Not really adding anything to this thread but I thought I would say that I really think you have taken some really nice images!
I agree that in some of the shots the flash would have ruined the feel and the atmosphere!
Can I ask how much you would charge for a full day wedding? And what camera do you shoot on to maximise the low light capabilities?
Your questioning will add something to this discussion.
For a 12-15 hour shoot, ideally, I'm aiming for £1400 with an assistant. I'm not there yet as I'm just starting, so I got a little less than that.
Gear wise, nothing special, a 1Dsmk2, 1Dmk2N, 24mm f1.4 L, Sigma 24-70 f2.8 HSM. I do carry a Rayflash and 580EXmk2 with me even though I don't use it often. I have a very steady hand and it helps that the gear is heavy, I can hand hold at 4th or 8th of a second but I try to never go above ISO 800 either, don't need to worry about it though with the 24mm f1.4. I use Aperture 3 btw.
Also each camera holds 2 memory cards and I write to both at the same time.
There is some noise in my images but the printing process does tend to smooth that out, nobody has ever complained about it though. Experience has told me that if the image is good enough, nobody cares. My documentary work is deliberately noisy and nobody questions it as much as one would think. If it is a problem LR3 will clear that up with its noise reduction tool.
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iPhoneNYC mentioned a 48 hour turnaround with images, again that would be very great but most people go on honeymoon so you have that luxury of time to get the editing done, so no need to stress oneself out. But it isn't a numbers game as such "50-100 in 48 hours". I find it takes me 7-10 days to make a selection alone, an edit of what should go in the book, never mind actually modifying Raw files. All my clients get a book and whatever doesn't go in the book, goes on a disk. My last two weddings were on the 29th and the 30th of May and the clients haven't received anything yet. Keeping them up to date on my process (inviting them to see the proof for example) helps and there have been no complaints. But both clients should get their books next week all going well.
My two weddings were roughly 1500 images each, with another 1200 from my assistant for one of the weddings, he edited his own down and gave me 200 of his best. I roughly have about 200 images which go into a book! All the rest were provided on disk for my clients who are free to print whatever they want.
One book can be found here:
http://www.blurb.com/books/1424868 and it holds around 250 images from the day, a very tight selection. It could have been tighter but I always show the clients a digital proof before sending to blurb and they said leave it as it is.
