Stories from the front of the room.
Every ceremony I lead is written from scratch, so no two are alike. These are the full stories — how the couples met, what they chose, what the day was really like — and below them, moments from many more. If you are planning your own, steal freely.
Ben & Jessica
Years at the same parties, twelve lockdown Fridays in an empty Edinburgh, and a first date his sister paid for.
Rachel & Andrew
An emo-night invitation turned down, a proposal on a printed wine cork, an unplugged ceremony and a harpist playing Mogwai.
Kelly & Michael
A shared taxi in 2012, a no-cats rule that lasted three months, and a handfasting with a loop for their wee boy.
Hannah & Euan
A first date arranged on BlackBerry Messenger at fourteen, and fourteen years of talking every single day.
Hazel & Matt
A horse in the New Forest, a proposal that survived Covid and The Mousetrap, and a bride I now get to work with.
Rhona & Stephen
A Bumble match on 11 September, a text sent from four feet away, and a wedding six years and a day later.
Brycen & Ammara
Legally married quietly in Glasgow, then a six o'clock celebration in Ayrshire with everybody in it.
Nadia & Rob
Kill Bill met Hulk Hogan at a Halloween party. Six years and one moustache later, a Friday wedding in the Southside.
Claire & Russell
A first date with a bridesmaid spying, a kiss on the second attempt, and a handfasting in the old courthouse.
Abbie & Owen
Airport security took her fake tan and never noticed the ring. A Nashville rooftop proposal, Elvis in, Fatboy Slim out, and confetti from the gallery.
Jade & Grant
A school pal's matchmaking fib, sixteen years together, a family handfasting with their two girls, and a teal rug that thinks it is a putting green.
Natasha & Darren
He proposed on a freezing bench in Krakow, halfway through a banana. Three weans, a piper, and a drawing room that roared the “We do!”
Amy & Ross
He told her he liked her trainers on the number 23 bus. Twelve years later, Olly the rough collie brought up the rings in the Library Room.
Gary & Lynsay
A borrowed-bag meet-cute outside a Coatbridge pub, a Cinderella carriage ring box, a piper at the doors and their son on ring duty.
Clare & Jamie
Two Ayrshire teachers, twenty-nine years together, a lawn ceremony in July sunshine, and no proposal whatsoever.
Louis & Melissa
Three years on the same campus without meeting, one truly terrible chat-up line, and rings hidden under a seat in the old courthouse.
Emma-Rose & Daniel
Two Glasgow doctors back on their own campus, a handfasting under the Strachan glass, and a Mull proposal that had to wait for the cheese tour.
Lisa & Alasdair
Primary Five classmates who found each other again forty years later, married on the lochside terrace with a harp and the breaking of the glass.
Martha & Gavin
A cowboy and Dolly Parton on the first date, a rat's funeral on the third, and a quaich the groom's dad carved by hand.
Egle & John
A fireman's hat on the first date, a proposal with a ring made of three carrots, amber on every seat and a dog in charge of the rings.
Kyle & Kirsty
Two Freshers' Week pals who took years to admit it. A quaich, a handfasting, a proposal involving a Lidl bag, and a 90-year-old flower girl.
Becky & Tom
Two copywriters who met over words and fell in love over films, married on the red carpet in Cinema 2 — popcorn on every seat.
Colin & Lisa Marie
Met on a bus to RockNess, a babygrow proposal on Christmas Eve, thirteen years engaged — and married at last under the mountains of Glencoe.
Barry & Deborah
Two blended families, a sand ceremony poured from Stevenston and Saltcoats, and a proposal made over Facebook Messenger from Canada.
Rebecca & Cameron
A Clapham pub, a Krakow proposal, and a quaich poured by a dad and an uncle — our first Edinburgh wedding.
Andrew & Alicia
A lost phone, a LinkedIn reunion, a compass-ring proposal in Finnieston, and a handfasting with two tartans.
Chris & David
Twenty-five years in the making since a Directory Enquiries call centre, an Etta James entrance, and rings carried in on a Jack Russell's collar.
Aimee & Ollie
A violin down the aisle, a quaich toast, Roger Moore's double in the front row — and a two-word proposal in a secret Prague garden.
Stuart & Rebecca
A handfasting under Alasdair Gray's painted sky, a Tinder date gone gloriously wrong — and a bride finally free of spelling S-O-O-M-A-N to call centres.
Laura & Marc
A handfasting on white Hebridean sand, morning letters instead of vows — and Gelert the greyhound delivering the rings on his collar.
Emily & Gill
Two brides, gin in the quaich, rings warmed by every hand in the room — and a love story that began with maths worksheets and Neighbours.
Nicole & Andy
Pipes at the door, Wild Mountain Thyme down the aisle, a quaich of two family tipples — and a proposal on skis at sunset in Norway.
Christine & Stewart
Two malts in the quaich, two tartans in the handfasting, a blended family front and centre — and a first date that lasted nine hours.
Sarah & Chris
Two families flown in from Canada, a tartan handfasting for the new clan — and an engagement by helicopter on a mountaintop.
Laura & Chris
The Velvet Underground down the aisle, Carver and bell hooks readings — and an engagement five years to the day after the first date.
Kirsty & Andrew
Desks twenty feet apart at work, a Tinder super like, and a proposal interrupted by a taxi horn — sealed with a tartan handfasting stitched with their names.
Frances & Kevin
A Match.com match on Kevin's last roll of the dice, a spicy-ramen first date, and a proposal met with "I am watching the Bake Off!"
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