CONTEMPORARY WEDDING VIDEOS BY PROFESSIONAL WEDDING VIDEOGRAPHERS
Don and Della were married in June 2010 at St. Micheal’s Church in Lancing, West Sussex, with the reception at The Walled Garden in Cowdray. It was an amazing day that started at 8.00 am with the morning preparations right the way through to 10.00 pm when the evening reception was in full swing. When everyone arrived at The Walled Garden, Don and Della had a Sri Lankan blessing which started with the bride and groom being individually escorted into the room by traditional Sri Lankan dancers. The ceremony itself was very moving with gifts being exchanged and the couple lighting a candle.
A very colourful and happy day set against the magnificent ruins of the Tudor Mansion – which made for some great photo shots. We will have some more clips of the wedding in the near future, but in the meanwhile I have posted their black and white highlights sequence. We wish Don and Della all the best for their future life together.
Day three of the edit for Don and Della’s wedding video. With over 10 hours of footage (from 2 cameras) to be edited down to an hour or less it really is a mammoth editing job. It was such a packed day with morning preparations, church ceremony, a fantastic reception venue (Walled Garden at Cowdray), a Sri-Lankan Blessing plus the normal meal, speeches and evening entertainment. Now about half way through the edit with separate DVDs already encoded for the whole ceremony, blessing and speeches. With about 30 minutes already laid down it is starting to look really good – although with another wedding this weekend it won’t be finished until next week.
Last Saturday saw us getting out of bed unusually early for Don and Della’s wedding. With all the kit prepared the night before, Natalie and me were up at the crack of dawn to drive into Worthing to film Don and Della’s wedding preparations. With a ceremony due to start at 10.30 am (the earliest ceremony we have eve filmed), every one had an early start.
We got some great preparation footage, especially Don’s reactions when he received an Omega watch as a wedding present from Della. Apparently he has a thing about watches and had wanted this particular model for ages. His face was a picture.
The ceremony was held at St. Michel’s Church in Lancing. Although it is local to me I have never been there before. A really nice, bright church with a friendly vicar with delightful gardens at the back. After the ceremony everyone left for the reception at The Walled Garden at Cowdray and it was still morning!
The Walled Garden is one of my favourite venues with it’s laid out gardens and ruins. There are so many little locations for getting great footage. The highlight of the day, for me, was the the blessing held when the arrived at the reception. The bride and Groom and families were led into the ceremony room by Sri Lankan dancers while the priest was blowing a conch shell. Very colourful and moving. My thanks to the bride’s father who kept moving people out of the way when the accidental stood in front of the camera.
A colourful, pleasant day with lovely people. But we were both knackered when we arrived home at 11.00 pm after 15 hours filming. With many hours of footage, the edit is going to be a bit of a mammoth task, but I hope to be able to post a clip sometime in the future