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Wedding photographer Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera, but her focus is shattered moments before an important wedding rehearsal when she bumps into the bride-to-be's brother--an encounter that has them both seeing stars--and has Mac turning to her three best friends and business partners to see her way to her own happy ending.

Will the competition between two rival photographers mean disaster for the biggest wedding of the year? Or could it spark an unexpected love?

The author presents his advice and practice routines for composing and capturing photographs of people, illustrated with examples from his own practice sessions and from his extensive work photographing weddings around the world.

"Brett Florens walks you step-by-step through one real wedding (the celebration of Claire and Chris), revealing his go-to shooting techniques and time-management strategies. Florens begins by customizing image concepts to suit the clients' personalities and style. On the engagement shoot, he takes you through setups with Claire and Chris that begin with natural light then escalate to multi-strobe approaches. Florens launches his wedding-day coverage...

Laurie is a wedding photographer who has shot more than eleven hundred ceremonies in thirteen years. Having survived crushing heartbreak, she is a woman for whom the mechanics of love have lost their allure, a woman hiding behind a camera. Then she meets a man who has sneaked into one of the wedding parties she's shooting--a crasher. They share a few moments of powerful chemistry, and then he's gone. The experience scares her to death but she can't...