Wedding Photography and primes

I went to a friends wedding a few months ago and I was surprised that my photographer friend was now using primes in covering a wedding. His setup is two Nikon D700's and 35mm, 50mm and 85mm nikkors. Most of the time its the 50mm and the 85mm. I just have to check the exif of some of his photos that I got. With this in mind I got a wee bit excited since a friend will also get married at the end of May, I decided to shoot a few pictures in his wedding with a prime, print one 8 x 10 and 4 5r's and give it to the couple as a gift.

Being a non-pro, the wedding starts at 4 in the afternoon so I expected low-light from the wedding towards the reception afterwards so I decided to bring my canon 580EXII flash with me. At the church I took pictures of the couple without flash and to be honest I did find a hard time getting decent images. I got alot of out of focus images since I wanted to shoot near wide open. Canon 7d is quite known for being "unforgiving" in terms of focusing and couple it with shallow depth of field of the 50mm 1.4.

Anyway here are the shots in the church that I printed and framed for the couple as a gift.

edit: click the pictures to view it in bigger sizes, web resizing loses details. In print all of this pictures looked really awesome and sharp.

Printed this on 8r
Exif: ISO 800, f/2. 1/125sec

Printed this on 5r
Exif: ISO 1600, f/2.8 1/125sec

Printed this on 5r
Exif: ISO 1600, f/2.8 1/125sec

And the shots during the reception. (I used the external flash bounced and on ETTL)

Printed this on 5r
Exif: ISO 800, f/2 1/100sec

Printed this on 5r
Exif: ISO 800, f/2.8 1/60sec

Lessons I learned in this shoot. I need to be better with my handholding techniques, improve on my composition. Also I need to improve on my skills in post processing, I need to aim to atleast have uniform skin tones on the pics that I take. Still have soooo much to learn!

As an aside I shot this all in large RAW so that I have the freedom to crop.

Cheers!