Introduction and Advice Please?!

We found our photographer online and chose him mainly because of the photos/albums we saw and loved. However I did end up getting a couple of recommendations for him after we booked him from a wedding dress boutique owner and I think even our venue! Hopefully that bodes well So even if you don't have local friends maybe try asking around other vendors to see if they know anyone who has done a particularly good job.

I am using a friend for the cake as she and her mother have a wedding cake business, would have been silly not to use them!

As for decorations, I just looked at pinterest a lot hah! We are making and supplying our own rather than using a company that sets up the decorations though, so that might make a difference.

Photographer, i found on hitched

cake, i found while googling

decorations, they were recommended by the venue

Have you got any photographer friends that can guide you in the right direction, even though recommendations from venues or other suppliers are good not all play by the rules, venues are known to recommend those suppliers that pay the venue, just a warning.

In the UK in the past few years there has been an explosion of new photographers starting up so I know how you must be feeling trying to find the right one?.

If you need any help then this is the right place to ask?

Hi and welcome! ?

I'm not much help on the decoration side of things as I decided to diy most of our decorations and got the rest from Hobbycraft. Pinterest was an absolute goldmine for ideas.

I found our photographer online on a wedding blog (I love rock n roll bride and rock my wedding) I had a shortlist of 3 and after speaking with/emailing all of them we made our final decision after meeting up with our favourite on paper.

With our cake, I was completely clueless tbh! I just looked for suppliers online that were based near my venue. I got about 5 quotes and again we went with our favourite after meeting with her.

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I can't imagine what it's like to try to plan something so far from home! However you can definately find lots of recommendations from other suppliers. The outlet that I got my dress from had 4 or 5 photographers, who each had different styles, that they recommended. Wedding fayres are always a great place to go as you can often meet the person you'd be working with in person. I find this really helps to know who you're dealing with.

We're DIYing most of our decorations so we don't have a supplier just lots of online shopping!! However the place I got my bridesmaids' dresses from also does venue decoration as well as having links with stationers who can do invites etc. I also found that she recommended one of the same photographers that the dress outlet had. When I looked him up online I loved his work and after a few emails we met up. We got on with him really well so booked him!

I had some friends/family recommend poeple for certain things but usually found they didn't have the style I liked or were out of my price range etc. So it's not always that useful!!

Good luck planning!

Oh thank you so much guys for all of your kind responses! It has been really helpful!

I guess it's more looking around for me then!

I've seen some amazing decorations via Pinterest, which just makes it so exciting! I'm trying to figure out whether to go the DIY route or hire professional decorators.

I've also browsed the suppliers list on here. I've seen a few cake makers that look good, but Google is also good for that, I don't want to end up on 100 tasters, I won't fit into my dress! How did you guys narrow it down?

I like the idea of looking through whole albums to decide on the photographer, I hadn't thought of that! Such good advice.

Thank you ever so much, I'm sure I'll be here everyday until the wedding! Lol.

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Hello!

Our Phtographer is one of OH's best friends (His photography business), Although we have full contracts etc in place.

Same for the cake. One of my best friend is an extraordinary cake maker and she will be doing our cake for us.

Both are tried and tested and reasonable so I am happy to pass on details if you would like them.

Good luck with it all

Lee x

Hi,

I've got a blog post about choosing a photographer, which is here:

http://www.minnarossi.com/the-right-wedding-photographer.html

Hope it helps

Minna x