Who are Bog Cotton?
When photographer, Trevor Wilson, and Humanist Celebrant, Paula Wilkinson, met in 2018 at the wedding of Rebecca and Leigh at ancient Castle Tioram on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula, it was the beginning of an exciting new venture that has since taken them on a marrying mission across the Highlands of Scotland where they’ve been honoured to be involved in the creation of some seriously epic elopements!
It was the simplicity, beauty and romance of Rebecca and Leigh’s elopement to such a wild, wonderful and remote part of Scotland that captured both Trevor and Paula’s imagination and so it was decided that they would join forces and offer loved-up couples a bespoke, adventure elopement experience that would knock their socks off and so Bog Cotton Scottish Elopements was born!
So, if you’re looking to elope to the Scottish wilderness for a one-of-a-kind micro wedding, then look no further. Paula and Trevor will use their extensive knowledge of Scotland to find your perfect ceremony location. By getting to know your preferred landscape, how adventurous you’re willing to get, the number of guests attending as well a plethora of other factors, they can determine the best possible location and timeline for your big day.
Both Trevor and Paula are mildly obsessed, okay MASSIVELY obsessed, with mega adventurous couples and will climb mountains, kayak into the middle of lochs or stand on a beach in a storm to capture the perfect moment to ensure your memories from your big day will never be forgotten. They’re also obsessed with dogs at weddings!
Whilst Paula and Trevor often team up to create relaxed, fuss-free elopements, they are two completely separate suppliers. Trevor runs his own photography business, Silver Photography, while Paula is a celebrant with the national Humanist organisation, Fuze. This means couples get the best of both worlds: two experienced professionals who regularly work together and know how to make a day run smoothly, but who each bring their own expertise, flexibility, and individual support to your wedding.
Trevor Wilson
Trevor is based near Glasgow and has twenty years experience as a wedding and travel photographer and has captured the magic at hundreds of elopements and weddings all over Scotland throughout his career. Specialising is a more informal documentary style of photography he is perfectly suited to capturing your elopement for you, no matter where you choose to have it or what happens on the day. He definitely prefers to photograph more relaxed and intimate weddings and feels that you can really focus on the important parts of a wedding ceremony that way. Absolutely loving the Scottish wilderness Trevor is more than happy to work with you to help choose a location that will add that extra bit of beauty to your photographs whilst keeping the adventurous aspect at a comfortable level for you.
You can see more of Trevor’s work on his own website www.silverphotography.co.uk and his Instagram feed is well worth a look too!
Paula Wilkinson
Paula lives in the western Highlands and trained as a Celebrant, with Fuze Ceremonies and The Fuze Foundation, and now represents the organisation across the Highlands and Islands. Having graduated with first class honours in English Literature and Journalism, she loves the creative element of writing and delivering wedding scripts. Paula firmly believes that no matter what your journey as a couple, it is a one of a kind love story and she is eager to tell the tale! Due to her affiliation with Fuze, Paula is fully insured and benefits from the Fuze “back-up” promise, so even if she is struck down by illness on the morning of your big day, there’s a full back-up procedure in place to assure your big day can still go ahead.
Jordan and Holly, Glencoe Lochan.
Jordan and I genuinely couldn’t have asked for more from Trevor and Paula! We were both stressed and things, as they do at weddings, were going wrong but Trevor and Paula kept us smiling and laughing. We loved our personalised ceremony that we had complete control over with Paula and she is genuinely so so kind! She allowed us to tailor every part of our ceremony and it was perfect for us.
Trevor helped us with so many parts of our day, down to helping us find a location for our ceremony (Glencoe Lochan) and finding accommodation in the area. He was always at the other end of an email if I had a question or needed a recommendation for something. And of course we are so completely over the moon with our wedding photos, they are absolutely stunning and they capture our day beautifully 🤍
Both Paula and Trevor are so knowledgeable about elopements and weddings, they made us feel so at ease with everything! We just can’t thank them enough for what they did for us 🤍
