Drone wedding coverage

The 180 minutes are placed with care, because the rules shape the day. RAAC Part 101, in force since Resolución ANAC 550/2025, lets a drone pass over a person only if that person takes part in the flight or has consented, and Part 100 forbids flying over any crowd — and a seated ceremony of a hundred guests is one. So the ceremony is filmed from the side and from height, from a take-off spot the venue agrees to, rather than straight down over the rows. The texts in force set no separate night rule for the Open category, but the drone has to stay in the pilot’s direct sight, and an Argentine wedding party is a packed dance floor that runs into the early morning; the drone time is planned in daylight, around the ceremony, the arrivals and the portraits in the last light, and the party is left to the cameras on the ground.

Location is checked before you book, not on the day. An Open-category drone may not fly inside an aerodrome control zone, is held to 43 m within 5 km of a runway threshold in controlled airspace, and needs authorisation from the air navigation provider to climb above 100 ft inside a terminal control area or an aerodrome traffic zone; some hotels and estancias sit close enough to an airport or airstrip for that to matter. Venues add their own conditions on top: where the pilot may take off, whether the drone may fly during the vows, and whether an outside operator must be registered with the planner in advance. A ceremony inside a national park needs the Administración de Parques Nacionales, which authorises drones only case by case and has banned them at small events in the Área Cataratas of Parque Nacional Iguazú except by extraordinary authorisation (Resolución APN 460/2025).

The pilot carries third-party liability insurance and works in Argentina. Wind is the open risk: a wedding date cannot move for the weather, and a westerly over the Patagonian lakes or a zonda afternoon in Mendoza can ground a drone under a clear sky. What happens to the drone coverage if it cannot fly is written into the agreement before booking. For aerial work on a day without a wedding, drone photo and video is the shorter, stand-alone session.