Roshni Weds Suraj - Mumbai Wedding Photographer

Roshni and Suraj were a photographers delight couple. They knew the importance of good photos of their wedding day hence was up for all sorts of stunts (which we made them do) even though Roshni had stomach flu and was throwing up every 20 minutes. I love this couple for the patience they had with us. I really appreciatecouples who give us photographers ample time and creative freedom to capture their wedding day. If you are a couple who is about to get married, let me give you a piece of advice ; the money you spent in making your wedding day a memorable one is absolutely wasted if you cant have good photographs to remember this lovely day 25yrs after your marriage. Send me an e-mail to block my dates at deepanetto@deepanetto.com See more of their wedding pictures here

Yuti weds Atul - Mumbai Contemporary Wedding Photographer

A dog in the guest list, an unique mehendi and a flute tabla concert. This wedding was one of a kind. See more pictures of Yuti & Atuls awesome wedding here.

Just a post - Mumbai Wedding Photographer

One of my favourite weddings pictures. The beautiful flower mandap set against the green palm tree backdrop all this seems like a bollywood set. This is Yuti and Atul whose wedding I will blog in detail. For now its this beautiful picture and I wish all of you have a wonderful week ahead.

Niddhi & Pranav - Mumbai Gujrathi Wedding Photographer

Niddhi is a very talented graphic artist and a bagmaker. Yes she makes designer bags. Its an honor to have to be able to shoot this chick artist's wedding:) I tell ya this was one gujrathi wedding which was full of color.



To see more of Niddhi's wedding pictures click here.

Geroge & Priya Preshoot - Mumbai Catholic Wedding Photographer.

Gerorge and Priya had a very unique pre shoot they wanted to incorporate the wedding day theme into their pre shoot as well. Just in case you dont have the time to spare for a couple portrait session this is one way to have some super duper awesome pictures of yourself.

As a wedding photographer I like it when couples give importance to their wedding photos videos.



To see more pictures of their pre shoot click here

Mumbai Preshoot -Mumbai Wedding Photographer

I have a love hate relationship with the city. And when Jessica and Imran wanted a pre-shoot with the mumbai city as the backdrop I was more than happy to indulge.

Mumbai Preshoot -Mumbai Wedding Photographer

I have a love hate relationship with the city. And when Jessica and Imran wanted a pre-shoot with the mumbai city as the backdrop I was more than happy to indulge.

Kirti Satish Tamilian Wedding - Mumbai Wedding Photographer

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Nikul & Chakshita Sneak Peak - Mumbai Hindu Wedding Photographer

A quick sneak peek of Nikul and Chakshita's wedding.

Behing the scenes - Mumbai Wedding Photographer

What goes on behind a shot. Seen here is the behind the scene and THE pciture I shot.

Steven & Preeti - Mumbai Wedding Photographer

Its a lot of catching up to do in blogging front I will start with the wedding of Steven & Preeti. A wonderful and uber photogenic couple. Steven works as a branding manager for a A list company and hence for him photographs and video of his wedding where of utmost importance. I love such clients and they make my job so much easier.
Steven and Preeti got married on a beautiful sunny day. Despite the fact that the monsoons had stretched itself a wee bit more it was bright and sunny. These love birds wanted to leave no stones unturned. I love it when couple are very hands on and wanted to add their own personal touch to their D-day. Steven and Preeti made sure every little aspect of the wedding had some sort of personal touch involved right from their wedding preparation to the favours given out to the guests at the end of the wedding.

Excellence is in the details - Mumbai Wedding Photographer

“Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.” - Perry Paxton quotes
As a photographer I give importance to capturing the details of the wedding just as much as I give importance to the bride and the groom. These little details give a personal touch to the entire event and make it a personal affair. Do visit my website deepanetto.com to see more detail shots of the last wedding I shot :)

Roce Ceremony - Mumbai Wedding Photographer

Roce (pronounced as rose) is an important ceremony performed on the previous evening of the wedding day. In this ceremony a ritual hot water bath with anointing of oil and application of pure coconut juice is taken by the groom/the bride. This signifies the last bath that the bride or the groom will be taking in their bachelorhood/spinsterhood. With the ceremony of 'roce' the wedding celebration really begins. Both bride and bridegroom have to undergo this ceremony in their respective homes.

I will be frank here and say that this was the first roce ceremony for me although I have quiet a few manglorean/goan friends. Needless to say I really had fun shooting this unique ceremony. I wanted to capture the true essence of this ceremony and hence went complete documentary style :)
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Stephen n Preeti - Mumbai Wedding Photographer

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Kohli Wedding - Mumbai Wedding Photographer

This is the record breaking post. Yes the shortest span between clicking a picture and blogging about it. So today morning I had a privilege to be document a Koli wedding. The Koli community is an ethnic group found throughout India. They are also one of the original inhabitants of Greater Mumbai. The family of the both the bride and the groom were full of warmth and love. Something somewhere really touched me in this wedding and it is unexplainable :)
Am starting with my favorite picture.. here is the father doing kanyaadaan.

Becoming a bride - Mumbai Wedding Photographer

As much as I love the sentiments involved through out a wedding ceremony, one of my favorite part is to capture the bride getting ready for her d-day. No matter how stressful the day is with all the coordinating, planning and running back and forth. This is one of those aha moments when she transforms from an ordinary gal to a bride. Yes the make up. the hair, the dress and the jewelery, all do have a part but the sparkle in her face as she gets ready to be joined with her future husband is amazing.

Here a few shots taken from the last wedding :)

Are u a WHAT photographer?

"But you are in to weddings yaar!" This is what my friend told me when we were speaking of non wedding photography. I did try to explain to her that am not a wedding photographer, I am more of a people photographer. Weddings are one of the things that I like to do for the sheer fact that there are truck loads of people and emotions.

Thinking back on this conversation I asked myself what kinda photographer are you? Fashion photographer? Wedding photographer? Pet Photographer? Street Photographer? After giving some thought I feel better equipped to answer this question. I am an emotions photographer. Yes am a sucker for emotions ( yah yah the typical cancerian in me speaks again) and I love capturing the emotions. Obviously human beings are the easiest guinea pigs available if one wants to capture emotions. Wedding ritual revolves around emotions (shoot me if am wrong). It has drama, emotion, romance, action (yes sometimes the dishum dishum types too) but most importantly the entire ritual of the wedding (be it any, christian, hindu, muslim) is based on emotions. Hence weddings are my favorite to photograph.

Since no post will be complete without photographs here are 2 which was taken at Dadar Phool (Flower) Market last Sunday.

Nesha Weds Ritesh

Nisha wanted a dream beach themed wedding and she was one of those bride who knew how much the photography and video will mean to her of her D day. This was every wedding photographers dream bride.

Tamilian Wedding - Mumbai Wedding Photographer

This time its a Hindu wedding from me. I must say on the things I liked about this one in particular was that it was during the day. Light is good and loads of colors. Most of the photos are barely edited. I have just tweaked a bit of exposure and temperature here and there that's it rest is all the real deal.

So this is was Kishore and Sireesha who tied the knot in a typical tamilian bhramin style wedding. I think Kishore and Sireesha was a photographers dream couple, who was super co-operative and Tamilian wedding rituals are fun at least I felt so. Here are some of them:

The groom pretends to leave for Kashi, a pilgrimage center to devote himself to God and a life of prayer. He carries a walking stick and other meager essentials with him to imply that he is not interested in becoming a householder. The girl's father intervenes and requests him to accept his daughter as his life partner and to fulfill his responsibilities as a householder The groom relents and is taken to the marriage venue.



The bride's mother washes the groom's feet on his return.



The groom is led to the marriage mandap where he and bride exchange one of their garlands thrice to symbolize their unification.



Then they are seated on a swing and offered milk and bananas by the elder ladies of the house who also throw colored rice balls in four directions to ward off the evil spirits.



Here are some more pictures:

C weds F - Mumbai Wedding Photographer

So here is the first wedding for 2010. C&F a very lovely couple who were pretty camera shy but at the same time was enthusiastic about getting photographed :)
Since the couple were a bit camera conscious (almost) all the pictures were candid pictures taken the good old journalistic way. No posing for the camera.

Please feel free to give constructive feed backs so I can always improve my work.


The church were they got married was one of the beautiful churches in Mumbai.