Back in the days of film, I photographed weddings for many years as a source of extra money. As a photographer I had to be 100% on every photo. Check camera setting on each shot. Shooting a 6x7 cm frame of film with just 10 shots per roll of film to get real quality 35mm film simply can't achieve. There are no re-shoots of a wedding. It has to be 100% exposed perfect, and in focus. Now with auto-focus high res digital and RAW images Photoshop can fix a lot. Those were not even dreamed of back then.
I dealt with lots of brides, but 90% of the time, it was the bride's mother that was the crazy one. Some were great, but many were just useless blobs of emotions.
One wedding was exceptionally hard to photograph. The bride was in white, but the bridesmaids (all 8 of them) were in BLACK gowns. Now try to get the exposure on a super bright white dress next to a black dress in the days of Kodak VPS color film, ASA 160. OK, now it is ISO but it was ASA back then.
I photographed a wedding that had to cost 6 figures, and I photographed wedding that were in a small home, and the only food was a big bowl of beanie weenies (really) and iced tea. One wedding the bride paid the best man and the grooms friends to hold the groom down to to cut off the grooms fu manchu mustache before the wedding. A match made in heaven.
