In article <32EAE90C.520F@iamerica.net>, melbrown@iamerica.net says...
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>That should be enough to keep you out of serious trouble. Go for it. Weddings
>can be lucrative, and many photographers actually enjoy shooting them, though
>I have no clue as to why! [:-)

'Cause I take the interesting ones...! ;-) The by-the-book, formula,
everyone-dressed-alike type weddings ARE boring(!!!;-), but the ones
often held around here are FUN! I have photographed: a Quaker wedding in
a farm yard on a nice sunny afternoon; a wedding on the end of a dock,
followed by a boat trip to the reception at an inn on the other side of
the lake; a wedding in a train station, complete with old railroad cars;
a wedding in a huge cow-pasture on a hilltop, under the lone tree (had
to shoo the cows away several times, and just as I finished reloading a
camera at the end of the ceremony [having stepped carefully over numerous cow-paddies while covering the ceremony], I planted both feet in a squishy one...); a Catholic-Protestant 2-way wedding in a neat old church in a
nearby town; a Lesbian wedding; a Jewish wedding before which I was warned about the reservations the Rabbi has about photographers (though I normally stay out of the way and quiet during the ceremony...), but the Rabbi planted
me in front of the alter in the only brilliantly-lighted part of a VERY
dark Victorian chapel; a wedding on a hillside on a pleasant sunny
afternoon; numerous backyard/winery/local-park weddings (including one by
a large waterfalls), and numerous memorable ceremonies (we have interesting clergy here, I guess) and receptions (we have great musicians of all sorts here, and lots of "free spirits" for wedding guests - the weddings (that I
see, anyway) are rarely boring (People are imaginative with the forms, and
know how to have fun! [And, so far, I have avoided the drunken-party type
of receptions]). Gull-darn! Almost seems like stealing, taking the money!;-)
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