Wedding Photographer in Georgia (the Country): 2026 Prices in Batumi, Adjara and Tbilisi, Who to Book and the Drone Rules

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Updated 26 October 2026·26 min read·Prices and facts checked: October 2026

A wedding photographer in Batumi and Adjara costs 470-800 GEL for most entry packages and about 1,900 GEL for a full day in 2026, from 24 photographers' quotes; Tbilisi charges 390-500 USD for 3 hours. Here are the priced photographers and videographers, travel to the mountains, and the drone and church rules.

A wedding photographer in Batumi and the Adjara mountains costs about 470-800 GEL for most entry packages and about 1,900 GEL for a full-day package in 2026. Those are the quotes of the photographers who work in the region and sent us their prices. In Tbilisi expect about 390-500 USD for 3 hours and 700-1,500 USD for a full day. A videographer adds about 1,080 GEL for an entry package and about 2,430 GEL for a full film, and Batumi photographers charge 100-200 GEL to travel to a mountain venue such as Glamping Tago.

Where you marry decides most of the cost and most of the photos: a seaside garden in Batumi, a whole mountain weekend in Adjara, or a 20-minute Tbilisi viewpoint. 24 photographers and 8 videographers from Batumi and Adjara sent us their prices for 2026 weddings. This guide turns those quotes into price ranges, names the priced photographers and videographers with their Instagram and website, keeps a short table for Tbilisi, and covers the drone and church rules that catch couples out.

Pick the setting first, then the photographer: the setting fixes the travel fee, the light you shoot in and how many hours you need. The table compares the six places couples in Georgia shoot most, Adjara first.

Glamping Tago (our venue), Adjara

• Where: Village Tago, Khulo municipality, at about 1,200 m in mountainous Adjara
• Drive: 92.5 km from Batumi, about 2 hours; the last stretch from Khulo is a mountain road for 4x4 cars and minibuses
• Capacity: weddings of about 30 guests, all sleeping on the ridge in 12 Lotus Belle tents and a 9-bed dormitory dome (33 beds)
• Season: weddings from May to October
• Photo spots on site: the ceremony meadow facing the mountains, a forest clearing, a valley overlook, the event tent on its wooden deck and the fire circle

Glamping Tago is made for weddings of about 30 guests; the whole place belongs to one wedding and everyone sleeps on site. A wedding here is a weekend rather than one evening, so the photographer can follow it from the getting-ready dome to the bonfire without anyone leaving the venue. It suits couples who want nature in every frame. It does not suit a couple who wants a hotel ballroom, a seaside backdrop or a 20-minute transfer from the airport. The view is what our guests mention most in their Google reviews, and it fills the background of every portrait.

In Batumi and Adjara most entry packages cost about 470-800 GEL and a full-day package about 1,900 GEL, from the 2026 quotes of 24 photographers. Booked by the hour, a 6-hour wedding day comes to about 1,600 GEL; in Tbilisi independent photographers charge 390-500 USD for 3 hours and 700-1,500 USD for a full day.

The chart shows what most vendors charge: each bar runs across the middle half of the quotes, and the dot is the typical (median) price.

Many Batumi photographers quote in USD or EUR, so the GEL figures for them are approximate. The cheapest entry packages (100-300 GEL) buy one or two hours for a registration and a walk, not a wedding day.

Across Georgia the market looks like this:

On the Georgian listing site Wedy.ge, wedding photographers ask 150-400 GEL per hour with a 1 to 3 hour minimum. Peony Events prices an 8-hour photographer at 450 USD in Tbilisi and 585 USD in Kakheti or Gudauri, which shows the regional mark-up in one line.

The 8 videographers who sent us 2026 prices for weddings in Batumi and Adjara charge about 1,080 GEL for a typical entry package and about 2,430 GEL for a full film, from 200 GEL at the bottom to 5,400 GEL at the top. With a dedicated wedding videographer the drone is usually inside the package; a separate drone vendor charges 250-500 GEL for a short clip and up to 2,000 GEL for an edited film.

• 490-1,700 USD: Wedding Videographer Georgia in Batumi, a drone in every package (details below).
• 650-2,000 USD: our partner videographer's packages at Glamping Tago, drone included: 5 hours and a clip 650 USD; 8 hours and a film 980 USD; 10 hours with a film and a teaser 1,500 USD; two operators 2,000 USD.
• 400-900 USD: Valentin Aleksandrov in Batumi, travel to Tago included.
• 200 GEL per hour: Vladislav Terida-Kremenetsky, filming and editing; his packages run 200-1,000 GEL and a drone flight 250 GEL.
• 800-1,700 GEL: Sergo Gubchenko in Batumi, camera and drone, plus 100 GEL to travel to Tago.
• 600-1,200 USD: Ilya Kopytov in Batumi, photo and video.
• In Tbilisi: Wedding Videographer Georgia charges 950 USD for 6 hours, 1,250 USD for 10 hours and 1,950 USD for 12 hours with two operators; Emma Studio films from 1,500 GEL with a drone; Peony prices an 8-hour videographer from 675 USD.
• Photo and video from one person: Irakli Shelia charges 310-575 USD for photo plus video, from 1 to 10 hours.

A separate drone team costs 800-1,000 GEL for raw footage and 1,000-2,000 GEL for an edited film, per our organizer guide. You do not need one if your videographer already flies a drone.

Batumi photographers are the ones to ask for a wedding in Adjara, because their trip to the mountains is shorter and cheaper, and several have already worked at Glamping Tago. The pool is smaller than in Tbilisi: MyWed's Batumi directory lists 29 wedding photographers (27 speak Russian, 24 English, 10 Georgian), against 112 in Tbilisi.

These are the photographers and videographers with 2026 prices. Book through their Instagram or website.

Photographers who have worked at Glamping Tago

Valerie Kasperova shoots weddings in Batumi and around Georgia and has already worked at Glamping Tago, so she knows the meadow, the light and the road. Packages run 200-750 USD, or 50-60 USD per hour, and she works in several languages.

Full-day wedding photographers in Batumi

Kateryna Verbytska prices by the hour: 150 USD per hour for 1-2 hours, 130 USD for 3-6 hours and 100 USD for 6-10 hours, and a full day from 09:00 to 23:00 costs 1,200 USD. A 10% prepayment holds the date, previews arrive the next day and the full set in 10-15 days, per her price page. Travel to Tago is included.

Siia Baranchuk shoots photo and video and flies a drone, in Ukrainian, English and Russian. Photo packages run 1,550-2,700 GEL, or 250 GEL per hour, and video packages start at 500 GEL.

Iana shoots weddings, love stories and families: a 2-hour registration and walk costs 600 GEL, an 8-hour day 1,800 GEL, and her top package 2,500 GEL. By the hour she charges 300 GEL, plus 100 GEL to travel to Tago.

Vlada photographs weddings in Batumi with packages from 850 to 1,800 GEL.

Nastia Tuchkina works in Batumi and Tbilisi, with wedding packages from 500 to 1,000 GEL.

650 Studio sells two Batumi wedding packages: Standard, 850 GEL for 4-5 hours until the restaurant, with up to 1,500 photos and 60 retouched in detail; and Full, 1,300 GEL from the morning to the end, with 80 retouched. A 100 GEL deposit holds the date, photos come on a memory card in 20 days (one week for +200 GEL), and an extra hour costs 150 GEL, per the studio's wedding page.

Sergei Otkrytyi charges 100 USD per hour: 6 hours 550 USD, 8 hours 700 USD, 10 hours 850 USD, 12 hours 1,000 USD and 14 hours 1,150 USD. He takes a 50% advance and delivers in 14 days for +30%. He works between Serbia and Batumi or Tbilisi, so check he is in Georgia on your date, per his price page.

Mindia Dumbadze has photographed weddings in Batumi for 10 years and also films. Three hours cost 800 GEL with at least 150 colour-corrected photos (45 retouched), four hours 1,000 GEL, and a full day 1,600 GEL with at least 600 photos (80 retouched); each further hour is 150 GEL.

Maxim Burkovsky works as a team of two operators, one on photo and one on video, at 70-120 USD per hour, per his Instagram. Packages run 80-1,100 USD, and he adds 40 USD to travel to Tago.

Nadezhda Rukovichnikova shoots weddings, families and portraits: packages from 150 to 850 USD, or 100 USD per hour, plus 50 USD to travel to Tago.

Vladislava Rybchenko is a portrait and wedding photographer who speaks Ukrainian, English and Russian, with packages from 200 to 800 EUR or 100 EUR per hour.

Pavel Sharnikov, a photographer from Belarus based in Batumi, shoots weddings, events and families, with packages of 300-750 USD.

Alina Stekacheva books weddings by the hour at 110 USD, usually for 5-8 hours.

Small weddings, registry walks and short shoots

Alesya Vasilenko shoots small, chamber weddings in a neoclassical style, with packages of 180-300 USD and travel to Tago included.

Anastasiya Baladze shoots love stories and portraits in Batumi and Tbilisi; her package costs 300 GEL, plus 100 GEL to travel to Tago.

SaNi Studio is a wedding and bridal photography studio in Batumi: a 2-hour wedding photo session in the studio costs 500 GEL.

Batumi photographer Paata Gogua quotes 800 GEL for a full day of about 8 hours at Tago, or 1,200 GEL in total with his car from Batumi and back.

Kseniya Kinasova suits a registration and a short couple session rather than a full day: 200 GEL for 30 minutes, 300 GEL for 1 hour and 500 GEL for up to 2 hours, with 150 GEL for each extra hour. A 50 GEL deposit holds the date, photos arrive in 7 days, and trips outside Batumi are paid extra, per her price page. A short drone clip (DJI Neo 2) adds 100-120 GEL.

Videographers in Batumi

Natalia Chizhikova is our partner videographer and has already filmed a wedding at Glamping Tago; her portfolio includes a wedding film shot as a quest in the Adjara mountains. Her packages, drone included, run from 650 USD (5 hours, a clip) to 2,000 USD (two operators, a long film).

Wedding Videographer Georgia is Anton Kuznetsov, who has been filming since 2013. In Batumi he charges 490 USD for up to 3 hours, 750 USD for 6 hours, 960 USD for 10 hours and 1,700 USD for 12 hours with two operators, with a drone in every package and 100 USD per extra hour, per the Batumi package page. The teaser and reels arrive within 10 days and the film within a month.

Valentin Aleksandrov films weddings in Batumi. At Tago his packages cost 400 USD for up to 3 hours, 600 USD for up to 6 hours and 900 USD for up to 10 hours, travel included.

Vladislav Terida-Kremenetsky has filmed in Batumi since 2010 and flies a drone: filming and editing cost 200 GEL per hour, per his nomerok.ge listing, and a drone flight 250 GEL.

Sergo Gubchenko films weddings and love stories with a camera and a drone, and often works in a pair with photographer Iana. His packages cost 800-1,700 GEL, plus 100 GEL to travel to Tago.

Ilya Kopytov runs a photo and video production in Batumi, with wedding video packages of 600-1,200 USD.

Count three extra costs: the travel surcharge, the car and, for an evening wedding, a bed. For Glamping Tago that means 100-200 GEL from most Batumi photographers (about 122 GEL typical, and three include it), a vendor car from Batumi at 530 GEL return, and a bed on site if they stay the night.

• The travel surcharge: 6 Batumi photographers quote 100-200 GEL for the trip to Tago and 3 more include it; videographers quote 100-270 GEL. Tbilisi photographers charge more: Irakli Shelia adds 30% for Adjara, and Gvedashvili and Mamuka bill the transfer separately.
• The car: a 4x4 from Batumi to Tago costs 265 GEL one way per car of 4 seats, so 530 GEL there and back. Pool the photographer, videographer, host and DJ into one car where you can.
• The hours: the drive takes about 2 hours each way and is not part of the shooting time. A photographer who leaves Batumi at 09:00 is with you by noon.
• By public transport: a marshrutka runs from Batumi bus station to Khulo every 30 minutes from 08:00 to 20:00, about 2.5 hours for about 10 GEL, then our 4x4 taxi from Khulo to Tago costs 75 GEL per car. Full details are on our how to get to Glamping Tago page.

A typical photo and video budget for a wedding at Glamping Tago, built from the median 2026 quotes:

These Tbilisi photographers and studios publish their 2026 wedding prices. All charge travel on top for Kazbegi, Kakheti or Adjara, so for a wedding in Adjara a Batumi photographer usually costs less. For a wedding in Adjara, start with the Batumi list above.

Yes, at a private wedding on private land, with the owner's consent and a drone registered in Georgia. The Georgian Civil Aviation Agency (GCAA) requires registration for any drone of 250 g or more, and for a lighter drone if it carries a camera, which every wedding drone does.

• Registration: mandatory for drones of 250 g or more, and for lighter drones with a camera, per the GCAA FAQ. The Operator ID is marked on the drone.
• Foreign pilots: an operator registration from an EU (EASA) country is not valid in Georgia. The online portal only works with a Georgian ID or residence card, so a foreigner registers in person at the GCAA office in Tbilisi (Ortachala, at the start of I Kheivani Street) with a passport, an active Georgian SIM card and an email address. It is free and takes minutes.
• Test: the online remote-pilot test (A1/A3) has 40 questions, the pass mark is 75% and the certificate is valid for 5 years, per Skybit's summary of the rules. The pilot must be 16 or older.
• Flight limits: a maximum of 120 m above the ground and never over gatherings of people. In the A2 subcategory the drone keeps at least 30 m from uninvolved people.
• Private land and night: open-category flights over private property are allowed with the owner's prior consent. Night flights need green and red flashing lights.
• Airports: near an airport, open-category flights need prior agreement with the aerodrome operator, and the specific category needs extra GCAA permission. The zones are set by Government Resolution 660.
• Enforcement: police act fast on violations in Tbilisi and Batumi and check less in the mountains, per Volago's 2026 guide, but the rules and the fines apply everywhere.

The GCAA answers on +995 32 2 94 80 14 and office@gcaa.ge.

Shoot in the hour before sunset wherever you are: the midday sun is harsh, so build the couple's session around the golden hour, as Creator's destination-wedding guide and our own wedding timeline both do. In Batumi the weather changes fast, so every outdoor shoot needs a plan B.

The Adjara mountains

At Glamping Tago the meadow, the forest and the valley are a short walk from the tents, so the couple's session needs no car. The hills are green in May and June and golden in September and early October, and the event tent and the yurt are the rain plan. Rain falls on about 14-16 days a month from May to July, so walk the photographer through the covered spots before the day. In October days usually reach about 18°C and nights drop to 5-8°C, so shoot the couple's portraits before sunset and bring a warm layer for the evening. For a day-after shoot, Green Lake sits at about 2,070 m, 39.9 km from the camp by road via Khulo and the Goderdzi road: a separate half-day jeep trip, not a stop on the drive from Batumi.

Batumi Botanical Garden and the seafront

Batumi's photo spots are the seafront boulevard, the breakwaters, Green Cape, the Botanical Garden, Piazza, the church of St Nicholas and the Astronomical clock. Summers are hot and humid, and spring and autumn can be cold and rainy, so an outdoor shoot needs a plan B, per Wedding in Georgia. At the Batumi Botanical Garden a wedding party pays 250 GEL to enter and a ceremony on the ritual podium in the Seaside Park costs 300 GEL, per the garden's official tariff. An adult ticket costs 25 GEL, the garden opens 9:00-19:30 from May to September and 10:00-18:00 from October to March, per Travel Batumi, and you need about 3 hours to see it: the garden is large and hilly.

Jvari Monastery, Mtskheta

Jvari stands on the hill above Mtskheta, 23.2 km from central Tbilisi, and is the classic church viewpoint for a registration-day shoot near the capital, per Georgia Travel. It is a working monastery: no flash and no photos during services. The interior is under renovation in autumn 2026, so plan exterior and viewpoint shots.

Gergeti Trinity Church, Kazbegi

Gergeti stands above Stepantsminda, about 3 hours by car from Tbilisi. Entry and parking are free, and it is crowded in season, so go early for photos; The Georgian Guide puts the church at 2,170 m. Tbilisi photographers price Kazbegi as a trip: Irakli Shelia has a 1,500 GEL minimum there, and Anna Khomutova's 6-hour package covers it.

Sighnaghi and Kakheti

Sighnaghi is 109.8 km and about 2 hours from Tbilisi, a hill town above the Kakheti vineyards. Daria Filkova's 5-hour mountain wedding package (750 USD) includes Kakheti, and Peony charges 585 USD there for the 8 hours that cost 450 USD in Tbilisi.

Yes, outside freely and inside without flash, but never during a service, and only after asking the priest. For a church crowning the photographer works quietly, and video is shot where the priest agrees.

• Ask first: photos and video inside a church need permission, and services restrict photography, per GetmanCar's guide for visitors.
• No flash inside, and tripods are often not allowed.
• Dress code for the photographer: shoulders and knees covered; women may need a headscarf.
• Length: an Orthodox crowning lasts 30-60 minutes depending on the priest, per the Tourism Center, and our Georgian wedding traditions guide plans 1 to 1.5 hours. Book about 1.5 hours of coverage for the church alone, with the arrival and the photos outside. Weekends are busiest, with several crownings in a row.
• Small churches: St Nicholas in Batumi is small inside, so ask the priest before you plan a wedding video there.

Independent photographers hold your date with 10-50% up front; studios take a fixed 50-100 GEL. Previews arrive the next day to a week after the wedding, and the full gallery in 10 days to 3 months.

Get these in writing before you pay the deposit: the hours and when they start, the number of edited photos, the delivery date, the travel fee and who books the car, the drone and who holds its registration, and whether the raw files are included. Contact photographers 3-6 months before the wedding, as Creator's guide advises.

The photographer arrives with the morning and stays through the golden hour and the first dance, and often the night. Because the whole camp is yours, every location is a short walk away and nobody else is in the frame.

A typical day from our organizer guide:

1. 09:00 the photographer leaves Batumi with the other vendors.
2. 12:00 arrival and getting ready in the dome.
3. 16:00 ceremony on the meadow, or in the event tent if it rains.
4. 17:00 canapés and toasts by the yurt while the couple shoots in the golden hour.
5. 19:00 dinner in the event tent, with Yurtalicious, our yurt restaurant, cooking on site.
6. 20:30 cake, first dance and fireworks.
7. Midnight the music moves from outside into the yurt.

That is 8 to 9 hours of shooting from getting ready to the first dance, so book an 8-10 hour package or ask for the evening only. Couples who book get our vendor guide with vetted photographers and videographers, mostly from Batumi, with their contacts and prices. A local Adjaran photographer for a full day starts at 800 GEL, and our regular partner photographer works in packages of 425-750 USD, from 3-4 hours to a full day. See weddings at Glamping Tago and the wedding site.

1. Venue and date first. At Glamping Tago, June to September dates book 6-12 months ahead. The date decides which photographers are free.
2. Photographer next, 6 months ahead, 9 for a summer date. That is the advice of Wedy.ge; 3 months is the minimum. Shortlist two or three from the lists above, check their Instagram for recent weddings, and ask about the date.
3. Videographer and drone together. If the videographer flies a drone, skip the separate drone team and the photographer's drone add-on.
4. Agree the travel in writing: the surcharge, the car and the bed.
5. Pay the deposit and get the contract with hours, number of photos and delivery date.
6. One month out, send the photographer the timeline, the family photo list and the venue's drone times.
7. On the day, give one person the job of gathering people for the group photos.

Glamping Tago for this

A mountain wedding weekend at Glamping Tago, with time for the photos

Glamping Tago is a mountain camp in Adjara that you book whole for one wedding at a time. The ceremony meadow, the forest, the valley overlook and the event tent are all a short walk apart, so your photographer spends the day shooting, not driving.

Our timeline puts the couple's photos in the golden hour, the 9-bed dorm dome gives vendors a bed for the night, and couples who book get our vendor guide with vetted Batumi photographers and videographers and their prices.

Guests

About 30, all sleeping on site (33 beds)

Whole camp

3,646 GEL (October) to 6,035 GEL (July-August) per night, event tent included

Stay

2 nights recommended: arrive, then the wedding day

Season

Weddings May to October

From Batumi

92.5 km, about 2 hours

Photographer

Local full day from 800 GEL; travel to Tago 100-200 GEL

Vendor car

Batumi and back 530 GEL

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