Digital Home Thoughts: CameraHobby.com: Wedding Photography e-Book

"The digital photographer takes just as many if not much more images thanks to the zero cost of doing so digitally (provided the photographer has enough memory cards, digital wallet and/or notebook computer for dumping files to). Most digital photographers understand the risk of the digital medium and do backups to CD or DVD as quickly as possible, often doing it while the wedding is progressing with an assistant doing the backups via a notebook. At the latest, the photographer should do the backups upon returning to the studio or home office and immediately backup the original files to CD or DVD. After backing up has been completed the photographer becomes the editor and begins the review process of all the files, tossing the bad shots immediately. Once the initial review has been completed, the real work begins."

As long as there are people getting married, there will be a desire to have the memories of that day captured by a skilled photographer. This lengthy article looks to be a couple of years old, but contains a lot of wisdom for someone contemplating becoming a part-time wedding photographer - I know of several people going that route as a way of paying for the money they spent on their equipment.