The weather was perfect all day, and the ceremony took place at the beautiful Kirk of Calder. Returning to the hotel, group shots and a relaxed portrait session took place in the beautiful grounds where the leaves were turning a lovely autumnal colour.

After their meal and speeches, a nervous Will and Louise started off the evening in style with a great first dance (after a quick dress rehearsal, before the guests entered the room, literally, to check they could dance with Louise in her dress!) to music by the excellent band, Corra. It was a pleasure to be part of their day!

Continue with Will & Louise’s wedding day story in Part Two!

I joined Ali for her bridal preparations at the Apex Hotel on Waterloo Place in the centre of Edinburgh. The atmosphere was lovely and relaxed, and I was pleased to find everyone listening to BBC 6Music (my favourite radio station!).

The Red Bus took guests from the hotel to Mavis Hall, where the talented and lovely Claudia Carter of Carter Imaging (my second-shooter for the day) was ready and waiting to capture their arrival.

The sun stayed out for the very personal and beautiful Humanist ceremony by the loch, and we managed to fit in gorgeous portraits in the woods before the rain came on. You would never wish for rain on a wedding day but I can’t help but like the sight of guests huddled under umbrellas! Luckily the heavens didn’t fully open until everyone was back at the barn for the meal.

Speeches were aplenty at this wedding; bride, dad, step-dad, groom, best man and groom’s dad all made lovely speeches, and a lovely buffet including paella was enjoyed by all the guests. Evening guests made their way through the rain to join the fun ceilidh by This’tle Do. This was a beautiful wedding, filled with lots of perfect little details that Ali and Rich had organised themselves, and with lots of lovely people!

Look at these fantastic Wedding Tea Towels that Ali and Rich sent to guests as their invitations!

Ali’s sister, Kate, checks out her new Diana+ camera. Would love to see the results she got!

Make-up was by Vicky Cameron Make-up

The Red Bus arrives at the hotel to take the guests to Mavis Hall

Claudia captures The Red Bus arriving at Mavis Hall

Guests make their way to the ceremony by the loch

Loving the boys’ suits!

Continue with Ali & Rich’s wedding day story in Part Two!

I particularly love this capture that Claudia got

Evening guests arrive in the rain

One of many lovely details; a tree for guests to hang message cards on

Gorgeous cake designed and made by 3D Cakes

Hair and makeup was by Blush

Natalie’s dad and her brother, Mark, did a great job of providing food for everyone

Lots of wellies waiting just in case!

Some cork popping fun (no ceilings were hurt in the making of these photos – honest!)

Dad’s duties are never over, even on their daughter’s wedding day!

The beautiful flowers were made by Pauline Todd of Darling Buds of Kelso

Continue with Natalie and Grant’s wedding day story in part Two!

The Abbey ruins really are a breathtaking place to have a wedding drinks reception!

It’s not often you can use the ceremony venue for a group portrait of all the guests but this one was perfect!

Natalie and Grant were driven off for some time alone as a married couple.

Despite warnings from guests that the midges were in abundance, Natalie and Grant weren’t deterred and stood down by the river for a quick portrait.

The midges quickly started to overwhelm us and we had to make an escape!

After working hard all day, looking after Natalie, her bridesmaid takes a powernap before the evening reception!

Pauline at Piped Dreams Designer Cakes made the beautiful cake:

Music was provided by The Strangers

A gallery of more photographs of their day is also featured on The Wedding Community’s blog

This was our house for the three nights, set in gorgeous countryside:

We have the wonderful Hayley Ruth to thank once again for organising such an amazing event. I’m so grateful to her for all of her hard work and ideas.

When you have so many people staying in the same house you need a lot of cakes…

…and a lot of bread!

Roaches Hall is a beautiful house with some unusual features such as this circular bed!

Day one and people start to arrive, time for a good chat and catch up

Then off to the nearby pub for some food

Then back to the lovely Roaches Hall for some more chat and drinks!

Day two and it’s shooting day!

Tom Arber and Annemarie King discussing Lightroom processing. It was a pleasure to meet Annemarie for the first time and to properly meet Tom too!

Emily Hancock finds shooting Stu way too funny

The lovely Jennifer Clare

Then it was time to get outdoors for shooting around the gorgeous grounds

Fellow photographers became subjects to get a feel for the other side of the camera

Here is Carrie Bugg doing a spot of posing

Then it was Rachael Connerton’s turn

Hayley’s turn

Here’s Rob Booker standing strong…

… and then crouching

We found a good spot round the back of the house near the bins(!) – we’ll go anywhere for some good light and interesting textures!! Here’s Annemarie

Here’s Barnaby Aldrick

A common sighting at a photographers’ get together; the duelling cameras

Laura stepped up for a quick portrait

Stu Cooper wondering what we were up to round the back of the house!

Laura and Pete Lawson having a giggle on the couch that was randomly relocated outdoors

Rachael and Ian Connerton

Here’s Barnaby posing for Pete and Laura

Barns showing off his spectacular balancing skills

Cris Matthews and Hayley dispute over a reflector

I love how you can see Pete on Laura’s camera LCD and Laura’s eye reflecting off it too

I love these trees

A pensive Ian Olsson after being shot by Annemarie

Day three and it was time to get serious and get down to some business talk. Carrie had some good news to share with everyone

Emily talked about her client viewing experience

Hayley shared her branding ideas and techniques

It was all too much for Stu though!

Rob Booker demonstrated his amazing InDesign skills

Stu talked us through his album designs

Yet another brilliant get together, thanks so much again Hayley for making it happen and thanks to everyone for being so amazing! Can’t wait for the next one!!

They are ideal little albums for parents or grandparents, or even for brides to carry around in their handbags (the perfect portable wedding album)!

Just like the larger albums, each Mini album comes in a natural cotton bag with a presentation box to keep it clean and safe.

These very cute 6×6 albums have the same great paper and print quality as the large albums.

The canvas covers are available in six vibrant colours.

Please let us know if you are interested in ordering a Folio Mini Album from us.

We love the fact that Folio albums are very British! They are made here in the UK, using as many local suppliers as possible. And with their recycled paper and environmentally friendly packaging, they are also very ‘green’.

Each album comes in a protective bag produced in natural, unbleached cotton, selected for its looks as well as its environmental qualities.

We love how strikingly simple these hand bound, square albums are.

The flush-mounted, fine art paper pages lay beautifully flat with an almost invisible crease, allowing photographs to span seamlessly across two pages.

To do justice to our albums’ fine art paper, archival quality inks are used. These inks take colour reproduction to another level that can’t be reached by traditional photographic printing. Your wedding photos will be printed in high resolution with a pure clarity and vibrancy that lasts, even along the crease.

Being able to lay your album flat is great as it means that each image is on full view.

The pleasingly tactile covers are made from the finest quality natural leather. They smell amazing, and come in ten different colours.

You can have your names debossed on the front too if you like (at no extra charge).

We just love the attention to detail that has been given in the making of these albums.

Both the 12×12 and 10×10 sizes are equally gorgeous!

If you like what you see, we’d love to hear from you to talk about your wedding photography!