Moorpark House Wedding - Jennifer and Gerard

Moorpark House Wedding - Jennifer and Gerard

Our Moorpark House wedding for Jennifer and Gerard was a great day. This time we started the day at Jennifer's folks house before making our way to St Gabriel's in Glasgow's south side. After that it was onto the excellent Moorpark House for some lovely pictures and (as we stayed for the evening part of the day) one of the busiest dance floor I have ever seen !

 

 

A lovely day with a lovely sunset to round things off. Looking forward to more Moorpark House weddings in the near future

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Boturich Castle Wedding - Rebecca & Craig

Boturich Castle Wedding, Loch Lomond

Our Boturich Castel Wedding with Rebecca and Craig probably took place on one of the wettest days of the summer. The couple and many of their guests had come  all the way over from Canada for a summery Scottish wedding but unfotuately the (typical) Scottish weather let them down big style.

It was such a shame as they are such a lovely couple but at least I know that I didnt let them down and gave them a great set of picture pictures, Lynda the celebrant didnt let them down with a lovely service and Boturich Castle certainly didnt let them down with providing everything they could have wanted.

   

I am really happy to say though that the weather did nothing to dampen the spirits of the couple or their guests. It was a lovely humanist ceremony by Lynda finishing with a traditional hand-fasting before the couple  braved the elements for some shots outside. I have to doff my cap to Rebecca who was great to photograph and who had not problems at all getting an umbrella and heading outdoors for her pictures

 

I guess the couple may have been expecting inclement weather as they had specially made umbrellas made with Scottish and Canadian flags to give to each of their guests as favours. We than stayed to cover the brilliant wedding speeches and some of the dancing at night, with music supplied by the Jiggers, who were excellent. Our final shot of the day was Craig and Rebecca outside with sparklers. I have to say that although this was a tricky shot to get right the results are....... sparkling?

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Cameron House Wedding - Kay and Mark

Cameron House Wedding with Kay & Mark

Once again we feature a Cameron House wedding. Probably the most kid friendly wedding I think we have ever shot! Kay and Mark were surrounded by so many young friends and family on the day. Obviously the most important person on the day was (not Kay) but Darci, Kay and Marks little girl.

I think the shot of Kay's gasp of 'mock horror' as newly married Mark kisses another woman walking down the aisle is one of my favourite shots of the year!

Sadly we didn't really get a chance to venture out into the grounds of Cameron House as the weather was atrocious, however with Kay and Marks patience we still came away with some wonderful images. I am always so gratified that when you work at Cameron House - you dont actually need the weather to produce stunning images.

I think that is why we love shooting weddings at Cameron House as much as we do. If you have a great day you have lots of stunning scottish scenery to play with. If not, you still have the wonderful baronial backdrop of one of Scotlands top hotels to frame your pictures in. Then even if you dont get a 5 minute break in the weather.......send the photographer out in the rain anyway. Its only a wee bit of water

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St Patricks Church Dumbarton to Cameron House, Wedding of Emma & Thomas

Cameron House Wedding

What a fantastic day we had with Emma and Thomas, shooting their wedding at Cameron House. We began the day with Emma's bridal prep shots at home before making our way to the ceremony at St Patricks in Dumbarton. When we go there we completely lucked out with the weather and got some fantastic shot in the grounds of this 5 star venue. We even had a wee bit of luck and got some shots on the jetty without the seaplane.

 

Emma and Thomas were an absolutely cracking couple and I think it shows from their pictures that we had a really good time with them. One of my most abiding memories from this wedding was actually 24 hours after the event. I returned to Cameron House to shoot another wedding the next day and waiting between shots I bumped into Emma in reception, checking out. She then hoisted her (now packed up) wedding dress over her head (!) and headed out into the heavy rain.

It's funny how quickly things change. Not just the weather but what you can do with a wedding dress too.......

 

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Glynhill Hotel Paisley, Wedding - Camille and Martin

Wedding Photography Glynhill Hotel

We went to Renfrewshire for our next wedding. The lovely Camille married Martin at the Glynhill Hotel in Renfrew.

I remember well that the Glynhill always used to be a difficult venue to shoot a wedding at, due to the lack of grounds available. However, I am delighted to report that this is no longer the case. A great little garden area has been arranged at the back of the hotel giving us a terrific little spot for some of shots and to relax in. Camille also liked the idea of using a larger garden area so we also nipped up to the walled gardens at Barshaw Park for some extra shots of just the couple but I was really impressed with what the Glynhill had done.

As you can see it was another stunning spring day and the cold champagne went down an absolute treat (I'm told). After our little detour to the walled gardens at Barshaw Park

A lovely day with a really, really nice couple. I am so pleased that Camille and Martin had such a good day for their wedding. Sadly this was the last time we saw the sun for the next good while. Although we have often been lucky with the weather on the day of the weddings, its been an awfully poor Summer.

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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St Andrews Cathedral Glassgow to Lodge on Loch Lomond - Hazel & Chris

What a wonderful scorching day we had for Hazel and Chris's wedding at St Andrews Cathedral in Glasgow. With the couple both getting ready at the Grand Central and having their reception at Lodge on the Loch, we were spoiled for choice when it came to photo opportunities.

Hazel looked absolutely beautiful, Chris looked very dapper and St Andrews looked truly awesome.

    

As you can imagine the stunning weather meant that Loch Lomond was absolutely heaving. However once we got back to the Lodge and some welcome shade Chris and Hazel worked with me to produce some simply lovely images. Its funny writing up this blog in July when have been suffering through one of the worst summers I can remember. It makes me look back with even more fondness to Hazels wedding.

 

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