| Wedding photography doesn't have to be boring, and | | | | transaction to take a shot that actually shows them |
| it doesn't have to be expensive. Come to think of it, | | | | for who they are. |
| why book a wedding photographer at all when the | | | | So - join the revolution if you dare. Nuts to staid and |
| bride, groom and all their friends can do it | | | | traditional, which in almost every part are just words |
| themselves? This is the DIY age, after all, where | | | | meaning "getting fleeced by an overpriced shutter |
| bands get famous because they broadcast | | | | bug because everyone else does". Let's tear down |
| themselves on the Internet and Graffiti artists | | | | the gates of that particular institution and start again |
| become superstars. Join the party; retake control of | | | | - with the cameras, and the knowledge, and the |
| that special day; and end up with a set of wedding | | | | friendship and love, of all the people who actually |
| photos that are way more than just an album. This is | | | | know us. Let's have some wedding photography |
| wedding photography for the 21st century - real, raw | | | | done by the guests, by the family and friends. Let's |
| and full of energy. | | | | see some candid snaps, before and after. Some |
| Sounds a little rough and ready for what is | | | | shots taken on phones, some on digital cameras. |
| traditionally a very staid and by the book day? Let's | | | | Let's have them all uploaded to a site where they |
| take a moment to think about the purpose of a | | | | can be shared, enjoyed, added to and commented |
| wedding. We're always being told that weddings are | | | | on. Let's use the Internet in its best possible sense - |
| a celebration of the love of two people for each | | | | to share knowledge and joy. Let's commemorate a |
| other, held in the eyes and hearts of their family and | | | | wedding for what everyone says it ought to be, |
| friends, to celebrate and validate that love. So why in | | | | rather than what some guy with a massive camera |
| the name of all that's insane do we insist on | | | | tells us. |
| formalising everything about them, to the point | | | | If marriage is about celebrating a love in the sight of |
| where even the wedding photography is done by | | | | friends and family, then why not let those friends |
| someone who has no interest whatsoever in the | | | | and family commemorate that love in the eyes and |
| lives and friendships of the couple in question? | | | | lenses of their cameras? That's the kind of wedding |
| Money, that's why. A wedding is about love and | | | | photography that the 21st century was born for - |
| friendship: not about spending thousands on the | | | | and with the Internet, and a little snappy technology, |
| services of a photographer who simply doesn't have | | | | it's the kind of wedding celebration this country has |
| enough intimate knowledge of either member in the | | | | been waiting for. |