emily + john • glasgow

When your bride turns up to her wedding in a leather jacket and the groom is wearing a bowler hat, you know it's going to be a good day! Emily & John's family focused wedding was amazing; their little girls Alice & Charlotte were just adorable and their late ceremony and relaxed evening meal, which included the sharing of a 'cog' - a traditional drinking 'vessel' with a traditional (and strong!) concoction of alcohol and spices - ensured that everybody was in good spirits to party the night away.

Throw in some twinkly lights and by god this wedding was pretty darn perfect!

Massive thanks to Neil Thomas Douglas for second shooting with me on the day.

Venue | Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow

Dress | Minna

Grooms Attire | Hackett

Flowergirls Attire | Boden

Flowers | I Heart Flowers

charlotte + mark • crear

Live in New Zealand, hail from England... where else to get married but Crear in Scotland, obviously! Mark and Charlotte chose Crear because the landscape reminded them so much of their home in New Zealand and what an amazing reason to get married there. A beautiful coming together of family and friends from all over the world made Charlotte & Mark's day pretty special... Charlotte's amazing sage green dress also helped too...simply stunning.

Ahhhhhh and look at the sunshine. This time Scotland really did shine in all it's glory. Speeches (and even some dancing!) were brought outside as the sun was setting and everyone danced into the night in the summer light...dreamy!

Bring back summer!

Venue: Crear, Scotland // Dress: Kiri Nathan // Grooms attire: Barkers, New Zealand // Flowers: Jill @ Plantology, Sheffield

Juliana + Roberto • Brazil

WOW. There really is no other way to start this blog post. My first ever destination wedding... was in BRAZIL!

Okay, I love travel of any kind and I'm more than happy to go anywhere to shoot amazing weddings, but Brazil would have most certainly been top of my list. In fact it was! So when a little email dropped in my inbox with the subject line 'Brazil?' I couldn't have screamed any louder. In fact to this day I can't even believe Juliana put a question mark after it! Before I read any of the details I was almost emailing her straight back screaming YEEEEEEES!

For the months building up to the wedding Juliana, Roberto and I emailed back and forth, Skype'd back in forth (with my daughter making the odd appearance in the background) and chatted regularly about everything wedding related and more.

Not only was it a fabulous wedding in a beautiful country they were an amazing couple....and totally my kind of people. It was all just too easy.

So on the 12th July me and my little family packed our bags and headed for Brazil. Trips to Rio and Sao Paulo were sneaked in either side of our weekend in Londrina, the city where the wedding was being held. It was of course winter in Brazil, so despite the 27degree heat we ended up with a weekend of rain, fog and thunder storms, but I'm from Scotland... I've shot in worse conditions!

Traditionally in Brazil you don't get married until early evening, so a 5pm ceremony meant we left the church in darkness. Juliana & Roberto had opted for a couple shoot in a local restaurant. It was fab, full of quirky ornaments and old framed prints on the wall. We then went on to the reception in a large hall in town. This had been transformed for all 350 guests to eat, drink and be merry... and the Brazilian's can do 'merry' brilliantly! It seriously was a party like no other.

Roberto & Juliana are in a band (check out one of their music videos here) so sang the beginning of their first dance together (God Only Know's by the Beach Boys). They then went on to play one of their own songs as well as a cover of The Strokes mid-way through the evening. A Bride on stage with a bass guitar is most certainly a first for me.

Add to that probably the best 'wedding band' in the world ever... The Zoom Beatles (an amazing Beatles cover band). All the guys are brazilian but have got each band member down to a tee, even Paul McCartney's head nodding/shaking movement whilst he plays. These guys played what seemed like the entire Beatles back catalogue until the party ended at 3am!

The wedding was beautiful, Juliana, Roberto and all their friends and family were amazing and the country is immense. Need I say anymore.