After shooting hundreds of weddings across 15 years, you start to notice patterns. Not in the venues or the flowers or the dresses in the decisions. The ones that created stress on a day that should have been joyful. The ones that left couples saying, months later, "I wish we had done that differently." This isn't meant to overwhelm you. Every single one of these mistakes is avoidable. Consider this your honest debrief from people who've been in that room so you don't have to