Wedding Photographer and Videographer Near Stroud and Tetbury

01 / Kingscote, near Tetbury / Graeme & Coz, Zoe & Jack, Louise & Ryan

The Kingscote Barn: a tin can game, heart-shaped sunglasses and a field of daisies

Graeme and Coz married at The Kingscote Barn in April 2023, and their photographs open this story with a lace dress hanging in front of a mirror between patterned curtains. A kiss at the front of the barn follows, under a hoop of foliage and fairy lights with guests watching from their chairs, and then guests in smart outfits standing in groups on the terrace and lawn in front of the long tiled barn. Graeme and Coz throw small bags at stacks of copper-coloured tin cans, and the photograph at the top of this guide shows the two of them laughing together in front of the hills. Zoe and Jack, who married in October 2023, follow with their vows under strings of lights, a forehead-to-forehead laugh on a path and a quiet moment beneath an iron garden arch.

The Kingscote Barn sits on Binley Farm, which the venue says the Gale family has farmed since 1938. The family began restoring the main barn in 2003 and opened it for weddings in 2006, and the farm still has sheep on steep hillside fields across its 400 acres. The wedding page offers the main barn or the gardens for the vows, with views across the valley, and the guests gathered outside the barn and the tin can game earlier in this story show how much room there is outside between the ceremony and the meal. On-site accommodation sleeps up to 50, in rooms at Tallet House and Spring Cottage, a treehouse suite, pods, a shepherd’s hut and woodland lodges, and the guest guide puts One Tree Hill, one of the outdoor ceremony spaces, at a five minute walk. Ask how that walk works for older guests and how the rooms are shared out.

Zoe and Jack’s October wedding finishes in two very different ways. On a lane between tall hedges and autumn trees they spray champagne in heart-shaped sunglasses, the bride with her bouquet in the air, and after dark the groom holds a sparkler high while the bride, who has pulled a denim jacket on over her dress, laughs at the guests around them.

Louise and Ryan married in June 2024, and their six photographs run through a whole day: a group of four in black dinner suits and sunglasses clinking bottles outside a stone building, the groom dipping the bride for a kiss as guests look on, with white flower plinths along a paved aisle and a timber gazebo behind them, the barn laid for the meal beneath a vaulted timber roof with chandeliers and strings of fairy lights, and the groom reading out his speech, paper in hand, with the bride laughing beneath flowers hung from a beam. The evening goes outdoors again, with champagne sprayed in low sun and a walk through a field of white daisies in golden light. If you would like to walk through fields like these, ask the venue which tracks and fields are open to guests and whether sheep are grazing them, then plan the walk with us so it fits between the meal and the party. Three weddings, three seasons and one farm show how much of a barn day happens on the grass.

For current venue details, explore The Kingscote Barn.

02 / Tortworth, near Wotton-under-Edge / Emma & Kris, Jonny & Carl

De Vere Tortworth Court: white blossom under glass, a Lego brick cake and pink sparklers

Emma and Kris married at De Vere Tortworth Court in September 2024. Their photographs start under a glass dome among white blossom trees, the two of them at the end of a white aisle runner scattered with petals and lined with candles in clear columns, and move on to a tearful hug between the bride and an older man in a dinner suit, then a kiss at a table in a glass-roofed room with guests seated behind them. Outside in low evening light they walk a gravel path towards the gabled manor, dance slowly in front of it and, on a gravel path beside clipped hedges, he kisses her hand, and the last of their frames is the first dance on a floor studded with lights while guests watch and one holds up a phone. The picture that closes this run looks at the house in April, with guests clustered on the lawn beside deckchairs and furled parasols.

De Vere Tortworth Court is a hotel in a Victorian house, which Historic England’s register entry for the park records as built between 1849 and 1853 for the second Earl of Ducie to designs by Samuel Sanders Teulon and listed Grade II*. The grounds hold an arboretum that the venue says has more than 300 plant and tree specimens, and its weddings page describes civil ceremonies, an outdoor ceremony pagoda overlooking the arboretum and an Orangery built in 1874. Bedrooms are in the main house and the courtyard, in nine room types that include the Kipling Suite. If a glass-roofed room like the one in these photographs is what you are picturing, ask which space it is, how it is lit once daylight goes, and whether the meal and the dancing can stay under the same roof.

Jonny and Carl married at Tortworth Court in April 2025, and their photographs begin at a tall bright window, where one adjusts the other’s yellow tie and both laugh. In a round stone-walled room with a band of glass above, the two wait at the front in matching light grey suits, holding hands, with a white-covered table behind them and flowers in jars on grey plinths either side, one smiling off to the side while the other brushes away a tear. Their cake is patterned on one side with Lego bricks, with two Lego figures, a small white dog and a rainbow flag on top and loose bricks running down the side, and the portraits move outdoors to a gravel path under an arch of woven branches with yellow flowers dangling from it, where they kiss while holding hands.

The last photograph is at night in front of a pointed stone doorway lit in pink: the two of them, in grey waistcoats, walk laughing between friends who hold sparklers above their heads, one guest in a tartan kilt. If you would like a sparkler send-off, ask whether the hotel allows sparklers, where they can be used and how late the evening runs. A house with this much glass, stone and lawn gives a day several different looks, and two couples in two seasons have used it in quite different ways.

For current venue details, explore De Vere Tortworth Court.

03 / Coln Valley, near Bibury / Laura & Jack

Cripps Barn: a cheer on the lawn, a candlelit table and a backlit embrace

Laura and Jack married at Cripps Barn in June 2025. The photographs we chose for them start outside, with the long barn seen across the lawn through an iron frame hung with red roses, its grey metal roof and timber-railed terrace busy with guests, and then the whole wedding party on the grass with their arms in the air, women in matching ivory dresses with small bouquets at one side and two guests in green dresses near the middle. Inside, the aisle ends in a kiss with guests smiling and applauding on either side beneath a hanging ring of flowers and foliage, and a second kiss follows beside the long table, laid with candles, green glass tumblers and green napkins, with bright daylight behind them.

The venue describes the barn as surrounded by ancient woodlands and rolling meadows. Ceremonies are held in the main barn under its hand forged greenery wheel or outdoors at an Oak Pavilion in the gardens, and civil ceremonies are licensed in the barn or the woodland glade. Cripps Barn states room for 150 guests for the ceremony and dining and 200 in total with evening guests, and it lists no bedrooms on site. It recommends The Stump, with 10 rooms, and The New Inn at Coln St Aldwyns, with 15, so ask where the rest of your guests can stay and how they will get back at night.

Later the two of them head off hand in hand over a dry golden lawn, young trees standing in metal guards on both sides, under a pale blue sky streaked with cloud. The last photograph is in black and white and backlit: the bride rests her head against the groom’s shoulder from behind and looks at the camera, with a field and a line of dark trees behind them. Pictures like these come from slowing down once the main moments are done, so build a little spare time into the timetable around the meal.

For current venue details, explore Cripps Barn.