1127 Anacapa Street, Studio 3, Santa Barbara(555) 013-6614 · [email protected]
Wedding films · Santa Barbara & the Central Coast
Your day,kept likea film.
We film weddings for couples who would rather live the day than perform it. Two of us, small cameras, no lights in your face and never a second take. Ten weeks later your film comes home on a reel, in a linen box, cut to the sound of your own vows.
From the dress on its hanger to the last song, we're there for the parts you'll miss yourselves: your mother's hands, the toast nobody rehearsed, the light at 7:42.
Frame 01 of 08 09:10
8Head · Reel 214 Elodie & Bram
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The dress, waiting
We arrive an hour before hair is done, and film the quiet before anyone needs us.
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The rings, before
A macro lens and two minutes. No posing, just your hands and what's on them.
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Out under the oak
Ten minutes of air before the cars arrive. Some dresses want to be outside.
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Down the aisle
Veil first, then the bouquet. One of us at the front, one at the back, both silent.
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Hands, after the vows
Three microphones on you and your officiant, so every word is kept.
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Tables by the water
Before the guests sit down, while the candles are still tall.
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The long way back
Twelve minutes of golden hour. We take four of them. You keep the rest.
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First dance, in the grass
The band waited. You danced anyway, and we were already rolling.
∞Tail · 7′48″ Play again on the anniversary
Reel two · Watch the film
Elodie & Bram, Montecito.
Runtime
7′48″
Collection
The Vow
Shot on
Two cameras + Super 8
Reel 214 · Scene 01 · Morning24 fps · 2.39 : 1
“Bram, I think I knew on the ferry to Santa Cruz Island…”
00:00 / 07:48
Cut to your vows
Every film is built around what you said to each other, recorded on three small microphones and mixed with licensed music you choose with us.
Colour, graded by hand
Warm, soft, a little like the film your grandparents shot. Skin looks like skin and white dresses stay white.
A preview in two weeks
A sixty-second teaser lands in your inbox while you're still on the honeymoon. The full film follows in ten weeks.
What comes homeThe linen box, ten weeks after the wedding
How we work on the day
We never ask for a second take.
Documentary first, always. We'd rather miss a shot than stage one, so we plan hard, stand back and let the day happen the way it wants to.
I
Before
We learn your day by heart.
A long call in the spring, a walk through your venue at the hour you'll marry, and a timeline built with your planner. We find out who will cry first and where the light falls at six.
90-minute planning call
Venue walk-through
Shared timeline
II
On the day
Two filmmakers, no lights, no staging.
Small cinema cameras that look like nothing, a 1979 Super 8 for the moments that deserve grain, and microphones on both of you and your officiant. Most guests never notice us.
Up to 12 hours
Super 8 on request
Clean ceremony audio
III
After
Cut to your vows, sent home in linen.
Cosima edits every film herself. Ten weeks later a linen box arrives: your film on a reel-shaped drive, your vows letterpressed, a strip of real frames and a link to share with the people who couldn't come.
Delivered in 10 weeks
Kept on our archive for 10 years
Your film, by
Directed & edited by
Cosima Penrose
Photographed by
Silas Moreau
Sound & second camera
Beatrix Okonjo
Super 8 developed
by hand, in Burbank
Collections & prices · 2027
Three ways to keep it.
Every collection includes travel within 90 miles of Santa Barbara, licensed music, your full ceremony with clean sound, and the linen box. Choose one to see your estimate.
$4,900From
7 hours · one filmmaker
For smaller weddings and courthouse days. A short film you'll actually rewatch, and the whole ceremony to keep.
4–5 minute film
Full ceremony edit
Delivered in eight weeks
$7,600From
9 hours · two filmmakers
The whole day from getting ready to the first dance, cut into a film built around your vows.
8–10 minute film
Ceremony and toasts in full
60-second teaser in two weeks
$11,400From
Two days · two filmmakers + Super 8
The welcome dinner and the wedding, for families who'll pass this down. Includes a roll of Super 8, developed by hand.
15–20 minute film
A documentary edit of the whole day
Super 8 roll and welcome dinner
Friday and Sunday weddings are 10% less; weekday weddings 15%. Travel beyond 90 miles is quoted at cost, and we've happily flown to Lake Como and Oaxaca.
Couples' words
Couples' words
“We've watched it on every anniversary and twice on bad days. Somehow Cosima cut it so my dad's toast lands just as the sun goes down.”
Kemi & Finn Ojai · October 2025 · The Vow
“We forgot they were there. Then the film came, and there they'd been all along, catching everything.”
Saskia & Leander Los Olivos · May 2026
“The Super 8 made my grandmother cry. She said it looked exactly like her own wedding in 1961.”
Thea & Ikenna Santa Barbara · September 2025
212couples since 2014
1 in 3come to us through a past couple
1working day to reply, always
Where we've filmed
From the Edna Valley down to Malibu.
Mostly within an hour of the studio on Anacapa Street. We know where the wind comes from on the bluffs and which barns go dark at eight.
Further afield: Big Sur, Healdsburg, Lake Como, Mallorca and Oaxaca. Twenty-two weddings so far, travel at cost.
Weddings filmed, 2014–2026Circle size = weddings
Enquire
Is your date still free?
Most couples book us twelve to eighteen months ahead. Check your date first, then tell us a little about the two of you.
Pick a date, or tap a Saturday below.We'll tell you straight away whether one or both of our teams are free.
Saturdays, 2027 season
OpenOne team leftBooked
Tell us about the two of you.
Cosima or Silas will reply within one working day, usually with a short film from a wedding like yours.
Do you film anywhere outside California?
Yes, about a dozen weddings a year. Within 90 miles of Santa Barbara travel is included; beyond that we charge flights and rooms at cost, nothing more.
Will we hear our vows clearly?
Always. We put small microphones on both of you and your officiant, and record the venue's sound desk for the toasts.
Can we choose the music?
You send us three songs you love, we license one of them or something in the same spirit. No copyright surprises when you share it.
How do we pay?
A 30% deposit holds the date once you've signed. The balance is due 30 days before the wedding, by bank transfer or card.
