Question and advice to you wedding togs

Soldato
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Just looking for self improvement and need to other people's thought process into how they would tackle certain situations.

1. Church service.
The rev is quite strict, no or little movement allowed. Obviously no flash during the service except the signing of registrar. At the alter, your not allowed the stand behind the reverent to get the best few of the couple but to the side slightly behind the reverent and only get the face of the bride during the exchange of words.
Where else would you think of standing to get good photos?
Standing at the back is fine but getting the shots of the back of the bride and groom is not really the best option.

2 Champaign hour
As the bride and groom leave for the champaign hour to be greeted by family and friends, do you try and take photos of the side of the bride and guest when they hug and chat or do you stand behind / infront of the bride and get the shots of the back of the bride and the facial expression of the guest?

3. Reception
Can you successfully take photos of the environment without the use of flash during first dance? Assumption that the reception will be quite dim and poorly lit.
 
2 - What I'm not sure is about is that when I take pictures of the back for example of the bride hugging a relative for example, who the photos look as bad if there is lots of skin coving half the photo? I was at an earlier wedding and the bride was a bit 'curvy' and when she hugged guest and family to congratulate her, I couldn't help but notice all that skin top half back in the photo. Get what I'm saying lol

3. I've got enough wide lens to get the shots but its the issue where the camera cannot find spots on the subject to focus for example. Using a flash is the most obvious choice here but it creates that artificial light which I'm starting to get annoyed at.
 
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