Cameron House Wedding - Birgit and Armin

Cameron House Wedding

Our last wedding of 2012 and it was a Cameron House wedding, but this one was a little different. It was conducted almost exclusively via sign language !!

Both Birgit and Armin were German and had come over to the 'Bonnie Banks' for not just one wedding ceremony but two. A civil ceremony first in the morning to take care of the legalities of getting married then a traditional Scottish Wedding ceremony complete with 'tying the knot' conducted by a hairy highlander, Scot AnSgeulaiche

The wedding part just consisted of Birgit and Armin with their wedding planners Magdalena and John who specialise in 'destination' weddings from Germany. Birgit and Armin spoke very little English and I speak even less German (for some reason 'schnell' and 'ya' about covers my knowledge). So this meant the finer points of posing the couple and eliciting a reaction in them either through banter, corny jokes and them interacting with each other was taken out of the equation for me.

But when you look at the pictures......it doesn't matter. You wouldn't know that we could barely understand what we were saying to each other, somehow what I wanted to do for Birgit and Armin and what they wanted from the pictures married up perfectly and I left Cameron House that day with one of the best weddings of the year. I am humbled that we got on so well after only spending a few hours together and produced such wonderful results despite our communcation being so limited. It was a magical day and the perfect way to round off what had been a magic year for 1500 Photography.

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Making the Papers - Awards Winning Wedding Moorpark House

Many thanks to the excellent Paisley Dailey Express for running a feature on our Awards Winning Wedding at Moorpark House

I am delighted to see Clair and Craigs wedding such great exposure - thanks to the team at the PDE !

Weddings at Cameron House - Diane and Brian

Weddings at Cameron House - Diane and Brian

Winter weddings at Cameron House, are all the rage on this blog! This time from Diane and Brian, one of the most romantic weddings of the year for sure, with Brian's poetry featuring heavily on the day. It was also one of the more intimate weddings of 2012 which Cameron House do so well. With only five guests the day was completely personal to Brian and Diane who pretty much got ready together dispensing the old tradition of not seeing each other before the ceremony. Somehow this (to me) seemed to make the whole 'getting ready' part of the day more personal and touching. Watching the groom button the back of the brides dress was a lovely thing to witness.



After a first class service by Rev Ian Miller (as you would expect), the couple mingled with their guests, had a little champagne then nipped outside for a few shots before it got too dark outside. The only part of the day that wasn't chilled out and relaxed was that we needed one of the Cameron House gillies to run down to Alexandria Registry Office with the marriage schedule before they closed for Christmas. Otherwise the wedding wouldn't have been legal until 2013 ! I am delighted to report that all went well.

With this being the 21st December and with us only having 5 guests at the wedding I thought this was going to be my smallest and last wedding of 2012. However there was a wee suprise still to come and it was another wedding at Cameron House with an even smaller wedding party..........

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Cameron House Wedding - Stephanie and Alvin

Cameron House Wedding - Stephanie and Alvin

In early December last year we were back at Loch Lomond for a Cameron House Wedding, Stephanie and Alvin had come all the way down from Dornach to get married on the bonnie banks. It was a beautifully bright, crisp day with a very still loch, which was a nice contrast to Stephanie's room  beforehand which was the busiest and most bustling room of the year by far! Stephanie had chosen a really striking colour scheme for the day of black, white and red which given the time of year was very apt. It was one of the best looking wedding parties we had shot all year.



I know with every post I seem to go on about what a nice couple the bride and groom where but I promise you, its always true. Stephanie and Al are superb company and the kind of people that, after spending 5 minutes in their company, feel like old friends. In fact the whole wedding party were absolutely lovely to work with, which is handy as I am booked to shoot Stephanie's step sisters wedding in July, so I'll be seeing a lot of them again!



Stephanie was willing to brave the elements outside and we got some beautiful wintery pictures on the jetty and in Cameron Houses grounds. The snow dusted Ben Lomond was the perfect shot to (almost) round off 2012. Little did I realise at the time but that snow cap would still be there in April !!

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