29 Royal Exchange Square Wedding - Anna and Stephen

29 Royal Exchange Square Wedding

Not many weddings give me goosebumps after almost 20 years in the business, but Anna and Stephens 29 Royal Exchange Square Wedding did just that to me ! It was during the Easter Wedding and Glasgow was bathed in warm sunlight. Anna arrived in the city centre looking absolutely wonderful and was dropped off by her wedding car on Queen Street, right outside the GOMA. The square itself was absolutely mobbed with people out enjoying a little lunch, shopping or just generally milling around. Then as Anna walked arm in arm with her Dad through the crowds, the piper started to play and a remarkable thing happened.
The whole square burst into a spontaneous round of applause.



Once everyone had composed themselves again Anna made her way indoors for a lovely ceremony inside No 29. However that wasnt the end of Glasgow's 'audience participation'. You see before the wedding Anna and I had discussed this crazy idea of the bride and bridesmaids walking arm in arm up Buchanan Street........ how could I resist the idea of a shot like that? Once again the people around us didn't let us down as the girls totally 'owned' the busiest street in Scotland for 10 minutes.



It feels like I am only telling half the story though. I havent mentioned Stephen the groom. Well as you can see we had the lads outside too. It was by and large one of the most memorable days Ive ever had as a photographer. Stephen and Anna were absolutely fantastic, not just to photograph but to simply hang out with. Generous with their time, patient with pictures and great fun to be with.



 

Oh yeah, and I havent even mentioned paying off Big Issue vendors, buskers following us, being well taken care of by Micheal at No 29 or going back outdoors about 10pm to get a wonderfully iconic shot of the couple framed by the floodlit Gallery of Modern Art. A truly wonderful packed day with a brilliant couple. Fantastic


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Wedding at Glenbervie House Hotel (& St Andrews Glasgow) - Ashleigh and Davie

Our story of Ashleigh and Davies wedding at Glenbervie was featured recently on the fantastic 'We Fell in Love' Scottish Wedding Blog (you should really bookmark it!!)

Hopefully their images and a bit more of their story will be appearing soon in the best Scottish magazine around - The Scottish Wedding Directory. So, at the risk of totally over exposing them, I thought I would add them to my own blog (before they get too famous!). It is one of the few occasions where we didn't attend the 'bride getting ready' first and instead focused in on the groom at the church. It brought a whole different flow to the pictures of the day which I really enjoyed.

This was the first of two visits we had to St Andrews Cathedral in the space of a few days (see Hazel, below) but it was the first time I had worked and Glenbervie and I must say, what a pleasant experience it was. Lots of interesting nooks and crannies for our couple to pose in and a fantastic lawn to play with and a peacock - I loved it! You can see what a handsome couple Davie and Ashleigh make and it was great to be involved with a couple who were so particular about their photography, bringing their own ideas into the shots and setting aside plenty of time for the pictures.

I will leave the last word on the wedding to Ashleigh who, when asked about how her and Davie got together answered with this great wee story  -

"We bumped into each other in a nightclub that we both love (The classy Shed in Shawlands). A song that we liked came on which we both started to dance to. We were dancing back to back and literally bumped into each other! We both apologised and then had some cheeky chat: Davie: “I think you’ll find I was dancing here first so you will need to move” Ashleigh: “haha I think you’ll find I was dancing far better than you so you’ll need to move!” Davie: “Well there is only one way to settle this, a dance off!” Ashleigh “haha you’re on!” … we still disagree to this day on who actually won the dance off!"

This was just one of those weddings where everything ran smoothly, absolutely to plan, really nice guests who helped, a stunning couple and fantastic weather.  A 'perfect day'which appropriately enough was the 'marryoke' song they performed in the evening for the fabulous Gee-Whizz Wedding Video

Little did I know then that this was about the only sunshine we were to see over the summer months.......

 

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Millennium Hotel Glasgow Wedding - Gillian & Paul

Millennium Hotel Glasgow Wedding

Another really nice couple for 1500 to photography.

Gillian and Paul had their wedding at the Millennium Hotel right in the very heart of Glasgow. Since the hotel is slap bang in the middle of the city Gillian and Paul thought it would be nice to head out to Kelvingrove Park for the pictures.

On out return to the hotel we used some  of the more striking features of the Millennium to give us some really great shots. Gillian and Paul were fantastic on the day, so friendly and willing and it shows in the pictures.

The last shot in the selection here is one of my favourites of the year!

Weddings at the Millennium Hotel, by 1500 Photography