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I hope you are not the main wedding photographer !
Forget the tripod for people - I can see it now , tripod in one hand, camera in the other - off camera flash on lead in a tangle - dropped gear, red faces
If you are shooting small sensor you will need wider than 28
Flash outdoors
I wouldnt bother with the lead, just learn to balance the flash and ambient nicely (fill flash)
Balancing is done by chaning the ratio of ambient (shutter speed and aperture) light to flash light (aperture only) and messing with the settings on the flash eg TTL -1
Personall I never use TTL - just grab a flash setting like 1/8th
Until you are confident with that dont bother with the lead
And when you get a lead consider how you are going to swap between on camera and the lead - you may need a side mount bracket
Indoors bounce flash is great until the walls are bright blue or yellow or pink
Learn good techinqe for on camera flash indoors..
-keep to the front of the room (no flash shadow)
-drag the shutter a bit (30th) to bring up the ambient compared to the flash*
If you need keepers - get good with on camera flash
If you want to play bounce and off camera is fine
By the way - most flashes are utterly useless for events until they have a quantum turbo powering them
SMM
* and dont bother with rear curtain - worse than the delay on a compact