When my brother and his wife got married, they had a wonderful professional photographer who took incredible photos of the wedding party and various family and friends. But they also had 150 other folks at the wedding who were not part of the formal photo shoot, and rather than pay the photographer to hang around all evening, they put a disposable camera on each table at the reception, with a little attached note asking guests to shoot at will and drop the used cameras in a basket near the door.

And shoot they did; the pictures were candid and funny and charming. They wound up with pictures of everyone at the wedding, which was lovely. And they got pictures of people being themselves, which is of course how we want to remember our friends and family.

I love this idea; I like the notion of having your guests record the fun they had at your wedding. And often, the best wedding photos, the ones that truly capture the day, are not the posed professional photographs, but the crazy candids. Like the entire album of butt shots my brother has in his office. You know, thirty pictures of the back of people's suits and dresses. Says a lot about my brother and his friends, really. All of it good, of course.