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wedding
Place
SCOTLAND
Couple
RANIA & STRATOS
VENUE
COMLONGON CASTLE
ABOUT
A wedding in Scotland for Rania and Stratos, at Comlongon Castle in Dumfries and Galloway. Five days, a medieval tower house, and a story that went well beyond the ceremony. Photography by arChive Visual Storytellers.

The wedding

Comlongon Castle sits on 120 acres of woodland near the Solway Firth. This 15th-century tower house has walls so thick they once held a guardroom and a prison below the hall. Rania and Stratos chose it just as some couples choose a church—because nothing else felt right.
They stumbled upon the castle while living in the area, and the decision was simple: stop searching. This was the place.
The five days started with a prewedding party that set the mood for everything to come. The ceremony took place inside the castle, where guests from Greece and Scotland gathered in the same room and became part of the same story. The reception carried on into the evening in the grand halls.
The next day, we drove to Portpatrick, a small village on the Galloway coast where the sea meets the edge of the harbour. We stayed there and spent time along the shoreline, leaving behind the castle and the formal events of the previous days.
In between, we created something different in the woods around the estate. Rania wandered in the forest. A witch appeared among the trees to give an apple to her. Stratos arrived soon after to her snow-white rescue. The photos were edited to fit the world they had imagined for those five days—a fairy tale, told with complete belief.
 

Our approach

Rania and Stratos found us through their wedding planner, so trust was already there before we arrived. This gave us the freedom to work without a brief or a shot list, and enough time over five days to understand what the wedding truly meant.
Scotland, with its unique light and surroundings, called for special attention. The castle interior, the woodland, and the harbour at Portpatrick each brought something different. Every day had its own mood, and the photography reflected that.
The Snow White sequence was not planned ahead of time. It came from the place, the couple, and five days of working closely together. That is often how the best things happen.

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In their own words

The truth be told we went through a lot of research. I being a perfectionist and “difficult”, the wedding set in a medieval concept in one of the best castles in Scotland, everything was taken care of in every detail. The photographs HAD to be perfect Google search was set on fire. Nothing could stand for what we had in mind. Up until the day our wedding coordinator, announced in a tone that allowed no contradictions: “Stop this research. Only arChive can immortalize something so unique. These guys will exceed every one of your expectations, guaranteed” Needless to say the photos are unreal (extraordinary).
A real fairy tale, as contradictory as this may sound. Τhe feeling of the whole day was imprinted in every single image. We were at loss of words when the presentation was over. Bearing in mind that the wedding was not a traditional Greek Orthodox wedding, but bore a number of peculiarities, which George and Angela had never previously witnessed, to say that the result was EXCELLENT is only very little. We spent five unforgettable days, with two marvelous people, with whom we fit perfectly, and the result was such, that even when years have gone by, it will always wander us back tour own personal and unique fairy tale. Ιn a little castle somewhere in Scotland.

Rania & Stratos
A medieval wedding in Scotland for Rania and Stratos, photographed across five days at Comlongon Castle, a 15th-century tower house in Dumfries and Galloway. A prewedding party, the ceremony in the castle, a reception in the baronial halls, and a day-after by the harbour in Portpatrick. In the woodland around the estate we produced a Snow White editorial sequence with the couple, shot and edited as a fairy tale. As destination wedding photographers in Scotland, our work at Comlongon Castle covered five days of a multi-day wedding event. arChive Visual Storytellers photographs and films destination weddings across the Greek islands and worldwide.
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