Introducing our newest planning diaries couple... Katy Johnston and Calum Robertson. Here, they share their planning journey to the top of the aisle
It was double celebrations for birthday girl Katy when Calum got down on one knee with a custom-made engagement ring
Radio DJ and Endometriosis UK ambassador Katy Johnston is engaged to Calum Robertson after an incredibly thoughtful proposal
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When Calum got down on one knee on the Isle of Lewis, the home of my maternal grandparents, I couldn’t believe it.
The trip had been planned for months: a homecoming and family gathering carefully designed to mark my 30th and my mum’s 70th birthday celebrations. We packed fizz and party hats, then boarded the ferry and settled in for a week of family fun in the Outer Hebrides.
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Little did I know Calum was cooking up a celebration of his own. He had asked Mum for permission months before and had designed a beautiful engagement ring with Ian Gallacher in Stirling, and was just waiting for the perfect moment to pop the question.
The radio DJ is well and truly in her bridal era!
During that week, he’d been wandering around the Callanish Stones and Luskentyre Beach and the rest of the sights of the Hebrides – all with a custom-made engagement ring in his pocket, biding his time and waiting to ask me to be his wife.
After a slight delay (in small part due to a very real concern that my elation at Taylor Swift’s engagement to Travis Kelce would overshadow our own ‘yes’ moment), my future husband got down on one knee.
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When it happened, on the gorgeous white sands of Kneep Beach, I said yes to a future with the love of my life.
"My heart has never been so full."
Calum had designed a beautiful engagement ring with Ian Gallacher in Stirling
Later, we celebrated with an overnight at the beautiful Uig Sands, where we enjoyed the fizz we’d packed, savouring every moment before telling friends and family. (One of whom, shortly after, asked me how I was enjoying life on ‘Cloud Champagne’. Not too bad, thanks!)
Since then, we’ve dipped a toe into wedding planning and surveyed some potential venues. With a proposal in the Outer Hebrides and hometowns of Aberdeen and Glasgow, there’s a lot of choice out there.
The internet has been a very helpful, if slightly baffling, source of information regarding all things ‘bridal era’, and we’re trying to strike a balance between excitement and overwhelm.
"I think once we settle on our venue and, crucially, our budget (eek!), things will really start to slot into place."
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Until then, we are loving spending our weekends visiting National Trust for Scotland properties, sampling champagne and canapés and allowing ourselves to dream up the very best version of our day. It’s a lot of fun!
Katy and Calum have been on 'Cloud Champagne' ever since
What's next?
Cloud Champagne really is where we’ve landed for now: enjoying and trusting the process, feeling the giddy excitement of being in love and looking forward to the memories we will make in the moment and beyond.
And, most importantly, Calum has decided the venue MUST have a beer tap so he can have a ‘proper pint’ on his special day!
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Katy and Calum have finalised a venue for their October 2027 wedding
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The bubbles are flowing, the diamonds are glittering, and the view is great from up here. Thanks for asking!
Since the last time we spoke, Calum and I have developed a promise “to plan a wedding we can actually afford within two years” and, despite some eye-watering quotes from establishments that’ll remain nameless, it’s going well.
Even better, Calum’s cameos on the tiny mic while wedding venue shopping have been going down well with his newly acquired TikTok fans.
We began our search with a sizable list of around 40 venues spanning the central belt and the north-east of Scotland, which we whittled down to just three real contenders: The Collector’s Hall and House for an Art Lover in Glasgow, and Brig o’ Doon in Ayrshire.
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Each of these gorgeous options catered to our desire to wed somewhere steeped in history, far from the cookie-cutter, wedding-machine model we’d come to realise wasn’t for us.
Though we appreciate the appeal of these too, our hearts were set on something ‘different’ that spoke to our own slightly outside-the-box sensibilities.
The couple considered 40 venues before they settled on The Collector’s Hall in Glasgow
And our final pick? Glasgow city centre won out in the end, purely for accessibility reasons (transport links and ease); just a couple of months after saying yes, we’ve decided to host our big day under the dome at The Collector’s Hall.
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This impressive A-listed Victorian building stole our hearts, and we cannot wait to get married there.
Now that we’ve secured the venue and reserved our date for next October, the hard work begins in earnest.
Much of that involves selecting a team of suppliers who will elevate our day and help us to make it something really extraordinary.
And, with more recommendations than you can shake a personalised ‘bride-to-be’ tambourine at, we’d better fire up the vision board and get booking.
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Right now, my priority is bridal-party proposals and we’re cooking up something very special with a little help from Ishga and MacGregor and MacDuff. I don’t want to let the cat out the bag before we’ve asked our nearest and dearest but, trust me, it’s going to be something special!
I now understand in some way what Calum was going through before he popped the question…
Katy and Calum are ready to ask their loved ones to be a part of their special day
That aside, it’s all joy here. We’ve got time to nail down the finer details and fill out the wedding spreadsheet. At the moment, we are focused on saving up and savouring every chapter of this process – and we’re doing a good job of it so far!
What's next?
Next time we debrief, I hope my bridal party will have said yes, and we’ll have secured some suppliers and have begun to pull together the vision for our day. I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself, but I think we’re on to something pretty perfect.
