My fiance has a friend who has started to do photography in the last year and decided he wants to build a business doing it. To add to his portfolio, he asked if he could do engagement photos for us. Since we hadn't planned to spend the money on engagement pictures, it sounded like a great win-win : we get some fun engagement pictures for free and our friend gets to add to his portfolio to help start his business.
I decided that I wanted to do a picture book as our guestbook and told our friend that I would love to use his pictures in the book since we had so much fun shooting with him. The friend thought it was a neat idea and was excited about it. HERE'S THE DILEMMA...the friend texted my fiance yesterday to let us know he was going to bring us a CD of all our photos so I could make the guest book (and in the very same line) asked if he could put out his business cards at our wedding.
I'm all about helping out a friend, and if anybody were to ask about our pictures I wouldn't hesitate to rave about our photog friend and very quickly refer them to him, but I feel like our wedding shouldn't be used as an opportunity for him to advertise. This is a ceremony and celebration of our lives together as husband and wife...not a trade show. Please, let me also add that I have a friend who is VERY close to me and he IS a photographer. In fact, he's offered to do my bridal portraits as a wedding gift - but he's not asking to put out business cards.
Am I just being a bridezilla about this whole thing and overreacting? HELP!!!!