We can’t get enough of Shannon and Kyle’s dramatic black and white styled civil ceremony in Scotland! Wanting to ensure the ultimate surprise, the couple revealed their engagement to a handful of family members only a few months before the wedding. Shannon was totally rocking her civil ceremony bridal look with an ultra glamorous tea-length Delphine Manivet gown and elegant black Christian Louboutin ankle-tie pumps. Shannon and Kyle tied the knot in a ceremony at the Glasgow Registrar’s Office, then Eric-Rene Penoy Wedding Photography captured their celebratory romp around Glasgow University and deliciously intimate charcuterie dinner.
The Couple:
Shannon and Kyle
The Wedding:
Glasgow Registrar’s Office, Glasgow, Scotland
The most important part of planning was making sure the wedding was totally ours. We kept our engagement a secret and only told our parents and Kyle‘s siblings about the wedding three months before it happened so they could buy flights to Glasgow to be with us for the ceremony. We chose the date (03/30/2016) to honor Shannon‘s late mother. Shannon‘s father, Ian, and mother, Marie, were married in the Glasgow registrar’s office exactly forty years prior.

I knew I didn’t want a conventional wedding dress. Kyle actually found my dress (he is the designer in the couple)! I gave him the inspirations of Mia Farrow, Bianca Jagger, and Yoko Ono. He found Delphine Manivet and the Pr...