we just want to wish everyone a.....

We're off to eat a silly amount of food and watch lots of repeats on telly.... have a great Christmas everyone and see you in 2011!

on the case...

Another late night blog post a coming... I don't know what it is about the urge to blog some thoughts around midnight...

I haven't really written much personal stuff lately, I keep telling myself that it's because I'm too busy blogging weddings and yeah, I have been run off my feet but to be completely honest... I actually don't have anything personal to blog. You see me and Pete don't do anything anymore... we've been swallowed by work... and although I love my job with such a passion that it hurts... I also miss our little life, our friends, our own little personal journey. I look back over this year and I cannot believe what we have achieved. It has been absolutely incredible how far we've come, how many weddings, how much support and I have loved every second of it. But it is also really hard. I have been so busy that I find myself on the computer from when I wake up to when I go to bed, I decline invitations as I'm actually scared to leave my little office... I feel guilty if I don't reply to emails immediately, I feel awful for all my friends and family who must feel like I'm ignoring them when they have to send me 3/4 messages before I reply, I feel sorry for Pete who has a full time job and then has to give up his whole weekend to come with me to every wedding and sometimes I feel a little bit sorry for myself... I've put on nearly 2 stone in the past year due to not taking care of myself and lots of convenience eating and... I've really lost confidence in myself and how I look that I've started preferring my little position behind the camera a bit too much. It's weird... I feel like my life has changed so much and so many amazing things have happened but at the same time I've kind of lost myself a little bit.... you become so engrossed that there's no room left for you....

So things are going to change. This is the time of year for resolutions so I'm going to set some... to give myself a little bit of attention, to give myself a life outside of work and to start enjoying being Emma Case again and not just 'Emma Case the Photographer'.....

God I love that boy there...

sneaky London peek...

Hayley and Ant's gorgeous London wedding with another FurCoatNoKnickers beauty! How gorgeous are these two!!

kiara & john

We are so lucky. Kiara got in touch with me back in January and asked if I would be willing to travel to Scotland for their wedding? Errrrr.... hell yeah! They then booked the most gorgeous venue, Crear located in Argyll and I swear I have never seen such beautiful scenery in my life... it was absolutely breathtaking... and we honestly had the best weekend.
The morning of the wedding I arrived at Kiara's cottage and her and her family laughed and drank champagne whilst Kiara got into her custom made dress and Vivienne Westwood shoes. John then arrived and had quite an emotional first look with us all there which I thought was an amazing idea... everyone was just beaming smiling...
We then headed down the road for an epic photo session on the loch.... oh the colours were just soooo beautiful and these two just rocked it! We then headed back to Crear to welcome guests before heading in to the main room for the ceremony.
The ceremony was beautiful and ended with the most fantastic round of applause and quite a few tears too and then a hearty meal (which included me tasting haggis for the very first time) was served, along with some mighty fine speeches!
The evening was finished off with the Photo Booth and of course... a good old ceilidh! Now the funny thing is... most weddings that have ceilidh's have at least half an hour of tuition before everyone does the dance... nope, not in Scotland... they all just dive right in!! :)
Coupled with the wedding and the fact that we saw two stags and a massive bird of prey right infront of a car... we were in our absolute element that weekend. We love Kiara and John and we also love Scotland.

I also want to say a huge, huge thank you to the staff at Crear, especially Carole and her husband for making us feel so welcome and for the delicious food... certainly a venue to have a look at if you're thinking of getting married...