  Quite useful when you are getting started
I bought this book when I started in Wedding Photography a couple of years ago. It is quite helpful when you are learning the basics. It helps outline some "must have" shots, basic digital editing, and has some really nice photos to use as examples. It was better than many of the other wedding photo books I've seen.
Probably not all that helpful for anyone who is experienced with shooting weddings, but for those who are newbies, or just planning on shooting a friend's wedding, it's definitely an investment.
It's okay
This book is okay for an introduction to digital wedding photography. I recommend this book for people who understand the basic concepts of photography and are looking for a guide to shooting weddings. People who need to learn the basics of photography should get a different book. Also, people who are familar with wedding photography and want a book that provides new ideas for exposure, compostion, posing, and general artistic ideas also should get a different book. This book is a good basic guide to wedding photography, and I recommend this book only for people who want just that.
great for beginners...
I bought this book and found it helpful in planning to do a friends wedding. Although the sections were short and did not have extensive detail the photos were good and the author gives good advise. I have read it twice and plan on keeping it on my shelf for a quick reference. I normally do journalistic photography so it was nice to have some guidance on posing shots as well as other things I don't do in my daily shooting.
This is a book for the absolute newcomer to photography
I bought this book based on one of the other positive reviews, and based on the beautiful cover photo. The intended reader is someone who is just starting out with photography, for example the book explains the difference (with photos) between different types of cameras. Similar basic topics include the difference between wide angle and tele lenses and the Photoshop tips assume you have never used Photoshop, so it illustrates basics like the histogram, clone stamp, and so on. My problem with the book is that half of it is wasted on introductory topics that one would assume a photographer will have under control long before trying to move into wedding photography.
On the positive side, there are many pages loaded with text on various topics of the wedding. I can say that the topics cover the wedding quite comprehensively.
However, the book is broken down in small topics that are covered in two facing pages each. This fragments the book - there is no coherence. I sometimes failed to see how one topic leads or builds up to the next one. Sometimes, I felt that the two pages limit on each topic (photos included) means that the author had to summarize greatly to fit the text in. I kept looking for more depth as I read.
On one page I spotted a bad typing error, mentioning a "slow shutter speed of 800 ISO".
The book mentions that the author has 30 years of experience, and one should not take such an author lightly - there is much to learn from photographers with that much experience. However, although I like a journalistic approach, his documentary style did not appeal to me. I was drawn to buy the book by the cover photo, but having paged through it, I drew little inspiration from the photos. He made an important point that you should first work on capturing the moment, before worrying about perfecting the image in other respects such as composition; but I feel more inspired by the artistic pictures from other books.
Therefore, I gave this book away the day I received it: I felt it was intended for beginner photographers, the topics were not handled in depth enough, and I did not like the photos.
Personally, I liked more reading Rick Ferro's "Wedding photography" or Bill Hurter's "Digital Wedding Photography", or George Shaub's "Professional techniques for the wedding photographer".
good book
this book had more post processing information than i am used to seeing, but it was great information. as far as the photography side goes, this book is not a how to, but provided some beautiful examples.
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