Chateau Lill Super8 Film
Mike + Lynh | A Super 8 Wedding at Chateau Lill in Woodinville, Washington
There are certain wedding venues where Super 8 just makes sense. Chateau Lill is one of them.
Mike and Lynh's weekday wedding began personally, with a Catholic ceremony at their church surrounded by their closest friends and family. After the ceremony, we had time to wander through the gardens, take portraits and let everyone settle into the celebration before making our way just down the road to Woodinville and one of the most beautiful wedding venues I've had the chance to film: Chateau Lill.
And truly, I don't know if there is a bad angle anywhere on this property.
A Chateau Lill Wedding in Woodinville
Tucked into Woodinville wine country just outside of Seattle, Chateau Lill feels almost impossibly removed from Washington.
The property stretches across acres of gardens, vineyards, rolling lawns, forest and farmland, with a European-inspired chateau sitting at the center of it all. There are enormous willow trees sweeping toward the water, ponds reflecting the gardens, rows of vines and little pockets of the property that seem designed specifically for wandering away with a camera.
There were moments throughout the day when I felt like we had somehow been transported to France or the Italian countryside rather than being at a wedding venue less than two hours from my own home.
There's something about the gardens that reminds me of Monet and Giverny (which I can’t even believe I get to say I’ve visited!!!) the water, the greenery, the willows and that slightly wild romance of a garden that feels established rather than overly manicured. Chateau Lill describes the property as having both French- and English-style gardens, alongside vineyards and native forest, and that mixture is exactly what makes it so incredible to photograph and film. Every few steps gives you an entirely different backdrop.
For a Super 8 wedding in Washington, it is kind of a dream.
Chateau Lill on Super 8 Film
Super 8 loves movement, texture and light, and Chateau Lill gives you all three everywhere you look.
Instead of approaching wedding videography as a long list of poses or recreating the same shot over and over again, I want there to be room to move through a place. Walking beneath the trees. A dress catching the wind. Friends crossing the lawn. Reflections moving across the pond. A quick kiss between portraits. The little seconds between the moments you're expecting.
Those are the things that become magic on film.
Mike and Lynh also changed into traditional attire during their celebration, which gave us another opportunity to explore the property and create an entirely different feeling within the same wedding day. Between their wedding looks, the chateau, vineyards, gardens and water, we were able to create so many different little worlds without ever leaving Chateau Lill.
That's one of my favorite things about filming weddings somewhere with this much depth. You don't need to manufacture beautiful moments or drive all over the city looking for another location. You get to slow down, explore and actually experience the place.
Film doesn't capture a wedding with perfect sharpness or perfect color—and that's exactly the point.
The grain moves. Colors shift. Highlights bloom. Frames flicker past just slightly differently than our eyes expect them to. Instead of feeling like documentation, the footage starts to feel like a memory.
At a European-inspired venue like Chateau Lill, that quality becomes especially beautiful. The gardens, historic-feeling architecture, vineyards and traditional elements of Mike and Lynh's wedding already carried a sense of timelessness. Putting those moments onto actual analog film makes it difficult to immediately place the decade they came from.
It could be a wedding film from this year.
It could be a family film you found tucked into a box 40 years from now.
That's what I love about it.
Super 8 Wedding Videography in Seattle + Washington
With every wedding I film on Super 8, my goal isn't to make your wedding look vintage just for the sake of being vintage. I want to create something that feels alive, imperfect and personal, the way old home movies of our parents and grandparents somehow make even an ordinary moment feel important.
My Super 8 wedding films include a shorter edited film set to music that's easy to watch and share with friends and family, along with the RAW Super 8 footage from your wedding day.
The edited film tells the story but the raw footage lets you experience it.
I think there's something incredibly special about being able to watch the moments that didn't make a highlight film years later, the people standing at the edge of the frame, your friends laughing together, someone fixing your dress, the way your parents looked at you, or simply everyone moving through the day. It becomes your own little archive of a moment in your family's history.
Mike and Lynh's Chateau Lill wedding was exactly the kind of day that reminds me why I love weddings on film so much: intimate and personal at the beginning, expansive and incredibly beautiful by the end, with so many layers of family, tradition and celebration in between.
If you're planning a Chateau Lill wedding in Woodinville, a wedding in Seattle or elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest and have been searching for a Super 8 wedding videographer in Washington, I'd love to document it on film.
Especially if you're giving me an afternoon to disappear into those gardens with you.
