Villa Miani Wedding Videographer: Mr. & Mrs. Moock’s Wedding Film, Rome

Villa Miani

Villa Miani: the city at your feet

Villa Miani is a white neoclassical villa from the nineteenth century on Monte Mario, the highest hill in Rome, with a panoramic lawn that faces St. Peter’s and one of the largest ballrooms in the city. For a wedding film it offers two worlds a few steps apart: the open sky and the city in the afternoon, the chandeliers and the dance floor at night. Read our Villa Miani wedding guide for the venue, the costs to plan for and the rain plan.

A ceremony under a canopy of white flowers

The ceremony took place on the lawn, among white flowers, with Rome glowing behind the guests in the late afternoon light. The groom waited wrapped in his tallit, the bride walked down the aisle in a high-necked lace gown with flowers in relief and a cathedral veil, and they married under the chuppah. We filmed the vows up close with dedicated microphones and the whole scene from above, so the film moves between the intimate and the grand.

The ballroom and the hora

Then the celebration moved into the ballroom beneath crystal chandeliers: round tables with gold chairs and candles, a singer with a live band and the hora, with the bride lifted high on a chair by her guests. When the party spilled outside, the villa was lit up against the night sky above the city.

How we film a wedding in Rome

Every film starts from the place and its light. In Rome that means planning portraits and ceremonies for the last hours of sun, when the stone of the city turns warm; recording the vows, the speeches and the music with real sound; planning shuttles around the limited traffic zones of the historic center; and checking the official drone maps before every wedding, because Rome has many no-fly zones and we fly only where it is allowed. Photography always comes first in our studio, so the same team can be your wedding photographer and videographer in Rome, and the photographs and the film tell one story.

Where we film weddings in Rome

Rome is home for our studio. We have filmed at Villa Miani, at a welcome dinner at the Bulgari Hotel Roma and at the castle of Bracciano on the lake north of the city, and we work in the palazzi, villas and rooftops of the center. See our guide to Rome wedding venues, and for smaller celebrations, our pages on eloping in Rome and surprise proposals in Rome.