Nikki and Fides rocked Switzerland!!

Here I am in Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, absolutely exhausted, but still buzzing from a fantastic weekend with Fides of www.weddings-in-style.ch

Two great weddings, well over a thousand images in my roller-bag so I'm gonna be busy with editing them, plus my own clients to see who are desperate to see their shots from the past month or so, plus lab work, plus album design..................


I need to sleep first!

Caroline and Joseph's wedding

It is always nice to book a wedding on the recommendation of a previous bride; Caroline and Joseph booked me on the word-of-mouth recommendation of Pamela and Darren Black who were married last year at the Keavil.

Caroline and Jo had a lovely ceremony at the Pitbauchlie House Hotel in Dunfermline, and it was nice for me to have a really local wedding (ie only 10 minutes drive!) for a change. I love to travel but it is nice to just jump up the road every now and then.

We had amazing natural light on the day; I took this shot in the bridal suite and Caroline just jumped on the bed and totally worked it for the camera!

And yet I just HAD to ask the receptionist to move in order to get this shot behind the reception desk; totally using the artificial light to great advantage.

Emma and Colin must be one of the quickest couples to order their album; they viewed their photos at the studio Friday night, today I received a cheque for a Viva album and CD only 4 days later! I am so excited about the new 'Viva' album; it gives me carte blanche to design an album with no input from the clients at all, and there are SO many fab shots with Colin and Emma's wedding I will have difficulty in choosing!

Shoes!!

A thread on a digital wedding photographers forum about high heels made me realise I live my fetish for high heels through my brides. I have some weirdy condition which makes me doublejointed and all my ligaments are looser than they should be, so I can't wear high heels or I would constantly go over my ankles.

So I LOVE to photograph my brides' shoes; this is one of my favourite shots of recent, from Emma and Colin's wedding;


Talking of Emma and Colin, the lovely couple returned from Antigua looking mightly brown and refreshed after their honeymoon. They came to the studio last night to see their portfolio of their wedding day and they loved the results!! I then got another email from the lovely mother of the Groom Mrs Davidson (senior!) this evening;

"hi nikki,colin and emma popped in last night to show us the cd of the wedding.Fabulous/funny/and every bit what we expected and far far more.

I will be sending your web page details to relatives/friends all over the globe who are waiting with great anticipation to viewing the happy day.

Thank you very much for all your time and patience in providing such wonderful photos of a very very happy day.

from Liz/Jim Davidson(now Davidson senior). "

Lisa and Colin's wedding

Lisa and Colin were lucky to have a glorious day for their wedding; and Lisa was just stunning in her halterneck dress. I loved the colour of her brother's bedroom wall, when she was getting into her dress; it gave me some funky natural but contemporary shots! I love it when I can get shots like these without actually having to pose anyone, these shots for me are always cool!

I always say to my couples that despite what you may think, you don't actually want a REALLY sunny day on your wedding day. From a photographic point of view, it gives you harsh shadows and makes people squint, so especially for the group formals you have to find shadowed areas. But when it comes to the bridal portraits, I like to work with the sun (when we get it!) rather than against it, and I knew when I saw the length of Lisa's veil that I was gonna pull a cool shot out of the bag! Note to future brides; I LOVE LONG VEILS!

A great party was held at night and fantastic photographic results are in order! Enjoy Mexico, guys!

Sally and Phil's wedding

It is a honour to be asked (and paid!) to photograph a wedding and therefore all weddings are special, but occasionally for personal reasons, some weddings are extra-special.

Sally and Phil's wedding was one of these extra-special weddings, as Sally is actually a very good friend of mine here in the Bay.

Sally and I met at antenatal classes in the autumn of 2004 and we both gave birth to our children within hours of each other on 22nd November 2004. Along with Diane and her twins born a couple of hours previous to Jack and Rosemary, we have all kept in contact and watched our children grow up together.

When Sally announced that she was FINALLY going to get married to her long term partner Phil this year, I was over the moon for them both and helped Sally with some of her wedding plans, including visiting a wedding fayre in Edinburgh to look for wedding photographers. It was a great honour when she then turned around and asked if I would photograph their big day!

And what a big day it was! In resplendent red, Sally struck a glorious note in her Chinese tea dress, Phil looked dapper in his suit and Rosemary was just gorgeously cute as usual.

And at night, my wee man had a ball, in his kilt!

Lovely comment from America - {blush}

I received Kelli and Euan's order for their wedding photos this morning, via their lovely mother. American Kelli and Scottish Euan had the most stunning wedding at Dalhousie at the beginning of the year and it was wonderful to meet the american side of the family after so many emails back and forth! Euan is the brother of Jenna whose wedding I shot a couple of years ago, whose picture I use a lot; the one of them in front of the loch at Culcreuch.

At the end of the order from Cindi Mother of the Bride, was this lovely comment.

"Thank you again for your beautiful, outstanding work. I wish we could have afforded a copy of all of them - You do fantastic work. Just Amazing. You made the day wonderful and it will be more than a mere memory in our minds - if the photos just look a fraction as beautiful as the internet shows them and your sneaky snaps are as cute as they look - I think we found the perfect photographer - although we had to choose from many miles away!!! You were great to work with and we consider you a new friend."

Kirsty and Andrew's wedding

In stark contrast within 24 hours, Kirsty and Andrew had fantastic sunny weather for their St. Andrews wedding. They even gave me an hour of bridal contemporary photography by walking along to St Andrews Castle, and we enjoyed the ruins and the sun. The day finished with a stunning sunset, which we nicked onto the Links for a quick shot of.

Gail and Andrew's wedding

Gail and Andrew from Glasgow chose to have their wedding at the beautiful Barony Castle in the Scottish Borders town of Peebles. Unfortunately the weather was not kind to us, but we still managed to get some fab shots, and it was such a great day all round. Gail and Andrew were such a fun couple, always laughing and giggling for the camera, it made my job very easy.