Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6 for Weddings?

I shoot with a Nikon D5100 and am looking into purchasing my first lens (aside from the kit lens of course). I'm on a budget. The only telephoto lens I can afford right now is the 55-200mm lens, and I have shot one wedding before with a 18-55mm and a borrowed Canon Rebel and 70-300mm. I have just read that the 55-200mm is "horrible", "terrible", etc. For weddings and I'd like some input. And *please*, If you're going to be sarcastic, rude, or "more-professional-than-thou", go somewhere else. I'm looking for honest answers and opinions, not your mean remarks. *Thanks!*

Weddings?

Do you have the skills necessary to even shoot a wedding?

Have you worked at least for 6 months with a wedding photographer to learn the business and the skills you will need to be a competent photographer?

The wedding photographer's I know, use two dSLR camera, a 24-70 mm f/2.8 and 50 mm f/1.4 or f/1.8 lens plus other accessories. If you work as an assistant, you will get a better idea of what you need in order to be a successful wedding photographer

You will need this lens for a wedding if you want to take pictures from afar it is more suitable for wildlife even then it is very slow lens

It might be fine outside in bright light. It will be next to useless inside a dark church. Same thing with the 18-55 kit lens. You need about $4000 to get the 17-55 f/2.8 and the 70-200 f/2.8.

Or you can go primes. At the very least you need a 50mm f/1.8, which is a little over $200 to get one that will autofocus on your camera. You could use something like the 105 f/2.8 micro lens, about $900, as a medium telephoto.

Do you have a couple of dedicated flashes? What about a second camera body? Unless you have those as well, you are not ready to shoot weddings for clients. We won't discuss how having a dSLR for 6 months is not enough time for the average person to be competent even in the basics, much less in demanding work like wedding shooting.

This is not a matter of being rude or more professional than thou, it is the fact that wedding photography requires good lenses as well as lots of other stuff in order to do the best job.