It’s great to be back filming as Balbirnie House Hotel wedding videographer again in the wonderful Kingdom of Fife.
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Watch this video: ‘Balbirnie House Hotel wedding highlights video – Caitlin and Lee’ (5 mins 41 secs)
The wedding season started when I was asked to be Caitlin and Lee’s Balbirnie House Hotel wedding videographer for their special day.
It was an early start at Balbirnie House to film the bridal party preparations.
I wanted to film a time-lapse video of the clouds going over Balbirnie House to add to the start of the video.
Unfortunately, the weather was miserable, so filming out in the open wasn’t great.
I got about 20 minutes of OK weather, just long enough to shoot a few hundred photos, which I edited together to make about 10 seconds of time-lapse video.
Little touches like this set my work apart from other wedding videographers in Scotland.
The girl’s room was really busy. Dresses, shoes and people everywhere.
And champagne! It was a great atmosphere, real excitement and no sign of nerves.
The rooms are a great size filming, with plenty of space for everyone to feel relaxed.
Groom Lee arrived in a lovely old Rolls Royce.
Caitlin had secretly arranged this for Lee. Great choice of car.
The car sitting in front of Balbirnie House looked amazing.
The wedding ceremony took place in The Orangery.
This room is beautifully lit and perfect for filming a wedding ceremony.
Two cameras filmed the civil ceremony.
Caitlin and Lee looked excited as they saw each other as Caitlin walked up the aisle.
A beautiful ceremony was followed by Balbirnie’s customary group photo on the front steps.
The amazingly talented Ritz Trio entertained the guests during the champagne reception.
There was also a mini-casino with blackjack and roulette, keeping the guests entertained.
The newlyweds were cheered into The Ballroom to rapturous applause.
This was a great part of the day to film.
Instead of the usual entrance, with the piper leading the way, these guys opted for a banging dance track.
I filmed this walking backwards with my gimbal rig.
The footage looks fantastic, with Caitlin dancing and leading Lee to the top table.
The speeches were also great fun.
I filmed the speeches with two cameras.
One camera for wide-angle shots of the top table.
The other camera captured lovely close-ups of the expressions on people’s faces as the speeches were told.
I also thoroughly enjoyed filming guests’ messages to the newlyweds.
Guests left lots of messages of goodwill. Some of the comments were hilarious!
The day ended with the newlyweds cutting their wedding cake and the first dances.
The awesome live band, The Copycats, provided the entertainment.
The first dances were filmed using the gimbal.
This allowed me to shoot beautiful cinematic movement shots of the dancing.
This is a much more exciting finale to the video than filming rooted in one spot on the side of the dancefloor!