Eastington Park is a Georgian manor house near Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, with the kind of grounds that give a wedding day room to spread out across an afternoon.

Gillian and Adam's film is one of the Extended Highlights edits, built with enough length to keep more of the ceremony and speeches intact rather than reducing them to a handful of lines under music. A manor-house wedding often has more distinct chapters than a day contained within a single barn. The ceremony, drinks reception, wedding breakfast and evening celebration can each occupy a different part of the house or grounds. The longer format has room to acknowledge that shape rather than flattening everything into one continuous montage.

Late July meant long light and a genuine golden hour to work with, which matters more than people expect. A lot of a wedding film's atmosphere comes from what the light is doing in the background of an otherwise ordinary shot: a doorway, a walk between rooms, a group gathering outside before dinner.

The Approach

My job is to notice what's already happening rather than arrange it. On a property with as much space as Eastington Park, that mostly means being in the right part of the grounds before something happens there, not after.

This is an Extended Highlights film, giving the ceremony, speeches and atmosphere more room within a longer edit.

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Shown here as an example of the format; packages and inclusions may have changed since this wedding. Check availability for your date.

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