A Real Elopement
Delaney & Colin
Delaney and Colin were already coming to Scotland to see family. A whole week of it. So they figured they’d get married while they were here. We love that kind of thinking.
Their very first message to us said it all, and it’s still one of our favourites:
“Colin and I are two Canadians with a trip booked to Scotland in September to visit family, and thought we might as well elope while we’re here! Because we’ll be here for a week, we’re flexible about the day. We love elopements with rolling hills in the background. We’ll be staying near Alexandria and are open to location suggestions. We plan on doing the ‘legal bits’ in our home country but want a ceremony in Scotland — we’d also love recommendations for a celebrant!”
Everything we needed was in there. A week to play with, no fixed day, the legal side handled at home, and the two things that actually matter: a ceremony that feels real, and a backdrop worth flying for. They even asked the right question — open to location suggestions. That’s our favourite four words in an enquiry.
They asked for rolling hills. We had a bigger idea.
Staying near Alexandria put them right on the doorstep of Loch Lomond, all gentle rolling hills and soft water — exactly the picture they’d had in their heads. And it’s lovely. But when someone flies in from Canada and tells us they’re open to suggestions, we’re going to point them at the most dramatic corner of the country we can reach in a morning.
So we made the case for Glencoe. Not gentle, rolling hills, but towering ones — black rock, hanging cloud, the kind of glen that makes you go quiet when you drive into it. They trusted us and said yes. That’s the whole job, really: knowing the country well enough to nudge a couple somewhere even better than they’d imagined.
They based themselves at the Kingshouse Hotel, right at the head of the glen. We’ll be straight with you — it’s not somewhere we’d steer our couples to these days, and we’ve better places we happily recommend now. Ask us and we’ll point you to them.
Mist, rain, and the foot of the Buachaille
The day gave them mist and rain. Of course it did. Their celebrant was the wonderful Aly, who led their vows at the foot of Buachaille Etive Mòr — the great pyramid of a mountain that guards the entrance to the glen. Just the two of them, the low cloud, and the Buachaille looming in and out of the mist. You couldn’t stage it if you tried.
Hot chocolate, then wetter and wetter
Once the vows were said, we sent them up to the Glencoe Mountain Resort ski centre for a hot chocolate to thaw out — earned, after standing in the rain to get married. Warmed through, we spent the rest of the day working our way through the glen, chasing one mountain backdrop after another while the weather did its level best to soak us all. We got wetter and wetter. We didn’t care, and neither did they.
“They came for rolling hills. We gave them the full, dramatic, soaking-wet heart of Glencoe — and they wouldn’t change a thing.”
That’s the beauty of “open to suggestions.” Delaney and Colin came with a soft picture in mind and left with something far wilder — a misty Highland day that was entirely their own, slotted neatly into a week of family and travel. The legal bits were already sorted at home. This was just the part that felt like a wedding.
Thinking of doing the same? Here’s everything about eloping in Glencoe with us.
Their misty September day in the glen, just the two of them —
A Real Elopement
Delaney & Colin
Delaney and Colin were already coming to Scotland to see family. A whole week of it. So they figured they’d get married while they were here. We love that kind of thinking.
Their very first message to us said it all, and it’s still one of our favourites:
“Colin and I are two Canadians with a trip booked to Scotland in September to visit family, and thought we might as well elope while we’re here! Because we’ll be here for a week, we’re flexible about the day. We love elopements with rolling hills in the background. We’ll be staying near Alexandria and are open to location suggestions. We plan on doing the ‘legal bits’ in our home country but want a ceremony in Scotland — we’d also love recommendations for a celebrant!”
Everything we needed was in there. A week to play with, no fixed day, the legal side handled at home, and the two things that actually matter: a ceremony that feels real, and a backdrop worth flying for. They even asked the right question — open to location suggestions. That’s our favourite four words in an enquiry.
They asked for rolling hills. We had a bigger idea.
Staying near Alexandria put them right on the doorstep of Loch Lomond, all gentle rolling hills and soft water — exactly the picture they’d had in their heads. And it’s lovely. But when someone flies in from Canada and tells us they’re open to suggestions, we’re going to point them at the most dramatic corner of the country we can reach in a morning.
So we made the case for Glencoe. Not gentle, rolling hills, but towering ones — black rock, hanging cloud, the kind of glen that makes you go quiet when you drive into it. They trusted us and said yes. That’s the whole job, really: knowing the country well enough to nudge a couple somewhere even better than they’d imagined.
They based themselves at the Kingshouse Hotel, right at the head of the glen. We’ll be straight with you — it’s not somewhere we’d steer our couples to these days, and we’ve better places we happily recommend now. Ask us and we’ll point you to them.
Mist, rain, and the foot of the Buachaille
The day gave them mist and rain. Of course it did. Their celebrant was the wonderful Aly, who led their vows at the foot of Buachaille Etive Mòr — the great pyramid of a mountain that guards the entrance to the glen. Just the two of them, the low cloud, and the Buachaille looming in and out of the mist. You couldn’t stage it if you tried.
Hot chocolate, then wetter and wetter
Once the vows were said, we sent them up to the Glencoe Mountain Resort ski centre for a hot chocolate to thaw out — earned, after standing in the rain to get married. Warmed through, we spent the rest of the day working our way through the glen, chasing one mountain backdrop after another while the weather did its level best to soak us all. We got wetter and wetter. We didn’t care, and neither did they.
“They came for rolling hills. We gave them the full, dramatic, soaking-wet heart of Glencoe — and they wouldn’t change a thing.”
That’s the beauty of “open to suggestions.” Delaney and Colin came with a soft picture in mind and left with something far wilder — a misty Highland day that was entirely their own, slotted neatly into a week of family and travel. The legal bits were already sorted at home. This was just the part that felt like a wedding.
Thinking of doing the same? Here’s everything about eloping in Glencoe with us.
Their misty September day in the glen, just the two of them —
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