Sitting behind the wheel of his car, Jonathan Addie was about to begin the drive that would change his life.

While making his way to a friend's house in Aberdeenshire on a Tuesday evening in April, the 36-year-old's Peugeot 205 CTI convertible careered off the road.

"I got to the first big corner and never made it round," Jonathan says."I don't know what happened, not a clue, no memory, nothing at all."

The white car, hidden from view, was a wreck. He suffered a severe head injury, his collarbone was broken and piercing through the skin, and his eardrums burst.

Desperate to clamber out of the wreck, passing motorist Neil Hustler rushed to his aid, keeping him secure while an ambulance arrived.

As he sat in the car, his partner Emma Willats was on her way home from work in Aberdeen to their house near Huntly when she was blocked by police.

She couldn't see anything but somehow knew that there was something wrong.

"I kind of had this horrible feeling that it was his car," she says. "I had a suspicion, a very big suspicion."

Officers at the scene told her to call the non-emergency line so she left for home. But as the minutes ticked by, Emma decided to return to the scene and drive through the police roadblock.

"I don't think they were very happy with me but I didn't really care at this point," she says.

"His car was just in the middle of the road, mangled - just completely mangled."

Jonathan was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, where a surgeon explained they would need to remove part of his skull and place it in his stomach to allow his brain room to swell.

The procedure would keep the bone ready for when it could be safely put together again.

What followed was six long days of a medically induced coma, while Emma cried in the intensive care unit and played Jonathan his favourite songs in the hope he would wake up.

A few days later Jonathan woke, unable to yet comprehend how serious his injuries were.

He was desperate to just return home. A professional wedding photographer, Jonathan had made a commitment to capturing couples across Scotland on the biggest day of their lives.

With a full wedding season ahead of him to shoot, he was insistent that despite his injuries he would not let a single couple down on their big day.

Here he was without even a whole skull, his head sloping inward into what his friends and family dubbed his "divot".

Worry and panic set in as he worried about letting his clients down.

Then the first call came through. It was another wedding photographer who had heard about his accident.

"I'm covering your wedding," he said, and the calls kept coming.

While Jonathan was recovering, Emma had been a step ahead of him, knowing how much it would mean to him to not let any of the couples down.

She managed to hack into his bookings system to find the details for every wedding and shoot he had planned, drew up a list and took to Facebook, tagging as many local photographers as possible to ask if they could cover the weddings at such short notice.

The response was phenomenal. Photographers shared the message across social media and couples were given lists of people willing to shoot their big day while Jonathan recovered.

Such was the photographic community's willingness to help, Jonathan now has every wedding he had booked through to December covered by a local photographer.

"It would have been disastrous, not just for my business but for the couples," he says.

"While the photographers helped me out, they helped real people out and they did a great job."

Once Jonathan was able to relax in the knowledge that his client's weddings were covered, he set aside notions of rushing home and started working towards get better.

He moved to Woodend Hospital for rehabilitation therapy and it transpired there was little damage to his brain function despite the trauma he had been through.

Jonathan says little things like names are a little harder to recall and his spelling is worse since the crash.

To keep his creativity flowing while he healed, friend and fellow photographer Alastair Robb set him a daily photography challenge.

Jonathan also learned card games, set up mock consolations with clients looking for a photographer and edited pictures as part of his therapy.

He adds the clinics he visited were very 'forward thinking' with his recovery.

Three months after the crash, he was on the sofa at home with Emma when he heard his final surgery had been scheduled just a few days later.

After a few more weeks in hospital and therapy at Craig Court in Milltimber, he was allowed to return home for good on July 14 without a "divot" in sight.

Since the accident, both Jonathan and Emma have changed their outlook on life. Wanting to spend as much time together as possible, Emma has decided to give up her dog grooming shop in Aberdeen and start a new business making sporrans from home so she can be closer to Jonathan.

They added a new puppy to the family called Deacon, purchased a campervan and plan to travel across the UK in it, with Jonathan planning to use it as a refuge at weddings if he needs to rest.

Jonathan has since returned to wedding photography, assisting the photographers covering his bookings as a second shooter, gradually working his way up to his goal of shooting a full day from bridal preparations to the first dance.

Then there is the exhibition he plans to create, taking portraits of everyone from photographers and friends, to nurses and doctors in their place of work in tribute to their help.

Money raised from a gofundme page which was set up during his hospital stay will be divided between each unit which supported him during his recovery.

"I recovered very quickly, quicker than anyone else imagined, I was told six months when it first happened and I recovered within three, the doctors and nurses just did a phenomenal job," says Jonathan.

"It made me realise how much I love and enjoy my job and my customers. I love my job, I love my life and I want to live the life I want to live."