Emily & Dominic's wedding - Cameron Kirk & Old Course Hotel, St Andrews

Apologies for the lack of blogging this past week; it has been SO hectic! I have had so many "Santa" appointments - so many people collecting their finished wedding albums and prints, I feel like Santa! And I continue to be drowning in designing the remainder of the year's albums, which I think I finally see the end of the light for!

But here at last is Dominic & Emily's wedding which turned out to be an event of the year, in so many ways!

Having shot their "Bling" session just days before, in glorious sunshine, I was hoping the weather would stay the same for the wedding day. The weather is one thing that you can't control.... Neither is runaway dogs and runaway hats..... more about that later.....

The day started for me at one of my favourite venues, the 5 star hotel in St Andrews, the Old Course, where Emily and her girls were getting ready. The champagne had already been opened, the girls were having a fun morning and I was totally cooing over the only man in the room! (And it was awesome to be witness to the moment that the bride got asked to be his godmother!)
Various phone calls and texts appeared over the morning, including a few from Hong Kong.

Emily's Jenny Packham dress was just to die for..

As were her Gina shoes..

And Emily was just gloriously stunning..

Then it was time to shoot off to Cameron Kirk, the countryside kirk right next door to the family home; it was sunny surprisingly but very cold and very very windy! The light inside the Kirk itself was amazing.The little flower girl totally stole the show After the ceremony and a brisk mingling outside with their guests (brisk being the appropriate word, due to the wind and cold) I took the newlyweds back into the church for a quick couples session. We were expecting to walk out to an empty churchyard but were suprised to find several of the guests still hanging about.... that's when the fun started!

Apparently a guest or two had gone next door to the house of the bride's parents and had mistakenly let the dogs out, those dogs that deatured in the engagement session...... One of them did what we call in Fife "doing a bunk" and shot off over the nearby fields!! Cue various guys in kilts running over muddly fields, it was quite a sight!

We left everyone to it and made our way to the Old Course for the remainder of the couples session, in and around the hotel.

Most of the guests had gathered in the RoadHole bar at the top of the hotel but apparently some of them had checked into their rooms. The next fun story we heard was that a female guest with a wonderful hat had gone out on to their balcony, and the wind took off with the hat! Hotel maintenance staff had to climb roofs to retrieve it!

The newlyweds joined the rest of the guests and we heard that the dog had been found, thanks to the help of the police and the RAF!

Fortunately it looks like that was enough drama for the day! The speeches went down well.

Thanks Emily and Dom, for a fun and "interesting" wedding, one I won't forget for a long time!