Start A Wedding Videography Business - Business Ideas

Pat Walls

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Updated: September 15th, 2022

Start A Wedding Videography Business - Business Ideas

Start A Wedding Videography Business

A wedding videographer is a video production company that documents a wedding on video. The wedding videographers cover all events from when the couple starts preparing for the wedding, arrival at the wedding ceremony site, and the reception.

Most weddings use a professional videographer. Therefore, starting a wedding videography business can be rewarding.

To start a wedding videography business, invest in the right gear for filming the wedding ceremony, like microphones, cameras, gimbal, etc. It would help if you had professional video editing software and set up a website so you can be found online.

Starting a wedding videography business requires a great deal of effort, dedication, and most importantly passion.

If you're interested in how to sell wedding videography, or selling wedding videography online, you can use this page as a guide for everything you'll need to know.

Key Stats

market size

$73.3B

starting costs

$18K

gross margin

90%

time to build

270 days

Startup Costs

	Min Startup Costs	Max Startup Costs
Employee & Freelancer Expenses	$151	$252
Website Costs	$223	$7,015
Business Formation Fees	$600	$4,700
Vehicle Expenses	$0	$10,000
Retail Business Expenses	$1,250	$6,650
Advertising & Marketing Costs	$75	$3,986
Software Expenses	$162	$2,720
Office Space Expenses	$0	$100
Specific Industry Expenses	$0	$500
Total Startup Costs	$2,461	$35,923

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Successful Businesses

Business	URL	Rank
Business Weddings	businessweddings.com	696,026
Twenty5Films	twenty5films.com	1,107,051
Acts of Adventure	actsofadventure.com	1,115,134
Insurance for Photographers & Videographers from $59	fullframeinsurance.com	1,247,935
Wedcuts	wedcuts.com	1,885,980
Pravdastudiouae	pravdastudiouae.com	2,870,366
WedFlix	wedflix.tv	3,210,074
VideoUniversity	videouniversity.com	3,284,291
Pen Weddings	penweddings.com	3,412,572
Kansas City Wedding Videographer	rushingproductions.com	3,567,415
Square City Productions	squarecityproductions.com	4,359,286

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Pros & Cons

Pros	Description
Little startup costs required	The cost to start a wedding videography business costs significantly less money than most businesses, ranging anywhere from 62 to 35,923.
Rewarding work	Starting a wedding videography business can be really rewarding work. After all, you are solving an immediate issue for your customer and you're working on something you truly care about.
High customer retention rates	Once a customer invests in your product, they've invested their time and energy to utilize your product/service which is highly valuable to them. Typically, your product or service becomes indispensable to your customer.
Pick & choose the clients you work with	Wedding Videography Businesses have the ability to choose the clients they work with. You have the freedom to work with only a few loyal clients or with hundreds of clients!
Control of workload	With starting a wedding videography business, you have the unique ability to choose how little or how much you want to work. You also have the freedom to decide which projects you want to work on, and can turn down the ones that do not interest you.
Gain exposure and experience	This career allows you to gain experience working for multiple different businesses - which will benefit your resume and also keep things interesting for you!

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Cons	Description
Motivation of employees	If you plan to have a sales/content team on board, finding creative ways to motivate them can be a challenge. It's important that you're able to offer great incentives and a good work environment for your employees.
Longer Sales Process	A wedding videography business can be a big time and money investment for your customer, so it's important you plan and predict a longer conversion funnel and stay in communication with potential customers.
Work can be inconsistent	As a wedding videography business, the amount of work assigned to you and schedule tends to be more inconsistent, which may make your income less stable. It's important to set boundaries and budget accordingly based on the amount of work you plan to have.
Lack of benefits	With a wedding videography business, you are typically self-employed and responsible for finding your own insurance, which can be quite costly and time-consuming.
Taxes	As a wedding videography business, you typically pay self-employment taxes which can be quite high. It's important to understand what you will be paying in taxes each year so you can determine if the work you're taking on is worth it.
No safety net	Typically, as a wedding videography business, you do not receive a consistent pay-check and instead earn money based on your transactions each month. During the slow periods, you typically take away less since the job is based on commission. It's important to budget accordingly for the slow times.