A regular user of internet might have come across many photography sites, some quite excellent and some are really abysmal. A photographer with a newly built website might be some one who has learned and taken up photography recently, bought a very costly and professional camera and might have taken one or two great photo and considering himself as a good photographer learn a few tricks or manipulations with editing software like Photoshop. But an amateur photographer needs some useful tips, , PARTICULARLY when it comes to wedding photography. Though anyone can capture with a top end digital camera at a wedding, to do it correctly, efficiently and professionally requires experience.

First, you advertise anywhere and everywhere possible and put yourself out there as an "inexperienced photographer" who is eager to listen and learn and eventually take up wedding photography. You approach an established professional wedding photographer and respectfully ask if you can accompany him/her at an upcoming wedding firstly WITHOUT any camera equipment, and assist him/her for free. He/she may give you something at the end. The next time ask the same photographer if you can take a few of your own reportage or candid shots so long as that under no circumstances will you get in the way of either the photographer OR the proceedings.
Next you could approach a couple who are soon to get married and explain to them that, if possible, you would like to take some photos alongside the hired professional photographer, for nothing again, just for practice and that if they like any of your pictures, they may buy them from you at a lower price.

After you have done this once or twice and if you feel confident enough to do it alone, once again, you offer to photograph a wedding free of charge, but this time as the only photographer and you just charge for print costs to cover your own expenses.
By not charging at this point, and because of the fact that you are NOT yet an up and running business, and as long as you make this crystal clear to the wedding couple, you are limiting your personal liabilities but at the same time, gaining some valuable experience for any future work.

The last step you have to make before you present yourself as a professional wedding photographer is that you enroll yourself on a weekend or 2 or 3 day course with a professional wedding photographer and learn as much as you can about lighting and posing techniques, as well as all the other details. These courses normally include a model wedding "couple" for a day for you to practice your skills on.

Wedding photography is indeed much more than merely taking the photographs; you also have to think about the organising, the printing, and albums and above all, your own personal proficiency, efficiency and professionalism.

All of this take some time and chances are that you may not earn much money for a while starting this way, but when you finally begin to charge for your wedding photography, you will be more than ready and able, and hopefully have lot of confidence to kick start you on your way.

If mastered in the proper way, wedding photography, though a hard work, will provide an awful lot of fun and excitement and  is very rewarding both financially and personally.