Wedding Film · Ktima Alassos · 2024
Steven & Kerry – Ktima Alassos
Arrival by limousine, vows at the water's edge
Ktima Alassos, Paphos · 2024 · Venue coverage · 2min 14sec
Arrival by limousine, vows at the water's edge
Steven & Kerry – Ktima Alassos
The day
Fanni and Bálint married at the Votive Church on Dóm Square in Szeged, and celebrated at Liget Rezidencia, a three-hectare estate of old trees and open lawn at Zákányszék, sixteen kilometres outside the city. We flew in from Cyprus the day before to walk both locations and work out where the light would be by evening.
The estate belongs to the couple for the whole weekend, which changes the shape of a wedding day. There was no hotel to check out of and no schedule but their own. Fanni got ready in the bridal room in the manor house with her bridesmaids and her mother, and the morning stayed unhurried in a way destination weddings rarely manage. The weather predicted was rain, but we had a feeling things would turn out just fine… and they did.
Then into the city, to the Dóm a church big enough that the congregation looks small inside it.
Afterwards the whole party spilled onto Dóm Square for photographs, and then drove back out of the city and into the trees. Dinner ran in the white marquee with the sides open onto the grill terrace, and the party carried on into the early hours long after most weddings have called it a night, and long after the last guests would have had to leave if the venue hadn’t been theirs alone.
The day
Kerry and Steven booked us for the venue rather than the whole day — no morning preparations, no two houses, just Alassos from the moment the limousine turned in. It is a shorter brief than we usually work to, and it asks something different of you: everything that matters happens in about six hours, and none of it waits.
The arrival is the part people underestimate. A bride stepping out of a car is one of the few genuinely unrepeatable shots of a wedding day — it happens once, at a distance you cannot control, with guests already turning to look. We had cameras on the approach and on Steven’s face at the same time, because the two halves of that moment are what make it worth filming at all.
The ceremony is on the lawn at the edge of the sea, reached down a long grassy walkway lined with banana trees, and there is nothing behind the celebrant but water. [One moment from the ceremony.]
Then the part of the day Alassos is really built for. The venue faces west over open sea, so the hour after the ceremony gives you a sunset with no hills, no hotels and nothing in the way — and we took Kerry and Steven out into it while their guests had drinks on the terrace.
The first dance came after dark under the fairy lights, and the party ran from there. [One moment from the night.]
The day, in scenes
Venue coverage
Setting up
In early to walk the lawn, check the light on the ceremony spot and place the microphones.
The arrival
The limousine turns in. One camera on Kerry, one on Steven’s face.
Ceremony by the sea
Nothing behind the celebrant but open water. Mics on the groom and the celebrant.
Drinks on the terrace
Guests unwinding while the light starts to turn.
Sunset portraits
Twenty minutes away from everyone, facing due west over open sea.
Dinner
The terrace, the view, and the last of the light going.
First dance and the party
Fairy lights on, and the rest of the night.
Filming at Ktima Alassos
Alassos opened in 2019 on the coastal road between Paphos and Coral Bay, above the beach at Lemba, and it was purpose-built as a wedding venue rather than converted into one. That shows in ways that matter to a film crew. The ceremony lawn sits right at the sea, tucked between rocky ground that screens it from anyone outside, and it is approached down a long grassy walkway edged with banana trees — which gives you a genuine processional shot rather than a bride appearing from behind a wall. The venue takes one wedding a day and hands the whole place over, so there is nobody else’s event happening forty metres away.
The single most important thing about filming here is the orientation. Alassos faces west over open water, with no headland, hills or buildings in the way, so the sunset is the full thing rather than a glow behind something. That makes late afternoon ceremonies the obvious choice, and it means the twenty minutes you spend on portraits after the ceremony are worth more here than at almost any inland venue in Paphos. May, June, September and early October are when that light is at its best.
Two practical notes. It is coastal and open, so there is usually wind — microphones need proper protection and a ceremony on that lawn should never be trusted to a camera mic. And the evening runs on fairy lights and open sky rather than any built structure, which is beautiful and very dark: we shoot fast glass and keep our own lighting minimal, because the whole atmosphere of the place at night comes from what the venue has already done.
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2024
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Ktima Alassos, Paphos