Believe it or not this is the first picture ever taken of us! It was about twelve hours after we met, in a field at Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire. We spotted someone selling Polaroid pictures & Jess somehow had the foresight to nab one... Flash past Alex suggesting it was just a holiday fling for Jess, we kept on hanging out, travelling, partying, festivalling and isolating together, until Alex decided it was high time we stopped living in sin, and proposed on 2.1.21 up at London's Greenwich Observatory.
Aside from Dunrobin Castle being the most spectacular setting imaginable for a wedding, it's a place very close to our hearts. Dunrobin is the historic family seat of the Dukes of Sutherland, Alex's ancestors, so Alex and his brothers have been visiting there since they were all wee bairns. We look forward to welcoming Jess's family and many of our friends there for the first time.
Dunrobin Castle is the most northerly of Scotland's great houses and the largest in the Northern Highlands with 189 rooms. Dunrobin Castle is also one of Britain's oldest continuously inhabited houses dating back to the early 1300s.
The Castle, which resembles a French château with its towering conical spires, has seen the architectural influences of Sir Charles Barry, who designed London’s Houses of Parliament, and Scotland’s own Sir Robert Lorimer. The Castle was used as a naval hospital during the First World War and as a boys’ boarding school from 1965 to 1972.