It is worth looking for a wedding venue in advance, many halls are booked six months or even a year in advance.
Especially if your wedding is in the middle of the wedding season. Now the choice of cafes and restaurants is very large. The interiors are striking in their originality and your eyes just run wild.
However, not all beautiful, chic and expensive restaurants are ideal for a wedding. It happens that when entering the premises, the photographer and cameraman want to put a bullet in their forehead! Yes, a good photographer can take a masterpiece in any lighting, but ... this requires a long and tedious installation of additional lighting, and when shooting a wedding report from a banquet, this is very difficult to do.
What do you need so that your photos from the banquet are bright, positive, light and festive?
So, some tips on choosing a wedding venue through the eyes of a wedding photographer:
1. Try to choose a room with a neutral color of the walls and ceiling, ideally - white, light gray, milky color.
2. Very high ceilings are good, but they can also sometimes cause problems when doing reportage photography. Ideally, the ceiling should not be low, but not too high either, so that the photographer can use the ceiling to reflect the flash.
3. It is very good when the restaurant has an open area, it can add variety to your photos. The advantages also include a swimming pool on the premises, a winter garden, outdoor tents made of light fabric and much more... fortunately, today's designers have a huge imagination.
4. Artificial lighting of the room is also of great importance. The more varied it is, the better. However, too dim backlighting may not always help, it is better if its brightness can be adjusted when necessary.
Of course, each photographer has his own shooting specifics. But if your wedding hall is not quite ideal from the point of view of the above points, then it makes sense to warn the photographer about this so that he can properly prepare, both from a technical and moral point of view.