“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
They tied the knot in front of their loved ones. In an intimate affair where they promised to be together good times and in bad, in sickness and in health,for better or for worse.
Apurva and Sonal are examples of beauty with brains. They both are doing their PHDs and are mighty intellectual people. While roaming around Colaba streets and by lanes Sonal said that this is just the way they used to spend time back in college meeting and roaming around. See more of their photos here.
Yannick & Jolene will soon tie the knot. The first time when Jolene mentioned Yannick's name I thought that she must be getting married to a Persian or an Egyptian guy. I felt this more so because she works in the middle east (see my sometimes my imaginations runs wild :P). Supposedly his super cool parents named him after a Tennis player. They both are childhood sweethearts, just that they dint know this at that time. Only when the geographical distance between them widened, they realised that both couldn't live without each other. On a early Sunday morning these guys were sportive enough to dress up and drive almost 45k + kms to do this shoot and I am super excited to shoot their wedding :) I always encourage my clients to go for a preshoot because: a) We get to know each other well and that makes a ton of difference how I look at things on ur wedding day and capture them...trust me this is true and its coming from the horses mouth. b) As a couple its very rare that you will have any professionally captured photos other than that which is taken on ur wedding day. This is a chance to have some nice non wedding couple pictures. c) Wedding preparations can be crazy sometimes and sometime even the most awesome couple can have their moments and possibilities of some sparks flying. This 1-2 hrs is a good chance to have so 'US' time and I can capture the magic between u guys. d) Lastly some awesome pictures of you both are a cool way to announce to your family and friends that you are soon getting hitched. Click Here to see more of their amazing preshoot session.
The first time I met Vanita she told me that she is gonna wear a bird cage veil for her wedding. Well in the US bird cage must be every other brides choice to be married in but here in India its still a rare sight to see. So the moment she said it, I wanted to photograph her wedding badly. See more pictures here.
Pascal and Carishma has a small but intimate wedding. Pascal is from France and Charishma is a Mumbai gal. They found love in the most unexpected way and many miles apart. This makes me want to believe that Love finds you at unexpected corners and one has to be just ready to accept it whenever it comes your way. See more of their wedding pictures here.
Coffee Table Albums are a cool way to display your pictures. Some of the reasons I offer them are:
They are classy and stylish.
They last longer than your regular album as the pages / photos don't stick to each other.
They are UV coated so even if you accidentally spill something it would spoil the precious moments of your life.
Digital files are vulnerable to being corrupted and thus a possibility of loosing all those precious moments captured forever. A coffee table album will store your precious memories intact.
Lastly unlike the regular albums offered to you in the market which are bulky and heavy taking up a lot of space, these beauties are easy to carry around as they are compact and light weight.
So come and experience some awesomeness and shoot me an e-mail (deepanetto@deepanetto.com) to order your coffee table book today.
Below shown is 12/12 standard square album ideal for storing your engagement and other ceremony photographs.
Below shown is is a 12/18 Standard book ideal for storing your wedding photos.
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
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.
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.
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. 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 (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 :) Please go to deepanetto.com to see more pictures of this ceremony
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.
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.
"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.
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.