19th April, 2025.
No - Martin's a little attached to Garrity and doesn't want to give it up.
Changeable! There will be a coatrack at the reception venue for any large wraps/furs/overcoats/brollies/galoshes.
Your best and brightest clothing! We would love to see you in beautiful dresses, dashing kilts, and sharp suits. Wedding hats encouraged.
Please NO stiletto heels! Our reception venue does not allow these and you would have to go barefoot... (dangerous for dancing!)
Both the ceremony and reception locations are wheelchair accessible. Please let us know in advance if you have any mobility issues, however, so we can make sure that the accessible route into the church is acceptable.
The church is right in the centre of the village, so it is very easy to walk to from any of the hotels listed. There is plenty of parking in the Bellfield and Bridge Street car parks; there is also a car park next to the church, but it's almost always full! The reception venue has its own car park with plenty of space (please remember that Scotland has a much lower drink-drive limit than England).
We will also run a shuttle that can ferry people from the church to the reception, and from the reception to hotels in Banchory. Please indicate if you would like to use the shuttle in your RSVP.
Banchory alone defies secularisation and has ten million (five) churches. St Ternan's is the small one with the big conker tree and the rhododendrons across from the town hall. Not to be confused with the big one two doors down.
No! The reception venue is roughly 5 minutes by car/shuttle bus (or 45 minutes walk or 10 minutes by bike, if you are so inclined).
The ceremony will start at 2.00 pm, so please arrive a little earlier to get seated. The night will end at 11.45 pm as the venue requires that everyone is out by midnight.
While we would have loved to have a registry... we live in a pokey little London flat and Sarah's parents need her old bedroom for sprouting seed potatoes, so storage space is limited. If you'd like to give us something, a contribution to our buying-a-house fund would be much appreciated! If it's convenient for you we have set up a pot online.