Who writes this, and why it is free.
Wedding Photography Tips is a free reference for beginner wedding photographers. Every article is open and every download is one click: no account, no paywall, no form in the way.
Who writes it
Casey Morgan is the editor of Wedding Photography Tips at weddingphotographytips.com, a free reference for beginner wedding photographers covering shooting weddings, lighting technique, and the business side of photography: contracts, deposits, and client communication. Wedding Photography Tips is a publication rather than a studio and offers no photography services.
How we write
- Settings numbers come from shoots, not from other blogs. Where a number is an estimate, it is labelled as one.
- Legal claims are cited to primary sources. Statutes and copyright.gov, not a summary of a summary.
- We flag jurisdiction. This site is written for the US. Anything that changes by state is marked where it comes up, not buried in a footer.
- Update stamps are real. A date changes only when the content changed, and the stamp says what changed. We do not put new dates on old articles to look fresh.
- We say when we do not know. “Ask a lawyer in your state” is a real answer and we will give it rather than guess.
- Forum analysis is described, not inflated. When an article cites beginner pain, it cites a real sample: roughly 275 listings across r/WeddingPhotography and r/AskPhotography, pulled on 2026-08-02 and read by hand. Counts stay approximate on purpose.
The not a lawyer promise
Nobody on this site is your lawyer, and nothing here is legal advice. No article or template on this site has been reviewed by a lawyer, and we say so on every page that touches money or law. What we do instead is cite the primary sources, name what varies by state, and tell you when the honest answer is to take it to an attorney licensed where you work.
Every business article carries the same visible disclaimer and a jurisdiction note. If money, a lawsuit threat, or a cancelled wedding is already on the table, stop reading and call a lawyer. That answer costs us nothing to give.