The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that the additional costs covered the cast and production crew’s rooms, food, production space, internet, and parking for the episode, which just shows how expensive television programs can be.
Virginia is for lovers, and the Virginia Tourism Corp. hoped audiences would be reminded of that when watching the state-centric episode of The Bachelorette.
The tourism department shelled out an initial $300,000 to the show in order to secure an episode of the series that showed the currently engaged Becca Kufrin and her goofy, occasionally offensive, and somewhat disturbing suitors having a ball in Richmond, and then paid an additional price of $236,130.38 to offset costs of filming in the state.