Videography
For couples planning a wedding in the Napa Valley, Sonoma Wine Country, Santa Rosa, CA, the wider Bay Area, or anywhere across NorCal, this wedding videographer delivers a six-hour build that pairs the fast-paced feel of a highlight reel with deeper coverage of the toasts, the ceremony, and the candid guest interactions that define a full reception arc. A solo lead operator runs a multi-camera rig across prep, ceremony, family portraits, cocktail hour, dinner, and the early dance floor, and video production finishes inside the studio's in-house edit pipeline so the captured library lands as a five-to-seven minute cinematic highlight film paced for storytelling rather than for a tight social-first cut.
The Standard tier is the mid-ladder video production services option on the Napa Valley studio's tier ladder. Couples with a single-venue ceremony plus a full reception arc receive a longer highlight reel that walks the day's emotional beats with more breathing room for the toasts, the ceremony, and the candid moments between speeches and dances.
What is included
- Six continuous hours of dedicated coverage running across the wedding day
- Solo lead videographer running capture from prep through the early reception
- Multi-camera setup for parallel framing on every key moment of the day
- Aerial drone footage captured for venue exteriors and outdoor ceremonies when the venue policy allows airframe use
- Five-to-seven minute cinematic highlight film delivered as the headline edit of the package
- Studio color grade applied across every frame of the final cut
- Multi-channel audio captured across vows, the kiss, family portraits, toasts, and reception moments
- Digital download delivery for the couple, family, and wedding party to view and share
- Travel inside the Santa Rosa, CA service radius rolled into the base package rate
Style, approach, and gear
A cinematic and documentary hybrid carries the six-hour build, with the multi-camera rig handing the edit room parallel framing across the day's key beats. Cross-cuts between the tight reaction shot and the wider room shot are available on every featured moment, and the longer five-to-seven minute cut gives the edit room enough runway to keep the candid guest interactions intact alongside the headline beats. Aerial drone work anchors the venue geography when the drone policy allows airframe use, and the in-house edit pipeline keeps every creative choice under the same roof as capture.
Six-hour gear runs balanced: two cinema bodies on the lead operator's rig, a swappable lens kit for tight reactions and wider room coverage, a venue-cleared drone for outdoor establishing shots, wireless lavalier mics on the officiant and both partners, a standalone toast-and-speech audio recorder, a stabilizer for handheld processional and recessional, and redundant card recording on every body.
Coverage spans the full Napa Valley, Sonoma Wine Country, Santa Rosa, CA, and the wider Bay Area corridor, with travel into destination NorCal venues quoted separately for longer-distance dates.
Optional add-ons
- Extra coverage hour for couples extending the day into a longer reception window or send-off
- Second videographer add-on for couples wanting parallel framing across a multi-room venue layout
- Engagement session for an evening pre-wedding portrait shoot ahead of the wedding date
- Save-the-date short-form video for couples wanting a pre-wedding announcement piece
- Custom quote for full-ceremony cut delivered as a separate edit alongside the highlight
Beyond the Standard tier
The studio also runs as a full video production company across both shorter and longer tiers, with a two-hour Ceremony tier and a five-hour Highlight tier at the lower end, plus a seven-hour Feature tier with a ten-to-twelve minute documentary edit and a Works combination tier with a dedicated toasts edit and a separate ceremony cut at the upper end. The capture workflow, drone availability, and lead-edits-the-day approach carry consistently across every tier on the ladder.
Trust signals and responsiveness
The studio carries multi-season directory coverage on a major wedding platform with a highly rated aggregate and a strong recommendation track record from past couples. Inquiry replies generally land inside one or two business days for 2026 wedding dates, and a sample five-to-seven minute highlight reel can be shared on request before any contract is countersigned. This wedding videography standard build pairs the studio's cinematic style with the deliverable scope set by the tier. Listing pricing stays transparent and the calendar refreshes as 2026 standard-tier dates lock in.
