Killruddery House Wedding Videographer
A discreet, documentary-style wedding film at the Brabazon family's estate on the Southern Cross in Bray, one of the closest venues to home for me.
A local estate I know well
Killruddery sits at the Southern Cross just outside Bray, and it has been home to the Brabazon family, the Earls of Meath, since 1618. The house you see today is a Tudor Revival mansion built on a 17th century foundation, and it is one of the few Irish wedding venues where the gardens are as famous as the building.
I live in Wicklow, so this is home ground. That matters more than it sounds. I can walk the gardens before anyone needs me, I know where the light goes in the evening, and there is no travel drama on the morning of a wedding.
You will also see the name written as Kilruddery, including on my own older film. Same place. If you have been searching one spelling and finding very little, try the other.
I film documentary style: compact equipment, no staging, no directing. Killruddery is a grand setting and grand settings tempt a videographer into making a production of the place. I would rather the estate stayed the backdrop and you stayed the subject. It's about 20 minutes from Roundwood, so genuinely close to home.
The Orangery and the Grain Store
Most Killruddery weddings use two spaces, and they could not be more different to film in.
The Orangery is a domed glass conservatory modelled on the Crystal Palace, lined with statuary and planting, seating up to 176. It is a genuinely unusual room to hold a ceremony in: daylight comes from every direction, including above, and the greenery softens everything.
The glass roof isn't a problem on a bright day; I work with the light rather than fighting it.
The Grain Store is the opposite: a 19th century barn conversion in the Horse Yard, stone walls, timber, and the same capacity of 176 for dinner and dancing. By the evening it is candlelight and warm pools of light, which is a completely different filming job to the Orangery three hours earlier.
There are smaller rooms in the house too if you are keeping things intimate: the Drawing Room seats 70, the Library 30 and the Dining Room 18.
Planning a wedding at Killruddery
A few things worth knowing about filming here:
- The 17th century formal gardens are the reason to come. The Long Ponds, the parterre and the walled garden all film beautifully, but they are spread across a big estate, so it is worth agreeing in advance which ones you actually want to walk to.
- Ceremony in the Orangery and dinner in the Grain Store means a move between two buildings during the day.
- The Grain Store goes properly dark and candlelit in the evening, which suits the room and suits the film.
- The estate is huge, so the gap between "a lovely spot" and "a lovely spot you can reach in ten minutes in a dress" is worth checking with the venue.
Marrying elsewhere in the county? See my Wicklow wedding videographer page. For the practical side, there's my wedding videography service and wedding video prices.
Weddings I've filmed at Killruddery
The film above is from Megan and Jake's day, a wedding that came together after Megan's mother got in touch from America looking for someone local who already knew the estate. Vows in the Orangery, reception in the Grain Store, and a mini-hike to a high vantage point where the two of them recreated the lift from Dirty Dancing. There's more in Megan and Jake's Killruddery wedding post.
I was back filming at Killruddery again in August 2026, so the estate is still very much on my regular list rather than a one-off.
You can see more of my work in the wedding film portfolio.
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