What does a wedding in San Antonio actually cost?

Most wedding budget advice is a national average dressed up as local knowledge. We are building the opposite: cost benchmarks gathered here, in Bexar County and the Hill Country, with the source of every number attached — plus a directory of the vendors behind them.

What we are building

Two tools, both specific to this market.

Wedding cost calculator In progress

Enter your guest count, date and the services you want, and get a low / middle / high budget broken out line by line — built from local quotes and paid invoices rather than a national average.

Vendor directory In progress

Venues, photographers, caterers and the rest, browsable by category and by the areas they actually serve, with the travel fees and minimums that usually only surface on a second phone call.

Being straight with you: neither tool is live yet, and this preview has no pricing data or vendor listings in it. We would rather publish nothing than publish a number we cannot stand behind — see our sourcing rules.

Categories we cover

14 categories, ordered roughly by how much of a typical budget they consume.

  • Venues
  • Photography
  • Catering
  • Florals
  • Videography
  • DJ & Entertainment
  • Cake & Desserts
  • Hair & Makeup
  • Officiants
  • Rentals
  • Planning & Coordination
  • Transportation
  • Stationery
  • Attire & Alterations

Where we cover

San Antonio proper, plus the Hill Country towns people actually drive to for a wedding.

  • Boerne Kendall County
  • Bulverde Comal County
  • Fredericksburg Gillespie County
  • Helotes Bexar County
  • New Braunfels Comal County
  • San Antonio Bexar County
  • Spring Branch Comal County
  • Wimberley Hays County