What actually survives the day
Ask anyone who’s been married what they actually remember.
You’ll get the same answer every time. Fragments. Your dad’s face when the doors opened. Somebody’s laugh from across the room. The way the light went gold for about four minutes around six o’clock.
The rest is gone. Not because you didn’t care, but because you were in it. You spent the day being hugged, being moved from place to place, being handed drinks you never finished. You were the only person at your wedding who didn’t get to watch it.
That’s what the photos and the film are actually for. They aren’t decoration. They’re the only copy of the day that exists.
Which makes this a bigger decision than its line in your budget suggests. Everything else you’re paying for expires at midnight. This is the one that doesn’t.
And here’s the part nobody warns you about: the most common regret isn’t hiring the wrong photographer. It’s hiring two people who had never met.
Why one team
Two vendors compete for the same moment. A team shares it.
Here’s what that actually looks like on a wedding day.
Your first look happens twice, because the photographer got it and the videographer didn’t. Your ceremony has a tripod in the aisle at exactly the angle your photographer wanted. During cocktail hour you get pulled aside by one stranger, then by a different stranger, and asked to do the same fake laugh both times. At the reception, one of them is shooting and the other one is eating.
None of that is anyone being unprofessional. It’s just what happens when two businesses who met that morning are both trying to do their job inside the same eight square feet.
We don’t work that way. We’ve been filming weddings since 2016, usually standing six feet from a photographer we’d met that morning, and we built the photo side of this company so nobody has to work around anybody at your wedding. Your photographer and your filmmaker work for the same people, plan your day in the same meeting, and shoot off the same shot list. When your grandmother stands up to dance, one of them is already tight on her face and the other is already wide, because they decided that three hours ago, not in the moment.
One contract. One email thread. One timeline. And nobody standing in anybody’s shot.
The packages
Most requested
8 hours
The Full Story
$4,495
Getting ready through the last dance. Nothing between those two points goes unrecorded.
- Two people, all day. A dedicated photographer and a dedicated filmmaker. Not one person juggling both, and not a second shooter who arrives at four.
- A 5–7 minute film with your real vows in it. Not music over slow motion. Your actual voice, saying the thing you were too nervous to hear yourself say the first time.
- The entire ceremony, uncut. For the people who couldn’t be there, and for you in about fifteen years.
- 500+ finished images. Enough that every person who traveled to be there is in at least one you’d actually put on a wall.
- Your gallery, your files, your print release. Print what you want, where you want, for as long as you want. We don’t hold your photos hostage and we don’t upcharge you to own your own day.
- Sneak peeks in your inbox in week one. While people are still asking to see something.
6 hours
The Essentials
$3,695
Ceremony, portraits, and reception. The hours that matter most, covered the same way.
- Same two people. Same cameras. A dedicated photographer and a dedicated filmmaker. The same team, the same standard.
- A 3–4 minute film with your real vows in it.
- The full ceremony, uncut.
- 400+ finished images.
- Your print release. Every file yours.
- Sneak peeks in week one.
This is the right call if you’re getting ready somewhere that isn’t photogenic, or if the day genuinely starts at the ceremony. If you’re not sure, tell us your timeline in the form and we’ll tell you honestly which one you need, including when it’s this one.
Need something different? A longer day, a second location, photo or film alone. Tell us in the form and we’ll shape it around your day.
The honest math
Let’s do the honest math
Hire these two roles separately in Tampa Bay and here’s what the market actually charges. A boutique wedding filmmaker runs $3,500 to $8,000. An experienced photographer with eight hours of coverage runs $3,000 to $5,000. Those aren’t our numbers. That’s the market, and we published the breakdown ourselves.
Booked separately
$6,500 – $13,000
Booked as one team
$4,495
You’re not paying less for less. You’re paying less because we aren’t two separate businesses each driving to the same wedding, each billing a full day, each protecting our own margin. One team, one setup, one invoice.
Most of a wedding budget is gone by Sunday morning: the food’s eaten, the flowers are in a bin behind the venue, the band’s already loaded out. This is the part you’ll still have in 2056.
Kind words · 10+ years of Tampa Bay weddings
“I loved working with Labif Filmhouse! They were communicative, accommodating, friendly, and professional. I’m so thrilled I found them and recommend them highly!”
Jenna Huhn · Married & filmed
As seen on
The photography
Engagement session · Bok Tower Gardens
The films
A decade of weddings, told on film.
Kellen + Jenna · Harborside Chapel · Safety Harbor
Sydney + Gabe · The Club at The Strand · Naples
Madison + Jonathan · Museum of Fine Arts · St. Petersburg
Questions
Who actually shows up on the day?
Two people, one team: a dedicated photographer and a dedicated videographer who plan and shoot together, so you get both without doubling your vendor count or your timeline stress.
Why book photo and video together?
One conversation, one contract, one shared shot list. Photographers and videographers who don’t know each other compete for the same moments; a team choreographs them.
Do you travel outside Tampa Bay?
Yes. We film across Florida, including St. Petersburg, Sarasota, and Naples. Ask about travel beyond.
How do we hold our date?
A signed contract and retainer holds your date. Dates are first come, first served, and we only take a limited number of weddings each season.
Check your date
Tell us about your day.
We take a limited number of weddings each season. Twenty seconds, no obligation. You’ll hear back from an actual person today. Or text us at 813.999.0012.
One last thing, and then we’ll let you go.
Most people who read this far won’t fill that out. They’ll open six more tabs, compare packages that all start to sound identical around the fourth one, and decide to figure it out after the venue deposit clears.
Then five weeks later they’ll come back to whoever’s still available.
The couples who end up with photos and a film they genuinely love are almost never the ones who researched hardest. They’re the ones who found a team that felt right and held the date before somebody else did.
Checking costs you twenty seconds and commits you to nothing at all.
P.S. Eight hours. Two people, both there the whole time. 500+ finished images, a 5–7 minute film with your actual vows in it, the full ceremony uncut, and every file yours to print forever. $4,495, against $6,500–$13,000 to hire the same two roles separately in this market.