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    <description>Destination guides, planning advice and notes from behind the lens.</description>
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      <title>An Italian wedding day timeline, built backwards from sunset</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A template Italian wedding day timeline built on real sunset times for Lake Como and Florence, with buffers for boats, speeches and the music curfew.</description>
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      <title>Getting married in Florence: ceremony rooms, villas, traffic and heat</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Getting married in Florence: the Comune's ceremony rooms and fees, religious options, hillside villas, ZTL car permits, summer heat and quiet portrait hours.</description>
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      <title>Photographing darker skin tones at a wedding: Italian light, honest editing and what to ask</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Photographing darker skin tones at a wedding in Italy: exposure, midday sun, reception light, edits that keep undertones true, and what to ask a photographer.</description>
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      <title>Jewish wedding photography: tisch to hora, with a sunset timeline</title>
      <link>https://alexfeyer.com/blog/jewish-wedding-photography-guide/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Jewish wedding photography, moment by moment: tisch, bedeken, ketubah, chuppah, yichud and hora, where to stand, and a sunset timeline for Italy.</description>
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      <title>The best time to get married in Tuscany: light, heat and sunsets by month</title>
      <link>https://alexfeyer.com/blog/best-time-to-get-married-in-tuscany/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The best time to get married in Tuscany, month by month: Florence sunset times, average highs, wet days, the grape harvest and the October clock change.</description>
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      <title>Planning a Nigerian wedding in Italy: guests, aso ebi, traditions and timing</title>
      <link>https://alexfeyer.com/blog/nigerian-wedding-in-italy/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A Nigerian wedding in Italy, planned in the right order: Schengen visas for guests, aso ebi, the trad, venue capacity, music curfews and coverage.</description>
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      <title>Planning a Jewish wedding in Italy: chuppah, ketubah, kosher catering and the legal side</title>
      <link>https://alexfeyer.com/blog/jewish-wedding-in-italy/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A Jewish wedding in Italy, at Lake Como or in Tuscany: the legal side, dates to avoid, finding a rabbi, kosher catering, chuppah timing and the ketubah.</description>
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      <title>How to get married in Italy as a foreigner: civil, religious or symbolic?</title>
      <link>https://alexfeyer.com/blog/how-to-get-married-in-italy/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Civil, Catholic, other religious or symbolic: how to get married in Italy as a foreigner, the papers by nationality, and how each route shapes the day.</description>
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      <title>How to plan a wedding photographed at Villa del Balbianello</title>
      <link>https://alexfeyer.com/blog/lake-como-wedding-photographer-guide/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A practical guide to one of the most photographed venues in the world — what light to chase, what hours to book, and which boat company to hire for the transit.</description>
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      <title>What to actually look for in a wedding photographer</title>
      <link>https://alexfeyer.com/blog/what-to-look-for-in-a-wedding-photographer/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Forget star ratings. Here are the four signals I'd look for if I were picking the person to document the most expensive 14 hours of my life.</description>
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      <title>Why fog and rain are the best weather for photography</title>
      <link>https://alexfeyer.com/blog/shooting-in-fog-and-rain/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Every wedding photographer secretly hopes for overcast. Here's why, with examples from a foggy morning at Lake Como and a thunderstorm in Budapest.</description>
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      <title>Editorial vs traditional wedding photography — the actual difference</title>
      <link>https://alexfeyer.com/blog/editorial-vs-traditional-wedding-photography/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Both styles produce good photographs. They just produce different photographs, for different people, on different days. Here's how to know which one fits you.</description>
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      <title>Five Budapest venues that photograph beautifully (and one to avoid)</title>
      <link>https://alexfeyer.com/blog/budapest-wedding-venues/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Budapest is having a moment as a destination-wedding city. Here are the venues I'd actually recommend, and why the most-Instagrammed one isn't on the list.</description>
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      <title>What I actually pack for a destination wedding</title>
      <link>https://alexfeyer.com/blog/what-i-pack-for-a-destination-wedding/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Two cameras, four lenses, two flashes I rarely use, and the one thing nobody tells you to bring. A photographer's loadout.</description>
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