Wedding filmmaker working since 2002 and listed under Westchester, with conflicting home towns and no published price.
Michael Ursone has been filming events since 2002, which makes this one of the longest running video operations on the Westchester marketplace listings. The work is described as journalistic cinematic storytelling, and a published wedding film from Villa Barone Manor shows the style. Then the record gets muddy. The studio’s own about page says Stamford, Connecticut. The Knot lists Croton-on-Hudson, New York. The studio’s social page agrees with The Knot. Those two towns are forty minutes and a state line apart, and the difference decides whether your wedding is a local job or a travel job. No service area is stated anywhere on the site. No price is stated either. The Knot profile carries a tier symbol rather than a figure, which tells you almost nothing.
A tier symbol on a marketplace is a ranking device rather than a quote. Have them send a written price with hours of coverage, number of operators and finished film length. Find out where the studio is based now and whether travel to your venue is billed. Get the delivery date as an actual date. Then settle the ceremony audio setup and whether a backup recorder is used.
The about page at michaelursonefilms.com and The Knot’s Westchester wedding videographer listings, both read on 11 September 2026. Checked September 2026. First party means the business’s own site or rate card. Marketplace means The Knot, WeddingWire, Zola, Wedding Spot or similar. Nothing here is averaged or estimated.
Two different home towns appear for this studio: Stamford on its own site, Croton-on-Hudson on The Knot. Neither source gives a service area or a price.
A filmmaker can move and leave an old listing behind. That is the likely explanation, and it is still your job to find out which address is current, because travel charges follow from it.
Ask directly where the studio operates from today and whether a Westchester wedding carries a travel fee. Get the answer into the contract rather than leaving it in a text message.
The service area is a second blank. No statement of one appears on the site, and the only reason this studio turns up in a Westchester search at all is that The Knot and WeddingWire carry it under that county. Settle how many Westchester weddings it filmed last year and at which rooms.
Longevity in wedding video is genuinely hard. Equipment cycles, editing software and delivery formats have all turned over several times since 2002.
Establish how many weddings the studio films a year now and who operates the second camera. Watch two full films rather than a highlight reel, because a reel hides the audio problems.
The published Villa Barone Manor film is the one piece of work named in the record we have. Watch it, then request something shot in the last eighteen months. Style and equipment both move faster than a portfolio page does.
The Knot’s Westchester videographer listing shows a tier marker for this studio and no number. Neither the site nor the listing publishes a starting figure, package hours or a delivery window. Get all three in writing early.
Tier markers are relative to the other vendors on the same marketplace page, which means they shift as the listing set changes. Two studios at the same marker can be thousands apart. Request the actual rate card and the date it was last revised.
Ask what the base booking includes. Hours on site and whether a second operator attends are the first two answers. Whether the full ceremony is edited and when the film is delivered are the others. Those four answers are the quote, and everything else on a videography proposal is an add on.
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