According to Liene Stevens, founder of Splendid Communications, there are over 200 professional wedding blogs, which have published over 15, 000 real weddings.

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It's an ability that professional wedding and landscape photographers would adore, but alas, it's only available to the market that would purchase a D3200.

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The trend has been driven by the many young Nigerians living overseas, who had introduced ambitious ideas for wedding themes, along with the concept of the wedding planner: a professional event organizer who could realize the happy couple's vision for their big day, typically at their parents' expense.

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Admittedly, this survey only covers those couples which hired a professional vendor for their wedding, so the sample is skewed towards the bigger spenders.

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In trade for professional photographs of special moments at their wedding, the couple will create a multimedia piece promoting some of the work Maya Meyers has done with at-risk girls.

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Garfinkle, a family photographer and an art director for a Midtown advertising agency, took garbage bags stuffed with a lifetime of memories, including pictures from her childhood, professional photos a relative had taken and expensive albums from her son's wedding in Israel last year.

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