Kirsty and Jacob flew in from Australia to get married in Edinburgh, with a handful of their favourite people and one very committed rain cloud.

They’d pictured Arthur’s Seat. The city behind them, the crags rising up, a few family members gathered close. And that’s exactly what they got, except the sky decided to throw everything it had at the four of them at once. Not a moody drizzle. Not atmospheric Scottish mist. Proper, drenching, biblical rain.

Here’s the thing we tell every couple: rain is better for photos anyway. Flat blue skies are boring. Wet streets throw light back at you, dark clouds give you drama you can’t fake, and there’s something about two people laughing through a downpour that a sunny day never quite captures. So they said their vows under Arthur’s Seat, soaked through and grinning, surrounded by the people who matter most. It was perfect.

And then it kept raining. Hard enough that, for the cameras’ sake and theirs, we made a call most photographers wouldn’t: we stopped.

Most photographers would’ve called it a day

They’d have shot through it, handed over a gallery of grey, and moved on. We’re not built that way. Kirsty and Jacob had come halfway around the world for this. One soggy afternoon in Edinburgh was not going to be the whole story of their wedding.

So we arranged a second shoot. Later in their trip, up in the Highlands, where the mountains gave them a completely different backdrop and the weather finally played along. Same couple, same marriage, twice the gallery, and two utterly different sides of Scotland in one elopement. The intimate, rain-soaked city day with their family. The wild, just-the-two-of-them Highland day after.

“We don’t work to a schedule. We work to your day — and if your day needs two locations and a change of plan, that’s what it gets.”

This is what we mean when we say we’re flexible. It isn’t a line on a pricing page. It’s moving an entire shoot to a different part of the country because the first one deserved a second chance. It’s two of us, all day, as many days as it takes to do it properly. It’s the reason couples trust us with something they only get to do once.

Kirsty and Jacob got the rain and the mountains. Most couples only ever get one. We think that’s exactly how it should be.