Wedding Film: What's Included, How Long It Lasts and When You Receive It

Insights · A guide for your wedding

A photograph holds a moment. A film holds everything around it: your mother's voice just before it breaks, the tremble in your father's hands as he opens the car door, the music, the laughter, the look the two of you shared in front of the altar.

In ten or twenty years, your wedding film won't just be a video. It will be the only way to hear voices you may not hear any more, and to show your children who you were that day.

Contents (11)

1. Photography or film? Both
2. What we deliver
3. Trailer Film: your day in three minutes
4. Main Film: the story of the whole day
5. Party Film: the evening as you lived it
6. Aerial shots with a drone
7. What makes a wedding film truly good
8. When and how you receive it
9. What to ask before you book a videographer
10. A film that grows with you
11. Frequently asked questions about wedding films

Below you'll find what a wedding film from our studio includes, how each part comes together, how long it runs, when you receive it, and what makes a wedding film genuinely good.

Photography or film? Both

Photography and film aren't rivals. Each covers what the other can't. A photograph stops time and lets you look at a moment for as long as you like. A film lets time flow and puts you back inside the day, with its sound, its movement and its rhythm.

Much of what you will remember can't be seen in a photograph: the priest's chanting, your friends' teasing at the groom's house, the applause as you walk into the reception, the song you danced to. Only film keeps those.

What we deliver

Every wedding film we make comes in three parts, and each one does a different job:

Film	Length	What it's for
Trailer Film	2–3 minutes	The feeling of the day in a few minutes: the one you'll rewatch and share.
Main Film	20–30 minutes	The story of the whole day, from the preparations to the party, with a beginning, a middle and an end.
Party Film	About one hour	The reception night, with all its energy.

Trailer Film: your day in three minutes

The Trailer Film is your first glimpse of the film, and often the part you'll watch most. It isn't a string of pretty shots set to music. It's a short story with a shape: it starts quietly with the preparations, builds through the ceremony and peaks at the party.

To get there, we pick the strongest moments of the day and weave them together with music and snippets of real sound: a laugh, a wish, a phrase spoken at just the right moment.

Main Film: the story of the whole day

At 20 to 30 minutes, the Main Film is the heart of it all. It follows the day in the order you lived it, like the chapters of a book:

• The preparations. The bride with her friends and her mother, the groom with his friends. Because we work as a double team, both sides are filmed at the same time, with no rushing back and forth.
• Arriving at the church. The groom waiting, the car door opening, the first look.
• The ceremony. The rings, the crowns, the Dance of Isaiah, with the sound of the service exactly as it was that day.
• The reception. The entrance, the first dance, the hugs, your friends on the dance floor.

This is where there's room for everything a trailer can't hold: the conversations, the wishes, the faces of the people you love. It's the film you'll put on for your anniversary, and the one your children will watch one day.

Party Film: the evening as you lived it

The Party Film is all about the evening: roughly an hour of the reception, with the first dance, the cake, the fireworks if you have them, and above all your friends and family on the dance floor. It's the liveliest of the three, and usually the one that makes you laugh most when you watch it again.

Aerial shots with a drone

We use a drone for aerial shots: the church within the landscape, the venue, the sea, the town. They give the film something no camera on the ground can: a real sense of where your wedding took place. We fly wherever it's permitted and whenever the weather allows.

What makes a wedding film truly good

• A story, not just shots. A good film has a beginning, a climax and an end. Not a run of beautiful images that don't connect.
• Real moments. The strongest shots are rarely staged. They are a look, a tear, a laugh nobody expected.
• The sound. Music sets the pace. The real sound of the day, the voices and the laughter, is what takes you back.
• The colour. Careful colour grading makes it look like a film rather than a phone video.
• The right pace. Each part runs long enough to move you, and no longer.

When and how you receive it

Your film is delivered six months after the wedding. That may sound like a long time, but an edit that really tells the story of a day can't be hurried. We go through hours of footage for the moments that matter, build the story, and work on the music, sound and colour piece by piece. We take our time because you'll be watching this film for years.

You receive it online, on your personal page, where you can watch it whenever you like and share it with family and friends, wherever they are.

What to ask before you book a videographer

• Which films will you receive, and how long is each one?
• Is there a film of the whole day, or only a short video?
• How many filmmakers will be there, and do they cover the bride and the groom at the same time?
• Are drone shots included?
• How long will it take, and how will you receive the film?
• Can you watch a full film from another wedding, not just a trailer?

That last question may matter most. A three-minute trailer can be impressive. A twenty-minute film shows whether the videographer knows how to tell a story.

We cover every wedding with a double photo and video team, four people in all, so nothing gets missed. Read more about the cost of a wedding photographer in Patras and see our films on the Films page.

A film that grows with you

The first time, you'll watch your film to relive the day. On your first anniversary, you'll watch it to remember. Years later, you'll watch it for the people who were there, for the way you danced, for the way you looked at each other. That's why we put so much care into it: we're not making a video for next week, we're making a film for the years ahead.