Wedding Photography Scotland – A Christmas Wedding in the Highlands

Wedding Photography Scotland – The Wedding of Adam and Claire Sparks – Coul House, Strathpeffer

As Scottish Wedding Photographers, people are often surprised when we tell them we don’t usually get much snow in Scotland – however both this year and last year we’ve been lucky enough to photograph two snow-filled weddings.

Of course, when it comes to Christmas Weddings we all secretly hope for a little snow – not enough to hinder our guests arrival, but just enough to make our Winter Wedding Photographs look absolutely fabulous. Well our final wedding photography booking of 2011 left nothing to chance, selecting a location as far north as they dared in the hope that they might just be fortunate enough to get some snow for their Christmas wedding.

Today’s Wedding photography blog features the Winter Wedding of Adam and Claire Sparks who chose the delightful wedding venue of Coul House Hotel in Contin near Strathpeffer for their winter wedding celebrations and what a terrific place for a Scottish Highland wedding.

The wonderful little village of Strathpeffer is approximately 20 miles North of Inverness set in the beautiful Scottish hills and woodland or Ross and Comarty. This was officially the most Northerly wedding we’d ever photographed.

The couple were blessed with perfect winter weather for their day with just a scattering of snow as guests were arriving the evening before and then again on the wedding day. It all made for some stunning photographs!

Of course, as Scottish Wedding Photographers we have learned never to trust the weather – just the week before, we had left our house in three inches of snow, all suited and booted for a snow-filled day ahead. Of course by the time we arrived at the venue there was not a bit of snow on the ground. It was a very different story today however, with temperatures hitting minus 5 degrees, any snow was not going to melt very quickly.

Our bride Claire was an absolute trouper and was determined to get some photographs out in the grounds, despite the cold. Just as we were finishing off the photo session, the snow started to fall giving us the picture perfect winter wedding photographs.

Claire looked absolutely stunning in her beautiful wedding gown which looked just perfect against the wintery backdrop and I don’t even think you can see her teeth chattering!

As usual here are a few of our favourite wedding photographs from the day.