Laury & Matthieu's wedding at the Château de Changy

Some weddings tell themselves. Laury and Matthieu's, on 19 July 2025 at the Château de Changy, was one of them: a twelve-hectare estate crossed by a river, a day privatised from start to finish, and two people who never once tried to play a part for the camera.

The Château de Changy, a private estate in the Loiret

The Château de Changy stands in Gy-les-Nonains, in the Loiret, about an hour and twenty from Paris. The estate covers twelve hectares of parkland bordered by woodland and crossed by a river, with the château, a large orangery and a marquee for the reception.

One detail changes a great deal for a videographer: the estate hosts one wedding at a time. Nobody else in the park, no other crew to work around, and accommodation on site for a good share of the guests. The day breathes, the dead time disappears, and the film gains a continuity you rarely get when a couple have to watch the clock.

Working four-handed with the photographer

That day the photographs were by Sébastien, of Onokina Photographies, a Loiret wedding photographer who describes himself as a reporter-portraitist. It is a detail couples often underestimate, and it changes everything: photographer and videographer work exactly the same moments, in the same place, at the same time.

When the two do not coordinate, each ends up in the other's frame, the couple get asked the same thing twice, and the session drags. When they talk, even for ten minutes in the morning, positions fall into place naturally, neither spoils the other's image, and the couple have only one team in front of them. That is time given back to them, and it shows in the result.

Sébastien and I got on superbly from one end of the day to the other. I recommend him without reservation, for the quality of his work, for his energy, and for his kindness towards the couple and their guests alike. He is exactly the kind of photographer you want to work with again, and the one I gladly point couples towards when they are still looking for theirs in the Loiret. The photograph opening this page is his.

A couple's session with no posing, and speeches that carried the room

Laury and Matthieu's couple session was one of the most relaxed I have filmed. No imposed poses, no rigid instructions: you walk, you talk, you let things come. That is when the laughter arrives on its own, and those are the images that still hold ten years later, not the ones looking into the lens.

The high point of the day was the speeches. Deeply moving, and the moment where a film is made as much by ear as by eye: a voice that breaks, a silence in the room, a laugh that starts again. A well-captured speech carries an entire sequence of the edit on its own, because the emotion is already there, intact.

Travelling to film a wedding

Studio SB is based in Mayenne, and this wedding was more than three hours' drive away. That is a deliberate part of my work: I travel throughout France, and scouting the day before is included on distant weddings. Arriving the night before means seeing the light at the exact hour of the ceremony rather than discovering it on arrival.

Suppliers on the day

• Venue - Château de Changy, Gy-les-Nonains (45)
• Photographer - Onokina Photographies, Loiret
• Wedding film - Studio SB

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