How do you answer other photographers wanting to tag along with you on wedding jobs?
I also find most photographers who haven't ever assisted before don't have a good idea of what is involved. They think it's going to be hanging out and taking photos. Once they find out that involves a lot more hauling and fetching than shooting, and they have to commit their Saturdays to me sometimes more than a year in advance they are usually less interested. I'm not going to take the time to train someone for a single wedding. If they want to be my assistant I need them for almost all the weddings I've got booked.
If they aren't dissuaded by this point I give them a little quiz. I ask them what a stop is, and grill them on using manual exposure, reading the histogram, raw, and the inverse square law. I find that's usually enough to stump 99% of the volunteers.
The fact is there are plenty of folks available who have a very good grasp of photography fundamentals to choose from, and I'd rather pay one of them to help me than train a volunteer in the basics of exposure while working on the job. 
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