Wedding films in Godalming.

A photograph by the lake or under the trees 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 marquee during the best man’s speech, or the stillness of the water before the rings. 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 near Chichester, and Godalming sits about 32 miles north, 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 Godalming but we have not filmed a wedding in the town itself yet, so we will not invent a Godalming couple to fill this page. What we do have are full wedding films from days a short drive from home, made by the two people who would come and film yours.

Godalming films as the softer, greener country south of Guildford, where the Surrey greensand and the Wey valley give you lakes, water gardens and deep woodland around an intimate old market town. It is quiet on film, and that quiet is the point. A ceremony reflected in still water, or held in a clearing under old trees, gives you a stillness the busier towns cannot, and the autumn colour through the valley turns a film gold and russet in a way high summer never does. Sound is the thing to plan for by water and under canvas, because a breeze crosses a lake and a marquee soaks sound up, so we mic close either way. Handled right, the water and the woodland sit in the film as atmosphere under the words.

Most couples plan the photographs first and leave the film as the thing they might add later. Then the day passes in a blur, 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.

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 2 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 a lakeside or woodland venue like Busbridge Lakes, or an estate like Charterhouse, we walk it first and work out in advance where the cameras sit without blocking your guests, where the sound is cleanest by water and under trees, where the light falls through the canopy at your ceremony hour, and where a drone can fly over the valley. Nothing gets staged twice for the two cameras. You are filmed and photographed at the same time, then handed back to your guests.

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 edit your wedding film, usually within 8 to 10 weeks. 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. Silver and Gold couples get a short teaser there first, a taste of the day to share while the film is finished. 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.