Goodwood House & Chichester

Wedding photography and film at Goodwood House.

A wedding photographer at Goodwood House who also shoots the film, working as one in-house team rather than two. Aaron and Hayden are based a few miles south in Chichester and cover the estate and the country around it, never two strangers competing for the same shot.

Goodwood House sits at the top of the estate above Chichester, a flint house with copper-domed turrets that has been the seat of the Dukes of Richmond since 1697 and was largely rebuilt in the 1790s by the third Duke with the architect James Wyatt. Inside, the light behaves nothing like a barn or a hotel. The Ballroom is deep and low lit under the Louis XV panelling, the Yellow Drawing Room floods bright for a ceremony, and the register gets signed in the Card Room with the park framed in the window behind you. A room like the Ballroom rewards a photographer who has stood in it and thought about the light, and it punishes one who turns up hoping.

We are Robinson Martin Green, a two-person studio based on Mudberry Lane in Chichester, ten minutes down the road from the house. The team is Aaron Robinson on stills and Hayden Martin-Green on film, and we work as one unit on the day rather than two suppliers who met that morning. That matters at Goodwood specifically. The day moves from the Yellow Drawing Room to the Front Hall to the Ballroom across grand rooms that sit apart from each other, so a photographer and a filmmaker who have not worked together end up in each other’s frames and jostling for the aisle during the speeches. We have already agreed who stands where, so neither of us blocks the other and you are not the person trying to keep two strangers apart.

We should be straight about this. We have not photographed a wedding inside Goodwood House yet. Goodwood is on our list of local venues and it is close enough that we could walk it before your day, but we would rather tell you that plainly than dress the page up with claims we cannot back. What we can show you is a full day we shot and filmed nearby, by the same two people who would come to Goodwood, so you can judge the work instead of the wording.

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A recent Robinson Martin Green wedding — A recent RMG wedding

The wedding we point people to

Adam & Panha, a full day nearby.

Not a Goodwood wedding, and we will not label it as one. This was a full-day Gold wedding a short drive from the estate, photographed and filmed by the same two of us who would come to Goodwood House.

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Adam & Panha

Full day at Fitzleroi Barn · Pulborough

We are showing you this rather than borrowing somebody else’s pictures of Goodwood, because our own work is the honest thing to judge us on. It was the full Gold package, which means the same two of us for the whole day and both the photographs and the film as one piece of work. In the weeks before, we sent Adam and Panha a written list of the photographs and the film moments we planned to cover, so nothing important rested on memory and nothing felt rushed once everyone arrived.

We knew where the ceremony would sit, where the light would be through the afternoon, and where to take them for portraits while the guests moved through. The same planning is what we would bring to a Goodwood day. The film is on our YouTube and the full gallery is on the site, so you can watch a complete day of our work before you ever speak to us.

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How we would cover a Goodwood day

One team for photo and film.

Most couples start out planning to hire a photographer and a separate videographer. The hidden cost of that is coordination, and it lands on you. Two suppliers means two timelines to chase, two sets of questions about when the speeches start, and two people who each want the couple to themselves for portraits. Booking the photographs and the film as one studio removes all of that. There is one timeline, one shot list, one point of contact, and one shared plan for how Aaron and Hayden move through your day.

At Goodwood that plan matters more than at most venues, because the celebration travels through the house room by room. The ceremony is in the Yellow Drawing Room, the register is signed next door in the Card Room, the drinks and canapes are in the Front Hall under the three George Stubbs paintings while Goodwood’s butler looks after your guests, and then everyone moves through to the Ballroom for the wedding breakfast. We would walk the house beforehand, agree the route and the timings with your coordinator, and work out the light in each room in advance, rather than turning up and learning the building on your wedding morning.

Because Goodwood House is exclusive use, the place is yours and your guests’ for the whole day. That changes the pace. There is no other wedding being turned around behind you, so the portraits out on the parkland, with the South Downs rising behind the house, can take the few unhurried minutes they deserve rather than being squeezed in. The house is licensed for up to 245 guests, so whether you are keeping it close or filling the Ballroom, we plan our positions around the day you are actually having instead of a template.

In practice, a plan for the day carries two of us and more than one camera each, so the wide of the room and the close reaction are both covered without either of us staging a moment twice. We hold back through the vows and the speeches and work quietly, then step in for the portraits when the light is right. If your ceremony sits late in the afternoon, we build the timeline around the evening light on the parkland rather than leaving it to chance.

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The Goodwood House spaces we would plan around

The Yellow Drawing Room, the licensed ceremony room, ornate and full of light, where you walk the aisle surrounded by your guests.
The Card Room, for signing the register, lined with a collection of Sevres porcelain and looking straight out across the park.
The Front Hall, where Goodwood’s butler greets you and the drinks and canapes are served beneath three great paintings by George Stubbs.
The Ballroom, in the French style of Louis XV with a minstrel’s gallery, seating up to 180 for the wedding breakfast, with a marquee on the estate for larger numbers.
The Egyptian Dining Room, restored to its 19th-century detail of gilded cartouches and sphinxes, a room worth a few frames of its own.

Photo and film captured together at an RMG wedding — Photographed and filmed by the same team

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A plan built around the venueWe plan around the ceremony room, the light and the timings, and add it all to your shared timeline.
One brief for both of usAaron and Hayden work from the same notes, so nothing at the venue is covered twice or missed.

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Before you book

Common questions from Goodwood couples.

Have you actually photographed a wedding at Goodwood House?

Not yet, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. We are based a few miles south of the estate in Chichester and Goodwood is one of the venues we cover, but we have not documented a wedding in the house itself so far. What we can show you is a full day we photographed and filmed at Fitzleroi Barn, shot by the same two people who would come to Goodwood, so you can judge the work rather than take our word for it.

The ceremony, the breakfast and the drinks are in different rooms. Can you cover the whole flow?

Yes, and a Goodwood day is built around that movement between rooms. A ceremony in the Yellow Drawing Room, the register signed in the Card Room, drinks and canapes in the Front Hall under the Stubbs paintings, then through to the Ballroom for the wedding breakfast. We plan the route with you in advance and stay with you across all of it, so the day comes back as one set rather than four disconnected halves.

The Ballroom is dark and hung with old portraits. Will the photographs still come out?

That room is exactly why we would want a look before the day. The Ballroom is opulent and low lit, with the Louis XV panelling and the portraits of kings, queens and the Dukes of Richmond, and it needs a photographer who has thought about the light in a room like that rather than one hoping the flash sorts it out. We shoot to hold the mood of the room, not to bleach it flat, and we would walk the house beforehand so the light is worked out before we arrive with you.

If we only want the photographs and not the film, can you still do that?

Yes. Most couples take both because it is the same team and one booking, but you can have photographs only or film only. We will tell you honestly which makes sense for the day you are planning rather than pushing the larger option, and if you are having a photographer already we will happily cover just the film alongside them.

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More to see before you decide.

Watch the Adam and Panha film and look through their gallery for a complete day of our work. If you are weighing up nearby areas, the rest is one click away.

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