It’s my birthday today, yay!  So it’s only appropriate that I take some time and share a post with you guys, right?  Cool.  Today, I bring you some photos from one of my closest friends’ Walima, Dr. Akef Rahman.  Now as most of you know, I don’t do weddings for friends anymore.  There are multitude of reasoning behind this, but mainly, I just want to attend a friend’s wedding as a guest and partake in all the shenanigans instead of work.  However, Akef was very persistent and would not have it any other way.  Even if I didn’t shoot the wedding, he wanted me to cover his walima.  After all, it was going to represent his home turf, so he wanted it done right.  I’ve known Akef for about 8 years now.  He is an intelligent individual, competitive basketball player, a Chelsea fanatic, rice enthusiast, and most importantly, a loyal friend.  He’s also one of the biggest Batman fans I know, and still may secretly believe that he’s Bruce Wayne.  Akef is an all around good person, and a great friend, so much so, that I endured a 36 hour round trip road trip to Kansas for his actual wedding.  I wasn’t the official photographer there, but I did manage to get a few pics of the awesomeness.  The Walima was held at the North Raleigh Hilton.  Our plan was to shoot a few photos outdoors, but our original location didn’t phase out, and we had to quickly locate another area.  I’m glad this happened because I think the new area looks much cooler anyway.  We shot some photos outdoors, had some cake, heard some speeches, laughed at some jokes, you know, the whole shebang.  Without further ado, I present you the photos from Akef & Sadia’s Walima:

This is one of my favorite shots

Akef’s Mom made this cake herself from scratch.  Very impressive!

One of my favorite moments

“Arey, Vhaat a sweet husband”

It’s Akef, so of course we had to do a Jump shot!  Not bad for one take 😀

Congrats again Akef!

Special shout out to Feraz & Asra, my very first wedding clients 😀

If you couldn’t tell, Feraz is Akef’s older brother.  It’s awesome to see an entire family emerge from your past clients!

Bonus!

Here are a few bonus shots from the wedding in Kansas City. I wasn’t trying to be an Uncle Bob, so I only took a handful of shots.

He’s on a horse

The 3 Brothers

We decorated the car with a Batman theme, and I got them a Batman & Catwoman mask.  Now tell me that’s not the cutest thing you’ve ever seen?  I dare ya.

Naannanana nannananana……

Remember that epic E-session in the mountains I posted for my friends Aarti & Kedar a while back? If you don’t, you need to click on this link immediately. I present you today with some of the highlights from their wedding that I shot 3 weekends ago. The wedding took place at the beautiful Aloft hotel in Cherry Hill New Jersey. Now I’ll be honest, I’m not the biggest fan of NJ. The traffic is usually horrible, there’s NO U-turns, you can’t pump your own gas, and there’s not a whole lot of greenery or scenic areas around. Regardless, the wedding itself was really awesome, and we all rocked it out. I could sit here and talk about how great the wedding was, but instead, I’ll just post the images below for you all to enjoy.

Reception

Special Thanks to Mr. Chuck Anerino for helping me out

Finally, it’s here.  I present to you the new website, or Limon Photography 2.0 if you will.  The original site was built in 2008 and had not been updated since.  I know, I’m a terrible person.  I’ve been trying to get this new site launched for almost two years now, but something or another always prevented me from finishing the work.  I finally put in some time and elbow grease, and got her done.  The main flash gallery has been completely redone to have a more minimal look, and feature some work you probably haven’t seen before.  There is also an option to view the website via Ipad or other Tablets, as well as a mobile version for easy viewing on your phone.  The blog needed a facelift, so I used a pretty cool template and updated the entire feel of it.  Not only is it cleaner, but it should load faster, and you can now leave comments directly from facebook!  There are still a few bugs that needs to be worked out, but it will get done in the coming few days.  If you notice something buggy or not working correctly, please send me an email at sahid@limonphotography.com.  Thanks for looking, and I hope you all enjoy the new site!

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