A wedding at the Leela palace Udaipur is always guaranteed to be a stunning experience. If there is one city in India that is truely romantic it is Udaipur and no matter how many weddings I attend in this city on the lakes, I always manage to see it differently and be amazed again. It […]
Sephi Bergerson
How to be a better wedding photographer and stand out in the crowd
You and I want the same thing. We want to be great at what we do and we want people to know it so that they come to us and pay us lots of money. However, most people are swimming in the shallow waters of mediocrity and have no idea what to do next in order to climb the next step on the ladder to success.
10 tips for an Indian Wedding Photographer
I have been a photographer for many years now but only got involved in wedding photography in India back in 2007 when I started working on my book on Indian weddings. The market of wedding photography in India was very different back then and I was possibly the only Indian wedding photographer who covered weddings in […]
Khilna & Rush
Khilna and Rush actually traveled from South Africa to have their three-day Indian wedding in Kenya on Diani beach, south of Mombasa. It was the beginning of the rainy season and the view towards the beach from Mzima house, where the wedding was to take place, were simply stunning. White sand and blue turquoise water works […]
Geeta & Oliver
Geeta and Oliver met almost ten years ago when both families went on a separate vacation to the Maldives. This love story of two families of such different origines went through Kanuhura, New York, Barcelona, St. Moritz, Basel, and Leeds to mention just a few. They finally got married at the fort palace of Devi Garh, some […]
Linda & Jöerg
Linda and Jöerg (pronounced like York) are both graphic designers based in Berlin and nothing about their wedding in Goa was ordinary in the way we might imagine it. When I came to meet them on the morning of the wedding the first thing that Jöerg had asked was if I knew of a place to […]
Udit & Shivani
There are really only two kinds of weddings that happen in Goa: a traditional Christian church wedding or destination weddings. The first type of wedding, as beautiful as it can be, would take place in one of the many beautiful churches or chapels and will very rarely take place on the beach. I guess the people that live […]
How to behave with a photographer
I usually write for photographers but this post might actually be slightly different in the sense that it is meant more for the person on the other side of the line who is looking to hire the services of a professional photographer. As in everything else this is a two sided thing and as photographers […]
Analisa & Jaydev
When one thinks of a wedding in Goa it is very likely that the first thing that comes to mind would be a beach wedding somewhere under the coconut trees, and while many people do come to Goa for a destination wedding on the beach, some people actually live in Goa and don’t need to […]
Anu & Fergus
I have already witnessed and documented more than one wedding at Neemrana fort but this one was surely different. The backdrop was indeed a fort palace in India but at times it felt like we were all at the races or on vacation in Balmorel. It was the very first time I saw a groom […]
Pooja & Nikhil
The Leela Palace hotel was the stunning backdrop for Nikhil and Pooja’s wedding in Udaipur. It was a small and intimate family affair but nonetheless amazingly beautiful. For such a small wedding I was not supposed to have a problem making a tight selection of images for the blog but even after selecting only thirty […]
Taru & Michael
I have just returned from a wedding at Neemrana Fort Palace but it is not this one. Taru and Michael must be thinking by now that I have not posted the pictures from their wedding because I don’t like them or something. Well guys, this is not the case. As usual I guess, I am […]
Aditi & Aditya
Aditi and Aditya’s wedding in Jaipur was quite a spectacle and the venues were most probably the most beautifully decorated I have ever seen. When we arrived for the Mehendi event at the Jai Mahal Palace on the first morning, it really felt like coming to a photographer’s Disneyland. The palace garden was beautifully decorated, the […]
Kevin & Jeannine
It was not what you would call a beach wedding in Goa, but we did make it to the beach of course! Right after the church wedding – which was my first Roman Catholic wedding, believe it or not – and before the reception at the Taj Exotica in south Goa. Jeannine wanted pictures on the […]
Mathew & Shilpa
What is a Syrian Christian wedding in Kerala, and why is it unique? A few months ago I photographed a wedding in south India and wrote a post about it, explaining who the Kerala Christians are, and a bit about the wedding traditions of this culture. Mathew and Shilpa, who got married in Trivandrum a […]
Sonejuhi & Aaron
Neemrana fort is probably one of the first locations that comes to mind when planning a palace wedding in India. It is indeed an ideal location for a grand ceremony, and a wedding photographer’s heaven. I’ve been super busy in the last month and haven’t posted in a long time, so a good way to […]
Aashti & Zahid
Taking pictures at a Muslim wedding could be a tricky thing. Not like the traditional Indian weddings that could take hours, the Muslim wedding itself takes only a minute as the couple sign the Nikahnama separately, and that’s it! By the time I finished photographing the bride, the bridegroom had already singed the Nikahnama in another […]
Varshini & Alex
Kerala, God’s own country, is a favorite destination for a beach wedding, but a traditional Kerala wedding of the Syrian Christian church is something very different than what most people that come to Kerala had ever seen. Varshini and Alex, or as everyone calls him; Mithun, had a Syrian Christian wedding in Coimbatore, not far […]
Dhilip & Nalini
A south Indian wedding in Madurai A south Indian wedding at the holy city of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, is indeed a unique experience. Madurai is the home of the historic Hindu temple Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple or Meenakshi Amman Temple. I am not really a ‘temple’ person, but I must admit that this temple, dedicated to Lord Shiva (in the form of Sundareswarar or Beautiful Lord) and his […]