Highland filmmaker 'reeling' after national wedding awards win
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A videographer based between Nairn and Inverness has scooped a national award.
Quentin Soldan is the owner of QS Digital Video and has already won three Scottish Wedding Awards for his work – in 2018, 2020, and 2023.
He has now gone one better with a win in the UK-wide Nation's Wedding Awards which were announced in Manchester last week.
"Sadly I couldn't be in Mancester for the awards as I've recently started a new job, but my friends from Top Class Wedding Cars in Inverness kept me in touch via WhatsApp," Quentn said.
"They kindly filmed the moment that my company's name was read out and I've already edited the clip to post it across all my social media.
"I've shot weddings in the Highlands for almost a decade and to pick up a UK award on top of three Scottish awards is a little hard to fathom right now."
Mr Soldan's interest in film began at the age of 11 when he was gifted a Super 8 film camera one Christmas.
In his twenties he shot a cousin's wedding – in the early 1980s this involved a huge camera linked by a cable to a VHS record pack slung over one shoulder.
Now shooting using a Canon cinema camera he said: "Coupled with a Canon lens, this delivers ground-breaking 4K images which provide my customers with an outstanding record of their wedding day, to savour for many years to come.
"I've been filming commercially in the Highlands for almost a decade and have won videographer of the year at the Scottish Wedding Awards in 2018, 2022 and 2023.
"So having entered the Nation's Wedding Award that covers the whole of the UK I was flattered to be shortlisted for the final.
"To find out on Wednesday evening that I picked up the prize left me reeling with surprise and pride in equal measure."
He added: "I take huge pride in being selected to make a priceless record of a couple's big day and look forward to being of service to many more in the years ahead."
