Not that many years ago, wedding photographers
were known as “weekend
warriors; they were wedding photographers on wedding
days and worked at other full-time jobs the rest of
the week. The status of the wedding photographer—
both among other photographers and the public at
large—was very low. They were often insufficiently
equipped to provide first-rate photographs of the
wedding and photographed almost everything with oncamera
flash. In some cases, not only was their photographic
technique suspect, so were their business
practices. The phrase “fly by night” often described the
struggling weekend warrior.