Simona & Marius
I’ve been wanting to blog about this wedding for some time but, for reasons I’ll explain later, I held off until now. This was the wedding of Simona and Marius, a young couple from Lithuania who came over to Edinburgh to get Married. Simona originally contacted me from Lithuania, specifically because of my fashion photography influence; she wanted the shots to have a “fashion feel” to them and this is something I bring to my photography from the fashion work I do. Not always appropriate for some weddings but I was relishing the chance to work with this handsome young couple! It’s a very romantic story; The guys originally met in Edinburgh and decided to head back here to become wed in secret. Their way of announcing their news was to present their family with the wedding album – a gorgeous little Queensberry album in midnight blue contemporary leather. We met on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile and headed off to a secret little garden which I’ve often used for photography. Then we walked up to the Edinburgh Registrar’s office and Simona was thrilled by all the calls of “Good Luck!” and “Congratulations!” being offered by the public as we passed. After the ceremony the couple and their two witnesses headed off for their wedding breakfast. We met once again later that night as the couple were keen to have a night photograph (which is a sort of signature of mine) by Edinburgh Castle. We met in Castle Street, where there’s a nice backdrop of the North face of the famous landmark. I decided to go mad and use the studio flash heads. So Marius and Simona huddled together in my car while I set up the lights and then we got a few shots of this scene – a lovely way to finish the storybook of the wedding album.


















































