weddings shot by our studio in twenty years: 1,500

most weddings shot by one photographer in one day: three (once)

most weddings shot by one photographer in one weekend: five; Friday night, Saturday morning, Saturday evening, Sunday afternoon, holiday Monday afternoon

pictures per unit time: start at 2PM, end at midnight, ten hours wedding, 500 shots: one picture every 72 seconds; compare with one picture every 30 seconds at a sorority formal

frames of film in a year: eighty weddings averaging 500 shots = 40,000 frames; about 1200 rolls of film

gigabytes per wedding: 200 guests, 500 shots; 6 megabyte high-resolution files for the 50 most important pictures, 2 megabyte medium-resolution files for the rest requires 1 gigabyte or 2 CD-roms of storage

times Datu has been a best man: four

times Datu has sung or performed at a wedding reception: eleven

times Datu has driven the mother of the bride to the church: three

times one of our photographers has alerted the Bride, about to walk down the aisle, that she didn't have her bouquet: three (twice in Lake Forest)