The most exciting and beautiful day of your life (until you have kids, of course) is your wedding day.
It is a day that will give you a new beginning for a lifetime of wonderful memories.
They are memories made up of hundreds of moments that will be captured on oh so many cameras.
You will have photographs that as you look at them - again and again over the years to come - your smiles and tears will have been chaptered in your story book wedding album.
The most professional pictures will, of course, be taken by the wedding photographer you will have hired.
He/she will give you the posed, candid, and semi-posed/candid photos from the time you, your wedding party's entourage, and all your guests, start arriving for the ceremony and reception.
All the formalities associated with picture taking will be seen to by your photographer who will, undoubtedly, have brought a tri-podded camera as well as a couple of others for moving around the reception and dining rooms during the evening.
Some of your friends and/or family will be photography buffs and will bring their own cameras.
Most people love taking pictures - usually candid ones, which many times are among the best and most fun ones to have in your wedding album.
From these photos, you can look through them - post honeymoon - and choose those you like best and also ask for duplicates as well as different sizes.
That's the advantage of "personal" camera-carriers.
With some family or friends who are really good amateur photographers, you might even suggest that the pictures you select be their wedding present to you - especially since the cost of prints can be costly.
Most of your guests who bring cameras will probably bring the disposable ones.
They are convenient, light weight, and very cost-effective - especially for people who just like taking fun pictures and want their own souvenirs.
Another marvelous use of cameras today is the technology that enables you to put the photographs as a collective ensemble on one's computer and share them with the bride and groom, other friends and family who were at the wedding, and friends and/or family who were invited but for whatever reasons were unable to be there.
It's a universal way of sharing time-saved moments with everyone.
Cameras fit so easily into handbags and pockets, and they are definitely brought to all your pre-wedding parties.
Photographs from your bridal shower, engagement party, bachelor party, and rehearsals all become part of your wedding album treasure trove.
What would we do without our cameras!!! You might actually want to consider giving your wedding guests disposable cameras as wedding favors.
What a memory catching gift that would be: your guests would be delighted, and you would have sparkles flashing throughout the evening.
Everyone would have snap-shots of their own choosing; their personalized mementos of their involvement in your wedding.
A big thank you to all camera inventors because one would not have come about without its predecessor.
And technology starts with a flash in someone's mind; and that flash makes its way to the cameras of today, and your keepsake memories for tomorrow.