Within a few weeks of booking our venue we also found our photographer. Winston is a big photography buff and teaches it as part of his job. He often tries to talk to me about a lens or particular camera and I have to nod along or pretend to be looking at my phone because I really have no clue about it. I mean, has he heard of Instagram filters" I joke but I know he will not appreciate it. And that I?m only half joking. Anyway, because of this, finding a photographer was a little trickier. I was more than happy on forking out for a good photographer to get pictures of our wedding day that I would be proud of. My criteria consisted of them being able to hold a camera straight and that there wouldn?t be any black and white photographs with just my shoes in colour or the ties of the best man. I wanted classic, un- gimmicky photography that I could frame for years to come. Winston on the other hand was checking their tonal balance, the correct use of lighting and not over editing. I left him to it to find someone we could afford and that he would be happy with.  

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And then I turned to my old friend Instagram. I was looking at our venue?s feed and saw an amazing photograph they had put up of a recent wedding where the guests had made a fire back at their campsite. I showed it to Winston and he was immediately impressed, apparently its quite hard to get the light right and so he was sold. I had started to lose hope of finding a photographer but Ol...