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Hands in the Air: Chiranjeev & Niharika at Hyatt Centric Hebbal
An outdoor North Indian wedding at Hyatt Centric Hebbal, full of morning light, close family, and hands thrown...
They Built It All Themselves · Meghana & Sanjay, Royalton Leisure
Meghana and Sanjay planned the whole thing themselves, every last detail, and you could feel it in the room. This was...
A Wedding Folded by Hand · Kruthika & Akshay, Balan Farms
Kruthika makes things by hand, so her wedding did too. She and Akshay borrowed a Japanese custom and folded origami...
A Dancer’s Hundred Faces · Shreya & Dhananjay, Radisson Atria
Shreya is a dancer, and a dancer’s face never quite rests. Across the day it kept shifting, delight, mischief,...
The Surprise Under the Mango Tree · Shraddha & Sumukha, Red Earth Kabini
Of every wedding we have shot, this one was the most unlike the rest. A Mantra Mangalya, simple, mantra-led, held...
Where Everything Converged · Samyuktha & Manoj, Angana Courtyard
Samyuktha grew up everywhere. A Tamil girl, an army father, a childhood spread across the country. Manoj is Telugu....
The Rain That Set the Day · Sivatmika & Vinay, Amitarasa
Sivatmika and Vinay celebrated big, at Amitarasa, tucked into the foothills of Nandi. Then the sky had other ideas....
A Family’s Thank-You to the South · Raksha & Bharath, Marwari Wedding
Raksha and Bharath have lived in Bangalore for years, long enough to fall for the South that took them in. So they...
A Jugalbandi of Their Own · Priyanka & Suhas, Udupi
Priyanka is a classically trained dancer, and it shows in how she simply stands. The grace is not switched on for the...
Exactly As They Are · Prakriti & Ayush, Shibravyi Courtyard
Some couples spend the shoot performing a version of themselves they think the camera wants. Prakriti and Ayush did...
Through the Antarpat · Anupaa & Reuben, The Tharavadu Mane
The morning of Anupaa and Reuben’s wedding, it poured. One of the heaviest rains we have ever shot through, heavy...
Laughter Under the Carved Windows · Arpitha & Madhu, Tamarind Tree
Arpitha and Madhu married in the deep green of Tamarind Tree, old carved windows, a fountain, big trees throwing soft...
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Every wedding we keep becomes its own story: the photographs, the film, and a few honest lines about what was...