"Stuart and I are both thoroughly delighted with the outcome of Andrew’s wedding photos. We both feel as if they accurately portray the journey of the day and have left us with memories we can recall time and time again.
Andrew was extremely attentive in making sure he catered to our wants, capturing a mixture of formal and informal photos, as we wished. Himself and his assistant were both very easy to get on with and did a good job of organising us.
Not only were we pleased with the outcome but our minister was really happy with how unobtrusive he was during our service and our hotel was shocked when our photos were completed on time, allowing them to stick to their schedule. Many thanks for capturing our day Andrew, we would definitely recommend you!"
-Stuart & Eileidh Eunson-
A few weeks ago I photographed Eilidh and Stuart Eunson's wedding day. They were the perfect clients, hiring me to document the day in my unobtrusive journalistic style (catching fleeting moments that others might miss). I strongly believe that taking this photographic approach to a wedding day creates a set of images that really tells the story of the day, making for much a much better viewing experience when looked through as a whole. We also did the usual formal family shots in the middle of the day but the majority of the focus was on capturing that fleeting moments throughout the day and there were plenty of fun one's for me to capture.
We started the day at Rathven Church (near Buckie), it was a very rainy and dull day which is obviously not ideal for a wedding to say the least but I knew we could make it work. My approach to any photographic situation is to make the most of it, if it is pouring rain then let's use that to our advantage and make some fun images using that rain, make the rain a prop in our photo's rather than our enemy. Due to the weather conditions I knew before even shooting a frame that black and white would look awesome for most out door shots especially sing my Carl Zeiss lenses which really excel for monochrome shooting. Also soon as I went into the church I saw that the dull weather outside was creating a really nice diffused light coming through the large stain glass windows which looked great, so this horrible weather was working out pretty good already, photographically at least (i'm sure some guests might not have liked getting wet).
After the church we gathered outside for some guests shots and for the bride and groom to make their exit and head off for Duff house where we would do some family formals and get the bride and groom portraits. Duff House is a perfect place for this kind of photography (if you don't know Duff House I suggest you google it, it looks amazing and has a lot of interesting history). Old stone walls that has great texture, big outdoor staircase, amazing indoor locations, you would be hard pushed to find a better location. after doing the family formals I spent half an hour with Eilidh and Stuart getting some candid and some posed shots inside and outside where the umbrella had to come into play. This is what I meant by making the most of weather conditions, the umbrella actually made for some much more interesting images, adding a bit of humour as well as making for some really nice classic photographs. Eilidh and Stuart were having fun and that comes through in the photographs.
After our rainy photo's outside we all headed up to the Banff Springs where the cake cutting, speeches, dinner and dance would take place making for a great end to a great day. In true Scottish fashion the following day was blistering sunshine but to be honest I think the dull rainy weather made for really cool photographs and it defineitely didn't dampen anyone's spirits.
Congrats again to Stuart & Eilidh!
Here is a selection of images I feel tells the story of the day.
