Here is part two of Mehul & Sejal’s mega wedding. This session is one of my most colorful sessions to date. There was a traditional hindu wedding ceremony in the morning, and the evening was followed up with a beautiful reception. The morning ceremony was full of flowers, fun, and a lot of emotional moments, and I had a lot of fun covering all these remarkable aspects. The reception was one of the most beautiful Indian wedding receptions that I’ve ever witnessed, so you may notice a lot of details shots in this post. Hope you all enjoy the set!
Hello everyone. Thought I start off the week with a fresh new blog update for you all to enjoy. Remember that incredible Vintage style E-session for Mehul & Sejal posted on the blog a while back? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, click here immediately and check it out. Seriously, it’s my favorite E-session that I’ve done to date, and it’s also the most talked about and praised session that I have on the website. Both Sejal and Mehul were completely dedicated to getting their images in a new and unique way, and were open to all of my suggestions without any hesitations… therefore becoming one of my favorite couples that I have worked with thus far. So if you haven’t seen it, check it out stat. Having an E-session usually means that a wedding is to follow with that couple, so now I get the distinct pleasure to bring you Sejal & Mehul’s wedding. Now I have to say, this wedding was probably the biggest wedding I covered last year, meaning there were a lot of different events, multiple days, and ton of pictures. Infact, it’s so grand, that I had to split it up into two sections to post on the blog. Now for 2011, I am trying to limit the amount of images I post on the blog, just to make it easier to navigate through it. However, there were so many great photos in this wedding, there was no way I could enforce the new limit for this particular post. This was a traditional Hindu wedding with a Vihidi ceremony the day before the wedding, followed by a Garba. This post will include the images for the day before the wedding, and part 2 will showcase images from the actual wedding day. Without further delay, I present you part 1:
A new year is often associated with a new beginning, or a new change. Every year, people embrace this idea for a change, but often fail to keep their promises and resolutions. Like many, I decided that 2011 is a year to make changes in my life and my work, and I intend to stick true to my word. This year, there will be many of new and exciting changes that will be coming to Limon Photography. Some of you may like the changes, others may not like them as much. However, after much deliberation, I decided to embrace the changes to make Limon Photography what I want it to be. Most things will stay the same, but somethings will be new and exciting.
With that being said, I want to officially welcome you to my first event of 2011. A few weeks back, one of my good photographer friends, Inku Yo, asked if someone in the area could help and assist him for an upcoming wedding. Now if you know Inku, then you know that he’s an incredible photographer. What? You don’t know him? You need to click here immediately and go check out how incredible his stuff is. No seriously, I’ll wait. Ok, where were we? I was in the area and free, so I had no problems offering my services to help him out with the wedding. I met up with Inku on a very cold Friday morning, and we met the lovely Rita and her husband to be, Tom. Tom and Rita were pure delight to work with on their wedding day. Both of them were relaxed and wanted to have a lot of fun, and that’s exactly how the day went. Rita was worried at one point about being a few minutes late for something, but I told her stories from some of the South Asian weddings that I cover, and assured her that we were definitely on time. After they got ready, we had a quick first look, and went to a beautiful church for the ceremony. I hopped in the limo with them to ensure that I would be able to document all the fun of the wedding day. The reception was held at the beautiful Bronx Botanical garden, where the party went on till midnight or so.
Now I want to take this moment and say that I’ve second shot weddings for a few photographers in the past. Some are easy to work with, some are quite difficult and demanding, and some can be downright strange. However, Inku is by far one of the easiest person that I’ve ever worked with so far. Although we covered three different locations that were pretty far apart, he gave me plenty of information as the day went through, and I had a great time working with him throughout the day. I want to thank Inku again for being such an awesome photographer to work with, but also for giving me the opportunity to work with a wonderful couple such as Rita and Tom. Hopefully we’ll get an opportunity for another collaboration soon! Anyway, without further ado, I present you the wedding of Rita and Tom from my perspective. Be sure to check out Inku’s webiste to see more from this wedding.
