The ethereal environment of Drumtochty Glen in Aberdeenshire was the fantastic spot for Heather and Andrew to tie the knot.
Getting at first began setting up a marquee marriage, they switched venues halfway through and had been thrilled with their springtime celebration at the elegant Drumtochty Castle.
From Heather’s rust orange velvet sneakers to her incredible flower crown to the dream marriage ceremony group (place the WFILfam people, highlighted in orange), there is SO considerably to love!
How did you two meet?
We went to the very same secondary university and have been fantastic pals just before turning out to be a pair in fifth year. Andrew (ultimately) proposed on our 10 yr anniversary!
What motivated your wedding ceremony programs.
We are not overly standard, so we didn’t truly feel specifically constrained by the norms. Our most important inspiration was simply to make the day relaxed, at ease and cosy for us and our visitors.
Inform us about your venue…
We in fact altered venues mid-way via setting up. Originally, we experienced been likely to have a marquee design and style Do it yourself marriage ceremony in the grounds of a private-employ house, but provided the uncertainty and the logistics of pulling jointly loads of unique suppliers, we made the decision to transfer.
Drumtochty Castle is located in the village in which Andrew grew up, so it is extremely area to us and experienced this kind of a familiar experience – we have normally admired it from afar! The actuality that we could host our closest spouse and children and close friends jointly less than 1 roof for the complete wedding ceremony weekend truly appealed to us.
On best of that, the crew at Drumtochty are outstanding and took the strain out of our setting up! The food all over the weekend was incredible. We handed the location a very long checklist of dietary needs and they taken care of it with overall simplicity.
We had been so well looked following by all of the employees throughout the weekend and it felt seriously personal to have the area to ourselves.
We had the ceremony outdoors the front of the castle and our attractive humanist celebrant was Gary Smith. He acted promptly when a big gust of wind blew about a single of the flower preparations and gave all people a chuckle.
As we only experienced a small number of visitors, we held our reception in Drumtochty’s dining home, the place we all sat around a solitary desk.
We appreciate your outfits! Convey to us more…
My gown was from Catherine Deane (the Loyal gown). I located it searching online and managed to grab it in the sale! Bridal boutique shopping just wasn’t for me, and getting a brief woman, I realized that what ever I found would need a ton of changing anyway – it felt a great deal much easier for me to do it from dwelling.
My dress was really summery, an off-white oyster colour and protected in dotted chiffon and lace detailing. It is absolutely nothing at all like what I considered I would go for (obtaining no sleeves and staying off-white!) but I felt tremendous comfortable and peaceful, which is the most significant factor in my e book. Frances Bean in Stonehaven altered my gown and was so client and skilful, changing it to match me flawlessly.
I also wore a pair of rust orange velvet mules with my costume, as I couldn’t uncover any ‘traditional’ shoes I favored. I adored them and they gave my outfit a wonderful pop of color! Importantly – they were being also tremendous comfortable. I wore some deep blue sapphire earrings that had been gifted to me on the morning of the marriage ceremony from Andrew (by means of his sister) and a wonderful, multi-coloured flower crown manufactured by our great florist, Linda. I experienced a deep purple velvet cardi for afterwards on in the night when it bought cooler.
Andrew wore his very own kilt from R Doig & Sons in Montrose, along with his personal accessories. His kilt pin was a unique gift from his mom and dad some a long time back and his enjoy was a reward from me for his 18th birthday.
Your photos are lovely!
We found Loraine Ross when we ended up trawling via the world-wide-web for a Scottish photographer we beloved. As soon as we noticed her images we were right away drawn to her relaxed, candid and colourful style! She was so proficient and valuable in the operate up to the day and extra than joyful to chat to us when we experienced any concerns.
We adore how genuinely our pics capture our marriage ceremony working day. Loraine equipped in so properly on the day and did these types of a excellent career making us experience at ease (with no also substantially posing!). We will cherish our photos forever and we feel so fortunate to have had Loraine there to seize them!
What was your very first dance music?
We didn’t approach on acquiring a initial dance, but our family members and close friends were being having none of that and soon after a handful of eyeglasses of champers we ultimately obliged. Andrew put on Billy Joel’s ‘Piano Man’ as he is aware of it is a track I love and we experienced a wee dance to that.
Have been there any difficulties alongside the way?
Shifting the venue was quite nerve-racking but we acquired there in the finish! I truly feel like on the day we entirely forgot about just about anything complicated in the operate up to the wedding ceremony and just appreciated each individual moment. The silent disco was a very final-minute addition and we are so happy that we went with it in the conclude.
Did you take care of to stick to your budget?
Sure, but that was helped massively by the tiny guest listing.
Any information?
Really do not enable force or tradition dictate your options. Do what you want, it’s your marriage and the individuals that adore you will appreciate what you do!
Honeymoon or minimoon?
We experienced at first planned to have a a few week vacation abroad, it’s possible travelling close to Asia or South The usa, but we did not ebook nearly anything simply because of the uncertainty about journey!
In its place, we expended two weeks on the west coastline of Scotland – it was superb. Fingers crossed we can do the massive excursion up coming yr.
What’s the one particular second you will always recall?
Andrew’s brother Neil (very best man) lives in New Zealand and wasn’t ready to come across for the wedding day. He recorded his speech, which Andrew’s father, Angus performed for us on the day. It felt like he was in the home with us, it was great – there wasn’t a dry eye in the property!
Due to the fact we weren’t originally organizing on owning a cake, we didn’t really believe about the logistics of when to minimize the cake and what to slice it with. When the time arrived just after evening meal (and following Andrew and I had consumed our honest share of wine with our food!), we have been handed a sword to slice the cake! We were fully shocked and located it absolutely hilarious in equal actions and roared with laughter even though wielding our sword to slice our cake.
Which of your suppliers totally rocked your wedding day day? Any person you’d like to give a shout out to?
All of our suppliers were being awesome and we would propose them all.
Loraine contributed so significantly to our working day and has presented us shots that will retain our memories fresh for a life span. The workforce at Drumtochty have been incredible in the course of our wedding ceremony weekend and produced us all come to feel at house.
Linda, our florist, thoroughly knocked it out of the park with the bouquets, they have been extraordinary and we were in overall awe. Gary, our humanist celebrant, gave us a relaxed and private ceremony that we will often bear in mind.
Eventually, the Ritz Trio are this kind of a classy team of men and their songs was the best addition to our day!
Really like Heather and Andrew’s tips – as we generally say here at WFIL, you do YOU. x
