I am not. And I'm not saying that as an excuse. I am a people photographer and one of my favorite people was getting married, a small-ish affair, and she needed a photographer. I was confident I could get a few nice pics for her despite the fact that I wasn't a wedding photographer.

The reason I say this is because I don't have the experience and training of a wedding photographer. They are a fully separate animal. As a general rule, sports photographers shoot baseball players; landscape photographers shoot mountains, oceans, and such; and food photographers shoot crusty bread sandwiches. One of my mentors and I had a good laugh the day I said, "Oh, I could never shoot weddings" and she said, "Oh, I could never shoot families." ("Shoot" in this instance means photograph, of course). I enjoyed myself despite myself.

And here are a few of my favorite pics from my bestie's wedding. <3