Weddings
Two photographers, one wedding, and nobody has to manage us.
Candid and traditional are not rival philosophies — they are two different sets of photographs your family will want, and a wedding needs both.
Candid and traditional, and why you want both
People are often told to pick one. That is a false choice, and picking one is how families end up with a beautiful set of photographs that somehow does not include a single picture of grandmother.
Candid
Photographed as it happens
Nobody is asked to look at the camera and nobody is arranged. This is the moment your father turns away because he has become unexpectedly emotional, the cousins collapsing at something nobody else heard, the two of you when the room has stopped watching.
Candid does not mean the photographer wanders about hopefully. It means unposed, not unplanned — being in position a few seconds early, every time, all day.
Traditional
The photographs a family expects
Each ritual in its proper order, everybody recognisable, everybody looking at the camera. The group with both families. The one with all the aunts. The one your mother will actually put on the wall, which — and this is worth saying plainly — is almost never the artistic one.
These take organising, and organising takes a few minutes of everybody's time. We will tell you in advance when, so it does not eat your reception.
We already know the order
The moments below happen once and last a second or two. A photographer who has to look around to work out why everyone has started throwing rice has already missed the frame.
Maharashtrian wedding
- 1HaladTurmeric, laughter and the most colour of the whole wedding.
- 2AntarpatThe cloth between them drops at the end of the mangalashtak. One second.
- 3Sankalp & kanyadaanQuiet, and the parents’ faces matter more than the couple’s.
- 4SaptapadiSeven steps around the fire — hard light, moving subjects, no second take.
- 5Mangalsutra & sindoorClose, tight, and usually with six relatives leaning in.
Bengali wedding
- 1Gaye holudTurmeric again, and generally messier, which is a compliment.
- 2BoronShe is received at the door — the frame everybody forgets to book for.
- 3Shubho drishtiThe betel leaves come down and they look at each other. The best frame of the day.
- 4Sat paakSeven circles on the piri, carried by her brothers. Moving, and lit by whatever is nearest.
- 5Sindoor daan & ghomtaThe vermilion, then the veil. Intimate and fast.
From real weddings
Not one of these was staged for a portfolio.
The garland goes on
Once, in about four hundred milliseconds.
The mangalashtak
Shot wide — the family is half the photograph.
Bengali bride
Red and gold together will fool an exposure meter.
How it goes, start to finish
STEP 1
You call
Tell us the date, the venue and roughly what you want covered. We will say straight away whether the date is free — that is the only question that matters first.
STEP 2
We meet
At the studio on Agarkar Road, or over the phone if you are out of town. We go through the ceremonies, who is travelling in, and what your family actually cares about having photographs of.
STEP 3
The date is held
50% holds it. The rest is due as agreed. For a wedding outside Dombivli, travel and stay are on you and we will tell you what that comes to before you decide.
STEP 4
The day itself
We arrive before you need us. We know the order of the ceremony, so nobody has to manage us. You get on with getting married.
STEP 5
Selection and editing
The set is culled, corrected and graded. You see the finished photographs, not a folder of nine hundred near-identical frames to sort yourself.
STEP 6
The album
Designed, soft-proofed, printed and bound lay-flat, so a spread can cross the fold without folding anybody in half. 40 pages as standard, more by the page.
Wedding packages
Indicative rates for a standard date in and around Dombivli. Extra days, distance and how much you want filmed all move them, so treat these as a starting point.
₹25,000 · per day
Wedding Photography — full day
₹45,000 · per day
Wedding Photo & Video Package — full day
₹15,000
Candid Photography
₹15,000
Traditional Wedding Photography
₹15,000
Engagement & Reception Photography
50% to hold the date. Travel and stay are on the client for a wedding outside Dombivli.
Is your date free?
That is the only question worth asking first, and it takes one phone call to answer. Tell us the date and the venue, and we will tell you straight away.
Shop No. 4(A), Tushar Villa CHS, Nav Vrushali, Agarkar Road, opposite Saraswati Classes, Dombivli East 421201 · 10:00 am – 9:00 pm, every day