What a busy time it is just now! Apologies for no blog post last week but I have had photo shoots and assignments booked for everyday and most evenings, too, so blogging is running late. It’s great to be so busy doing what you love! As promised the photos this week follow on from last weeks blog and are from Amy and Andy’s unique and very special wedding. As usual you can click on any of the photo spreads which will open all the images up into a gallery style viewer for seeing the pictures better.
As a
wedding photographer in Edinburgh I’m ideally placed for travelling all over Scotland and even down into England if the price is right ;) So it was a delight to drive up into the Highlands to photograph Amy and Andy’s wedding, especially as I was the only one to be invited!
Andy and Amy are from Cheshire and decided to have a very unique and romantic wedding with just the two of them. So they booked the Torridon Hotel in a far flung corner of the north west Highlands and didn’t tell a single person! Well, apart from me and a couple of the hotel staff, lol.
As mentioned last week Amy did her research for a wedding photographer online. This is a very good way to separate the wheat from the chaff if you know what to look for and how to discern high quality photography. Most photographers will have a portfolio of wedding images on their website, and if they don’t well that tells you something about them right from the get-go. Comparing the photographs of the different photographers helps you to see which of three general categories they fall into - poor, reasonable and then the very best who are the regular award winners. Close scrutiny is vitally important if you are going to do this as you will find that by and large well over half will fall into the poor category. That is not my own opinion by the way, I’m sure you’ve read the press reports in the last few weeks of the disappointed newly weds in the process of suing their wedding photographers and also you may have read the account of a leading photography magazine who’s editor went incognito in to some of the countries largest and most popular weddings fairs and reported how he wouldn't have booked any of the photographers there - scary stuff!
On looking through my
wedding gallery Amy fell in love with my photography and following a phone call booked me straight away. I am happy to report she’s even more in love with my photography after seeing her own wedding photographs!
One of the questions with a wedding where there will only be the bride and groom is where will they get two witnesses from? A couple of weddings like this that I’ve photographed in the past I’ve been called upon myself to do the honours, but today the Torridon Hotel provided two staff members of their staff.
I started with the some photos up in the suite as Amy had her hair and make-up finished off and then we were down for the ceremony at 1pm. The local registrar had come up from Shieldag not too far from the famous Eilean Donan castle and conducted a lovely ceremony which was nice and relaxed yet dignified, too. There were a few laughs included and also some happy tears.
After the ceremony the three of us simply went for a walk around the hotels gardens and grounds. I wanted a mix of shots not only capturing the occasion and romance but also the magnificent Highland setting. The weather was absolutely glorious as you can see! We finished off back at the hotel with a first wedding dance in the Torridon Library. Amazingly despite being a beautiful sunny Saturday we didn’t see another sole and had the entire hotel to ourselves.
As a wedding photographer in Edinburgh I’m ideally placed for travelling all over Scotland and even down into England if the price is right ;) So it was a delight to drive up into the Highlands to photograph Amy and Andy’s wedding, especially as I was the only one to be invited!
Andy and Amy are from Cheshire and decided to have a very unique and romantic wedding with just the two of them. So they booked the Torridon Hotel in a far flung corner of the north west Highlands and didn’t tell a single person! Well, apart from me and a couple of the hotel staff, lol.
As mentioned last week Amy did her research for a wedding photographer online. This is a very good way to separate the wheat from the chaff if you know what to look for and how to discern high quality photography. Most photographers will have a portfolio of wedding images on their website, and if they don’t well that tells you something about them right from the get-go. Comparing the photographs of the different photographers helps you to see which of three general categories they fall into - poor, reasonable and then the very best who are the regular award winners. Close scrutiny is vitally important if you are going to do this as you will find that by and large well over half will fall into the poor category. That is not my own opinion by the way, I’m sure you’ve read the press reports in the last few weeks of the disappointed newly weds in the process of suing their wedding photographers and also you may have read the account of a leading photography magazine who’s editor went incognito in to some of the countries largest and most popular weddings fairs and reported how he wouldn't have booked any of the photographers there - scary stuff!
On looking through my wedding gallery Amy fell in love with my photography and following a phone call booked me straight away. I am happy to report she’s even more in love with my photography after seeing her own wedding photographs!
One of the questions with a wedding where there will only be the bride and groom is where will they get two witnesses from? A couple of weddings like this that I’ve photographed in the past I’ve been called upon myself to do the honours, but today the Torridon Hotel provided two staff members of their staff.
I started with the some photos up in the suite as Amy had her hair and make-up finished off and then we were down for the ceremony at 1pm. The local registrar had come up from Shieldag not too far from the famous Eilean Donan castle and conducted a lovely ceremony which was nice and relaxed yet dignified, too. There were a few laughs included and also some happy tears.
After the ceremony the three of us simply went for a walk around the hotels gardens and grounds. I wanted a mix of shots not only capturing the occasion and romance but also the magnificent Highland setting. The weather was absolutely glorious as you can see! We finished off back at the hotel with a first wedding dance in the Torridon Library. Amazingly despite being a beautiful sunny Saturday we didn’t see another sole and had the entire hotel to ourselves.
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