Dropped Videography to Upgrade Photography... Smart Wedding Budget Move

2 Apr 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, Jamie Wolfer outlines a wedding budgeting strategy. He notes that both photography and videography are each allocated 9% of the total budget, roughly $1,350. To free up funds, he proposes removing videography entirely, which would add $1,350 to the available pool. The extra money could be redirected to enhance photography services or to upgrade catering, such as opting for an In‑N‑Out food truck instead of a more modest Chipotle or local mom‑and‑pop vendor. He also highlights that finding quality photography for around $1,300 is exceptionally challenging, underscoring the difficulty of securing good visual coverage within that price range.

Photo and video, both of them are at 9%, so that's $1,350 apiece. We're going to probably want to remove videography from our list. That gives us an additional $1,350 to work with that we can add to photography, that we can add to catering should we want to go with the In-N-Out food truck instead of just, you know, Chipotle or a local mom-and-pop location. Also, $1,300 is a really, really difficult sell, is a really difficult find when it comes to photography.