What up my peeps?  There will be some big changes and news coming to the site soon, so stay tuned.  For the time being though, I thought I share a few images of Ayesha and Mansoor with you all.  I had the pleasure of meeting Ayesha and Mansoor back in the old college days, when we were all young, and the world was less of a crazy place.  Yes, I am sitting in a rocking chair right now reminiscing about the good ‘ol college days… because they were very good days indeed.  Though my brother knew Mansoor better than me, I did know Ayesha for a few years.  What can be said about Ayesha?  Well, not only is she very genuine, intelligent, caring, and a giving person…. but she has one of the best laughs I’ve seen on anyone.  If you don’t believe me, just look at the pictures below.  She even laughed at my jokes… so you know I gotta give props to any bride that finds me funny.  Now naturally, most brides get nervous or panic during their wedding day.  It’s understandable, there’s so much going on, it’s hard not to.  However, Ayesha was cool and calm through the whole process, which was very impressive.  As organized as Ayesha is, it’s hard to imagine her NOT be prepared for such an event.  She rocked out the mehndi, the shadi, the walima, and even this nice little couples session.

All in all, I had loads of fun shooting her wedding in Raleigh, as well as the Walima in Augusta GA.  I’m dedicating two posts for them.  This one is their couples session, which was actually shot a year later from the wedding.  Right below it, you will find the second post with the mehndi, wedding, and the walima pictures from last year.

Congrats again Mansoor and Ayesha.  Oh and don’t forget, I can take some pretty nice baby pictures too, so keep me in mind for the near future 😀

Mansoor and Ayesha actually got married last year.  So why am I posting the images on my blog now?  If you haven’t noticed yet, I am absolutely terrible at blogging.  Honestly, that’s the only reason.  I am getting better though, and slowly, you will see many more previous weddings making an appearance on the blog.  To find out a bit more about the couple, look at the next post with their Couples Session which I did recently.  Anyway, without further ado, I bring you all 3 events and their gloriousness.  What?  That’s not a real word?  It’s ok, it’s my blog… so I’m allowed to use words that sound awesome like radicalous and superdope-tastic 😀  Enjoy.

Mehndi

Wedding

Walima

Hello everyone, hope your summer is going well.  Today, I want to do something a bit different than what I usually do with my blog posts.  Now if you wanted to insert a joke, this is where you would say “actually post something on the blog?”… and to be fair, I would deserve that statement.  I know I haven’t been posting a lot of things here lately, but I promise there will be lots of really cool and exciting things coming very soon.  Anyway, back to what I was trying to say.  For this particular post, I’m going to submit a ton of images for you to look at.  Why?  Just because I can 🙂  I’m going to post 3 different ceremonies from a recent wedding, and I’m going to post them all at once in this post!  So if you have a slow internet connection, I’m warning you in advance, there are over 100 images in this post.

Though I have never really met Sheema previous to these events, her Father has been good friends with my family over the years.  Also, Sheema was a fan of my work… and that’s all I really needed to know 😀  In person, she is very kind, sweet, and quite pretty as well.  Now I must admit, like most other brides I cover, Sheema was a bit shy at first for the photos.  However, after a bit of time explaining what we were doing, and some terrible jokes from me, she became quite natural.  She was not only a beautiful bride, but very fun to work with.  Fahad and his family came down for the wedding all the way from Chicago.  I didn’t really get to meet Fahad as well as I would have liked to, but he seems like a genuinely nice guy, and quite right for Sheema.  Aside from being a nice guy, Fahad also looks a lot like the Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar… but maybe it’s just me.  All in all, I had a lot of fun at their mehndi, nikkah, and the wedding program.  On top of meeting the wonderful couple and their families, I was also informed at this wedding that I have a few female stalkers of my website.  Normally stalkers are a bad thing, but in this case, it’s good in every way.  So special shout-out to my stalker friends. Thank you again ladies for your continuing support, and I hope you enjoy this set (esp. since some of you are in a few of the pics).

Anyway, without further ado… I present the massive post of images:

Mehndi

Possibly one of the cutest pictures I’ve ever taken

Getting Ready

Nikkah

I absolutely love this one

The Wedding

My favorite shot

Congratulations Again Sheema & Fahad