Digital Photo Tips

SALEM, N.H. -- More than a year after their wedding days, a double of New Hampshire brides continue to wait for pictures taken by a Salem-based business.

Their married lives are well underway, but they still don't have those actual reminders of their wedding days. News 9 spoke with two brides who shelled out more than $2,000 each and still don't have the pictures they paid for.

The Safer Business Bureau said Forever In Time Photography had 45 complaints filed against it this year alone.

Kallie Ouellette hired the attendance to document her wedding day, Sept. 26, 2008. Ouellette got a DVD but not much else. The company told her a fire set it back in December of last year.

After a number of phone calls, Kallie said they told her pictures would be eager in August, but she is still waiting.

Tracie Geiger also had her wedding pictures done by Forever In Time. She and her husband married in June of 2008 and now have a 7-month-old daughter, but no

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Matt Davies, 35, from Highgate in North London, has been interested in inventions and discovering how things operate from a young age. "I have always spent my spare time thinking of ideas – scribbling sketches and designs for new products or to put existing ones – since I was a young lad," explains Matt.

Four years ago Matt fixed to try taking one of his ideas from drawing board to market. "I had lots of good ideas on disquisition but wanted to see if one could actually work in practice and make a profit."

His product - the Yoke Shopper is a colophon to stop painful 'bag-burn' when shopping bags cut into your hands. It also keeps bags together and has a shoulder strap to pass out weight evenly over your body.

"I could never have foreseen quite how much work would be involved," he says, "and how I'd have to become an dexterous on everything from business and finance, through to design and manufacture, and even legal issues.

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When you entertain the idea of life's big expenses, what comes to mind? College, for one. A home, a car, certainly retirement. And if you are planning to get married, or have children who are, a wedding ranks leading. And it should be -- according to The Knot's Real Wedding Survey, the average wedding in 2008 cost $29,334.

That's more than a down payment on many houses, more than four years of college tutelage at a public institution, and more than many cars. But a wedding certainly doesn't have to cost that much.

I've been to lovely weddings that probably had a budget of $10,000, and equally beautiful weddings that likely topped $50,000. What did they have in common? Heart. Soul. Creativity.

The key is knowing where to skimp and where to flaunt one's money. Here are some tips:

Go off-season. Vendors in the Midwest and Northeast will almost always cut you a deal in January and February because they don't receive as much business during those months. If you've always envisioned a garden band in May or September, perhaps start imagining a lovely reception indoors.

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