Rich McIver wrote to point out that Credit Card Lowdown has just published 100 Creative Ways to Cut Wedding Costs.

YouTube has a Brides Magazine video about how to choose a hairdresser and how to wear your hair on your big day.

Generally, I do as few posed wedding photographs as I can, but if you’re going to pose you might as well have some fun. TRASH THE DRESS! takes this to an extreme. Follow the link for pictures—often technically superb ones—of brides swimming in, rolling around in sand in, and setting fire to their bridal gowns. (Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the front page.)

With the wedding season approaching, The Times has advice for brides-to-be: about wedding make-up [embedded video] and about wedding diets. For dress-wearing guests, TV style advisors Trinny and Susannah have body-shape specific tips on what to wear [video].

Here’s a creepy Photoshop disaster.

I hate cigarette smoke, but smokers can make for great photos. Smokes are both excellent delivery devices for addictive drugs and wonderful props: They relax, distract, and sometimes illuminate—literally and metaphorically—the subject. In a way cigarettes do for shots of adults what toys do for shots of children:

Many of the photographs in this BBC slideshow about the writer Alan Sillitoe’s life as a smoker are superb.

If you have a problem with porn then you might want to skip some of the galleries at Akif Hakan’s site, but I’ve just added it to the links here because Hakan takes stunning fashion/glamour photos. I’d love to know how he lights his stuff.