Wedding Photographer Edinburgh — Edinburgh Castle, the Royal Mile and the Scottish Borders
Edinburgh is one of the most dramatic capital cities in Europe — a medieval Old Town tumbling down a volcanic ridge below a castle rock, a Georgian New Town of elegant squares and crescents laid out in rational symmetry below, and Arthur’s Seat rising from Holyrood Park to give a wild mountain summit within ten minutes’ walk of the Royal Mile. For Edinburgh wedding photography, these contrasts are a constant resource: the Royal Mile’s ancient closes and wynds, the Georgian formality of Charlotte Square, the view west from Arthur’s Seat at golden hour and the reflections in the canal at Fountainbridge all sit within a single city of extraordinary photographic density.
Edinburgh’s Wedding Venues and Architecture
Edinburgh’s licensed wedding venues include some of the finest spaces in Scotland: the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle with its medieval weaponry and painted ceiling, the Signet Library on Parliament Square (one of the most beautiful Georgian interiors in the UK), Dynamic Earth below Salisbury Crags, the Royal Botanic Garden, the Surgeon’s Hall Museum and Prestonfield House in the Holyrood Park shadow of the Pentland Hills. The National Museum of Scotland, Dovecot Studios and The Caves below the South Bridge arches represent the newer wave of cultural venue conversions that give Edinburgh a contemporary alternative to its historic grandeur. I have worked across the Edinburgh venue portfolio extensively and know each space’s layout, light and best portrait positions.
Arthur’s Seat, the Pentlands and the Scottish Borders
Perhaps the strongest photographic asset unique to Edinburgh weddings is the proximity of wild, genuine mountain terrain within the city itself. Arthur’s Seat — an extinct volcano at 251 metres — provides panoramic views over the city in every direction and is accessible from the Holyrood Palace car park in a 45-minute walk. The Pentland Hills, beginning south of the city at Hillend, provide twenty miles of open moorland ridge walking within twenty minutes of the centre. For couples wanting to extend a Scottish wedding day into the wider landscape, the Scottish Borders counties of Midlothian, East Lothian and the Borders themselves begin within an hour of Edinburgh, with the Eildon Hills, the Lammermuir Hills and the East Lothian coast all providing Scottish landscape photography of the highest quality.