Scottish Wedding Photographer Alan Hutchison Photography

Wedding Photography Scotland – Ganga and Kieran Welsh – Airth Castle

The majestic wedding venue of Airth Castle Hotel in Central Scotland was the setting for today’s wedding photography blog entry, featuring the Wedding of Ganga and Kieran Welsh.

Airth Castle Hotel is an extremely popular Scottish Wedding Venue and is also very well liked amongst Scottish Wedding Photographers, with its fabulous grounds and character-filled rooms.

Part of Chief Executive Steven McLeod’s highly successful Aurora Group of Hotels, the castle is sister to Glenbervie House another very popular wedding venue as well as Solsgirth House, which has recently been taken over by the group and is also featuring well in our forward calendar of wedding photography bookings.

Airth Castle itself is steeped in Scottish History and dates back to the late 1400′s, however it wasn’t until the early 19th century that the now familiar frontage of the hotel was built.

Weddings at Airth Castle Hotel are always great fun, and it can be clearly seen that the hotel and its staff have many years experience hosting weddings. The traditions and customs they bring to proceedings on the day make it a truly spectacular occasion for everyone involved. The Master of Ceremonies, Hugh, is one of life’s great characters and among the Scottish Wedding Photography community he must be one of the most well-known MCs in Scotland.

Ganga and Kieran were blessed with a beautifully crisp and sunny Winter’s day for their Scottish Wedding. We arrived a couple of hours before the wedding ceremony to capture the fun of the bridal preparations. As is our normal routine Alan and I started photographing the detail shots, before Alan headed off to find the groomsmen, whilst I stayed with the girls.

I think I got the best job that morning as the girls were having great fun – at one point there were four bridesmaids, two flower girls, a couple of friends and Ganga’s parents all gathered in the room for some champagne prior to the ceremony.

The two flower girls were very cute and were exhausted jumping on the bed and running up and down the hotel corridors before the wedding even began!

There was a very emotional moment when Ganga’s Dad arrived to see his daughter in her wedding dress for the first time – Tears were flowing openly (including mine) – and there were some special moments when Ganga and her Dad were left by themselves for a while which I was very privileged to be allowed to capture. It’s little moments like this that make your Wedding Photographs priceless – Ganga will be able to look back at that photograph for years to come and the memories will come flooding back of the last few moments with her father before she became a married woman.

For the Wedding colour scheme, Ganga and Kieran chose a riot of various pinks and blues for the flowers used throughout the day, matching the deep blue of the bridesmaids’ dresses perfectly. They were absolutely beautiful.

Highlight of the day was the Best Man’s speech by Kieran’s brother – where he recalled some of the many letters that a very young Kieran had written to him, when his older brother first started working abroad in France – they were absolutely priceless. “Have you changed your eating habits to frogs legs and snails or do you still eat mince ‘n tatties”, was one of the “tamer” emails.

As Ganga and Kieran live down South, many of the guests travelled a long way for their wedding but it was clear their long journey was worth it, as everyone had a thoroughly enjoyable time.

We had some beautiful but challenging light for the wedding photographs. Fortunately these also happen to be Alan’s favourite conditions for creating some stunning wedding photographs – Alan has selected some of his favourite wedding photographs from the day – see if you can spot which one’s are mine!

Thank you Ganga and Kieran for allowing Alan Hutchison Photography to be part of your special day, we hope you enjoy your wedding photographs for years to come and that they will always remind you of your very special Wedding Day at Airth Castle.