North Coast 500 Wedding

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“There aren’t enough stars I can give Debbie as a rating, she was just faultless start to finish. We eloped just the 2 of us, and Debbie calmed my nerves all morning, orchestrated the nervous pacing groom and understood what we wanted without us having to even speak. She captured our vibe perfectly, and understood exactly how we wanted the day to be captured. The photos honestly took our breath away, nothing was too much. Debbie and her husband even drove us down to a nearby Loch we wanted to capture some photos at. Not only is Debbie an amazing photographer but she is always a genuinely lovely person. Really couldn’t recommend her enough!”

Amy & Tyler eloped last month to the Scottish Highlands and it was a perfect day!

Their story:

Back in the days of Blackberry Messenger Amy’s details were put out by a friend and Tyler reached out to her for a date. The plan was that Tyler would take Amy to see The Hobbit at the Cinema but unbeknown to Tyler, Amy really really didn’t want to see The Hobbit so she missed her bus on purpose and turned up over 2 hours late…but Tyler waited the 2 hours and 10 years later here they are eloping to the Scottish Highlands.

They held their ceremony in the garden of their wee holiday cottage in Whitebridge and it was stunning. It was lovely to work alongside Alyson Stewart Humanist Celebrant again who is amazing!Amy and Tyler had a proper Highland ceremony with a few traditions such as drinking from the Quaich, a Handfasting and Oathing Stone it was beautiful.

The couple asked me to be one of their witnesses which is always an honour.

“Debbie you’ve blown us away. We love every single one. It’s exactly the type of vibe/ mood we wanted. I’m genuinely in love with every single picture. We are both in tears again looking through them lol. Thank you so much for capturing exactly what we wanted.“

www.debbiethorntonphotography.co.uk

For all booking enquires: www.debbiethorntonphotography.co.uk

I am based in Wester Ross and some of the areas I cover are Torridon Wedding Photographer, Shieldaig Wedding Photographer, Kinlochewe Wedding Photographer, Gairloch Wedding Photographer, Achnasheen Wedding Photographer, Poolewe Wedding Photographer, Ullapool Wedding Photographer, Achmelvich Wedding Photographer and Applecross Wedding Photographer.

For all enquiries: https://www.debbiethorntonphotography.co.uk/

“…they are GORGEOUS!!!! …you did such an incredible job capturing the love, emotion and joy of the day!! I am seriously in love with our entire gallery…”

This wedding was unreal at Dunnet Head Lighthouse, the most northerly point of Scotland.

First meeting 20 years ago while both working in Italy, ‘a love story in the making’ as Lisa says… they were separated by distance living in different parts of the world with Lisa in America and Roger in Scotland. Life happened then a worldwide pandemic brought them back together.

When Lisa & Roger got in touch with me they said ‘We are looking for a photographer to capture the day in a natural and intimate way as we are joining together our lives, families and cultures. Your work is beautiful and feel that it’s exactly the style that we are looking for!’

The couple took on the mammoth task of organising not only 1 but 2 weddings in separate countries, Scotland and America, in the same year! The first wedding celebration was in Caithness as this is where Roger is from and wow what a place for wedding, it is absolutely gorgeous! Even in the pouring rain it’s gorgeous, we made that lovely discovery on the day.

It was touch and go at point whether the Caithness wedding would go actually ahead because Lisa’s visa didn’t arrive….until 30 MINUTES before her flight was due to take off to Scotland and then sadly some of Lisa’s families flights from America got cancelled but they all got there in the end and it was unbelievable. Lisa & Roger have so much love for each other everything just fell into place on the day and it was truly beautiful..

On the wedding day, they planned to have the ceremony outside but the weather was in true Scottish style a bit wild so they opted to move the ceremony to the wee Lighthouse event space which was decorated with lots of fairy lights, it was beautiful. The couple wrote their own vows and Lisa ended hers by telling Roger ‘It’s always been you‘…stunning.

After the ceremony we went on a wee adventure down to the shoreline for photos and explored the moorland it was amazing. Huge shout out to Lisa’s amazing friend Kelly who helped organised so much on the day and drove the couple and myself to the locations.

A wee bit of a shocker was that all the electricity cut off after the ceremony due to the wild weather so the speeches were done by candle light. Shout out to Norseman Hotel – The Caithness Collection who managed to cook an amazing meal for everyone from one of the Lighthouse Keepers wee cottages next door! And to K.G Events and Graham of Dynamic Sounds who got the electricity back on in time for the first dance, phew!

It was incredible…