Now, maybe I'm just being picky. Certainly I'm no wedding photographer, and I would never tell anyone how to do his job. But if you take pictures of a wedding ceremony, it seems to me you might want to squeeze the bride into the shot somehow.
Where's Joolie? Do you see Joolie? Maybe she didn't feel like showing up today. That's really kind of rude of her, after everyone went to all this trouble.
Oh, look at how proud tiny Eric is to be marrying gigantic Jill! Except wait! That's not how it happened! I know because I was standing right there! Although...maybe I wasn't. Too bad there's no photographic evidence for me to reassure myself of this.
The traditional one-sided exchange: With this ring, I me wed.
Sure, they weren't all that bad. But they weren't really all that good, either.
To be fair, it's very difficult to get a decent angle with so much going on, but it seems like the principal rule of taking pictures of someone is to make sure she's not ALMOST ENTIRELY OBSCURED first. And also, yeah, it's hard, but that's why you're getting paid to do it.
I won't even get into the reception pictures except to say that if they are to be believed, our wedding guests did nothing all night but sit around chewing meat with their eyes half closed.
If anyone was there who took pictures and happens to have a shot, any shot, of the ceremony, please let me know. This isn't the end of the world or anything, but it was a really terrific day and we'd like to have pictures of it.