A Scottish hotel has been named as the best wedding venue in the world.

Balbirnie House in Markinch, Fife is the first hotel in the Western Hemisphere to be given the Haute Granduer Award for Best Destination Wedding Hotel.

The team picked up the award at the ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last weekend.

After being crowned Scotland’s National Wedding Hotel of the Year for the 13th time, this time they beat off global competition to win.

The hotel is run by a team of just six people, including owners Nicholas and Gaynor Russell.

The country house, which was opened as a hotel 30 years ago, is a grade A listed Georgian mansion set in 400-acres of parkland.

The venue can accommodate up to 216 guests or 250 for an evening reception and the team offer a bespoke service to give each bride and groom a beautiful wedding day.

To celebrate the achievement, the team released blue smoke from the building’s main chimney.

Gaynor Russell said: ‘It was such an honour to be invited to represent Scotland’s hospitality and hotel sectors’.

Nicholas Russell added: ‘Whilst in Malaysia we were thinking very much of our 2,800 past and present work colleagues, our local community, our hotel guests, and all who have been involved in and around The Scottish Hotel Awards scheme over the last 15 years.

‘The rigours of dedicated professional integrity within the scheme, have delivered us with an uncompromising and highly focussed annual assessment.

‘From that process we’ve always been so very encouraged to keep on embracing innovation, evolution, and all generalities of hospitality.’

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