I am having the time of my life this Autumn, so many gorgeous outdoor shoots, lets hope it continues for another few weeks before Mr Snow comes along.

So here's just a few shots of the things I've gotten up to over the last week or so.

On Saturday morning I had a gorgeous early autumnal shoot in Jesmond Dene

Then I zipped over to Chester-le-Street to catch up with gorgeous Maisy who I last photographed when she was only a few weeks old.

Finally I went over to Durham to shoot some couples portraits for Katie and Chris

Last weekend was pretty epic as I shot Lucy and James Wedding at the Great North Museum, there'll be a full blog post on this when it's all edited, processed and the happy couple are back from honeymoon.

and the minute I left the wedding I sprinted up to St Andrews to shoot Jenny and Dan's couples portraits, more from this shoot soon as it's going to be featured on northern bridal super blog Brides Up North

There's so much going on at the minute that it's a really exciting time for Mandy Charlton Photography and by the end of the week I hope to have the biggest news yet, major, huge, enormous changes afoot.

Have a fabulous week lovely readers

Sandra and Mark are Married! - St Andrews Scotland 04/01/08

Sandra and Mark married at the town hall in St Andrews Scotland in a delightfully intimate ceremony, Sandra is from South Africa and came all the way to St Andrews for her wedding, she and new husband Mark love their golf and with Mark originating from Scotland there couldn't be a better place.
I was honoured to not only photograph the wedding but also to have been Sandra's other witness, along with her sister Paula. This is a wedding I'll remember for a long time to come. After the short ceremony Sandra and Marks wish was to have as many photographs as they could at the historic sites in St Andrews so pretty much thats what we got up to over the next couple of hours.

Running to keep warm at St Andrews Cathedral!

Down by a rather stormy chilly sea front.

With Sister Paula.

In the Quadrangle of St Andrews University.

Delightfully Vintage

One of my favourites which really deserves to be seen to it's full effect on a huge canvas, it's the home of golf, on the old course.

I just want to take this opportunity to wish Sandra and Mark a long and very happy marraige.

So if you're planning on getting married somewhere gorgeous, I love to travel, I'm now available in Scotland, England and Wales so don't hesitate to call whether you're in Fife or Buckinghamshire, Yorkshire or Gwynedd. To book your consultation click through to Mandy Charlton Designs

St Andrews, Kingdom of Fife, Scotland

This is Pauls "I'm Chilled to the bone" portrait taken today in St Andrews, teehee he thinks he was cold but I couldn't feel the ends of my fingers!!

So Brides, Ask your wedding photographer if they do a reckie before the day of the wedding to scope out cool and interesting places for your bridal portraits, couple portraits and formal groups. I'm renowned for my reckies and we arrived in Scotland, and zipped straight to St Andrews to check out photographic vistas for Sandra and Marks wedding tommorrow. There is no shortage of beautiful places to take photographs in St Andrews and even on a freezing cold snowy Thursday there's plenty of eye candy!
This is called the quadrangle and forms part of St Andrews University, (thats the one Prince William attended) The front of the building is also pretty gorgeous.


The sea looked so stormy and I'm not sure I would have wanted to be in a boat today


Just around the corner is the Cathedral -


Wowza, it's stunning even when it's stormy!


To see more of todays photos you can click on any one of the above and be taken to the full collection on Flickr.

More tommorrow from my first wedding of 2008!