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Wedding Photography Package Price
Shooting hours, editing hours, second shooter, gear, album and travel at the rate you need. The price, and your real hourly at the asked price.
Most photographers spend 2 to 4 hours at the desk for every hour behind the camera.
Your take-home target plus tax, insurance, software and slow months.
0 if you shoot alone.
Camera bodies wear out. Divide the replacement cost by weddings before it dies.
Your rate pays you. This pays the business.
Or the price you were about to quote.
How this is calculated
Hours = shooting + shooting × editing ratio + admin. Time cost = hours × your rate.
Package cost = time cost + second shooter + gear + album + travel. Price = cost × (1 + profit).
Your real hourly at the asked price = (asked − hard costs) ÷ hours.
Prices are before GST/HST. Add tax on top of the price shown, never inside your margin. Estimates, not advice.
You would lose money on this wedding
$57 an hour for you at $3,200
- Total hours, camera and desk
- 38
- Editing hours alone
- 24
- Your time
- $2,850
- Hard costs
- $1,040
- Gap vs asked price
- $1,468
What quoting the asked price instead of yours gives away over a year, halved because some couples will pay the difference.
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