Wedding films in East Sussex.
We are one in-house team for photos and film. Hayden films your East Sussex day while Aaron shoots stills alongside, so the sound, the vows and the speeches come home with you, not just the pictures.
A film records the sound too.
A photograph of the Downs behind Lewes, or the sea off Brighton, is a lovely thing to have on the wall. It cannot give you back the sound. It will not have the sound of the vows, the laughter in the room during the best man’s speech, or the music as you walked back down the aisle. A film records all of that. That is the whole reason to book one, because the sound of the day comes home with you as well as the pictures.
We are Robinson Martin Green, based at Mudberry Lane in Chichester, and we travel east into East Sussex for the films. Brighton and Hove are about thirty-five miles from us, Lewes and Uckfield nearer forty through the Weald, and Eastbourne close to fifty, all well inside the area we cover. The films are led by Hayden Martin-Green, who shoots and cuts them, with Aaron Robinson on stills working the same day beside him. We should be straight with you from the start. We cover East Sussex but we have not filmed a wedding in the county yet, so we will not invent an East Sussex couple to fill this page. What we do have are full wedding films from days a short drive over the border, filmed by the two people who would come and film yours.
East Sussex films well, and it gives you more than one kind of shot in a day. The open coast toward Beachy Head and the Seven Sisters hands you a wide, moving frame you do not get inland, and in the last hour before sunset the light shifts fast enough across the South Downs that a filmmaker watching for it can catch the whole ridge turning gold. Sound is the trade-off out here. A seafront ceremony at Brighton or Eastbourne fights the wind, while a venue tucked into the Weald or the lee of the Downs holds a voice close, so we plan the day around both, the picture and the sound, because a wedding film that looks lovely and loses the words halfway through the vows has missed the point.
Why we would say book the film.
Most couples plan the photographs first and leave the film as the thing they might add later. Then the day passes in a blur of adrenaline, the speeches happen once, the first dance happens once, and there is no way to go back and record any of it again. Stills freeze how it looked. Only a film gives you the movement and the sound, so you hear the speeches, the vows and the room again. It is the one part of the day you cannot make again afterwards, so it is worth deciding on early.
The parts of the day we film.
An East Sussex wedding film has more than one look in it, and a day that runs from a coast or a town out to the Downs gives you all of them. In the morning we film the getting ready shots, the details and the walk to the ceremony. The middle of the day is the ceremony itself, a Brighton or Lewes register office, a country house under the ridge, the part most couples picture when they imagine the film. Then the evening arrives, and this is where the Downs earn the film. As the sun drops behind the ridge the last of the light comes low and warm across the land, and a couple walking out for a few minutes at that point gives you some of the best evening footage of the day.
The reception films differently again. First dances, speeches and the noise of a full room need the sound as much as the picture, so we keep recording the room while we film it, and the finished piece carries the laugh that ran through the best man’s speech and the first few bars of your first dance as they actually sounded, not a track dropped over the top.
The nearest weddings we have covered.
Here are some of our real weddings nearest East Sussex. Stacey and Bob at The Ravenswood, East Grinstead, and Becky and Lucas at The Highdown near Worthing. Each one links to the full case study.
How your East Sussex day gets filmed.
Because Hayden films while Aaron photographs, there is one team, one plan and one point of contact rather than two suppliers meeting for the first time at your ceremony. That matters more on film than it does on stills. A videographer who has never met your photographer ends up in half their shots and competing for the aisle during the vows, and you are the one caught in the middle asking two strangers to sort it out. We have already agreed who stands where before you walk in, so the camera can hold on you without a second shooter drifting into frame.
Hayden films the ceremony on two cameras, one held on the couple and one wider on the room, so a missed reaction on one angle is caught on the other and the vows are never lost to a blocked shot. For an unfamiliar East Sussex venue, a coastal room in Brighton or a country house out toward the Downs, we plan it in advance so the first time we film there is not on your actual day. We work out where the sound is clean, where the light will be at your ceremony hour, and where the drone can fly if the location allows it. Nothing gets staged twice for the two cameras. You are filmed and photographed at the same time, then handed back to your guests.
How the film is delivered.
The edit is where a wedding film is actually made, and it is worth knowing what happens after the day. We work through the footage and the recorded sound, choose the moments, and cut your film, which usually takes eight to ten weeks from an East Sussex wedding. It lands in your private Wedding Hub, the same place your photographs are delivered, so the film and the gallery sit together in one spot. A short teaser, part of Silver and Gold, lands in the Hub before that, so there is something to share while the edit carries on. Because both your film and your photographs come from us, there is one delivery, one login, and one team to talk to if you want a change.
Tell us what to film in the Wedding Hub.
Before the day, let us know the moments you want on film.
- Film moments requestedList the speeches, readings and people you want filmed, so Hayden knows to get them.
- One plan with the photosFilm and photography share one timeline, so Aaron and Hayden stay out of each other's way.
- Delivered with your galleryYour film arrives in the same private place as your photographs.
Questions from couples booking a film.
Do you record the actual speeches and vows, or just lay music over pretty coastal shots?
We record the sound properly. Two discreet microphones, one on the groom and one on the officiant, catch the vows and the readings, and a separate recorder by the top table picks up the speeches, so what you hear in the finished film is the words from the day rather than a song laid over silent footage. That matters even more on the East Sussex coast, where a Brighton or Eastbourne seafront can throw wind at an open ceremony, so we plan the audio around the setting rather than hoping it survives.
What film do we get from an East Sussex day?
One edited wedding film, and it comes with every collection, so there is no separate short and long version to pick between. Its running time depends on the day, and Adam and Panha’s film comes in just under six minutes. Silver and Gold add a short teaser you can share early, and they keep the speeches in full within the film. The teaser comes first, then the film arrives in your private Wedding Hub, usually within eight to ten weeks of the day.
Can we have drone footage over the Downs or the Seven Sisters, or a short reel for social?
Where the venue and the conditions allow it, yes to both. The open country of the South Downs behind Lewes and the coast toward Beachy Head and the Seven Sisters is made for an aerial shot, and we clear the airspace and permissions in advance rather than on the day. Parts of that coast sit inside protected land, so if flying is not possible because of a restriction or the weather we tell you beforehand and cover it from the ground instead. We can also cut a short vertical teaser, around sixty seconds, sized for Instagram and TikTok, so you have something to share in the days after the wedding while the full film is still being edited.
Can we book the film on its own, or does it come with photography?
Film can be booked on its own if you already have a photographer, and it works well because we plan around whoever else is covering the day. Most couples book both with us so one in-house team runs the whole thing on one plan, which is the setup we would recommend, but the film does not depend on it. We travel east into East Sussex either way.
Our films and nearby areas.
We have not filmed in East Sussex yet, so here are real films and the days behind them, a short drive away, plus the East Sussex towns we cover for film. It is all one click away.
Check your date with us.
Tell us your date and your East Sussex venue and one of us will reply personally, normally inside a day, or call us on 07928 549702. We will let you know at once whether the date is free to film.