A friend who actually makes a living shooting mostly weddings told me that everyone says they want candids, everyone says they want something different, everyone says they don't want the posed group shots but 90% of her sales are still non candid, traditional posed group shots. She shoots the candids, the "photojournalist style" photos while she is there and bills for the film but people ALMOST NEVER buy them.(posted 8749 days ago)Her gold mine, she says, is to take a really portrait of all the older people there. Every bride, it seems, wants a picture with her grandmother taken on her wedding day and these pictures, as much as the traditional poses, are guaranteed sales.
I find it interesting -- the more people say they want something different, the more it remains the same.