This prestigious publication enjoys circulation in New York, Paris, Monaco, Berlin, Toronto, Sydney, Dubai and Cape Town and Harrods of London.

This latest accolade is just one among many on Gihan’s mantelpiece.

Gihan is a leading member of The Wedding Photojournalist Association which is a professional organization composed of photojournalists and wedding photographers from around the world and Fearless Photographers which is a professional wedding photographers’ directory featuring the world's very best wedding photographers.

Asked to comment on this honor, bestowed for the first time on a Sri-Lankan photographer, Gihan had this to say, ‘I am immensely honored to receive this prestigious award from Destination Weddings & Honeymoons Magazine, UK. It is the fruit of many years of committed study, of tirelessly honing my craft and of strenuous hard work. This award further legitimates my well-founded belief that photography is more than just pointing an expensive camera at something or someone and clicking a button—that it indeed cannot simply be done by anyone sans the requisite education, skill and sensibility.’