Wedding films in Midhurst.
One in-house team covers both the photos and the film. Hayden films your Midhurst day while Aaron shoots stills alongside, so the sound, the vows and the speeches come home with you, not just the pictures.
Hear the vows and the speeches again.
A photograph of the walled garden at Cowdray 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 has all of that. That is the whole reason to book one, because you get the sound as well as the pictures.
We are Robinson Martin Green, based at Mudberry Lane in Chichester, and Midhurst sits about twelve miles up the road, roughly a twenty-five minute drive and 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 Midhurst but we have not filmed a wedding in the town itself yet, so we will not invent a Midhurst couple to fill this page. What we do have are full wedding films from days a short drive away, filmed by the two people who would come and film yours.
Midhurst films well. The late sun coming across the broken Tudor stone of the Cowdray Ruins gives you a moving shot you do not get anywhere else in the county, and in the final hour before sunset the light shifts fast enough over the South Downs that a filmmaker who is watching for it can catch the whole grounds turning gold. Sound is the other thing this town gives you. A ceremony inside the high brick of the walled garden holds a voice close, with none of the wind you fight in an open field, so the vows and the readings land clean on the recording rather than washing out. 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 the film is worth booking.
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 records the movement and the sound, from the vows and the rings to the speeches. It is the one part of the day you cannot make again afterwards, so it is worth deciding on before the day rather than after.
Morning, ceremony and evening.
A Midhurst wedding film has more than one look in it, and the Cowdray estate gives you all of them in a single day. In the morning we film the getting ready shots, the details and the walk down to the ceremony. The middle of the day is the walled garden or Cowdray House with the ruins behind, the part most couples picture when they imagine the film. Then comes the evening, when an estate in the South Downs looks its best on camera. As the sun drops behind the Downs the last of the light comes low and warm across the parkland, and a couple walking out for a few minutes at that point gives you the evening shots for the film.
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.
Our nearest real weddings.
To show you our work, here are a few of our real weddings a short drive from Midhurst. Adam and Panha at Fitzleroi Barn near Pulborough, and Susan and Luke at Edes House in Chichester. Click through to see how each day came together.
How your Midhurst 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 venue like Cowdray House or the fifteenth-century Spread Eagle we walk it first, 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 estate 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.
When your film arrives.
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 Midhurst film, usually within eight to ten 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 include a short teaser, and that is ready first so you can share a moment or two while the edit is still in progress. 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 speeches and the vows, or just play music over pretty shots?
We record the actual sound. 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. The music sits underneath that audio, not in place of it.
What wedding film do we get, and is there a teaser?
Each couple gets one edited wedding film, and it is included in every collection, so there is nothing extra to add for a longer version. How long it runs depends on your day, and Adam and Panha’s film comes in just under six minutes. With Silver or Gold you also get a short teaser to share early, and the speeches stay in the film in full. The teaser is ready first, and the film lands in your private Wedding Hub, usually within eight to ten weeks of the day.
Can we have drone footage of Cowdray and the Downs, or a short reel for social?
Where the venue and the conditions allow it, yes to both. Estate grounds like Cowdray and the open country around the South Downs are made for an aerial shot, and we clear the airspace and permissions in advance rather than on the day. If flying is not possible because of weather or a restriction, 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.
Where to look next.
We have not filmed in Midhurst yet, so here are real films and the days behind them, a short drive away. If you are weighing up nearby areas, the rest is one click away.
Tell us your date and venue.
Tell us your date and your Midhurst 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.