If it is a friends wedding and they have a photographer then don't bother covering the wedding itself. You'll simply be doubling up and you are
likely to get in the way and annoy the main photographer too. You are best capturing the scenes around the wedding, candids of the guests, how they are reacting to events and such. Basically you are free to take a non traditional approach to the subject, so think about photographing the event rather than the wedding itself. Have a couple of the B&G but you can miss out on all the formal group shots.
About 25 years ago I was asked to do an acquaintances wedding. I gave them a price that just covered the cost of materials, printing and developing about £45. They thought I should be giving them the entire thing for free, and hired a professional at £250, I guess that after they found out the real cost they didn't think they could approach me again.
Anyway I covered the wedding as above, had cheap machine prints made, gave them the negatives and address of a pro printer. I never did get to see their wedding album, but friends that did later told me that it was all my photos.
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