Our photographer recently posted our photos to a photo-sharing website to view while we wait for the cds to arrive in the mail. There are a lot of beautiful shots in there, but I am disappointed with how few shots there are of our guests at the reception. They documented the speeches and cake cutting very nicely, and got a few of people mingling during the cocktail hour, but the vast majority of our guests don't show up in any picutes. There are only one or two pictures of each of our parents and none of any other of our family members (and they took family picutes at the church so they should have been able to recognize who our families were).
I take some of the blame in not specifying that getting pictures of our guests was important to me, but I assumed that that's what they would be doing during the reception. We did not have a dance, but people sat around for a long time talking and mingling and there was ample opportunity for them to be snapping shots. I certainly didn't expect all of our guests to show up in a picture, but more than a handful would have been nice!
So my question to you married ladies is, is this typical? Do you have many pictures of your guests or do photographers not usually take those types of shots? They weren't even following DH and me around taking shots of us talking to people, so quite frankly, I'm not sure what else they might have been doing but it certainly wasn't taking pictures.
Sorry this got so long!