M&S's wedding

M and S were married yesterday. They asked me to photograph it and while my initial reaction was no, I thought a challenge might do me some good. I stopped photographing weddings several years ago mainly due to them being both stressful and photographically uninspiring.

They're still very stressful and photographically uninspiring, but I enjoyed myself nevertheless. Hopefully I've got some good photographs. The professional make-up girl said, "Oh you're using film. Gosh. Rare these days for a wedding photographer to be using film." I started to say, but I'm not a wedding photographer ... but thought it'll take too long to explain.

I brought along the digital SLR as a back-up and ended up using it a hell of a lot more than I'd anticipated. I know now why wedding photographers (ie, real ones) just use a digital SLR with a big flash on it. It's just dead simple. And unrewarding.

I don't think I'll volunteer for any more wedding assignments any time soon, but it was interesting to get out there and do it for a change.

Here's the happy couple, many hours into the evening: