Post your Indian wedding and Tall Groom/Short bride pics!

urbanaries

Pretty straight forward.........please help with some ideas! My first Hindu wedding this weekend...shooting the Mehendi ceremony tomorrow, and the American wedding on Saturday. Then the party changes into Indian clothing for the reception. Advice welcome!!! Thanks in advance :lust

Awais Yaqub

Mehndi ! you will love it. I have few images but not near to your standards

urbanaries

Awais Yaqub wrote:

Mehndi ! you will love it. I have few images but not near to your standards

Oh, please Awais! You let us be the judge of THAT. :nono:D

Did I spell it wrong? Whoops. Gaffe #1! yikes.

Awais Yaqub

Here are some from different marriages of my relatives. There are many small fun events within mehndi and baraat. You will get opertunity to shoot lots of fun candid and emotional scenes.

House of bride and groom are decorated with lights. Common here no idea about USA











above images were shot at Mehndi when there is lots of shocking bright Yellow in the scene.

Next images are from Barat or actual wedding day. Here red is dominent





There could be emotional scenes when bride leaves her home:cry

urbanaries

oh, wow Awais!!! I remember seeing these a while back but definitely appreciate seeing them again. The BW of the bride is just stunning! I am very excited! Thank you!

Agnieszka

I had an indian/american wedding not too long ago ... but the mehendi was in his parents house & the bride was really not excited about some indian customs , so the pics didn't come out that great ... agh. Make sure they tell you all about the wedding ceremony. There are sooo many different (smaller) traditions/customs, and it's hard to get the right angle if you don't really know what will go on.

Good luck, you will love it! (Get a fun rose/flower pedal shot ... at the end of the ceremony) ... still kicking myself for that missed photo ...

urbanaries

Agnieszka wrote:

I had an indian/american wedding not too long ago ... but the mehendi was in his parents house & the bride was really not excited about some indian customs , so the pics didn't come out that great ... agh. Make sure they tell you all about the wedding ceremony. There are sooo many different (smaller) traditions/customs, and it's hard to get the right angle if you don't really know what will go on.

Good luck, you will love it! (Get a fun rose/flower pedal shot ... at the end of the ceremony) ... still kicking myself for that missed photo ...

Thanks Angie! the only Indian custom (I keep asking!) is the Mehndi/mehendi "ceremony" at the brides parent's house. The wedding itself is in a Methodist church and totally American. They're just changing into Indian clothes to enter the reception, apparently....so I'm not sure when/if any other traditions customs will happen! I need to call her again tonight and ask specifically about the rose/flower petal thing and if that will happen, when.

(Would love a PM link to the gallery.....D)

divamum

These are so very, very beautiful. I particularly love the sort of "old meets new" one with the video camera (because at least to Western eyes, the couple's costumes look quite "traditional")

I was really moved by these pictures - the ceremony and atmosphere seems so different from what we're used to seeing as "wedding" in the US and they really got to me. Thanks for sharing, Awais!

quark

I had a similar wedding about a month ago, only the reception was done in the traditional format, the ceremony was white dress.

I am not sure the range of the tradition but often the women have hands decorated with hena. In this case the bride did, but often the other women do as well.



After the wedding the shots the parents were most excited about were the family photos I took while they were in traditional dress.





Good luck!

cj99si

Take a look at these, pretty impressive!


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dangin

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