A photographer and a videographer spend the whole day together moving around the same spaces trying not to get in each other's way. When it works well you barely notice each other. These are five Irish wedding filmmakers I've actually worked alongside and would recommend without hesitation.

I've photographed over 50 weddings at Brooklodge and Kevin and I were married there ourselves in 2009. I'm completely biased. I'm also telling you it's one of the best wedding venues in Ireland, and those two things are not unconnected.

Black and white wedding photography strips everything back to feeling. Expression. The small truths that sit between two people when the colour and the noise drop away. It is why the black and white images are often the ones couples return to most.

Tinakilly House in Wicklow was built for Captain Robert Halpin, the man who laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable, and something of that history sits quietly in the building still. High ceilings, polished floors, old oak trees, and the Irish Sea close enough to smell. One of my favourite venues in the country to photograph a wedding.

Borris House in County Carlow is still a family home, and that changes everything about what it feels like to have your wedding there. I've photographed somewhere between ten and fifteen weddings on that estate and it's the one I'd recommend to a friend without thinking twice.

Three of Ireland's most beautiful estate wedding venues, compared through a photographer's eyes. Gloster House, Borris House and Kilkea Castle — how they differ, and how to choose.