22nd May 2026 | The Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower, Priddy’s Hard, Hampshire
There are not many wedding days that begin with the groom realising he has forgotten his trousers.
Thankfully, Callum’s emergency dash to retrieve them ended successfully, and he made it back to the Explosion Museum with just enough time to spare before Emily and the bridal party arrived. It was a brilliantly chaotic start to a wedding that went on to be full of laughter, personality and some genuinely lovely moments between two people who are very clearly crazy about one another.
E&C celebrated their wedding at the Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower at Priddy’s Hard, just across the water from Portsmouth. With historic naval buildings, red brick architecture, waterfront views and a setting completely unlike a traditional hotel or country estate, it made a fantastic backdrop for their finished Hampshire wedding film.
Watch E&C’s wedding film below:
E&C chose my Feature Package, allowing their finished film to tell a much fuller story of the wedding day. Rather than simply moving from one highlight to another, the feature film gives space for the characters, conversations, speeches, laughter and unexpected moments that make each wedding completely individual.
And this wedding had plenty of those.
Callum’s missing trousers provided the first story of the day, but once everybody was safely dressed and in the correct place, the atmosphere quickly became wonderfully relaxed. Emily arrived with the bridal party in a stretch limousine, and later in the day a beautiful Rolls-Royce added another touch of classic wedding style to the celebrations.
What I particularly loved about E&C’s wedding was the contrast between all of that elegance and the couple themselves. They are both incredibly funny, playful people, and there was never any sense that the wedding needed to feel overly formal or staged.
That personality comes through throughout their film.
As a wedding videographer in Hampshire, those are exactly the weddings I love filming. Beautiful venues and carefully planned details are wonderful, but the thing that ultimately makes a wedding film interesting is the people inside it. E&C laughed constantly, bounced off one another brilliantly and were surrounded by friends and family who brought an enormous amount of energy to the day.
The Explosion Museum itself is also one of the most distinctive wedding venues I have filmed.
Priddy’s Hard has a fascinating naval history, and the old buildings immediately give the wedding a completely different visual character. Rather than manicured gardens or a traditional manor house, there are huge brick structures, industrial details, naval artefacts and the waters of Portsmouth Harbour just beyond the venue.
For wedding videography near Portsmouth, that gives you an incredible amount of variety in one location.
The historic architecture works beautifully for the larger, more dramatic establishing shots, while the waterfront gave us a completely different feel later in the day. Emily and Callum were able to step away from the main celebrations for some relaxed shots beside the water, with sailing boats and the harbour behind them.
Some of my favourite footage from the entire wedding comes from these quieter moments.
By this point in the day, jackets had disappeared, sunglasses had appeared and E&C could simply have some fun together away from the schedule of the wedding. Those moments are often far more valuable to a wedding film than anything heavily posed because they capture something recognisably real about the couple.
Emily’s heart-shaped wedding sunglasses may also deserve their own honourable mention.
One of the advantages of creating a longer feature wedding film is being able to preserve this balance. There is room for the ceremony and speeches to carry the emotional story, but there is also room for the silly moments, the reactions, the spontaneous laughter and all of the little bits of personality that might otherwise disappear once the wedding day is over.
The confetti was another brilliant moment to film.
With the sun pouring into the courtyard and friends and family surrounding Emily and Callum, it created one of those wonderfully energetic sequences where everything seems to happen at once. Confetti is always slightly unpredictable from a filming point of view, which is also exactly why it works so well. You get movement, laughter, reactions and those little unscripted moments that make the finished footage feel alive.
That sense of fun carried through the rest of the celebration.
E&C had a large wedding party and a fantastic group of guests around them, so there was always something happening somewhere. Whether it was somebody laughing in the background, an interaction between family members or the reactions during the speeches, there was a huge amount of natural material to build their wedding film from.
For me, that is where wedding videography becomes storytelling rather than simply recording an event.
The obvious moments matter — the ceremony, the first kiss, the speeches and the first dance — but a wedding is also made up of hundreds of tiny interactions happening around them. Someone trying not to cry. Friends winding each other up. A look between the couple when they think nobody is watching. Guests completely losing themselves on the dancefloor.
Those are often the moments that become more valuable with time.
The setting also meant E&C’s film feels very specifically like their wedding. You could never mistake it for a generic wedding venue.
The old naval buildings, the museum surroundings and the views across the harbour constantly place the story somewhere distinctive. For couples considering an unusual wedding venue in Hampshire, the Explosion Museum is a brilliant example of how somewhere with history and character can translate onto film.
It is particularly good for couples who want something a little different without sacrificing the spaces needed for a full wedding celebration.
And while the venue sits at Priddy’s Hard in Gosport, its position immediately across Portsmouth Harbour also makes it a fantastic option for couples searching for wedding venues around Portsmouth and South Hampshire.
As a Portsmouth wedding videographer, I would absolutely love to return here.
There is still so much of the museum and surrounding waterfront that could be used differently depending on the couple, the weather and the time of year. That is always the mark of a good wedding venue for film: somewhere that gives you possibilities rather than forcing every wedding into exactly the same collection of shots.
Most importantly, though, this film belongs to Emily and Callum.
Their wedding was funny, affectionate, energetic and occasionally just a little chaotic — which makes it all the more enjoyable to watch back.
From the frantic beginning of Callum’s morning to Emily’s arrival, their ceremony, confetti, speeches, waterfront portraits and evening celebrations, the finished feature film brings together all the different sides of their day.
And somewhere amongst all of that is the story of two very funny people who clearly make one another extremely happy.
Wedding Suppliers
- Venue: The Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower, Priddy’s Hard
- Videography: YourStory Video
If you are planning your own wedding and are looking for a wedding videographer in Hampshire or the Portsmouth area, I’d love to hear more about your plans. My approach is relaxed and unobtrusive, allowing me to capture the real interactions, emotions and atmosphere of your wedding without turning the day into a film set.
YourStory Video creates natural, cinematic wedding films across Hampshire, Portsmouth, Sussex, Surrey and the surrounding areas. Whether you are planning a traditional country wedding, a waterfront celebration or something completely different like a museum wedding, my aim is to create a film that feels unmistakably like you — capturing not only how your wedding looked, but the people, sounds, laughter and moments that made it yours.