Above you'll see a copy of the cover of my book, "The Wedding According to Paul," which, by the way, is available on virtually all the book seller websites (Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon, etc.), as well as the San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco libraries .

     "The Wedding According to Paul," is a wedding prep manual based on the more than one thousand weddings that I've photographed. And now that I've plugged my book, let me list the elements of my personal philosophy on how a wedding should be photographed.

First--your photographer should be approximately 5'7" tall, be Italian, and a native Staten Islander (or at least a facsimile thereof).

Secondly--He, or she, should be able to photograph a wedding of any size without needing assistants, tripods, gobos, and other extraneous paraphernalia that clutter your wedding location, and give it the appearance of a B-movie set.

Third--He, or she, should be the photographer who shows up at your wedding, not another photographer from "the studio." And...should be the only person you deal with all the way up to the time that you pick up your album, and, or CD.

Fourth--He, or she, should not need to take four or five hundred pictures for you to wade through and make you nuts. 

Fifth--He, or she, should be able to provide a film or digital medium, at your discretion.

Sixth--He should see his "canvas" in terms of the overall story that his set of pictures captures, and not revel in the artsy fartsyness of individual photos.

Seventh--She must love what she does, even after photographing her thousandth wedding.

And, lastly--He should be me.