Everyone Says I'll Be Sorry, But...

Here's one confession that will make all wedding planners, both traditional and not, gasp...

Dude and I don't really care too much about pictures.

Every book and website I've seen has been all, you have to invest in photography, because that will be the only thing you have for the years to come that will remind you of your wedding day.

That's great and awesome and I totally agree... but we just don't care. There are a few big pictures that I want (portraits, family shots, and a few surprises that you'll have to wait until the wedding to see), but that's it. And with the proliferation of digital cameras, I am more than confident that my family and friends will all take photos of which we'll want copies anyway.

So I just didn't see any point in dropping the 10% of the budget I'm supposed to drop on a photographer. Basically all we wanted was a photographer who wouldn't be annoying and all in everyone's faces, who could capture all the important stuff, and could be easygoing and not let my sometimes overeager aunt hog all the pictures.

We decided to go with Mariano Delgado. This is the one shot that finally convinced me that he was our man:



And, one of my coworkers is a budding photographer who wants to build his wedding portfolio for extra cash. I think I could talk him into being a second photographer for REAL cheap (hopefully free).