 50%+ of the videos to be couples standing in different spots around their venue, looking into the camera, and doing different staged poses as filler. But that's just really not our personality or how we want to spend our time on the wedding day. Instead we'd love to work with someone who still has a great eye for artistry but is able to build a narrative around film taken of the actual events of the day.

I've tried searching for documentary style videographers, but have run into this same hangup in all of the search results. Can you help me figure out what I need to be searching for to find this style of videography?