The Journal
Venue notes, honest pricing, and gentle advice for planning your wedding film.
On Pricing · 5 min read
How much does a wedding videographer cost in Ireland?
The honest shape of wedding film pricing here: five tiers, what couples actually pay in each, and how to judge value once you look past the number.
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Venue Notes · 3 min read
Filming a wedding at Luttrellstown Castle
The avenue, the candlelight, the lake. What we have learned behind the camera at Dublin's storybook castle.
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Venue Notes · 2 min read
A love letter to Tankardstown House
A Georgian house in the Boyne Valley where the whole day unfolds within a hundred metres of your morning coffee.
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Venue Notes · 2 min read
A city wedding at The Shelbourne
Doormen, sash windows and St Stephen's Green. Notes on filming a grand city wedding in the heart of Dublin.
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For Couples · 3 min read
How to feel natural on camera
Nearly every couple warns us they are awkward on camera. Here is why that has never once mattered, and what genuinely helps.
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What to ask a videographer before you book
Nine questions that separate a safe booking from a lucky one, with the reasons behind each, from two people who answer them weekly.
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Venue Notes · 3 min read
Filming a wedding at Kilkea Castle
A castle in open Kildare countryside that puts people at ease, and why that matters more to your film than the architecture does.
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Venue Notes · 3 min read
The loudest, best kind of day at Boyne Hill House
What we learned filming a wedding that threw the traditional running order out, and why the courtyard was built for it.
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Venue Notes · 2 min read
A sunlit day at Castle Durrow
A country house in Laois with a front elevation that does half the work, and how to use the rest of it.
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Venue Notes · 4 min read
Keeping it personal at Carton House
A thousand acres outside Maynooth, rooms built to make a hundred guests look intimate, and how we keep the people bigger than the building.
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Venue Notes · 3 min read
Built for a wedding: Ballykealey House
A Carlow manor that began as a wedding present, a hundred-year-old tulip tree, and a courtyard where everyone stays.
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The questions couples ask us most
Nineteen honest answers from behind the camera, on choosing a videographer, planning the day, what actually happens on it, and what it all costs.
Choosing a videographer
- Do you need a videographer if you already have a photographer?The honest case, from two people who obviously have a stake in it.
- Wedding content creator or videographer: which do you need?What each one actually captures, and the middle ground worth asking about.
- When to book your photographer and videographer in IrelandBy season and by day of the week. Summer Saturdays go two years out.
- How many hours of coverage do you actually need?What each cut-off keeps, and what it quietly loses.
- Highlight film, full film, raw footage: what you actually getWhat the words in a quote actually mean, and which ones matter.
- Why your favourite song might not be in your wedding filmThe licensing question nobody in Ireland explains, and what you can have instead.
Planning the day
- The Irish wedding day timeline, as it actually runsWhere the four hours between the ceremony and dinner really go.
- The receiving line: keep it, skip it, and what it costsTen seconds a guest, multiplied by a hundred and fifty.
- The first look: does it work with a two o'clock ceremony?The honest case for and against breaking the tradition.
- Golden hour in Ireland, month by monthSunset for every month, and what it means for your portrait slot.
- A winter wedding in Ireland: beating the four o'clock sunsetWhat the dark months do to a two o'clock ceremony, and three ways round it.
- What actually happens if it rains on your wedding dayWhat rain does to the light, the plan and the film. Less than you'd think.
On the day
- Filming in an Irish church: what the priest will and won't allowEvery church is different, and the strict ones tell you in advance if you ask.
- Church, civil or humanist: how the ceremony changes the filmThree very different hours, and what each one does to the rest of the day.
- Drones at Irish weddings: what is actually allowedThe 2025 rules, why Dublin is different, and when the drone stays in the bag.
- Speeches, dark rooms and church sound: the parts that are hardThe three things most likely to go wrong in a wedding film, and what we do about them.
- How your photographer and videographer share the dayTwo teams, one day, and nobody able to tell you where either of us stood.