While brainstorming for a location for their pre-wedding shoot, we suggested if there was a place where Karishma and Varun frequented or they really liked. Within seconds, both of them chimed in with their answers and their quaint chalet in Aamby Valley stood out of the whole lot. They wanted to capture a little bit of the indoors and a little bit of the outdoors for their session, so we met for coffee at their place in Aamby, chilled and shot indoors.
Then, Varun guided us to this unexploited part of Lonavla which is quite a bit drive from there. This place blew our mind, I'm glad we caught the last light over there just in time. I’ll just let the photos show you, I think my writing will only ruin it. Enjoy!
This wedding was as special to us as it was to the couple. The functions were packed with emotional moments and leaving behind the traditional approach, we had our fair share of firsts throughout capturing this couple’s functions from Pune to Alibaug. One of the unusual things was our Groom-to-be (Nikunj) who was as enthusiastic about his own wedding preparations as the bride (Ishita)!
Just imagine, escaping to the countryside in crazy North winters with the closest bunch of friends and family, rustic and royal location and all. That's exactly what Garima & Tuhin's wedding looked like, an epic adventure. To top it all, Garima's brothers co-ordinated outfits for the Sangeet and how could we not get all five of them together for a shot together. Even though that meant waking a few of them drunk brothers in the middle of the night because that was the only time we could have all of them together. Garima and Tuhin both exactly knew how they wanted to style themselves for the wedding and it was evident from all the events how precisely they had put together their looks. It was just amazing to see how well they were carrying themselves off with all that poise.
See it all below!
This incredible wedding was also featured on WedmeGood. Garima has left some warm words for us and our work over there. Go have a look! --> Link
"We absolutely loved working with The Wedding Salad. No one could have captured the moments as well as we imagined them to be. They care a lot about details of every photo being captured and they don't stop until they get the shots perfect. And they are a lot of fun to work with it.It was the best decision to get The Wedding Salad to capture our wedding."
Where to even begin with these two. Manoshi and Atit met in high school and Atit knew that she was the one since 11th grade! Their wedding weekend started with the White wedding which was Manoshi's childhood dream. When we entered Manoshi's room where she and her bridesmaids got ready. The emotion you could feel just walking in the room was overwhelming with anticipation and love, there were lots of happy tears and group hugs. Their friends and family did so much to bring their wedding together to make it perfect from Manoshi's friends doing a flashmob for Atit, her family doing a welcome dance for the baraat to powerpacked performances during the sangeet.
Their vows told a story, about strengthening their own weaknesses to build each other up. There were so many memorable and magical little moments that have stuck with us even months after this wedding.
Manoshi shared her thoughts in the WedmeGood feature on their wedding. Do have a look!
An intimate palace wedding is basically music to our wedding loving ears, and Neha & Karan’s romantic little ceremony? It’s basically the sweetest sounding symphony. Add in the beautiful countryside of Udaipur and their closest family and friends and you’ve got a celebration that you won’t want to miss.
The understated elegance of 18th centuary old Devigarh Palace, nestled in the heart of Aravalli Hills served as the source of inspiration for all their events. The amazing part of this wedding was that they limited the guest list to 80 people where friends outnumbered the relatives which made this celebration even warmer.
Dive into their light, exciting and cheerful wedding album!
This post has been a LONG time coming. We are without a good excuse as to why we've yet to blog this fantastic wedding from last fall but here they are now! This wedding had everything from dreamy hues of the mehendi to energy brimming performances at the sangeet to bucket loads of emotions and to a power packed wedding portraits which broke our all time record of number of hits on Facebook, website and Instagram when we posted it.
When we first talked to Sanjana over the phone, we were excited out of our minds over the prospect of shooting a wedding in Nepal. The idea of shooting a wedding with the backdrop of himalayas was exhilarating. We started looking for locations over the internet where we could do their pre-wedding shoot and wedding portraits but unfortunately, Nepal was struck with one of the biggest earthquakes in history on 12th April, 2015. Sanjana's family who are based out of Nepal didn't find it right to be celebrating in the country which was mourning. With only one month to go for the wedding, they shifted the festivities to Delhi. Both the families put in crazy amount of hard work to put this wedding together in a month's time and We have put together a selection of images from this amazing wedding for you to have a look.
Thank you to Sanjana and Revant for inviting us to document their day and big love to WeddingSutra for featuring their wedding!
We always love shooting in the south of Goa – the light is quite simply amazing! And this lovely wedding near Palolem is no exception!
Smriti hails from Varanasi whereas DivyaPrakash's family is based out of Nepal. Both the families flew to Goa to celebrate the wedding in the beautiful Lalit Golf & Spa Resort which was truly a riot of color. Although it was winter, it was a warm sunny day, and their friends and family were here to enjoy their stunning wedding day – and that’s really what it’s all about!
This wedding was also featured in WedMeGood. You can headover to this link and check the post out :)
It’s been little less than a year since we had covered Kratika & Nikitin’s wedding. The amount of elegance and zest was paramount. Despite of the showbiz, their wedding was heavy with sentiments and diversified with elements of a typical wedding excitement. Photos from this wedding was recently featured in Shaadisaga wherein Nikitin and Kratika opened up with the Shaadisaga team about the wedding and can also be found on Miss Malini's blog.
We are very excited to be finally sharing Avneet and Arjun's 5-day long wedding celebrations on the blog here. You may have seen them grace our Instagram feed and our WedMeGood Profile before by way of their pre-wedding shoot and other wedding photos. Today we are sharing a selection of images from their pre-wedding shoot, mehendi, sangeet, wedding and reception.
Since these guys were short on time, we decided to do their pre-wedding shoot in not so done spots of Mumbai. With so many shoots happening here, it's hard to find something that has not been done. We wanted a classy but a monotone backdrop for their Save the Date and this mural in Arjun's house was perfect for this. It took two days of camping at Ronaldo's props and Arjun's brother and househelp's holding the the light strings. With Avneet's quirky and at the same time chic styling for the save the date we had everything for both the looks that we wanted to achieve.
Niki and Rajas hosted their wedding in Upper Deck, Lonavala. The festivities started with an extremely intimate Haldi ceremony for both of them together, which is rather more fun rather than doing it separately. The Haldi ceremony included just family and few friends. It was a warm, cozy event and everyone, including us, absolutely enjoyed the simplicity and the homeliness of it.
Yet another joy of covering a very close friend's wedding. A complete DIY, this was an extremely special one because we saw the entire process from scratch right till the beautiful new beginning. The hard work totally paid off!
It was our second wedding in Bhopal, but, of a very different kind. Devesh is originally from Indore while Deepali from Dubai and they happened to meet in London and that’s where it all began. They chose to get married in- no, not in Indore and not in Dubai- but in the beautiful city of lakes, Bhopal. This city truly takes your breath away!
Our enthusiasm to write blogposts booms up to some other level altogether when someone comes up to us and talks about specific photographs that they liked from our blog, photographs that we have uploaded probably more than year back. All those people who follow our blog avidly, thanks a lot!
The reason why we mention this here is because the first time we'd met Sakshi was with her mom and both of them were absolutely in love with the way we had covered the details from Neha & Rohit's wedding especially the mandap and the decor.
Our medical geeks met through some common friends and were at each other's side, wherever life took them.
Photo buffs and avid travellers having visited around 10 countries together took the plunge and got married early this year at Le Meridien in Jaipur. Hopefully you guys have checked out their pre wedding shoot, if not please please do, it's definitely by far one of our favourites!
Photographing Smiti and Mohnish felt so effortless. I mean just look at how gorgeous each of them looks!
The shoot started with an omg-my-outfit-is-completely-unironed panic attack leading to a much peaceful portrait shoot in the restaurant section at The Fern, Meluha, Powai and then to the breath-taking terrace area that overlooks the lake and the entire skyline of Powai.
Kanika & Prince's wedding was one such wedding that deserves a little jig This fusion wedding, Sikh & Bengali, was so absolutely beautiful and lively that we haven’t been able to stop our happy feet. Well, because this is the kind of wedding that infuses breathtaking cultural traditions with rich, colourful details and soo many heartwarming moments that you’ll just feel HAPPY. And in our humble opinion that’s the best kind of wedding.
We had first photographed Ritika & Nikhil at their friend's sangeet ceremony earlier in May.
While scouting for locations for the couple portrait as a test photo we happened to click a photo of theirs which turned out to be so beautiful purely because of the chemistry that they share. After a couple of days we happened to shoot their roka ceremony at the Shangri-La :)
Tamilian weddings are photographer’s paradise for there are a number of rituals that take place which gives a lots of opportunity to come up with some great shots. Deepti & Arvind's wedding which was put together in less than a fortnight was one such. Even though we have already covered a Tamilian wedding we were extremely curious and eager to see how different (or similar) since both sides of the family were Tamilian Brahmins.
Exchange of a few mails over the span of 10 hours (different time zones - IST & GMT), no negotiation and the dates are blocked. I wish every photographer gets such clients!
Smita & Shounak's was a Mallu - Maharashtrian wedding, Smita being a Mallu and Shounak a Maharashtrian. They had decided that they'll be having both Mallu and Maharshtrian style wedding. *WIN WIN*
The Mallu wedding is perhaps the shortest variety, lasting all of ten minutes with the main attraction being the sadhya that follows :P Right before the wedding there was the kalynanam where the bride and groom are escorted by womenfolk rounded up with thalams- plates carrying flowers, rice, a small lamp and other such items followed by exchange of garlands.
Cross culture weddings are always full of surprises and hearty laughs. To give you an example, during the Mallu style wedding when Shounak was supposed to tie Smita the mangalsutra or the thali we think he got majorly confused looking at it and merrily went ahead by wearing it around his own neck. (Thali is a small leaf shaped pendant with a yellow thread)
The Maharashtrian style wedding and Shounak's ear to ear grins =]
Both Smita & Shounak wanted a quirky photo shoot with their parents and close friends against a retro backdrop with some killer props. I think this photo (bombing) shoot lasted much much longer than the Mallu wedding :P
Many happy faces, many many GIF's ended with some trippy business :) Enjoy!
We had no intention of making this video, it was purely a result of some experiments we did with the pictures on FCP which turned out to be crazy
