A full-time Nashville studio that films your whole wedding day usually starts around $3,000. Prices around town run from free to several times that.
On a call, a groom told me their wedding was about 50 people, so they were keeping everything in the budget. That’s fair, and I told him what I believe: the price isn’t based on the wedding, it’s based on the work produced. You can find a videographer for $200, so when you compare quotes, compare how much work each one covers and who will do it.
Below is everything I walk couples through on those calls. Use it with us or with anyone else.
9 years · 300+ weddings · Nashville
What each price range usually gets you
These are the tiers couples run into when they start asking around Nashville in 2026.
| Price range | Who you’re hiring | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| Free to $500 | Beginners building a portfolio | First weddings, one camera, usually no backup gear. A real option when the budget has no room. If a camera or a card fails, there’s usually nothing to fall back on. |
| $500 to $1,500 | Side-gig shooters | Decent gear, weekends only. They edit after the day job, so delivery can stretch for months and replies can be slow. |
| $1,500 to $3,000 | Working videographers, mostly hourly | Real experience and real portfolios. Most quote by the hour, so the number grows with every hour you add. |
| $3,000 and up | Established full-time studios | The full day, microphones on the people speaking, often a second filmmaker, and an archive of your footage. High-end studios and multi-film packages go well past this. |
Every one of these tiers has good people in it. For each quote, ask what you get at that number and what you’d be risking.
What actually drives the number
Hourly blocks or the full day
This is the biggest difference in how videographers price a wedding, and it’s easy to miss on a quote. Most sell time, a six or ten hour block, and when the block ends, the filming stops.
The hourly block
- The quote looks smaller on paper
- You decide ahead of time which parts of the day are worth filming
- When the timeline slips, you pay for extra hours or lose the end of the night
The full day
- One price, no clock
- Someone filming from getting ready to the last dance
- The day can run long without changing the price
Full-day coverage asks more of a studio, so fewer offer it. It’s how we film every wedding, and our Nashville wedding videography page shows what a full day with us looks like. With every quote you get, ask which of the two you’re buying.
The weeks after the wedding
A wedding is typically about 700 gigabytes of footage for us, and turning that into a film takes weeks of cutting, color and sound. So when a quote feels like a lot for one day, most of the money goes to those weeks. Watch a full film from anyone you’re considering, because that editing is what you’re paying for.
Full-time or on the side
We do this full time, and I tell couples to ask every videographer the same thing.
On the side
- Replies come after the day job
- Editing waits for evenings and weekends
Full time
- Answers come faster in the planning months
- About six weeks on average for us, capped in writing at under three months
Your footage after delivery
Some videographers delete your raw footage a few weeks after delivery, because storage costs money. Others keep it. We never delete anything. Right now that’s more than 170 terabytes of weddings, and it means a couple can come back years later for a new edit.
Ask every videographer how long they keep your footage.
The “too good to be true” quote
Someone on a call once asked me whether $2,300 for both photography and video was realistic. I told her it’s usually one of two things. Either they’re both beginners, or one of them is really good at their craft and added the other service without really being passionate about it. You’d get great photos and a weak film, or the other way around.
If a combined quote comes in low, one of the two services is getting less, and you won’t know which until the gallery and the film arrive.
Questions to ask any videographer, including us
Save this for the week you start making calls. These are the questions I’d want my own family asking.
- Do you charge by the hour, or cover the full day? If it’s hourly, ask how the bill changes when the timeline slips, and get the answer in writing.
- How long do you keep our raw footage? Ask whether it’s ever deleted, and whether you could get a new edit years from now.
- How do you record the vows and the toasts? Look for microphones on the people speaking, with a backup recording running.
- Is this your full-time job? The answer tells you how fast they’ll reply, how soon the film arrives, and whether there’s a backup if something goes wrong.
- What exactly do we get, and how does it arrive? A download link that expires, or a film website you’ll still have on your tenth anniversary.
- What would make the bill go up? Ask what’s left out of the number, so nothing gets added after you sign.
- Will you use our film in your marketing? If privacy matters to you, ask. I don’t rely on sharing couples’ films for my own marketing, and if you want yours kept private, it stays private.
Where we sit
I Do Films has two options, chosen by who films. Bebo, personally: from $5,000, with a second filmmaker. I Do Films Teams: from $3,000, with one filmmaker from the team I trained, and I still lead the planning. Both are full-day coverage with no hourly limits, and we build your final films and keepsakes together before you book.
The details are on the investment page, the questions couples ask most are on the FAQ, and before any call, with anyone, watch real films.
What I tell every couple
I encourage every couple to talk to other videographers. Ask all of them the questions in this guide, and you’ll see pretty fast who fits the two of you.
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