Pre-Wedding Photography in Koregaon Park, Pune

Arranged, not assumed

The best-looking locations here are almost all somebody's property.

Courtyards, terraces, gardens, boutique frontages and hotel grounds are privately held, and a shoot that assumes access is a shoot with a fifty-fifty chance.

The failure mode is specific and expensive: a couple arrives dressed, with a photographer booked and a few hours of good light, and is asked to leave.

It happens regularly, and it happens because asking felt awkward or nobody was sure who to ask.

A week beforehand it is a two-minute conversation, and the answer is frequently yes, sometimes yes at a particular time, and occasionally no.

All three of those are workable. Only the unasked version is not.

It is worth knowing who to ask, because that is where most of these requests stall.

For a hospitality space it is usually whoever manages events rather than whoever is at the front desk, and for a private property it is the owner rather than a caretaker.

Asking the wrong person tends to produce a cautious no, which is not the same as an actual no.

Tell us where you have in mind and we will tell you who normally decides.

It is worth planning the order of locations around when each is quietest rather than what suits the route.

A place that is empty at four and busy at six should be shot at four, even if it means doubling back.

Couples usually plan geographically, which is efficient and frequently puts them somewhere crowded at exactly the wrong hour.