Harburn House is an elegant Georgian mansion on its own private estate located a few miles to the west of Edinburgh. It is set within 3000 acres of beautiful gardens and parklands making it an idyllic venue for weddings. Harburn House is another wedding venue where I am the recommended photographer so I’ve photographed many weddings here and know it really well. Our biggest wedding of the week was here on Saturday for the marriage of Kelly and Nick.We were booked to start just after noon but when we arrived there was no bride and no groom, lol! I was scheduled to start up at Haymains on the east side of the estate with Nick and his ushers getting ready,
but apparently his DJ had ran a sound check the night before and blown up the amplifier so Nick had to do an emergency trip into town with him to find a new one. Kelly had gone into Edinburgh to have her hair done and was not yet back. So while waiting I grabbed some photographs of the ceremony and dining rooms and some detail shots of the flowers, bouquets, placements, etc. When Nick arrived back I quickly took some pictures of him with the ushers whilst in their casual clothes. Due to Nick now running late we were
n’t going to have time for a full set of the guys getting ready as I had to be across at Harburn House for Kelly, so instead we’d do a before and after and I’d come back just before the ceremony for the guys all dressed up in their kilts.It’s about a half mile drive back across to Harburn House and when I got there not only was Kelly back but she was ready too and looking a million dollars! We did some bridal portraits in her room first of all, full length, three quarter length, close up, back of the dress, etc. In my pre-wedding consultations with my brides and grooms I run through tips and tricks on posing and relaxing in front of the camera and Kelly had got them all so was an absolute dream to work with. We did a mix of classic and informal portraits and then some more contemporary images. Although all the bride
smaids were running late getting ready I managed to get a shot of them all with Kelly on the steps of Harburn House before heading back across to Haymains.The Humanist ceremony went off great, nice and relaxed with plenty of stories and anecdotes written by Kelly and Nick to keep everyone interested and create a few laughs. Following the drinks reception I ran through their formal group shots starting with a big group photograph of all the guests followed by their family and bridal party pictures which took around twenty minutes, although ten of those were spent looking for people who had gone AWOL, lol!
Diane and I then took the newly weds for a 20 minute set around the gardens and estate and again shooting a mix of classic, romantic and conte
mporary images. They were both delighted when we took them down to a picturesque wrought iron bridge that spanned a heavenly little loch on the west edge of the estate that they never even knew existed. We finished up back at Harburn House and then made our way back to Haymains for the wedding breakfast, speeches and cake cutting.Sumptuous roast beef with all the trimmings was on the menu and was (as the food always is at Harburn House) absolutely
delicious! The speeches were good fun, Kelly’s father speaking first, then Nick and then his two bestmen doing a double act. We then went through for the cutting of the cake followed by a couple more group shots Kelly and Nick had wanted before my day ended with the photographing of the first dance. All in all it was a fantastic day and I think I enjoyed it as much as Kelly and Nick! I’m already looking forward to my next wedding at Harburn House!Harburn House website is: http://www.harburnhouse.com/
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