Venues

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.

Or browse by area: the West End of Glasgow · Glasgow & Loch Lomond · Ayrshire · eloping anywhere

A couple signing their Marriage Schedule at House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
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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.

A couple celebrating their marriage at Saltcoats Town Hall, Ayrshire
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Saltcoats Town Hall

A characterful civic room on the Ayrshire coast — classic, central, and budget-friendly. My home town.

An empty wood-panelled ceremony room set out for a wedding at Riddles Court, Edinburgh
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Riddles Court, Edinburgh

A historic Old Town room off the Royal Mile — my first ceremony in Edinburgh.

A couple celebrating their marriage at Crossbasket Castle, South Lanarkshire
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Crossbasket Castle

A castle wedding venue in South Lanarkshire, half an hour from Glasgow.

Cottiers wedding venue, Glasgow West End
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Cottiers

Leiper's Gothic church-turned-theatre in Hyndland — candlelight, stained glass and an "I Do" in neon.

A newly married couple with celebrant John Paul Fitzpatrick under the glass dome of the Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens
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Kibble Palace

Vows under Victorian glass in the Botanic Gardens — tree ferns, statues, and rain as percussion.

A beach wedding ceremony on South Uist — triangle arch dressed in dried flowers on white sand, the Atlantic behind
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South Uist

Barefoot on a Hebridean beach — white sand, Atlantic light, and a handfasting with the tide out.

Garry Beach, Isle of Lewis — white sand and sea stacks, the setting for Laura and Marc's wedding
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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.

Katie and Adam signing the marriage schedule together at The Engine Works, Maryhill
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The Engine Works, Maryhill

A restored Victorian warehouse on the Forth & Clyde Canal — exposed brick, fairy lights, and my own home patch.

A couple celebrating their humanist wedding on an Arran beach, sea and rocks behind
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Isle of Arran

Scotland in miniature — beaches, mountains and a ferry crossing that feels like the start of a proper elopement.

A wedding on the Quiraing, Isle of Skye — the couple and celebrant on the clifftop with Trotternish ridges behind
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Isle of Skye

On top of the world — vows on the Quiraing with half of Skye rolled out beneath you.

A newly married couple and their family on the lawn at Cats Castle, Cardross, the Firth of Clyde behind
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Cats Castle

A turreted baronial house above the Clyde at Cardross — lawns, period rooms, and the water in every photograph.

Nicole and Andy toasting with champagne after their wedding at the Brig o' Doon House Hotel, Alloway
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Brig o' Doon House

Burns country weddings in Alloway — gardens on the River Doon and the auld brig in your photos.

Christine and Stewart with their celebrant outside the barn at Fruin Farm
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Fruin Farm

A working farm in Glen Fruin, over the hill from Loch Lomond — rustic, relaxed and utterly personal.

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The Grosvenor

Victorian terrace grandeur opposite the Botanic Gardens — the West End's classic hotel wedding.

Òran Mór wedding venue
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Òran Mór

Glasgow's converted West End church — married under Alasdair Gray's painted sky.

Citation wedding venue
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Citation

The old Merchant City courtroom — the happiest verdict ever passed.

Rowallan Castle wedding venue, the wood-panelled library with shelves of leather-bound books
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Rowallan Castle

A Lorimer castle out past Kilmaurs, and a panelled Ceremony Room that takes 120.

Glasgow University Chapel wedding venue, carved wooden stalls and stained glass in the Memorial Chapel
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Glasgow University Chapel

A 1929 memorial chapel on University Avenue, and yes, humanist ceremonies are allowed.

Sherbrooke Castle Hotel wedding venue, the Orangery set for a ceremony under its glass roof
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Sherbrooke Castle Hotel

A red sandstone baronial castle in Pollokshields, and a glass-roofed Orangery that takes 120.

Glasgow Film Theatre wedding venue — guests seated in Cinema 2
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Glasgow Film Theatre

An art-deco cinema off Sauchiehall Street — red carpet aisle, and every guest can see you.

The Exchange wedding venue
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The Exchange

City-centre glamour on Royal Exchange Square, one wedding a day.

Mar Hall wedding venue
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Mar Hall

Five-star Gothic grandeur on the Clyde, ten minutes from the airport.

The Cruin wedding venue
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The Cruin

Right on Loch Lomond's shore — the loch as your witness.

Ross Priory wedding venue
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Ross Priory

The hidden Gothic gem where I had my own wedding in 2012.

Ardoch wedding venue
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Ardoch

The exclusive-use Gartocharn estate — managed by my own cousin.

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Piersland House

Troon's 1899 mansion, built by the Johnnie Walker family — married in the house that whisky built.

A wedding ceremony on Loch Leven's shore at the Isles of Glencoe, the Pap of Glencoe behind
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Isles of Glencoe

A hotel on its own peninsula in Loch Leven, Ballachulish — mountains on every side of your vows.

Kinlochard Village Hall dressed for a wedding — chiavari chairs, ribbons and fairy lights
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Kinlochard Village Hall

The bonniest wee hall in the Trossachs — fairy lights, ribbons, and Loch Ard through the windows.

Seamill Hydro wedding venue
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Seamill Hydro

Vows on the Ayrshire coast with Arran on the horizon.

A newly married couple with celebrant John Paul at Riverside Lodge Hotel, Irvine
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Riverside Lodge Hotel, Irvine

Ceremony, wedding breakfast and evening do all under one roof on the Ayrshire coast.

An ornate historic fireplace at West Lothian Burgh Halls dressed with white flowers
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West Lothian Burgh Halls

A dignified civic room in the heart of Linlithgow, right on Edinburgh's doorstep.