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We had brilliant day shooting Kate and Paul’s wedding at Cameron House.

We started off with Kate at Cameron House just as she was putting her finishing touches together, before catching some shots of the lads at Luss Church. After the typically excellent service at Luss we took Kate and Paul on a short walk down to the jetty before heading onto Luss Peir. As usual Luss Peir was absolutley mobbed which would not have looked so good for the pictures, but for photoshop………………….

Before

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We then headed back to Cameron House for our bridal party shots. Kate and Paul were a lovely couple and they had a really nice bunch of guests at the wedding including Dale, the best man, who somehow or other managed to get, sort of run, over by the wedding car (nothing serious, just a tyre mark left on his sock….) It was only after the wedding that I discovered than Paul was quite and accomplished photographer himself. He has even had one of his wedding feature in Hello ! Apparently he was under instruction from Kate not to let me know….and to be honest I think I am glad I didn’t know.

The fact that Paul and Kate are delighted with their pictures and even chose me in the first place given Pauls credentials is a huge compliment. Thank you both for choosing 1500 Photography

Just a lovely wedding.

I think Nicolas getting ready and bridal shots are some of the most beautiful I seen this year.  With Nicola and Bryan getting married at St Josephs in Milngavie we know we wouldn’t have a lot of scope for pictures at the church (it sits right on the main road) and that the Winnock Hotel would be full of the wedding guests. So it was very important to get some nice shots of Nicola at home, then of the couple at  Drymen. We managed to get both…..and then some.

Nicola was an absolutely stunning bride and had chosen a beautiful dress (and bridesmaids dresses), Bryan looked very much the part in his kilt and both had a great friendly personality which really comes though in the pictures. After a full mass at St Josephs we took a slight detour with just Nicola & Bryan to Balmaha before making our way back to shoot the last of the wedding pictures at the Winnock in Drymen. A great couple who were very generous and patient and gave us some brilliant images – thank you. Im just disappointed that it was too late to put some of their shots into this years awards. Roll on 2011 !!

Balamaha wedding by 1500 Photography

This wedding jumps the que a little bit, but what a wonderful day I had with Amanda and James at Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe. A truly stunning, romantic Scottish venue for a brilliant family from Canada.  These guys had a bit of a traumatic build up to the wedding but the day itself could not have gone any better. Every little thing that could go right, went right. The weather, the setting and even the midges behaved !!

Everyone who attended the wedding was lovely from the parents, the bridesmaids and best men to the celebrant, video-ographer (RPL Weddings – very good incidently) and Wendy the wedding planner. It really was just ‘one of those perfect days’

With Amanda and James now back in Canada I have made up a little slide-show to pay tribute to one of the nicest weddings I have ever been involved in.

After having such an excellent time on the beach with Colin and Gemma, below, I got my hands on another venue I had been itching to get to – a wedding at Glasgow University. In my previous life with another studio I had been at Glasgow uni shooting weddings regularly, however, since 1500 I haven’t been back. A gap of about 5 years.  I must say Heather and Adrian made it a joy to be back at one of my old stomping grounds.

We started the day a Heathers parents house in Erskine before making our way up to Glasgow Uni. After a beautiful ceremony during which a Church of Scotland service was complimented with a Catholic blessing, we made our way into the University quadrant. The only downside to shooting a wedding in possibly one of the most picture-esque and specious areas of Glasgow is that the Uni is actually on a hilltop. A windy hilltop. However once again I have to pay tribute to Adrian and mostly Heather who braved the ‘stiff breeze’ to gift us some fantastic shots. We then ushered the couple to their car where, no sooner had we shut the door of the bridal car, the heavens opened!!Perfect timing.

Once again Glenskirlie were excellent with the bridal party once we arrived at the reception venue and we enjoyed some more excellent pictures in an around this stunning hotel. It is days like Heather and Adrian’s – where you meet genuinely lovely people (fantastic bridesmaids), stunning venues and get to take wonderful pictures that – you remember that being a wedding photographer can be the best job in the world.