How did I do on my first wedding photoshoot?

These aren't the worst I've ever seen, but they aren't great. You know that or you wouldn't be asking. Good on ya for that. You seem to have a good eye, the issues are technical more than compositional, although that will also improve with practice. Shooting outdoors in midday light is tough, as is shooting in a dark church. You mostly did okay with the textures on the dress, the blacks aren't completely untextured, and most of the color issues are correctable.

You mostly used 200 speed and the built in flash. This is good. Fill flash is your very best friend at a wedding. You can see from some of the pictures that your built in flash is not sufficient to light up the room. You have contrast problems, as well as exposure issues. So you can a number of things:

- Set the ISO to 100 speed -the camera has it as Lo 1 setting-the higher the ISO the more noise. I can only assume the outdoor shot of the bride at 3200 was an error which you corrected. Good - you were paying attention. You could have reshot the pic, as any enlargement of this will not match the rest of the images. The lower speed yeilds less noise, which is very important when shooting people.

- Buy an external flash that has more power than the built in - use it off to one side of the camera. A diffuser or Gary Fong device would help as well, but get the flash off of the camera. A better flash will allow you to put a lot or a little bit of light where you want it. Until you get this you will have to suffer the on camera flash. Since you can, set the on camera flash to rear curtain sync so it goes off at the end of the exposure, not the beginning. Set the shutter speed a little slower too, especially on those indoor shots to burn in the background. You don't have to use the fastest or automatically set speed. The camera will sync at a given speed (say 200) and SLOWER. This is a good trick. Practice, figure it out and use it. An excellent book is "The Hot Shoe Diaries" by Joe McNally.

Overall, the subjects were underexposed in most of these pictures. You do get points for trying though. Fill flash is a start, and where you position your subject relative to the sun or other indoor lights is a big decision. The sun directly behind or in front of people does not help you. The best ones were the ones where you placed the couple to one side of the sun, and used fill flash. Indoors, use a slower shutter speed to burn in the background. A tripod can be very helpful.

- Get a lens (or two) that goes to ƒ2.8- this will help in those dark rooms and will put the background out of focus. The microphone stand growing out of the woman's head - no good. Too much of the background is in focus in every one of these pictures - even the sky! Open up the aperture as wide as it goes. Fix the line in the concrete.

-The color is really bad on a few of these shots - way too red from the tungsten lights in the church. You need to learn to use the white balance correction on the camera, and if necessary, gel the flash to match the room then correct everything in the camera setting.

Your images don't indicate whether you set the exposure manually or ran the camera on auto. I'm thinking it was Auto. I would highly recommend you read the manual and learn to use the aperture, shutter and ISO to your benefit. Tutorials on you tube and the web in general can help you learn how to actually control the exposure so you get what you want, not what the camera gives you. Do the work, and you could have a shot.

I hope this helps - thanks for asking.

You did better than the average snapshooter. Read and re-read Jeannie's answer, she touches on every point I was going to make. One thing I missed seeing in your set was the ceremony images and the formals, although perhaps you didn't do any formals. It is odd there are no ceremony shots included, though. You have major WB issues, but if you shot in RAW that can be easily corrected in post. Not bad, and except for the color I really liked the cake feeding shot.

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I say you have done Very Well :D Good job

You did GREAT!