I am still shooting photos with a Nikon D5000. My wife and I decided to spend money on a decent camera instead of paying for wedding photographer. We let our guests pass the camera around (along with putting out about a dozen or so disposable 35mm cameras) during the wedding and reception.
It was awesome! We got to see our wedding from our guests perspective, and they took photos of things that they liked in our wedding. And, since the D5000 is a pretty decent camera, we just stuck it on the auto settings and let it do all the fancy stuff.
Here's a few that came out of this camera:
https://goo.gl/photos/WN8X7GAiCNtzbhbZ9
https://goo.gl/photos/ivXSeFMfXHVm8ycA9
https://goo.gl/photos/7fNvEykyAgMpc3YMA
https://goo.gl/photos/fFdipZXuaGJTnMtt9
And those were all shots done with the camera on the most basic "auto" settings, and all done by several different guests from the wedding.
That was back in 2010, and I am sure Nikon has improved the D5*** line by now, but it was a very fairly priced camera back then. I have been using it ever since, taking photos of vacations, our baby, other peoples weddings, trips, you name it. It has held up really well over the past 6 or 7 years.
If you are looking for a good, fairly priced DSLR its hard to go wrong with that line. Nikon has much better (and more expensive) cameras, but the D5*** line is a really good pro-sumer model.