Under Pressure - Friends Wedding !!

So every now and then one of your friends get married. Great news eh? But what if its really close friends? People you see every week? Famalies you know? Other friends at the wedding? All watching you !!

But all the pro’s far outweighed the cons. I was delighted to be asked to photograph the wedding.

• a) They are not that bad looking
• b) I’d have been exceptionally jealous had anyone else taken their pictures
• c) Their wedding was at an excellent location - Lochside House

Although there were some drawbacks. In my case not only the pressure of getting it perfect for my friends but I was also going to loose my wingman for the day. Yes, thats right. Gillian was a bridesmaid !

However, the first (and only) problem of the day was someone running late. As Donald “relaxed” with a “coke”. We waited not for the bride - nor the groom - but one of the ushers !! Cheers Jonathan !!

Relaxed & Coke (not)

Then the ladies arrived each one looking fantastic , with Lyndsay looking absolutely amazing. Its hard to gush about how great one of your friends looked but Lyndsay was stunning. As soon as she arrived I almost went into auto-pilot mode. It wasnt until I was setting up the signing the register shot that it hit me that Donald and Lyndsay had actually just got married !!

Anyway the rest of the day just flew by after that. The trickiest part of the photography was seeing my excellent jokes flounder on a bridal party who had heard most of my patter before (especially one of the bridemaids, who hears them every week!!)

After dinner and a couple of really good speeches (and Chris’s - the best man speech too) the party got going. I nipped back to my room to check all the images, upload them, then returned to show ‘that’ bridemaid how to dance. I could’nt resist taking my camera with me though……

All in all - a perfect day. One that will live with me forever. Not just because it was 2 people who mean so much to me, or because I was even presented with a special ‘thank you’ during the speeches. And not just because it was the following Monday before I started to relax…….

But because Donald and Lyndsay are such a great couple even being at their wedding was special.I have never seen a couple so well loved by some many people - Cheers Guys x

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