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hen planning a wedding you always start with a list: dress, venue, rings, flowers... it tends to be quite long. As the list gets longer, the costs get higher and so things start to get crossed off. After all, do you really need that 50th floral piece to ensure the men’s loos match your colour scheme? We didn’t think so either. But if there’s one thing you should never, ever, cross off the list, or even worse, replace with an enthusiastic relative, then its the wedding photographer. Professional and experienced, they are the people who capture not only the joy and happiness of your big day, but also ensure that you really do remember every little thing from that overly long pre-wedding list. At least, we’ve never met an Uncle Arthur who’s remembered to take a picture of the bouquet, or knows just how much the bride loves her shoes to record them before they’re worn. Little details make your big day truly special and choosing a photographer who appreciates what all the details mean to you is vital for helping you to remember what will most likely pass in a blur of smiles and happiness. You may be tempted to cross the photographer off your list when Uncle Arthur steps forward, but will he really do justice to the day you’ve spent months, or possibly years organising? Put simply, if you’re spending thousands on your wedding, do you really want to run the risk that your only record of your efforts will be a few blurry prints? Or worse, out of shadows from the snap happy small children who ran around the reception taking advantage of the cheap disposables you left on tables? With this in mind, we have one key piece of advice for choosing who will be capturing the memory of your wedding day- meet the photographer first... Not only will this allow you to decide if you like this extra person who’ll be turning up for your wedding, it will also be a chance to discuss what’s important about your own personal day. Whether you want formal or contemporary photos or even relaxed spur of the moment photos taken. At the meeting you can choose specific pictures that simply must appear in your album too so you really are getting value for money and not just a person who brought a camera.