The wedding pros I've talked to say that although lots of couples love the idea of photojournalistic coverage and creative formal portraits, what most of them actually buy is the boring old grip-n-grin shots. If you're in it for the money you'll have to pucker up or go hungry.(posted 8760 days ago)I got married last autumn to the most wonderful woman in the world. Pros the world over will swoon and spit blood to learn that I did my own wedding photography. Batchelor photographers will join them when they hear that the major reason was that my fiance preferred to take the cost of hiring a wedding pro and spend it on a new camera for me. Very bliss it was and all that.
Anyway, the best non-formal shots were taken by my good lady's twelve-year old nephew wielding my old ME Super. Not only did the lad have no fear of getting in close (and an interestingly different eye-height), but his subjects behaved completely differently to the normal rabbit-in-the-headlights behaviour they adopt when confronted by an adult with a camera. Sobering.