The second wedding of the year was Cassie & Mike’s at Fenton Tower in North Berwick on 22nd March.  It was again a cold but dry day.

Mark got on like a house on fire with Cassie and Mike and really shared a sense of humour with them.  They told us before their wedding that they wanted the wedding to be a relaxed and fun day that everyone can enjoy and as the wedding party was small and intimate (totalling 19), Mark was able to spend lots of time with them both.  Despite the cold wind, the couple went to the beach with Mark - Cassie was able to christen her pink wellies with red lovehearts!

Cassie and Mike are currently on honeymoon so we are looking forward to catching up with them when they get back.  Some images from their wedding will also appear as part of our next advert in the Scottish Wedding Directory.

The sky was blue but the wind bitingly cold for Carol & Alex’s wedding at Lochside Hotel in New Cumnock on 18th March this year.  Their day was relaxed and had a great party vibe; it was a lovely wedding to have as the first of the season.  Carol & Alex had both their ceremony and evening party at Lochside plus a magician to entertain the guests during the afternoon.  Everyone seemed to chill out and enjoy themselves in the heat of the fantastic open fire and I think Alex may just have stopped teasing Carol about her clamming up during the ceremony just as she was to promise to be faithful!

Carol & Alex are finalising their selection of images for their album at the moment but have said it is a difficult choice as they love ALL their images.  As Carol told us “We were both delighted with our photos.  Exactly what we wanted to capture on the day”

Check out the fantastic scenery at Lochside Hotel caught in this great shot by Mark:

2007 wedding season is now officially over!  The final wedding of last year was another relaxed affair at Biggar Kirk and Cornhill House.  What a great time I had with Kirsty and Andrew.  One of the perks of my work is that I tend to get people booking me I can imagine as friends.  I’ve often wondered why this is.  I reckon it must come through in the photography.  I think wedding photographs are at their best when they capture people looking like themselves and having a good time.  A lot of the wedding photography I look at really bores me because there is no personality in the faces of the bride or groom.  A lot of the time it looks like the photographer wishes he was at a fashion event rather than a party.

Kirsty and Andrew had a party and I think that comes through in their piccies.  I wish we’d had a bit more time together, but that’s always the way at a winter wedding when the light dies so quickly.  The sun will insist on setting early in December!

Hello. Welcome to our new website!  I have to admit I’m not sad to see the old one go. At last I’ve got an art gallery with some of my personal work. Every year I have a couple of personal projects on the go. It’s not always easy getting time to work on them with all these blinking weddings going on (only joking!).

High on my wish list for this year is some better weather than last “summer”. The only thing we didn’t get last july was snow. Scottish weather is one of the reasons I like to work so quickly with people on a wedding day. Who wants to stand about for an hour getting cold while a photographer sticks a bunch of people into a straight line to arrange another boring old picture? As I look out of the office window today the snow is really heavy. I’m reminded of a wedding from a couple of years ago on a snowy December day at Huntingtower Castle (which has no heating). The bride was really late (nearly an hour) and by the time she arrived at the castle the guests inside had icicles hanging from their noses. The groom had to be chipped from his seat with an ice pick (it was lucky the best man had one in his sporran) in order to greet her coming down the aisle. We got some great pictures outside after some champers - thankfully it was warmer out there than in the castle.  Back in the office it took me hours to take the blue tone from the skin of the groom in photoshop.  I’m shooting a wedding at Girona Cathedral in Spain this summer – I kind of see this as a chance to thaw out!