Pose or not to pose? Weddings are an anomaly to me in so many ways. They are all about the moment and the emotion of the moment. Yet we, as photographers have to dance around the priests and wedding planners all the time to find out what we can and cannot do during a service. I always explain...in a nice way to the priest that it is about the bride and groom and that is what I'm there to preserve by capturing the moments. I've been told we can re-stage things after the ceremony---why. can a re-staged moment ever come close to the real thing? Recently at my niece's wedding I was just an uncle with a camera... she hired a wedding photographer to make her pictures, but I'm a guy that doesn't do well with ceremonies unless I'm working so I said I'll just try to stay out of his way and make photos. I didn't bother hanging out after the ceremony for the group photos etc.... its not my thing. I've learned to do them, but the real thing is to make pictures of the moments that I saw. This picture was the result I believe of their wedding photographer asking them to stop in the doorway and kiss, he was on the inside--I'm guessing making a silhouette. I was glad he asked them to stop and I was glad I was rushing out and tinkering with my ISO so I could be in position to get this picture. And I was glad my niece had the bouquet in her right hand! Photograph by Uncle Dick