Wedding films in Petersfield.
We are one in-house team for photos and film. Hayden films your Petersfield day while Aaron shoots stills alongside, so the vows, the speeches and the sound of the day come home with you, not just the pictures.
What you get from a film.
A photograph of the Downs behind you 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 quiet of a walled garden 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 Petersfield sits about 20 miles up the road, over the county line into Hampshire 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 Petersfield but we have not filmed a wedding in the town itself yet, so we will not invent a Petersfield couple to fill this page. What we do have are full wedding films from days a short drive away, made by the two people who would come and film yours.
Petersfield films well, and it films differently to a coastal day. Sitting in a bowl of the Downs with Butser Hill rising to the west at 270 metres, the town gives you a view that turns slowly and deeply gold in the last hour of light, so a couple walking out onto the downland late in the day gives you a moving shot with real depth behind it. Sound is the other strength here. A ceremony inside a stone country house or an enclosed garden holds a voice close and keeps the wind off, so the vows and the readings record clean rather than washing out the way they can in the open. 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.
The speeches and vows only happen once.
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.
How the day looks on film.
A Petersfield wedding film has several looks in it, and a country-house day across the Downs gives you all of them. In the morning we film the getting ready, the details and the walk to the ceremony. The middle of the day is the vows inside the house or the walled garden, the part where the stone works with us on the sound. The evening is when the downland looks best on film. As the sun drops behind Butser and the west, the last of the light runs low and warm across the grounds, and a couple stepping 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 through the best man’s speech and the first bars of your first dance as they actually sounded, not a track dropped over the top.
Weddings we have been part of nearby.
Here are some of our real weddings a short drive from Petersfield. Susan and Luke at Edes House in Chichester, and Adam and Panha at Fitzleroi Barn near Pulborough. Each one links to the full case study.
How your Petersfield 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 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 an unfamiliar venue like Langrish House or the chapel at Old Thorns we walk it first, so the first time we film there is not on your actual day. A country house often has one way in and out, so we work out in advance where the cameras sit without blocking your guests, where the sound is cleanest, where the light will be at your ceremony hour, and where a drone can fly if the Park 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 Petersfield venues look and sound on film.
Real venues in and around the town, each seen the way a filmmaker reads a room: where the movement is, where the light lands, and where a voice carries. We walk any of them ahead of your day so the first time we film there is not on the day itself.
Petersfield and the South Downs, on film
- Langrish House, a country house dating to 1643 that has stayed in one family for 8 generations, set in its own grounds in the National Park. The age of the place gives the film a quiet opening, and the old rooms hold a voice close so the ceremony and the readings record clean before the grounds open out for the wider evening shots.
- Old Thorns Hotel and Resort at Liphook, a short drive north, with an onsite chapel and a walled garden licensed for outdoor ceremonies. The chapel keeps the vows contained and clean on the recording, and the walled garden and golf grounds give you room for tracking and aerial work once the ceremony is done.
- Uppark House, the National Trust’s 17th-century Grade I house at South Harting on the B2146, 5 miles south-east of the town, with lawns and long downland views. It films with real scale, the house anchoring the frame while the couple move across the open ground, and the views behind carry a portrait sequence the way a flat backdrop never can.
- The wider South Downs around the town, from Petersfield Heath and its pond to the open ground below Butser Hill, the highest point of the Downs proper. This is the country the drone and the golden-hour walk are built for, giving the film the wide open scenery a room alone cannot.
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 edit them into one 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. On Silver and Gold you get a short teaser in the Hub first, something to share while the film is still being edited. 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 Petersfield couples booking a film.
A country house or a walled garden can be echoey. Will the vows and speeches sound right on the film?
A stone-walled room or an enclosed garden actually works in your favour on film, because the walls hold a voice close and keep the wind out in a way an open field never does. We still mic properly rather than trusting the room. A radio mic on the groom and one on the officiant catch the vows, and a separate recorder by the top table takes the speeches, so a long reading at Langrish or a father-of-the-bride line lands clean rather than bouncing round the space. The music sits under that recorded audio, never in place of it.
How long is the wedding film for a Petersfield day, and is there a teaser?
Every collection includes one edited wedding film, rather than a short film with a longer edit on top. Its length depends on how the day runs, and Adam and Panha’s film is 5 minutes 57. Silver and Gold add a short teaser to share early and keep the speeches in full in the film, so nothing said across a country-house day is trimmed out. The teaser comes first, and the film lands in your private Wedding Hub, usually within 8 to 10 weeks of the day.
Can we have drone footage over the Downs, or a short reel for social?
Where the venue and the airspace allow it, yes to both. The open country below Butser Hill and the grounds of an estate like Uppark are made for an aerial shot, and we clear permissions ahead of the day rather than on it. National Park land can carry restrictions, so if flying is not possible we tell you beforehand and cover it from the ground instead. We can also cut a short vertical teaser, around 60 seconds, sized for Instagram and TikTok, so you have something to share in the days after while the full film is still in the edit.
Can we book the film on its own, or does it have to come with photography?
Film can be booked on its own if you already have a photographer, and it works 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 for a venue with one way in and out, but the film does not depend on it.
More films and real weddings.
We have not filmed in Petersfield 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.
Check your date with us.
Tell us your date and your Petersfield 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.