I strongly recommend using a professional and not using a friend, especially not anyone in the wedding party. They will be much too busy and not get as many pictures as you are hoping for. It's important to feel confident that the photographs you get are going to be great.
A professional will have a variety of ideas, act professionally, set you more at ease, and overall come out with a much better product and experience. Pretty much anyone can take a good picture with the improving cameras being sold to the general population. But only a professional will get picture after picture right, with great lighting and angles. Yes, you can touch up amateur photos. As the Myth-busters proved you can in fact polish a poo. But professional photos will look better to start with, and could still be touched up, leaving an overall nicer quality.
Friends also tend to take more photos of the people they know whereas a professional will get a wider variety of people. Plenty of brides have no pictures of their own family, because their photographer was a friend of the groom's and so took mostly photos of his family and friends.
The biggest reason for not using a friend though is in case everything goes bad. Limit your risk. If you have a friend help with something else in the wedding and they mess up, it will be easier to fix or even do without. However, if the photography was bad or ruined it would be days or maybe weeks before you knew. No one could run out and quickly fix it. You would simply have no pictures of a once-in-a-lifetime event. This is one thing that is way worth the money.
There are plenty of stories about people who had perfect photos taken by an amateur and others who hired a professional and things went sour. Trust me—there's always a story somewhere. But, it's worth it: hire a professional photographer.
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