A courthouse wedding teaser that leads with the doors and ends on the steps
A courthouse teaser should tell people where the couple married within its first shots, the building, the doors or the clerk's office, then get to the pronouncement or the kiss and leave on the steps outside. Because a civil ceremony is often brief and lightly filmed, a Social Teaser is a natural deliverable for it. Choose Social Teaser for the project, upload the footage, name the opening and closing moments you want, and WeddingEditor's AI editing makes it.
The teaser is delivered as a widescreen 1080p MP4. There is no vertical version; make your own crop if you need one.
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Last updated October 2026
How to brief a courthouse Social Teaser
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Create a Social Teaser project
Pick Social Teaser when you set up the project, then upload the courthouse footage from every camera, including phone clips if a witness shot any you were given. Every file must finish uploading, or be deliberately left out, before checkout.
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Name the first and last beats
In the preference questions, say how you want it to open, for example on the courthouse sign or the couple walking in, and what it should end on, such as the kiss or the confetti on the steps. Add the faces that must appear.
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Receive and share on your terms
Pay with One Wedding or a plan credit, and the teaser typically follows 24 to 72 hours after processing starts. The finished teaser waits in your project to watch and download, and nothing is sent to the couple until you send it.
Opening and closing beats for a courthouse teaser
A teaser of a civil wedding works best with a clear first image and a clear last one.
Open: the building
The courthouse facade, a city hall dome, or the sign on the civil ceremony room door. It tells viewers what kind of wedding this was before anyone speaks.
Open: the walk in
The couple climbing the steps hand in hand, or pushing through the doors together.
Middle: a single line
One clear line from the officiant or the vows, heard in the couple's own voices.
Peak: the kiss
The pronouncement and the kiss, often the shortest and strongest moment of the day.
Close: the steps
The couple coming back into daylight, petals thrown by the few guests, a laugh on the stairs.
Close: the city
A walk away down the street or a toast at a nearby table, a quieter ending if the couple prefers it.
What a courthouse teaser needs
A fast sense of place
Courthouse buildings have strong, recognizable details: steps, columns, doors, signs. Opening on one of them answers the viewer's first question.
One voice moment
A teaser rarely has room for long speech, so pick the single line you want heard, often the pronouncement or one sentence of a vow.
Faces over rooms
Civil ceremony rooms are often plain. The couple's faces and the few guests' reactions carry more than wide shots of the room.
A bright ending outside
Many courthouse days end with photos on the steps or in the street, which gives the teaser a lift after the formal room.
Widescreen 1080p, no length promise
The Social Teaser arrives as a 1080p H.264 MP4 in widescreen. Make any vertical crop yourself in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro.
Up to two rounds of notes
If the opening or the ending is not what you wanted, email your notes from the link in the app. Every full edit includes up to two revision rounds.
Courthouse teaser beats and how to brief them
| Beat | Purpose | How to brief it |
|---|---|---|
| Building or sign | Says where the wedding happened | "Open on the city hall dome." |
| Walk in | Starts the story with movement | "Then the couple at the doors." |
| One spoken line | Gives the teaser a voice | "Keep his line: 'I'd do this every day.'" |
| Pronouncement and kiss | The peak | "Must include the kiss." |
| Guests reacting | Shows who was there | "Her grandmother clapping." |
| Steps or street | A bright, open close | "End on the petals on the steps." |
What is a courthouse Social Teaser?
A Social Teaser is one of the two edits WeddingEditor makes: a teaser of the wedding for the couple to share, cut from your footage by WeddingEditor's AI editing. For a courthouse wedding it compresses a short civil ceremony and its surroundings into a few strong beats.
It is not a vertical reel: the teaser is widescreen, and any phone-shaped crop is yours to make. It is also not a Highlight Reel; if you want that too, create a separate project.
Courthouse teaser questions
Is a teaser better than a highlight for a courthouse wedding?
Often, yes, when the ceremony was short and you filmed little else. If you covered the whole day around it, a Highlight Reel of about 5 minutes may suit the footage better.
The clerk did not allow filming up close. Can the teaser still open strong?
Yes. Open on the building, the doors or the couple walking in, which you could film freely, and let the ceremony appear from the angle you had.
Can the teaser end on the toast at the restaurant?
Yes. Name the toast as the closing moment in the preferences, and upload the restaurant clips into the same project.
Can I post the teaser vertically?
The teaser is delivered widescreen only. Crop a vertical version yourself in your own editing software if you need one.
Does the teaser have music?
Yes. A teaser often leans on music for momentum, with the pronouncement or a vow line from your footage cutting through. The audio preference decides how much of each you hear.
More for courthouse weddings
Open on the doors, close on the steps
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