Digital SLR

[theveed]

Jeff: To be honest lang, the fact that you don't have a portfolio yet and actual gears to cover the shoot properly, I'd politely decline the job.

Reasons:

1) Experience? Not sa photography skills, but covering weddings from start to finish (pre-wedding preps, wedding itself, reception etc.)
2) Equipment, you really can't cover a wedding by yourself, there's really a lot of preparation involved including backup bodies/lens/flash, scouting the location first, having assistants etc... You can't cover without a backup cam, think of how much moments you'll lose during lens changes.
3) It's a couple's wedding, not a birthday or something that can be replicated if something went wrong.
4) Pricing, it's not something you can decide on unless you have #1, price yourself too low, you'll be sacrificing your reputation in your future project prices, price yourself too high, don't expect future projects soon. Undercutting industry rates doesn't really work well for either party, the photographer will be tagged as a cheap talent, the industry will suffer coz the unexperienced will think that photography service is cheap, and lastly, the customer probably would've preferred spending a little more for a real pro package.
5) Contacts, there's more to wedding photography than shooting the event. Do you already have the knowledge or contacts for layouts, printing, binding, framing, etc?

I'm not being a negative influence, but unlike a studio shoot, portraits, sport event, etc... Wedding shouldn't be handled by the unprepared.

Charge right or don't charge at all...