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
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.
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.
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
Vows on the Ayrshire coast with Arran on the horizon.
Riverside Lodge Hotel, Irvine
Ceremony, wedding breakfast and evening do all under one roof on the Ayrshire coast.
West Lothian Burgh Halls
A dignified civic room in the heart of Linlithgow, right on Edinburgh's doorstep.