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Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Where Four Weddings and a Funeral says it takes place, and where it was really shot.
Four weddings, one funeral, and a Scottish wedding that has no Scottish location: the film was shot in London and the Home Counties
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Scenes and places
Wedding number one, and the girl in the black hat (1994)
Charles, as always late, rushes to be best man at his friends' wedding. At the reception he meets Carrie, an American guest, and the pair drift away from the party.
Set in Church in Somerset — The church of Angus and Laura's wedding in Somerset; no named village or building is given.
A small English parish church and village green, the kind of place the film uses as a stage for its first wedding.
Filmed at Sarratt, Hertfordshire (Hertfordshire, Sarratt, England) — Village used for the first wedding. The coordinate is the village, not the church. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Filmed at Betchworth, Surrey (Surrey, Betchworth, England) — The village is said to have been used for one of the first scenes. The coordinate is the village, not the church. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The hotel room after the first wedding (1994)
Charles and Carrie slip away from the wedding party and spend the night together. In the morning she has to fly back to America, and they part with a joke about a missed chance.
Set in Hotel after the first wedding — Charles and Carrie spend the night of the first wedding together; the hotel is not named in the sources.
A historic coaching inn in a Buckinghamshire market town; one of its rooms stood in for the film's hotel.
Filmed at The Crown Hotel, Amersham (Buckinghamshire, Amersham, England) — A room in this hotel was used for the first night Charles and Carrie spend together. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Wedding number two and the empty hotel suite (1994)
Three months on, Charles arrives at another wedding and finds Carrie there with her wealthy fiance Hamish. Humiliated by his ex-girlfriends, he hides in an empty hotel suite, where Carrie finds him.
Set in London wedding reception — The reception of Bernard and Lydia's London wedding; no specific building is named.
A grand Bedfordshire mansion, now a hotel, that has doubled for country houses in many films.
Filmed at Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire (Bedfordshire, Luton, England) — Stately home used for the second wedding's reception. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Carrie's wedding in Scotland (1994)
Charles goes to the wedding of the woman he loves, where his friends try to find partners of their own. He watches Carrie marry another man while Scarlett meets a Texan named Chester.
Set in Carrie and Hamish's wedding in Scotland — The wedding takes place in Scotland, where Hamish is from; no specific place is named.
No real location is named in the sources; the film's wedding exteriors are credited to stately homes in Hampshire.
The funeral and the poem (1994)
A friend of the group dies suddenly, and the circle gathers for his funeral. His partner Matthew can only find words in a poem, and it makes Charles see his friends differently.
Set in Funeral church — Church of Gareth's funeral; no specific place is named in the sources.
A medieval Essex church beside the Thames estuary, near the Dartford Crossing.
Filmed at St Clement's Church, West Thurrock (Essex, West Thurrock, England) — Interior and exterior of the funeral church. The guests' arrival was shot by the Thames at Thurrock, with the Dartford Crossing behind. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Wedding number four, Charles and Henrietta (1994)
Ten months after the funeral, Charles stands at his own wedding with his friends pairing off around him. The day is not going as planned.
Set in Charles and Henrietta's wedding — Charles's own wedding day, ten months after the funeral; the sources do not name its setting.
One of London's oldest churches, in Smithfield, which has appeared in several films.
Filmed at St Bartholomew-the-Great, London (Smithfield, London, England) — Church used for the fourth wedding service. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Charles's flat (1994)
After the fiasco, Charles and his friends gather in his flat to talk it over. Carrie arrives to apologise.
Set in Charles's flat — The flat where Charles lives with his flatmate Scarlett; the exact building is not named in the sources.
A Georgian terrace in Islington, north London, listed by Wikipedia as the site of the final moments.
Filmed at Old Royal Naval College (Greenwich Hospital), London (Greenwich, London, England) — Scene not identified in the sources Google Maps · Apple Maps
Characters
- Charles — A perpetually late Englishman who keeps ending up at other people's weddings.
- Carrie — An American woman working in England whom Charles keeps meeting at weddings.
Questions answered on the map
- Where was Charles and Carrie's first night in Four Weddings and a Funeral really filmed?
- Which real church is the funeral church in Four Weddings and a Funeral?
- Where were the four weddings really filmed?