Re: wedding audio

You can always rent a better wireless than you can afford to buy, look into that. Whatever your brand, I would prefer a diversity setup, more reliable. I don't like Nady, then again, I've only seen/worked with the low end of that brand. Same for Sennheiser; you kind of get what you pay for on this stuff, the cheap end is great until it goes out on you mid-vows.

Take it to the rehearsal, even if you're not shooting it, you should go to the rehearsal to scope it out and plan your camera placement, etc. and make sure you don't have a channel conflict with the house system. BTW, some pastors have gotten hinky about wireless mics, for one reason or another, maybe they had a bad experience, where they got caught saying something candid or private, or it interfered with the house system one time out of a hundred... and now blame all our brothers equally. Whatever, maybe best not to advertise to the minister that you are using one, in case he's one of those kind. Don't lie, just don't volunteer.

One of the best times I had with a wireless, I let the couple walk out past me and the doors close on them as they leave the church, and the wireless is picking up the cutest stuff they said to each other on the other side of that door, forgetting they were wired... it really made the video.

I have always had great luck with Lectrosonics, and always thought Azden was cra*... well, on the low end it IS cra*, however, they have a high-end model that's pretty awesome: digital, the transmitter is also a solid-state audio recorder, so even if the RF link takes a hit, you still have the clean audio available for a repair edit in post, recorded on SD card. Not too shabby.