Jennifer & Jim - part eight

Before the meal, there were some excellant speeches, with brilliant expressions! Hope you enjoyed the rest of your day guys, can't wait to see you soon, to show the whole selection of images, there are LOADS!

Vendor information;
Venue; Balbirnie House, Markinch

Jennifer & Jim - part seven

Love this veil shot; any long term reader of this blog will KNOW I love long veils! Jen did a fantastic bouquet throw from the front steps of Balbirnie, I believe the lovely lass that caught it, IS actually the next to be married out of their group!

The wedding breakfast for this wedding was held in the Orangery.

I adore, adore, adore, adore, ADORE this image of Jen just before she left the Library for the wedding breakfast, with her new husband.

Jennifer & Jim - part six

I loved the formals from this wedding, they worked really well. I cannot remember what was said by me, or the bride at this point but it made a great photo!

Then it was onto my favourite time of the day; the couples session, the time for the newlyweds to enjoy each other's company while I get some amazing shots.
This wedding was a very classy affair, I was loving Jen's detail to attention in her attire, and I just loved Jim's dapper suit and shoes.

Jennifer & Jim - part five

Don't you just love the moments between children and their parents, just after a child gets married? The video production was performed by Watch the Birdie from St Andrews; considering the amount of times I have shot in St Andrews recently, this was the first time I had shot with this company!

Immediately after the ceremony, the newlyweds greeted their guests on the steps of Balbirnie.

But it did start to rain during this time!

But the crowd managed to stay dry in time for the requested group shot on the steps, and the confetti shot which always looks brilliant at Balbirnie!

Jennifer & Jim - part four

Jen was at risk from being taken over on the beauty stakes by her stunning bridesmaids. But as she glided down the stairs of Balbirnie House, she was the gal of the day.

A kiss for Dad at the top of the Long Gallery....

And the reading by her bridesmaid had us all in tears!

The humanist ceremony was beautifully led as always by Gillian Stewart. But you can tell that Jen wasn't entirely sure that Gillian's "tying the knot" would work.... it did!

Jennifer & Jim - part three

The wind caused a laugh before the ceremony with Jim's mum's hat taking a swish across the garden! Meanwhile upstairs, the stunning bride was taking a minute or two to herself...

She was much happier after the ceremony!

More soon!

Jennifer & Jim - part two

Jim made a striking change from the norm for my grooms, in a smart suit, and dapper shoes. His Best Man and himself had some fun before the ceremony.

More soon!

Jennifer & Jim - Balbirnie House - part one

Got a lot of blogging to catch up on!

Over the next couple of days I will blog some amazing photos from Jennifer & Jim's wedding held recently at Balbirnie.

The weather wasn't kind enough to let them have an outdoor ceremony but we still managed to get outside for some shots.

There was lots of lovely details.




More soon!

The Old Course Hotel's wedding fayre - part two

More images from the Old Course wedding fayre.

Win your wedding day photography!

Photography should be a vital part of everyone's wedding day, and everyone should have the best wedding day photographer possible; sometimes money makes that impossible for some.

As a random act of kindness, I am this week, offering free wedding day photography for one lucky couple.

Rules;
- wedding must be in 2009 and must be on a day I am not already booked on (I will let you know soon after receiving your entry)
- wedding can be anywhere but if outwith Central Scotland, will be subject to travel and accommodation costs
- you must not already have a wedding photographer booked for your day
- you must allow me complete freedom for what and how the day is photographed, and allow the wedding to be used in all forms of advertising for NMP

How to apply;
- you must send me your story by email on nikki@nikkimcleodphotography.com; and the title of it is "Why we should have NMP at our wedding?"
- you must give me the following details; name, address, contact telephone number, email address, date of wedding, wedding and reception venues, all before Friday 24th April

What you will win;
Coverage from getting ready to start of meal and a coffee table album with approx 60 retouched images in.

Interested?

The Old Course Hotel's wedding fayre - part one

The Old Course Hotel in St Andrews ran their first home-grown wedding fayre this year, it was an honour to be only one of two photographers to be asked to exhibit here. I was also asked to photograph the event, as well as do commercial jobs for some of the other exhibitiors.


From teeth whitening.... to event planning and decoration....

to cars and cakes...
the venue also had the opportunity to show prospective brides how the Old Course is set up for weddings, for example the stunning Ballroom.

The Old Course Hotel at the Scottish Wedding Fayre

The last couple of months have been busy with wedding fayres, and I was involved with the Old Course Hotel in St Andrews for two of them.

I was helping out on the Old Course's stand at the Scottish Wedding Fayre at Ingliston, giving out their leaflets for their own wedding fayre, and their wedding brochures which feature my images from weddings I have shot there and slideshow CDs of weddings I have shot there, that the hotel already hand out. The hotel owns several sample albums featuring those weddings.

It was great to meet so many people asking about a potential venue for their big day and I thank all the Old Course marketing team for an enjoyable weekend.

So much to blog!

Finally I have got back into my blog!

So watch out over the next few days for mass blogging; a fantastic engagement session in Las Vegas, wedding fayres with the Old Course Hotel, more images from Dave and Emma's wedding, some "Breathless" boudoir stuff and our trip to Arizona and Nevada.