Recommendations for a family photographer

I want to get the wife a photo shoot with the family for her birthday. There are seemingly a lot of options when searching the internet. We have had a poor experience with photographers and air tasker previously so looking for some recommendations this time around.

Not really interested in going to a studio, it seems like a lot of people do photos in the wild where you pick a location and take some nice photos outside so this is more what we prefer if that makes a difference to recommendations.

Realise i didnt specify a location; NoR fairly central.