Wedding film costs

How much does professional wedding filming cost?

Let´s have a look to the effort.

The equipment for filming

2-3 HD DSLR cameras like Canon 5D mark II or Canon 7D
Proffesional lences like Canon 50mm F1.2 and so on... 
Tripods, Slider, camera crane, Steady-System...

Equipment costs are more than 15.000 Euros / 20.000 $ 

Preparations

2 hours of meeting with bride and groom, discussion of the daily routine.
1 hour of visit always, church, civil registry office, restaurant
1 hour of meeting with the pastor, the restaurant manager
1 hours of removing of the route those will take of the wedding carriages.

The wedding day

08:00 invitations of the equipment and journey
09:00 hairdressers
10:30 beauticians
11:30 dressing of the bride and the bridegroom
13:00 civil registry office
14:00 preparations in the church
15:00 weddings in the church
15:45 festivities before the church
16:00 drive to the restaurant
16:30 data backup on additional storage media
17:00 greetings and reception of the guests
18:00 dinner - time fo a break
19:45 preparations to the evening arrangement
20:00 evening arrangements
24:00 veil-dances
01:00 drive back to the office

Postproduction

Highlight-film 3-4 minutes

3 hours sight of the single clips and choice of the best scenes
1 hour of music choice
4 hours of cut
4 hours of color grading
1 hour for the final movie in 3 formats and on DVD

Wedding film with evening arrangement 7-10 minutes

1 hour of music choice
6 hours of cut
6 hours of color grading and special effects
1 hour for the final socket in 3 formats and DVD

1 hour of delivery with the bride and groom

Whole effort approx. 45-50 hours

16 hours extra costs per assistant or camera man.