"You are newly engaged and planning your wedding. The most important choice you will make will be your wedding photographer. You can skimp on the decor or simply use what the venue has to offer, no one will notice, you can have an afternoon wedding with finger foods, get the flowers from Costco or your Grammy's garden, do without favors (no one takes them anyway) no one will notice these things.

If you have a bad photographer or one of the internet $500 people everyone will notice and be heart-sick and just say 'The photos are beautiful' when you really have nothing more than what your uncle or best friend can do. Yes this is negative, better now than after the wedding.

Do not shop price for the photography!"

"Doing both video and stills has been very interesting. I can watch the video of a wedding and then view the stills and see that I had captured moments with photographs that did not stand out in the video.

I am always amazing at the fleeting moments and the comments from the bride and groom that they did no even remember event at their wedding.

I wonder what the most important thing would be to the bride before the wedding. The dress, the cake, the table decor. What would they give up to preserve those moments.

After the wedding is not the time to say I wish I had spent more on my photography. I hear so many complaints from couples who had a friend, family member or a cheap newbee take their wedding photographs.

My opinion would be to give the guest finger foods, rent table decor and spend the greater part of my budget on the video and photographs."

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ~William Faulkner"

Every wedding deserves the best, don't lose your memories to a beginner.