Aileen's Wedding

Aileen MacLeod , who has become a close friend since she worked for me in the Parliament and who is now Environment Minister , got married today to another friend , Professor Drew Scott .  

Aileen's stunning dress was by Linda R Clarke who has a studio in Abbeyhill.  The wedding  , at which I was honoured to read from an excerpt from "The Song of Solomon" was held in the Raeburn Room in Old College and dinner thereafter was held in the wonderful Playfair Library.

And what a dinner : not only an excellent meal and great speeches from the bride and groom but also entertainment which included the novelist James Robertson reading two of his "365 " short stories ("The news where you are" brought the house down ) , Robyn Stapleton who was last year's BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year and Rob Gibson MSP closing the whole thing with "The Buffaloes of Achiltibuie".

There  was even a raffle as part of the evening's fund raising for the Teenage Cancer Trust.