Meet the winners of the 2022

Everything you need to know about the inaugural YSWA

We may have only just launched our magazine last January but we don’t tend to do things by halves at Your Scottish Wedding! So back in November we threw open the doors at Doubletree by Hilton Glasgow Central and welcomed hundreds of our wedding industry colleagues to the very first Your Scottish Wedding Awards.

Guests were treated to a pre-dinner drinks reception with entertainment in the form of a racing car simulator, photobooths, a stilt walker and magician, before we were piped into the ballroom for the main event. Before dinner had even begun, nominees for the 24 individual awards were up on their feet, dancing to the energetic sax player Konrad Wiszniewski, just one of the acts provided by the awards’ title sponsor Hireaband.

When our compère, the inimitable Elaine C Smith, took to the stage, she paid tribute to the incredible businesses that have battled through the difficult last few years to deliver couples’ dream days, despite all the hardships caused by the pandemic. All of our shortlisted finalists were there because their couples had nominated and deemed them worthy and our panel of expert judges whittled them down from 8,000 entrants.

The Your Scottish Wedding Awards are run anonymously and all nominations were checked and verified, and then cross-checked with the marriage register in Edinburgh. Our judging panel was made up of Drew Rutherford and Tom Goodfellow of Luxury Scottish Wedding, Shelley Rodgers of Ayrshire Wedding Directory and Glasgow Wedding Magazine, George GilchristGrodnicki of Edinburgh Wedding Directory, Alexa Scott of Stark Agency, Greg Cherry of QD Events, Tsitsi Lynn Makuni of The Scottish Wedding Show and Simon Morgan of Grampian Wedding Directory. All the judges adhered to strict rules to establish the YSWA’s position as the supreme accolade in the industry and their decision was solely based on the anonymous information received through nominations and the shortlisted nominees’ submissions. With such stiff competition to assess, we are grateful to them for carrying out such a feat!

So without further ado, here are the winners of the 2022 Your Scottish Wedding Awards…