Wedding Photographer Perth and Kinross — Scone Palace, the Big Tree Country and the River Tay
Perth and Kinross is Scotland’s most diversely and most grandly scenic central Highland county for wedding photography — a region whose geographical range spans the flat agricultural Carse of Gowrie along the Tay estuary, the fertile Strathearn and Strathtay glens running west into the Highland mountains, the ancient pinewoods of the Tay Forest Park’s Atholl glens and the Sma’ Glen’s narrow mountain corridor above Crieff. The county town of Perth — the Fair City on the Tay, with Scone Palace three miles north and Kinnoull Hill above the town — provides Perthshire’s urban portrait setting of considerable Scottish market city character. For Perth and Kinross wedding photography, the Perthshire landscape’s combination of Scone’s palace lawns, the Tay’s broad salmon river and the Atholl Highlands beyond provide a portrait quality exceptional even in Scotland’s competition.
Scone Palace, the Pinetum and the Stone of Destiny
Scone Palace — the Regency Gothic palace of the Earls of Mansfield three miles north of Perth, rebuilt in the early nineteenth century on the site of the medieval Augustinian priory where Scottish kings were inaugurated on the Stone of Destiny, with the 100-acre park, the formal walled garden of mulberry trees and the magnificent Murray Star Maze — provides Perthshire’s most historically significant and most architecturally elaborate private wedding venue: the palace’s pink sandstone Gothic facade, the Star Maze’s pattern of 5,000 beech trees and the pinetum’s specimen conifers provide portrait settings of royal Scottish history and Victorian garden design of exceptional quality. The palace’s apartments — with their French furniture, Scottish portraits and the Coronation Chair replicas — provide interior portrait settings of considerable Scottish aristocratic depth.
The River Tay, the Big Tree Country and the Atholl Glens
The River Tay — Scotland’s greatest river by volume, 120 miles long and draining fully a sixth of Scotland’s landmass, with the broadest salmon pool of any British river at the Tay’s bend below Perth and the tidal estuary extending from Perth to the Tay Bridge at Dundee — provides Perthshire’s primary waterside portrait setting of Scottish river grandeur. The Perthshire Big Tree Country — the collection of champion-height specimen conifers at Fortingall (the Fortingall Yew, Europe’s oldest living tree at an estimated 3,000–5,000 years old), the Hermitage at Dunkeld (the Ossian’s Hall viewpoint above the Black Linn waterfall of the Braan) and the Larch at Dunkeld — provides portrait settings of extreme arboricultural age and character. Glen Lyon — Scotland’s longest glen, described by William Wordsworth as ‘the most beautiful glen in Scotland’ — provides a mountain glen portrait setting of considerable Perthshire grandeur.