Wedding Photographer and Videographer Near the Vale of Glamorgan

01 / Gileston, near St Athan / Katie & Joey

Gileston Manor: a mirrored room, a clear marquee aisle and a field of green wheat

Katie and Joey married at Gileston Manor, near St Athan, in May 2025. Their photographs begin in a mirrored room, where the bride sits in a white satin robe on a gilded chair while her hair is pinned beneath a crystal chandelier. Outside, on a flight of worn stone steps beside a rough stone wall, one man straightens another’s bow tie. Then the bride comes down a carpeted wooden staircase with an older man in morning dress holding her hand, two bridesmaids in yellow waiting behind them, and the next frame is the aisle itself: a clear marquee hung with white fabric and round chandeliers, with guests on both sides.

Gileston Manor is Grade II* listed, and Cadw describes it as a very fine Queen Anne house with an exterior that is almost all from the early 18th century. The venue’s own site lists the Summer House for civil ceremonies and the Church of St Giles, in the grounds, for a church service, with receptions in the gardens, which include a lotus marquee and a Secret Garden, and accommodation suites on site. It places itself on the Heritage Coast, with views over rolling countryside. If your ceremony or meal will be in a marquee, ask how the space is turned around between the two, and where guests would go if the weather changed their plans.

Out at the front of the house, the groom in a morning suit and the bride, holding a bouquet of pink, red and orange flowers, laugh at each other on the gravel. The ivy is what the eye goes to: it climbs across most of the front, around white sash windows and a small arched porch, so the house is a backdrop in its own right.

The last two photographs leave the front of the house behind. In black and white, the bride glances over her shoulder with her hair blown across the frame while the groom, in a dinner suit and bow tie, holds her from behind between pale stone pillars. In colour, the two of them kiss in a field of bright green wheat under a grey sky, her hair moving in the wind again. Whatever your plan, ask the venue which parts of the grounds are open for portraits and how long the walk takes.

For current venue details, explore Gileston Manor.

02 / Near Llantwit Major / Morgan & Kate

Rosedew Farm: laughter on the gravel, a floral arch and a twirl by the sea

Morgan and Kate married at Rosedew Farm, near Llantwit Major, in May 2025. The first two photographs are close and unhurried. On the gravel courtyard in front of a stone building with tall arched windows, the bride and a bridesmaid in pink laugh together, the bridesmaid holding a cloud of gypsophila. A few steps away, beside an ivy-covered wall and a timber frame, the groom in a beige suit and glasses and the bride in a lace gown and long veil smile at each other with a bouquet of pink and white roses between them.

Rosedew Farm describes itself as a rustic and rural venue on the South Wales coastline. Ceremonies take place in the Barn, where the room is set up for the ceremony first and the tables stay hidden behind a curtain until afterwards, and guests gather beforehand in The Cwtch. The ceremony room in the next photograph has stone walls, a timber roof, white fabric draped overhead, chairs tied with white sashes either side of a white aisle runner and an arch of pink and white flowers in front of tall arched windows. The farm is family-run, with accommodation for up to 80 guests, and the family’s butchery business, Farmers Pantry, is the exclusive caterer, so ask what the catering covers for your numbers.

The last photograph is the coast. On a wet concrete path beside a rocky shore, the groom lifts the bride’s hand and turns her under it, her long veil lifting in the wind, with a grey sea beyond. The sky is not bright and the picture does not need it to be. If a shoreline portrait is on your wish list, ask the venue how long the trip to the shore takes and whether it fits between the ceremony and the meal.

For current venue details, explore Rosedew Farm.

03 / Hensol / Bethan & James

Llanerch Vineyard: a groom’s tears, bridesmaids in the vines and a long veil on the grass

Bethan and James married at Llanerch Vineyard in Hensol in August 2025. The first photograph is the groom in a black dinner suit with a white buttonhole, wiping a tear from his eye beside a tall arrangement of white flowers, with fairy lights strung behind him. The second is the bride among her bridesmaids in the vines, the bridesmaids in champagne dresses with long white ribbons tied to their bouquets, all of them laughing together.

Llanerch describes itself as a working vineyard, boutique hotel, restaurant and wedding venue in one, and its weddings page places the celebration within a 22 acre vineyard. Its Our Venues page lists the Calon Lodge for 30 to 80 guests and the Woodland Venue for 50 to 200, with the ceremony, drinks, meal and evening all on site, and the hotel has seven types of room for guests to stay in. The first vines were planted in 1986, and the contact page puts the vineyard two minutes by car from Junction 34 of the M4. If you want portraits in the rows, ask which parts of the vineyard are open to wedding parties and what the plan is when the grass is wet.

The last photograph is a simple one that the vineyard makes easy. The groom, in his black dinner suit, kisses the bride’s cheek between two rows of vines, with her long veil and train spread across the grass and a line of tall, narrow trees behind them. The rows lead the eye to the couple without anything having to be arranged around them.

For current venue details, explore Llanerch Vineyard.

04 / Capel Llanilltern, Cardiff / Robyn & Kris, Amy & Dan

Pencoed House Estate: a dress in a silver mirror, a barn of white flowers and a neon sign

Robyn and Kris married at Pencoed House Estate, at Capel Llanilltern in Cardiff, in May 2023, and Amy and Dan married here a year later, in May 2024. Robyn’s long-sleeved lace dress is reflected in a tall silver mirror in a bedroom, with a tartan carpet below. Outside, she and Kris kiss on a gravel drive under overhanging trees, he in a dark green suit and waistcoat. The stone barn is set out for their ceremony with white chairs tied with chiffon, glass lanterns down the aisle and garlands of white flowers and fairy lights hung from the dark roof timbers. Amy and Dan’s first photograph is a shower of confetti, the groom laughing and the bride holding a dried-flower and foliage bouquet tied with black ribbons.

Cadw lists the house as Grade II*, with medieval origins, a 16th century central-entry house and a separate 17th century range. The estate is hired exclusively for the day and has 36 acres of grounds, with an orchard, deciduous woodland and a tree-lined driveway. The venue’s own site lists the Old Hall for up to 120 guests and Cwrt Clive, a glasshouse, for up to 140, with evening celebrations for up to 220 and accommodation on site for up to 36 wedding guests. If your numbers fall between those figures, ask how the day would move between the spaces and what changes between the ceremony, the meal and the evening.

Amy and Dan’s later photographs are looser. In black and white, they walk hand in hand out of a stone archway with a lantern above it, both laughing. The last is in a room draped in white fabric with a stone wall at one side: the bride throws an arm in the air beside a neon sign in a copper frame while the groom crouches next to her giving a thumbs up. Old stone in one frame and neon in the next, with two people enjoying both. Amy and Dan’s May 2024 highlight film from Pencoed House Estate is in the films section below.

For current venue details, explore Pencoed House Estate.

05 / Thornhill, Cardiff / Sarah & Luke, Louisa & Chris

New House Country Hotel: a hand kissed on the garden steps, a champagne tower and a getaway motorbike

Sarah and Luke married at New House Country Hotel in Thornhill, Cardiff, in May 2026, and Louisa and Chris in August 2026. Sarah and Luke’s photographs are a long veil blurred in black and white, the two of them on a stone staircase through the terraced garden, and a kiss beside a tower of champagne coupes. Louisa and Chris begin at a tall sunlit window, where a woman in a gold-patterned dress adjusts the bride’s veil. On the garden steps the groom kisses the bride’s hand, and the two walk down a long flight of old stone steps with the house above them. Their ceremony photographs show a stone church, with the groom waiting at the end of the aisle and the couple laughing in a fall of petals under the porch.

New House is a Grade II listed Georgian country house, built in the 1730s for Thomas Lewis according to the group that runs it. Its wedding spaces are the Glass Pergola, whose roof can retract, the Wyndham Suite and the Garden Marquee, with the Suite and the Marquee each holding up to 200 guests and the Marquee able to host both ceremony and wedding breakfast. Louisa and Chris’s ceremony was in a church, so their day used more than one address before the reception here, which is worth mapping out for your own guests. Ask the hotel for the sat nav directions it recommends: its website says the postcode is not recognised by Google Maps or many sat navs, and that the entrance is signposted from the Travellers Rest pub.

The grounds are what the descriptions keep coming back to. The pergola overlooks Cardiff and the sea towards the North Devon coast, and the Marquee has panoramic views over Cardiff and the Vale. In Louisa and Chris’s photographs the bridal party stands on a lawn in pinks from blush to magenta, one attendant in a cream suit, with wooded hills behind them. On the same dry, golden grass the groom turns the bride under his hand, with a wide view of woodland and countryside behind, and another frame from the grounds looks over the trees to Cardiff’s skyline and the sea beyond, with a dark conifer in the corner.

Inside, the two of them dance under a canopy of fairy lights with a live band behind them and a glass wall looking out to wooded hills. The last photograph is the getaway: a motorbike with a Just Married banner on a glass-sided terrace, the bride and groom either side of it and the house showing through the glass behind. If music matters to you, ask the hotel where a band can set up and how late it can play.

For current venue details, explore New House Country Hotel.

06 / Coychurch, near Bridgend / Laura & Jordan

Coed-y-Mwstwr Hotel: window light, confetti on a cobbled path and red brick behind golden hedges

Laura and Jordan married at Coed-y-Mwstwr Hotel in Coychurch, near Bridgend, in August 2026. The first photograph is quiet: the bride in a lace dress and veil stands beside a tall window with long cream curtains, looking down at a bright bouquet of pink, orange and pale blue flowers. The second is the opposite, the groom laughing in a light tweed suit and the bride beside him as they walk hand in hand down a cobbled path while guests throw white petals, a cream timber building behind them.

The hotel is a Grade II listed country house of red brick with stone dressings, built in 1888 according to its datestone. Its own pages describe a Victorian mansion on a Welsh hillside, with more than 17 acres of woodland overlooking the Vale of Glamorgan. The ceremony space is the Folly, a glass pergola with a fully retractable roof in the secret garden, and the Hendre is the celebration space, opening onto a lounge terrace. The bedrooms include a bridal preparation suite and a honeymoon suite. If you like the idea of a retractable roof, ask how it is operated and how quickly guests can move indoors if the weather turns.

The last photograph shows the house those facts describe: a red brick front with stone details, gables and tall chimneys, seen from the garden steps. The bride, in a long veil, comes down the steps between tall golden hedges towards the groom, who takes her hand. It looks like a few minutes taken for themselves, away from the guests, and it is worth leaving room for something like it in the afternoon.

For current venue details, explore Coed-y-Mwstwr Hotel.

07 / Glynogwr, near Blackmill / Amy & Ieuan

Lakeside Venue: a white marquee, a wooden hoop arch and bridesmaids on a bouncy castle

Amy and Ieuan married at Lakeside Venue, at Glynogwr near Blackmill, in May 2022. The first photograph is the bride in a white robe with sheer polka-dot sleeves, laughing as a woman in a bright floral scarf reaches out to touch her cheek, with a blush pink dress hanging in the window behind. Then a white marquee: the bride walks in on the arm of a smiling man in a light grey suit while the groom, in the foreground, wipes his eyes, and the couple kiss beneath a wooden hoop arch with guests looking on. Elsewhere that day, bridesmaids in blush pink jump on a white bouncy castle.

Lakeside Venue sits beside a private lake in the Welsh hills, with about five acres of grounds and parking for more than 50 cars, and its home page says the M4 is about ten minutes away. Outdoor ceremonies take place in front of the lake, and the Hunter Suite, which the site calls The Barn, is licensed for ceremonies, with wooden floors, high ceilings and exposed beams. For receptions it lists the Deck Marquee, dressed over the water’s edge with clear window walls, and the Grand Marquee, which has its own bar and restrooms. The website does not state capacities, so ask for them for each space, and ask which one your date would use.

The last photograph is close and warm. The groom in a pale check suit holds a pink and white bouquet with eucalyptus, and the bride smiles up at him, both lit from behind by strong sun that flares across the frame. A day built around marquees depends on the light outside as much as the light within, so ask which way the lake and the marquees face and where the sun will be at your portrait time. Amy and Ieuan’s May 2022 highlight film from Lakeside Venue is in the films section below.

For current venue details, explore Lakeside Venue.

08 / Llanilid, near Pencoed / Jess & Rhys

The Old Rectory: clipped topiary in low sun, a kiss at a sash window and an open garden gate

Jess and Rhys married at The Old Rectory in Llanilid, near Pencoed, in August 2023. Their story is told almost entirely in the garden. The first photograph is a low, sunlit one: the bride in an off-the-shoulder dress with a veil that trails across the gravel and the groom in a white shirt and brown braces face each other between clipped topiary, spiky leaves and tall conifers, with a white marquee roof showing between the trees. The second is a kiss below a tall white sash window in a stone wall, he with a green bow tie, she with a bouquet of white roses.

This story has no venue details or booking link, because it is here for the photographs. If you are planning a garden wedding, wherever it is, three questions are worth settling early: where guests would shelter if it rained, how far the car park is from the lawn, and which side of the garden holds the light at the time you plan to take portraits.

Two more kisses finish the story, both in garden corners. At an open black iron gate edged with pink flowers, the groom holds the bride from behind with a lawn and clipped hedges beyond them. In the last frame they are nose to nose in warm, backlit light, her hand on his cheek and both of them smiling. Neither picture needed anything but a quiet corner and a little time.