Chapter 7

The Wedding Bell Rules

“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.”

Konstantin Josef Jireček

Wanna shoot a wedding? Hey, that’s easy money? “Piece a’ cake” assignment, right? You just circulate the room, take the usual photos of aunts, uncles, and drunken friends. You click the shutter a few hundred times, grab some free food when no one is looking, and collect a big check. Yeah, right! Dream sequence now over, let’s cut to real life.

Being a wedding photographer allows you to be your own boss. While that role gives you the responsibility of being in charge, along with that title comes the ...

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