Andrei Weddings

The studio is based in Notting Hill, and London is still where most of its weddings happen, at addresses like Claridge's, The Dorchester, Syon Park and The Ned. But the couple travel widely, and the destinations tell their own story: Kos in Greece, Thailand, Romania, wherever a couple wants their wedding filmed with the same unobtrusive eye. Andrei's route into the work came through Westminster Film School and years in documentary editing; Claudia brings the same discipline from her own years cutting non-fiction film. It is a rarer background for a wedding studio than the industry likes to admit, and it changes what the finished film looks like.

That difference shows most clearly in the studio's work with Jewish and Asian weddings, a specialism the couple have built deliberately rather than acquired by accident. Hindu, Sikh, Tamil and Gujarati ceremonies each carry their own rhythm and ritual, and a documentary instinct, watching for what is actually happening rather than reaching for a generic wedding-film formula, is exactly what a Mehndi night or a Baraat procession needs. The studio has filmed enough of them, across enough different families and traditions, that the specialism reads as genuine rather than a marketing line.

The same instinct applies to a Jewish wedding's own structure, the badeken, the chuppah, the breaking of the glass, each with a meaning that a generic coverage plan can easily flatten. Andrei and Claudia treat the ritual as the subject, not the backdrop, filming it closely enough to carry its significance into the final edit rather than skimming past it toward the reception. Couples planning a religious or cultural wedding are often anxious about being properly understood by their vendors; a studio with this much practice at exactly that removes one more thing to worry about.

None of this is guesswork on the studio's part. Andrei and Claudia have been doing it long enough, and consistently enough, that the specialism has become a genuine part of their identity rather than a line added to a services page. Couples researching a Jewish or Asian wedding videographer in London tend to ask the same anxious question early on, whether a studio will actually understand what is happening in front of the camera, and a portfolio built from real, repeated bookings across these traditions answers it more convincingly than any promise could.

The technical range backs up the storytelling instinct. Packages scale from a Feature film at six hours and two cameras up to the Asian package's sixteen hours and four, with radio mics, aerial filming and slow motion available as the day requires. A cinematic trailer, two to three minutes, is cut first and delivered quickly, useful for the couple who want something to share with guests within weeks; the fully edited film, anywhere from forty minutes to two hours, follows within twelve to sixteen weeks, built with the pacing of an actual story rather than a chronological highlight reel.

It is worth noting that Andrei and Claudia also run a separate video production company on the commercial side, working in luxury real estate for clients that have included Sotheby's, Hugo Boss, Moet and Concierge Auctions. That is not incidental detail. A studio that shoots for luxury brands during the week brings a particular fluency with light, pacing and composition into a wedding on the weekend, and it is part of why the films read as considered rather than formulaic, even at the more accessible end of the pricing.

The studio's own description of what it is trying to do is worth taking at face value: a wedding video, they say, should be more than a mere record of the day, it should be a work of art you treasure for years to come. It is a high bar, and one a great many wedding films quietly fail to clear, defaulting instead to a competent but forgettable slideshow of the obvious highlights. Andrei and Claudia's answer is to keep asking what a couple will actually want to feel when they watch the film again, not just what happened chronologically, and to cut the story around that instead.

For couples celebrating across several events rather than a single day, a bespoke Concept package sits above the standard tiers, starting from £7,500 for the main wedding plus two pre-wedding events. It is built for exactly the kind of multi-day celebration common to many of the studio's Asian weddings, a Ganesh Pooja, a mehndi night, each scripted and planned with the couple in advance so the finished film reads as one continuous story rather than three unconnected films stitched together. Delivery runs three to six months, reflecting the extra work in the edit, sound mix and colour grade that a project of that scale requires.

On the day itself, the approach is calm rather than intrusive. Coverage begins with the bridal and groom preparations, a natural place for the documentary eye to find its footing before the ceremony's bigger, more formal moments arrive, and continues through the speeches and the dancing on the larger packages. A dedicated couple video shoot, twenty minutes on the Feature package and up to an hour on the others, is built in as standard, giving the finished film a portrait sequence that a purely observational approach would otherwise miss.

London's grand hotels give the films no shortage of architecture to work with, Claridge's chandeliers, The Dorchester's staircases, the corridors of The Ned, and it would be easy for a less disciplined studio to let the setting do the work. Andrei Weddings resists it in the way any good documentary crew would: the room is context, not content. The couple, the family, the specific texture of one wedding rather than a generic luxury one, stay at the centre of the frame regardless of how photogenic the venue happens to be.

The destination work follows the same logic in a different setting. A wedding on Kos or a beach ceremony in Thailand brings its own light and its own rhythm, and the studio's films lean into it rather than importing a fixed London style wholesale. What travels with them is the method, not the look: watch first, film what is actually there, and let the edit find the story afterwards. It is a simple discipline, and a surprisingly rare one in an industry that often rewards spectacle over specificity.

A home page widget quietly makes the case better than any marketing copy could: a live Google rating of 5.0 stars across ten reviews, unremarkable to state and hard to fake over more than a decade of work. Insurance and back-up equipment are standard on every booking, a practical reassurance rather than a selling point, but one that matters on a day with no possibility of a reshoot. It is the kind of detail that separates a studio built to last from one chasing a single good season.

After twelve years and hundreds of weddings, Andrei and Claudia still describe their job as the most beautiful one in the world, and the body of work bears that out more than the sentiment does on its own. Couples return to these films on anniversaries, at family gatherings, on the harder days too, and a film built to survive that kind of repeated viewing has to have more going for it than a good highlight reel. That is the studio's real claim: not the fastest turnaround or the flashiest drone shot, but a film with the shape of an actual story, one that still holds up the tenth time you watch it, long after the flowers and the seating plan are forgotten. Explore Andrei Weddings' portfolio of wedding films and the studio on the Luxury Wedding Directory to see more and enquire.