Just the Two of You: Couples Photoshoots on the Isle of Skye
There are lots of reasons couples come to the Isle of Skye.
A honeymoon, or an anniversary. Maybe you have finally booked that long-awaited trip to Scotland. Perhaps it’s someone’s birthday. Or you’re visiting just because you’ve both looked at photographs of Skye for years and finally decided it was time to come and see it for yourselves.
And while you’re here, you’re going to take photographs. Lots of them! Photographs of mountains and waterfalls. Photographs of each other standing in front of lochs and on beaches. And you might even get some wonky selfies with you both in them, where the scenery looks magnificent but one of you appears to have lost the top of your head.
There is another option, one that I am here to help you with. You could both get in the photographs.
You Don’t Have to Be Getting Married on Skye
I photograph lots of weddings and elopements here, but you absolutely don’t need to be getting married to book a couples photoshoot on the Isle of Skye. Some of my couples are here on honeymoon after getting married somewhere else, and some are celebrating an anniversary.
Some are revisiting Scotland years after their wedding, and some simply want beautiful photographs together somewhere that means something to them. You don’t need to have a ceremony, you don’t need to say vows. Couples portraits are for you if you want to spend a couple of hours together, exploring Skye, while I quietly make sure there’s some photographic evidence that you were on the trip together.
Honeymooning on the Isle of Skye?
A honeymoon photoshoot is one of my favourite ideas! Your wedding day was probably planned down to the last detail. There was a timetable. Guests. Speeches. Food. People asking where they needed to be. Your honeymoon on Skye is different. This bit is about the two of you, and not about anyone else.
A photoshoot on Skye can be part of your honeymoon experience, rather than another formal event to organise. We’ll choose somewhere beautiful, go for a wander and create photographs that feel completely different from your wedding pictures. These will be more relaxed, a little bit adventurous, and you can relax because Uncle Bob won’t be watching from the wings!!
If you want to, you can bring your wedding clothes with you and we can do a wedding photoshoot. Or you can stick with your normal wardrobe and we can play it casual. It’s up to you!
Yes, You Can Bring Your Wedding Dress
If you’ve just got married, you might be a little sad that the most expensive dress you’ve ever bought has already completed its one day of service. So, why not bring it to Skye!
You don’t need to recreate your wedding photographs – that’s not the point. This is a chance to do something completely different with it. A wedding dress against the wild Skye landscape can look incredible, particularly when we don’t have to worry about keeping it pristine for a ceremony afterwards.
You can walk, and explore. You can have photographs somewhere you could never realistically fit into your wedding-day schedule. I’m pretty well known for putting couples in water, wedding clothes and all!
And if you’d rather leave the wedding dress safely at home and come in normal clothes? That’s OK too!
Celebrating an Anniversary on Skye
Anniversaries are another wonderful reason to book a couples photoshoot. Somewhere along the way, lots of couples stop having proper photographs together, because life can get in the way. And your phone library is filled with photos of the dog, your favourite meals, and some random plants to identify via a Google search.
An anniversary trip to Skye is a chance to change that, and to top up your couples photos in your library. Whether you’ve been married for one year, ten, twenty-five or considerably longer, it’s time to document who you are now, with some beautiful photographs, of beautiful people, in a breathtaking location.
Not just who you were on your wedding day. Who you have become now.
“We’re Awful in Front of the Camera”
Shhh – I don’t want to hear it! Most couples I photograph tell me some version of this, and most couples are just wrong!
Whether you think you don’t know how to pose, or perhaps one of you has a weird camera smile, I can make you look your very best, and photograph your very best expressions in the most beautiful place.
I’ll guide you. We’ll walk, talk, move and explore. I’ll step in when I need to and give you direction without turning the whole thing into a two-hour modelling lesson. You don’t need to perform being madly in love for the camera either. Smiles and laughs are perfect, and so is quiet togetherness.
One Location or a Little Tour of Skye
You don’t necessarily have to choose just one location on Skye. I can take you on a mini tour of the island, and we can move between locations and create completely different photographs within the same shoot.
That’s one of the wonderful things about Skye. If you drive for a relatively short distance, the landscape can change completely. We can plan the route around you, the light, the weather and the places that will give you the best experience. I’d prefer to do this, rather than racing around trying to tick off every famous viewpoint. That’s what every other tourist does, and we will create memories and portraits that are different!
What Should You Wear?
If you’re not bringing the wedding dress, wear something that feels like you. Think about the landscape and choose colours that work beautifully together rather than matching exactly. Bring layers, because we may well see all four seasons in one two hour period, and think about your footwear. If you dream of photos on a rock, or walking in the sea, then maybe the suede designer shoes aren’t right for these photos.
Looking fabulous is always good. But looking fabulous, while being unable to feel your toes, is less good.
Just the Two of You
Be in the photos. You don’t need a wedding, you don’t need a proposal, you don’t need a milestone anniversary. And you definitely don’t need to be good in front of a camera. But if you want to celebrate any of these things, then these are GREAT reasons to book!
If the Isle of Skye is part of your story together, or you want to MAKE it part of your story, that’s reason enough to book your photoshoot.
Come to Skye on your honeymoon. You can bring your wedding dress, or not.
Celebrate twenty years together. You can dress up to the nines, or wear hiking gear.
Or just book a photoshoot because you’ve finally made it to Skye and would quite like some beautiful photographs that both of you are in. I’ll find us somewhere wonderful. You bring each other.
