If you can work flash manually on e fly then the youngnou 560mkii are excellent and a lot cheaper than the Metz...

The k-30 is newer than the k-5 by approx two years which in slr technology is approx ten years in real life.

The k-30 has faster af than the old k-5 and works better in low light.

If I didn't have a k-5 already I would be investing in two k-30 rather than a new k-5 mk iis I am already converse with using the k-5 so I can literally jump straight into work with the k-5 iis

Do you have £600 a month to spend on lenses or live on???

When's your first wedding? Is it march time??

With the money you got already too I would go the following route which you should be able to afford on a monthly budget if you shop around. If its tight before your first wedding leave the 50-135 out for now and hire it on the day, after the fa 77mm this is pentax best portrait lens.

K-5 mk ii x 2
Grips x 2 original or Chinese copies, essential for batteries lasting all day, I get around 1500 shots from two batteries
Da* 16-50 2.8
Da* 50-135 2.8
Da 50mm 1.8
Da 35mm 2.4
Metz 58 flashes x 2
Mini rc bracket x2
Ttl of camera flash cable from 7 day shop x 4
4 x San disk 16 gig 45 mb/s memory cards
6 x batteries, two for each body and grip and two spare

Then you can keep your kx for when a body goes down and one will go down at some point trust me

Don't discount working with two bodies, I shoot with two bodies at weddings one with short fast zoom and one with telephoto zoom.

You just don't have time to swap lenses at a wedding.

And for two bodies you really need the same, I would go for 2 k-30 bodies they are an absolute steal at the moment.

Whichever route you go you need lots of batteries and lots of memory cards, no matter how much you prepare for a wedding there will always be that battery that didnt get charged or that memory card that was left in the computer.

Don't forget you can always hire bodies and glass from srs too if needed.

I would go for the Tamron too. The versatility of fast aperture would more than make up for any colour differences etc. also the zoom on the Tamron is the same as most pentax zooms.

'VM' do you mean virgin media?

Their fastest upload speed is currently just 3 megabits. They are supposed to be upgrading to ratio of 1:10 so on a 100 meg connection it will be 10.

There's a new service being launched in Bournemouth that allows 1 gigabit connections with no latency al OST makes me want to move to Bournemouth...

According to this link store at 40% and keep cool, they don't like heat it seems...

I think I got that from either bailey or rankin so it come from a very good higher source

Not necessarily.

You will see very very little difference in the final image between the k30 and the k-5 if the scenario was same photographer and same lens.

If I was just starting out I would get the k30 which would leave more money for glass. Glass you tend to keep where as bodies get changed.

The k-30 at £329 with cash back compared to the k-5 mki price would leave enough money for a Tamron 17-50 2.8 or a da 50 1.8 and da35 mm 2.4

In a years time the k-30 will still be worth around £300 by wich time the new k-5mkii will have come down in price by a considerable amount, allowing you to upgrade with the need to add a small amount.

The k-30 compared against the mki k-5 has better af and performs better in low light.

65000 on my gx20, not checked my k-5 for a whilst

But it's retro style not retro