All the very best!

To get photos: enlist a stranger (or friend) from an aisle seat near the front. Hand them your camera loaded with at least 24 exposures. If there are more cameras in your group, have 2 or 3 going. Each photographer probably feels less nervous thinking that someone else will get the good shots.

The second rule of volunteer recruitment: Tell them what you need, e.g. a few shots of the whole group, and some shots of individuals. (The first rule is "ASK FOR HELP!) If they look a little blank or panicky, tell them to take each picture from a different angle. Walk away purposefully before they can argue. If they catch you before you can escape, the failsafe instruction: if in doubt, snap twice.

It worked for me at my wedding: no budget for a photographer or videographer, so we borrowed a VCR, bought lotsa film for our camera. Then we simply took our guests for granted: handed the video to one, the still to another, and said "try to get a shot of everyone. The results are spontaneous and personal, and our friends are still talking to us 10 years later.

(Yes, one photo of the bride & groom has a tree growing out of the bride's head, but this just might explain my back troubles...and my head troubles...)

Do like the pros do. Lots of film, lots of pictures, 3,4,5 rolls. There'll be a few keepers. Don't pay for processing when you buy the film. That way you don't pay for pictures of the ceiling, the lens cap, etc.

Awww, go for it. Pictures are great and the gang will love to have copies no matter how they turn out.

The love of the whole Mudcat is with you all!