Category archives: Weddings

Candid Wedding Photographer Delhi | Vatsala and Adithya – Part 4

Candid Wedding Photographer Delhi | Other posts in this series: Part 1 (Sangeeet), Part 2 (Sangeet), Part 3 (Haldi). View the gallery here. This one is all about the North Indian style wedding. This wedding was conducted in the Arya Samaj format, but had elements of traditional North Indian weddings such as the jai mala and pheras. A short and succint [...]

How to Choose a Candid Photographer for Your Wedding

So the dates for your wedding/ engagement are fixed and you're ready to start researching (read: looking at profiles of zillions of) vendors and finalising them one by one. One of the most important services you'll be availing of for your special event would be the candid photographer/ contemporary photographer. This person would be responsible for not ju[...]

Candid Wedding Photography Delhi | Aathira and Vikram – Part 3

See Part 1 here and Part 2 here. View the wedding gallery here. This part is all about the ceremony itself. The ceremony in its entirety (from the bride being received by her family members until completion of the wedding and guests queuing up for photographs) took about half an hour tops. I was photographing and running around the mandap so I lost track [...]

Candid Wedding Photographer Delhi | Vatsala and Adithya – Part 3

See Part 1 of this series here and Part 2 here. View the gallery here. This part presents images from Vatsala's haldi ceremony. Haldi is my favourite ceremony out of all the traditional functions that north Indian weddings typically have. It's the most personal, intimate and is celebrated with the people closest to you. There's no makeup, no excessive jew[...]

Candid Wedding Photography Delhi | Aathira and Vikram – Part 2

See Part 1 here. View the entire gallery here. The morning on the day before the wedding was an event called 'Mylanchi' and 'Dakshina' where Aathira and all her female friends and family members dressed up in the traditional Kasav saree. For the first part of the event, the bride essentially took a kind of blessing from the ladies who'd paint henna dots o[...]

Candid Wedding Photographer Delhi | Aathira weds Vikram: Sneak Peek

Even though I am based in Delhi and do tons of candid photography here, I recently had the chance to shoot at my my friend Aathira's wedding. A power-packed, traditional malayali wedding, with a few non-traditional elements. The wedding had a few elements from tam weddings (like putting of ring on bride's toe) as the groom's mom is tam. Aathira chose to st[...]