Wedding planners never ask the photographer! Because of this one picture we can often miss is that first glimpse of the bride as she enters the church. Why? Because if its a nice day outside, the doors of the church open and the light outside is far more intense than the light inside the church----too much of a difference for our cameras to handle. Many photographers compensate for this by using a flash, but these never look natural or real. And if we expose for the outside light the bride and her dad are too dark and silhouetted. So what I try to do is use the light to create an other-worldly glow that the emerge from. Admittedly sometimes this doesn't work, but when it does its beautiful and soft and filled with light. When it doesn't, well I have time to make very good frames of the bride and her dad making their way down the aisle and usually someone shuts the doors behind them. If not the pictures just slightly from the side will still balance out the light ok. The one shot is chancy, but worth it for those times it turns out great. Photograph of my brother in law and niece. Photograph by Uncle Dick.