[thebeing]

First of all, thank you for the reply (although you really broke my spirit).
second...in my country, things are a lil'bit different.
Gettin' together with an experienced photographer...well, people here go like "f*** this, i'm not teaching this guy anything. i don't want him to steal my clients".
The church...well, we're christians, but orthodox. Our churches are high (they have a dome in front of the "altar), and all the walls are painted, so...flash in a church is a "no way".
I also know that A LOT of wedding photographers here only use ONE camera. And,i don't talk about those "i'm doin' a weddin' now, and one next year" people, but people who do this constantly. I used to work at a...photographic studio (i think that's what it was...i was puttin' together images for wedding albums), and i saw pictures taken with a canon 5D and with other cameras (nikon d80, for example). I know a buddy of mine that did do weddings, and he has a canon 400D with a flash unit...and that's it.
So, might be different here from you, americans. I mean, IT IS different.
Even the equipment...it's hot damn expensive here. A nikon d40x kit, for example, is around 900$. So, gettin' all you suggested from a store here would get up to.......i don't even wanna think about that.
I know you suggested the "pro" way...but i can't afford to be one.
And, there's another issue. I saw on most wedding photographers' websites that the lowest package cost is around 700$. Here, only rich people would pay that amount for what it is offered.
I was told by 2 friends of mine that they wanted me to be the photographer for 2 weddings...the first one told me that i would get around 150$ for the wedding. And, here, a wedding lasts almost the whole day. (i mean, at least 8-10 hours)...

And, @not4wood: i don't think anyone would even bother trying to be a wedding photographer with the camera i now have (a fujifilm finepix s5700). It SUX for potriats, and the quality of the pictures drop drastically with dim light. And higher ISO is NOT an option. At iso 200, there is a LOT of noise in the picture. If i'd had a camera with which i could do a weddin' (more or less), i would have saved some more money to buy better equipment...that's what i wanna do now, i wanna get some equipment to be able to make some money with photography, not just...take shots of flowers and sunsets...