Average Costs of Different Wedding Vendors

As any other first time bride trying to plan a wedding, you are basically clueless to how much most things cost. The last thing you want to do is over pay for a service since we know every dollar counts when planning a wedding! I did some research and about the "average" cost of wedding vendors. This information is based on 5 major US cities and 3 of each of these vendors for each city. Based on the prices given on their websites, here are the average costs of these wedding vendors:

Photographer:
Average price: $2980
Lowest price found: $1300
Highest price found: $4000
(Price based on one photographer for at least 6 hours)

Videographer:
Average price: $1846
Lowest price found: $925
Highest price found: $3000
(Price based on two videographers for at least 6 hours)

DJ:
Average price: $911
Lowest price found: $445
Highest price found: $1500
(Price based on one DJ for at least 4 hours)

Officiant:
Average price: $255
Lowest price found: $55
Highest price found: $400
(A justice of the peace is usually less expensive than a priest or pastor.)

Obviously this is just a "guideline" and should be used as such. Hope this helped another clueless bride! I will be using this extensively.

Source: TheKnot

Juliette