Daniel and Louise wanted their wedding day to reflect their Scottish and Danish backgrounds. They chose to hold their day at Pollokshield's Burgh Hall, Glasgow, with is stained glass windows and striking architecture they kept their décor simple.

They did grown their own wedding flowers, and supplemented them with some flowers they sourced from the supermarket, as well as printing their geeky wedding stationery themselves.

There were the sweetest little ones, a cake of cheese, live music for the evening and the boys wore traditional kilts. So lovely.

Thanks so much to the wonderful Gail Kelly for sharing her images with us this afternoon.

The Proposal...Not so much a proposal as a joint decision to get married, although it was not entirely devoid of romance, as this decision was taken during breakfast while on holiday in Rome...

The Vision for the Day... The most important part of the wedding for us was having our families and friends together from all over the world. Daniel is Danish and I am Scottish so this was our first chance to get our families together. We wanted the wedding to be simple, relaxing for the guests and stress free for us.

We both enjoy good food and good wine so we also wanted to make sure our guests were very well fed and watered.

The Planning Process...We wanted to make sure there were both Scottish and Danish influences in the wedding and that we weren't spending money on things that didn't matter to us so we spent plenty of time discussing what was important for us before we announced the wedding.

Budget... It was important for us to be able to pay for the wedding ourselves, thereby reducing the number of people that felt they needed a definitive say over the planning. This meant that, for the most part, we didn't have to justify our decisions to anyone and were free to make the day be exactly what we wanted.

Finding the Dress...The dress wasn't actually very important to me, I just wanted something simple and white(ish)! Ibought a cheap dress online and had it tailored to fit by a local seamstress. I did use the wedding as an excuse to buy two pairs of fabulous (bright purple and silvery sparkly) Vivienne Westwood shoes that I knew I could wear again. My jewellery was a classic set of pearls with a modern twist made by my very talented cousin, Robyn Crerar, who makes contemporary silver jewellery.

For music in the evening we had an amazing band (Soul Train) on the stage in the main hall, who played a mix of traditional Ceilidh songs and modern Soul/pop/rock songs throughout the night (as several guests remarked: "it's like being at a real gig!").

The Flowers... We thought it would be nice to grow our own flowers for the wedding, so we did! We spent a bit of time looking for flowers that would be in bloom around the end of September and decided to grow a few different types of asters. A family friend has done some flower arranging and she offered to help us make the flower arrangements for the day. It was really lovely and relaxing to spend a few hours the day before the wedding being taught how to arrange flowers with with family and in-laws... All of our asters were pinks, purples and white so we mixed them with a few shop-bought pink lilies, white roses and gypsophila. We wanted the flowers to be quite small and discrete so they didn't get in the way of people talking across the tables so the centre arrangement for each table was in a tea cup and saucer set and the others were just in small, purple glasses from IKEA. We also did the bouquets ourselves with help from another creative family friend. The bridesmaid and flower girl bouquets were simple bunches of roses bound with ribbon and embellished with stick-on pearls and the Bridal bouquet was a few white lilies bound in the same way.

The Cake...Neither of us are fans of wedding cake but we are fans of cheese. We bought some whole round cheeses from a fantastic cheese shop in Glasgow (I.J.Melis), which our caterer then decorated with fruit and arranged in a stack to look like a wedding cake. This was served with lots of oatcakes and crackers. A good friend of Louise's happens to make and sell some quirky chutneys and jellies so she made us a range of flavours all with names linked to us. For those that prefer something sweet after dinner Daniel's step-mother made us some delicious Norwegian crispy waffles ("Krumkake") dipped in chocolate. We also bought a couple of Daniel's favourite whiskies: two Scottish (Caol Ila and Jura), one Swedish (Mackmyra) and some Aquavit (a traditional Scandanavian spirit) for people to have with their cheese and crackers.

We printed all our menus, table plans and invitations ourselves. Our invitations, designed by Louise's sister, had quite a geeky theme as we are both scientists. Louise's sister had found some retro wooden sets for building models of molecules and liked the colours so used them as design concept. She then used the molecular structure of the hormone linked with love (oxytocin) as a pattern on the invites. We bought a printer and some nice card and we ended up with gorgeous, and completely unique, invites.

Our engagement rings were similarly geeky. One of Daniel's sisters is studying jewellery design and was adamant that we should have engagement rings (I had never liked the idea of having a fancy diamond ring) so she made us some. Since we are both neuroscientists she made us matching silver rings with neurons engraved around them. Daniel's sister also made our wedding rings in rose-gold and engraved our names and date of the wedding on the inside.

The food for the day was something we put a lot of thought into. Our caterers, The Urban Food Theatre, were absolutely fantastic and got glowing reports from our serious foodie guests. Karen at the Urban Food Theatre produced a brilliant modern Scottish cuisine menu for us with an amazing main course of Venison and Haggis Wellington. Karen's staff really made sure the day went perfectly, we cannot recommend them highly enough!

The day after the wedding we went to a very nice boutique hotel in the hills an hour outside Glasgow, where we stayed the night and had an amazing 7-course taster menu. After this we decided to disappear for a week, so we had a nice and very relaxing honeymoon in the Scottish highlands (far away from anywhere and everyone).

Venue | Pollokshield's Burgh Hall

Jewellery | Robyn Crerar

Photography | Gail Kelly

Catering | The Urban Food Theatre

Wine | Naked Wines

Cheese | I. J. Mellis

Chutneys | SKH Chutneys et Conserves

Music | Soul Train

Honeymoon | Monachyle Mhor Hotel

How gorgeous?!

Thanks so so much to Daniel and Louise for sharing their lovely wedding story with us here at WWW XOXO Lou