Venues & Places I know inside out.
Every venue below is one I know from the front of the room — where the light falls, where the nerves hide, and exactly where your ceremony should stand. Marrying somewhere that isn't here? Even better. I love a new room, and I travel anywhere in Scotland.
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House for an Art Lover
Mackintosh's white-and-light masterpiece in Bellahouston Park — tall windows, clean lines, and a room that's already the star.
Saltcoats Town Hall
A characterful civic room on the Ayrshire coast — classic, central, and budget-friendly. My home town.
Riddles Court, Edinburgh
A historic Old Town room off the Royal Mile — my first ceremony in Edinburgh.
Crossbasket Castle
A castle wedding venue in South Lanarkshire, half an hour from Glasgow.
Cottiers
Leiper's Gothic church-turned-theatre in Hyndland — candlelight, stained glass and an "I Do" in neon.
Kibble Palace
Vows under Victorian glass in the Botanic Gardens — tree ferns, statues, and rain as percussion.
South Uist
Barefoot on a Hebridean beach — white sand, Atlantic light, and a handfasting with the tide out.
Garry Beach, Isle of Lewis
Sea stacks, white sand and the Minch as witness — a legal ceremony on one of Lewis's most dramatic beaches.
Pollokshields Burgh Hall
An A-listed 1890 baronial hall beside Maxwell Park, run by a community trust in Glasgow's Southside.
The Engine Works, Maryhill
A restored Victorian warehouse on the Forth & Clyde Canal — exposed brick, fairy lights, and my own home patch.
Isle of Arran
Scotland in miniature — beaches, mountains and a ferry crossing that feels like the start of a proper elopement.
Isle of Skye
On top of the world — vows on the Quiraing with half of Skye rolled out beneath you.
Cats Castle
A turreted baronial house above the Clyde at Cardross — lawns, period rooms, and the water in every photograph.
Brig o' Doon House
Burns country weddings in Alloway — gardens on the River Doon and the auld brig in your photos.
Fruin Farm
A working farm in Glen Fruin, over the hill from Loch Lomond — rustic, relaxed and utterly personal.
The Grosvenor
Victorian terrace grandeur opposite the Botanic Gardens — the West End's classic hotel wedding.
Òran Mór
Glasgow's converted West End church — married under Alasdair Gray's painted sky.
Citation
The old Merchant City courtroom — the happiest verdict ever passed.
Dalmeny Park
Dalmeny Park House Hotel in Barrhead: marry indoors, keep the garden bandstand for the photographs.
Glenbervie House
A Victorian house in Larbert: vows in the drawing room, then straight out onto the terrace.
The Tudor Hotel, Airdrie
The whole wedding under one roof, a short walk from Airdrie station.
Rowallan Castle
A Lorimer castle out past Kilmaurs, and a panelled Ceremony Room that takes 120.
Glasgow University Chapel
A 1929 memorial chapel on University Avenue, and yes, humanist ceremonies are allowed.
Sherbrooke Castle Hotel
A red sandstone baronial castle in Pollokshields, and a glass-roofed Orangery that takes 120.
Glasgow Film Theatre
An art-deco cinema off Sauchiehall Street — red carpet aisle, and every guest can see you.
The Exchange
City-centre glamour on Royal Exchange Square, one wedding a day.
Mar Hall
Five-star Gothic grandeur on the Clyde, ten minutes from the airport.
The Cruin
Right on Loch Lomond's shore — the loch as your witness.
Ross Priory
The hidden Gothic gem where I had my own wedding in 2012.
Ardoch
The exclusive-use Gartocharn estate — managed by my own cousin.
Piersland House
Troon's 1899 mansion, built by the Johnnie Walker family — married in the house that whisky built.
Isles of Glencoe
A hotel on its own peninsula in Loch Leven, Ballachulish — mountains on every side of your vows.
Kinlochard Village Hall
The bonniest wee hall in the Trossachs — fairy lights, ribbons, and Loch Ard through the windows.
Seamill Hydro
The beach I grew up jumping onto, with Arran on the horizon.
Riverside Lodge Hotel, Irvine
Ceremony, wedding breakfast and evening do all under one roof on the Ayrshire coast.
The Gailes Hotel & Spa, Irvine
Chandeliers in the Lagavulin Suite, a glass-roofed conservatory, and the links on the doorstep.
West Lothian Burgh Halls
A dignified civic room in the heart of Linlithgow, right on Edinburgh's doorstep.
Sloans, Argyle Street
A Category A ballroom above the Argyll Arcade. I've married couples here in June and in January.
Artà, Merchant City
A candlelit Spanish hacienda in the old cheese market, with the ceremony in front of a great carved fireplace.
The Tall Ship Glenlee
An 1896 Clyde-built barque at the Riverside Museum. Hire all four levels, bring a piper, and give guests a boarding time.
The Bothy, Ruthven Lane
A cobbled-lane Scottish restaurant for small weddings, where Emily and Gill passed their rings round every guest.
One Devonshire Gardens
Victorian townhouses off Great Western Road: fireplaces, bay windows and ceremonies for up to 80.
Mackintosh Queen's Cross
The only church Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed that was ever built, in Maryhill, with his own chancel table to sign at.
Boclair House, Bearsden
An exclusive-use 1890 mansion in Bearsden, with a chandeliered Grand Ballroom looking onto the lawn.
Glazert Country House, Lennoxtown
A family-owned country house hotel under the Campsie Fells, with a red-carpet ceremony room and gardens by the river.
The Busby Hotel, Clarkston
A Southside hotel three minutes' walk from Busby station, with a panelled ceremony room and a balcony.
Dalziel Park, Motherwell
A family-run hotel in 250 acres of woodland near Motherwell, with a nine-hole course and private wedding gardens.
Strathaven Hotel
A listed 1797 country house on the edge of Strathaven, with a plaster-ceilinged ceremony room and a courtyard.
The Waterside Hotel, Seamill
The other hotel on the Seamill shore: a ceremony on the lawn facing Arran, with an indoor lounge as plan B.
Kelburn Castle, Fairlie
The graffiti castle's walled garden, where yews over a thousand years old stand over the lawn, and four more licensed spots on the estate.
Fairfield House Hotel, Ayr
A Victorian mansion on the Ayr seafront, where one suite hosts the ceremony, the meal and the evening.
The Fox & Willow, Ayr
An Ayr gastropub with a hire-it-yourself Peacock Lounge, right for vow renewals and small, relaxed ceremonies.
Adamton House, Prestwick
An 1885 red sandstone country house near Prestwick Airport, once a US Air Force officers' club.
Enterkine, Annbank
A 350-acre estate by the River Ayr with an oak and glass pavilion, where Brycen and Ammara celebrated at six in the evening.
Fingal, Leith
A former lighthouse ship moored in Leith, with a ballroom built into the old hold and room for an intimate wedding.
Kimpton Charlotte Square
Seven Georgian townhouses on Charlotte Square, with event rooms, a glass-roofed courtyard and the square's private gardens.
Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
A book-lined library on Queen Street, with balconies above, marble fireplaces and Queen Street Gardens across the road.
The Den at Culross
A converted farm steading near Culross in West Fife: ceremonies in a sandstone byre under handmade timber trusses.
Guardswell Farm, Perthshire
A hillside farm steading above the Carse of Gowrie: stone, timber, a firepit lawn and a blank canvas.
Tay House, Dunkeld
Small weddings on a riverside deck over the Tay in Dunkeld, with Telford's bridge in view.
The Riviera at Lux, Stirling
A purpose-built marquee on a farm near Stirling, looking over the Forth to the Wallace Monument.
Altskeith Country House, Loch Ard
A white country house on the shore of Loch Ard, with ceremonies under the lawn's great trees.
Kilmartin Castle, Argyll
A 1550 tower house in Kilmartin Glen for micro weddings of up to twenty, among standing stones and ancient cairns.