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I'm sure you've seen your share of frazzled families during emotional events like weddings, so what's your advice to brides on keeping calm -- and keeping the peace -- under pressure?

Be flexible. Once you've put all your planning in, don't get invested in having a "perfect" day. If you're marrying someone you love, it's already perfect. And there's no way to make sure that every single thing goes exactly the way you want it to without making yourself anxious and unhappy. You are, after all, dealing with a lot of people, and people are never entirely predictable -- that's the fun of it. If you don't insist that everything be letter-perfect, then you'll be able to make last-minute changes and fix any problems that come up.



Can you recall some of your favorite weddings to shoot? What made them so special?

I just shot a wedding in Eastern Maryland that was terrific. The setting was a large farm that went up to the Chesapeake Bay, and it was all outdoors. There was a big tent, and we got incredible light as the day went on, so photographically it was great. In addition, though, everyone there was friendly and relatively relaxed. Another thing that made it great was that the wedding wasn't too heavily structured. People really got to wander about and do what they wanted, and that made for good pictures, too.

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