Let's talkMore and more couples marry at the venue itself: in the garden, in a courtyard with a fountain, on a jetty over the lake. No church and no car in between; your guests sit down, you walk in, and half an hour later everyone has a glass in hand. An outdoor civil ceremony isn’t filmed like a church wedding. There are no pews or altar to tell anyone where to stand, there’s wind that carries voices away, and at seven in the evening the sun shines straight into your faces. That’s why there are two of us, with two cameras and our own sound: your vows are heard exactly as you said them, even with the levante blowing, and nobody has to repeat a thing.
A garden has no walls to bounce the voice back. We put a microphone on the celebrant and on the two of you, and record the sound separately from the cameras so we can mix it cleanly afterwards. Your friends’ readings, the vows you wrote and the “I do” go into the film whole. And if the levante is blowing on the Cádiz coast, you hear the wind in the background and the words on the clean track.
Ceremonies at the venue are usually at six or seven. In June and July the sun sets after half past nine, so at that hour it’s still beating down; in October it sets before eight, and seven is already golden light. Before the wedding we look, with you and with the venue, at which way the arch faces: if the couple faces west, every guest will be squinting in every shot. A ninety-degree turn fixes it.
A civil wedding has no fixed script: whoever you want walks you in, whoever you want reads, and whoever you want brings the rings. We don’t stop the ceremony and we don’t ask you to repeat the kiss. Two cameras, one on each side, and what happens, happens once. Your delivery includes the complete ceremony, from the first word to the applause, separate from the highlights.
A sixteenth-century farmhouse between Seville and Huelva, with its own chapel and an old mill turned museum, that hosts a single wedding a day. We have filmed both kinds here: a civil ceremony on the estate and a religious one in its chapel. Dinner is served under the trees in the garden.
The Andalusia venue guideA few kilometres from the village of El Rocío, on the edge of Doñana. The ceremony takes place on a jetty over the lake formed by the Caño Marín stream, inside a botanical garden, and the estate has rooms for your guests. We have filmed four weddings there: the water behind the arch changes the light in every shot.
The Andalusia venue guideA family winery in the Condado, with a museum and a little train that runs through the vines, that holds civil weddings in its gardens. For a couple from abroad it is the shortest way to explain where they are: the wine at dinner is made a few metres from the arch.
The Andalusia venue guideA late-fifteenth-century monastery with rooms on site, its own chapel and space for a civil ceremony within the grounds. It is the venue where we have filmed the most weddings, more than fifteen, and we know it courtyard by courtyard.
Wedding video at Convento de la LuzHacienda Al-Baraka, in Dos Hermanas, hosts the civil ceremony in its garden; Villa Luisa, in El Porvenir, holds it in the garden or the courtyard of columns; Hacienda Molinillos, in Carmona, civil or religious in the garden; and at Hacienda San Miguel de Montelirio the wedding we filmed held its ceremony on the estate. All of them less than half an hour from the airport.
Seville wedding venuesOn the Costa del Sol many weddings belong to couples from abroad, with guests from several countries and three days of celebration. The one we filmed at Hotel Don Carlos held the ceremony at the hotel itself, with tropical gardens looking out to sea and rooms for everyone.
Wedding videographer in MálagaReal weddings
Wedding at the Hacienda Al-Baraka, Dos HermanasAlicia & Edu
Wedding at the Hacienda La Pintada, UtreraLucía & Juan
Wedding at the Convento de la Luz, Lucena del PuertoRocío & Juan
Wedding at the Hacienda Ballemari, HuelvaAna & DavidAt an outdoor ceremony there is no central aisle and no pews to keep the crews in order: photographer and videographers end up crossing in front of you if they don’t know each other. Christian, of Cupido debe morir, photographs many of our weddings, and with him nothing needs saying: we see things the same way and each of us knows where the other will be.
Gearmedia and Cupido debe morirIf you don’t live in Spain, the paperwork for a civil marriage here is slow and asks for documents from your own country. That’s why almost every couple from abroad signs at home, before or after the trip, and holds a symbolic ceremony in Andalusia with the celebrant they choose, in their own language and their own words. For the film nothing changes: there’s a walk in, readings, vows, rings and a kiss. Your consulate can tell you what applies in your case.
Yes, and they are the ones that need the most care: without walls the sound escapes and without a roof the light is in charge. Two videographers go, with two cameras and our own microphones, and the whole ceremony goes into your delivery.
Yes. The celebrant and the two of you wear microphones, and the sound is recorded separately from the cameras; the wind stays in the background and the words come out clean. We have done it with the Cádiz levante blowing.
You can, but the civil paperwork for non-residents is slow and depends on documents from your own country. Most couples from abroad sign at home and hold the symbolic ceremony here; ask your consulate what applies in your case.
We film. The photos are taken by Christian, of Cupido debe morir, with whom we work many weddings: one way of seeing for photo and film, and nobody crosses in front of you.
It depends on the month. In June and July, the later the better, and in the shade: the sun sets after half past nine. In September and October, seven o’clock gives you the best light of the year. And always with the arch facing away from the setting sun.
Between twenty and forty minutes, depending on the readings and the vows. You get the complete ceremony, from the walk in to the applause, as a piece separate from the film; the speeches and readings, uncut.
At Hacienda de Xenís, one civil and one religious; at El Ranchito, on the lake jetty; at Hacienda San Miguel de Montelirio and at Hotel Don Carlos in Marbella. Bodegas Andrade and Convento de la Luz also hold them on site.
