Wedding films in Reigate.
We are one in-house team for photos and film. Hayden films your Reigate day while Aaron shoots stills alongside, so the vows, the speeches and the sound of the room come home with you, not just the pictures.
Hear the vows and the speeches again.
A still taken from Reigate Hill with the town laid out below is a lovely thing to have printed. What it cannot do is hand you the sound back. It will not hold the moment a voice breaks partway through the vows, the laugh that went round the room during a speech, or the song that walked you back up the aisle as husband and wife. A film keeps every bit of it. That is the entire 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 as a wedding videographer in Reigate we cover the day as one team rather than a bolt-on second supplier. Reigate sits over in Surrey, about 40 miles east of us along the North Downs, which makes it one of the longer drives we make and a further reach than our home patch, and we would sooner say that plainly than tuck it away. Hayden Martin-Green leads the films, shooting and cutting them, with Aaron Robinson on stills working the same day at his side. We will be straight with you from the start: we travel to Reigate, but we have not filmed a wedding in the town itself yet, so we are not going to dress up this page with a Reigate couple who does not exist. What we do have are full wedding films from days a manageable drive away, filmed by the two people who would come and film yours.
Reigate films beautifully, and the ground gives a moving camera things a flat lawn never could. The ridge above the town means the late light comes along the Downs rather than dropping straight down, so in the last hour before sunset a filmmaker who is watching for it can hold a couple against a whole valley turning gold. Sound is the second thing this ground asks you to plan for. A ceremony inside the panelled rooms at a house like Nutfield holds a voice close and keeps the weather out, so the vows and the readings land clean on the recording, while an exposed spot up on the hill needs the microphone shielded before a word is spoken. We plan for the picture and the sound together, because a film that looks the part and loses the words through the vows has failed at the one job a film has.
Why the film is worth booking.
Most couples lock in the photographer first and leave the film as a maybe, the thing to add if there is room in the budget. Then the day arrives and disappears at speed, the speeches come and go once, the first dance happens once, and there is no button to press that brings any of it back to be recorded again. Photographs hold how the day looked. A film is the only thing that keeps the movement and the sound of it, from the toasts to the quiet before the rings and the noise of the room afterwards. It is the one part of the whole day that cannot be made again once it has passed, so it is worth deciding on early.
Morning, ceremony and evening.
A Reigate wedding film is not a single mood stretched across the day, it is a handful of them that arrive in sequence, and a manor or a ridge-top house hands you each in turn. The morning films close and unhurried, the getting ready, the details, the walk toward the ceremony. The middle of the day is the vows and whatever stands behind them, the panelled room at Nutfield or the gardens at Reigate Manor, the part most couples have in their heads when they picture the film. Then the evening turns up, and this is where a spot under the North Downs pays its way. As the sun eases behind the ridge the light runs low and warm across the grounds, and a couple stepping out for a few minutes then gives the shot the whole film has been leading toward.
The reception is a different film again. First dances and speeches and a room in full voice ride on the sound every bit as much as the picture, so we keep the recorders running while we film, and the finished piece carries the line that broke the room up and the first bars of your first dance as they truly sounded, not a song dropped over a silent clip.
How the Reigate settings look on film.
Reigate Manor, a Georgian house right in the middle of the town, is licensed for civil ceremonies and can hold a larger celebration of up to 200 guests, and for a film that scale is worth planning for, a full room means the sound has to be caught cleanly across a crowd rather than a handful of pews. The gardens beyond give the camera somewhere to breathe between the ceremony and the speeches.
Nutfield Priory just east of the town dates to 1872 and sits up on the Nutfield ridge, and it is 2 films in one building: inside, the original stained glass and oak panelling hold a voice close and film rich and dark, and outside the rear gardens open onto long views over the Surrey Hills for the wide, moving shots. Reigate Hill on the doorstep, a stretch of the North Downs by Gatton Park and the old Reigate Fort, is where couples who want the whole countryside behind them go for the aerial and the last of the light. And Priory Park in the centre of town, the green beside Reigate Priory, is an easy walk from most town venues, a quiet spot under the trees to film a few unhurried minutes between the ceremony and the reception.
Our nearest real weddings.
Here are some of our real weddings a short drive from Reigate. 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 Reigate day gets filmed.
Because Hayden films while Aaron photographs, it is one team, one plan and one number to call, not two suppliers introducing themselves to each other in your car park. On film that counts for even more than it does on stills. A videographer who has never worked with your photographer ends up in half of their shots and fighting for the aisle through the vows, and you are the one stuck in the middle asking two people you have just met to work it out. We settle who stands where well before you arrive, so the camera can stay on you without a second shooter wandering into frame.
Two cameras cover the ceremony, one kept tight on your faces and one holding the whole room, so if a guest steps in front of one lens the moment is still safe on the other and a vow is never lost to a blocked view. Any venue we have not filmed in before, the panelled rooms at Nutfield or the lawns at Reigate Manor, we visit ahead of the wedding, mapping where a voice will record without an echo, where the sun will sit at the hour you say your vows, and where a drone is clear to go up if the site permits it, so none of it is a first attempt on the day itself. Nothing is set up and shot twice to please the cameras. Photography and film happen in the same take, and then you are back with your guests.
How the film is delivered.
A wedding film is made in the edit far more than on the day, so it helps to know how the weeks after your wedding run. We sit with the footage and the recorded sound, work out which moments to use, and finish your wedding film, typically 8 to 10 weeks on. That film and your gallery both land in the single login of your private Wedding Hub, so nothing turns up on a memory stick that slides to the back of a drawer and stays there. On Silver and Gold a short teaser comes sooner still, ready to post while the film is being finished. One studio shot the whole day, so one studio delivers it, and there is a single person to come back to if you ever want something changed.
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.
Is the sound in the film really from the day, or is it music over the top?
It is the day. We put a small microphone on whoever is saying their vows and one on the person leading the ceremony, so the words go straight into the film, and a separate recorder by the top table picks up the speeches. What plays back afterwards is your own voices and the sound of the room, with the music sitting underneath rather than covering silence. At a ridge-top setting like Nutfield Priory, where the wind can come up over the gardens, protecting that recorded sound is the first thing we plan, not an afterthought.
Is there a short film and a full edit, or just one film?
Just one. Every collection includes an edited wedding film, and its length depends on the day, so Adam and Panha above runs just under 6 minutes. On Silver and Gold the speeches are recorded in full in the film, and there is a short teaser to share early. The teaser comes first, and the film is delivered into your private Wedding Hub, usually 8 to 10 weeks after the day.
Can you get an aerial shot over Reigate Hill, or a short clip for social?
Where the site and the weather allow it, yes to both. The open North Downs above the town and the grounds at a house like Nutfield are made for an aerial pass, and we clear the airspace and permissions ahead of the day rather than on it. If flying is ruled out by wind or a restriction we tell you beforehand and cover it from the ground. We can also cut a short upright clip of around 60 seconds for Instagram or TikTok, so you have something to share within days while the main film is still being edited.
We already have a photographer. Can we book just the film?
Yes. The film works perfectly well on its own next to a photographer you have already booked, because we plan where we stand around whoever else is covering the day. Most couples book the film and the photographs together with us so one team runs the whole day on a single plan, which is what we would recommend, but the film is not tied to it.
Where to look next.
We have not filmed in Reigate yet, so here are real films and the days behind them, a 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 Reigate 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.