Engagement Photography in Mundhwa, Pune

Both sides, at once

An engagement is one of the few occasions both families are in the same place, and it is rarely used for that.

The photograph of the two families together is the one most people find missing afterwards, and it is missing because nobody arranged it.

It cannot arrange itself. Two groups who mostly do not know each other will not spontaneously stand together, and the couple are surrounded from the moment they arrive.

It takes one person from each side agreeing beforehand that it is happening, and about ten minutes at a point when everyone has arrived.

That point is earlier than most families expect — after arrivals and before the ritual, rather than after the meal when numbers start dropping.

Told in advance, it happens. Left to the day, it is attempted at the end and half the people needed have gone.

It is worth arranging the couple portraits before the function rather than after, for reasons that are entirely about availability.

Before, everybody is present, dressed and unhurried. After, guests are leaving, the couple are being spoken to by everyone in turn, and the light in most halls is worse than it was.

Half an hour early is the single highest-value arrangement available at an engagement.

It is also worth identifying anyone senior who may not stay long.

Elderly relatives frequently leave before the meal and are the people the family most wants photographed with the couple.

Told beforehand, that happens early. Left to the evening, it is attempted after they have gone.

It is worth deciding who is being photographed with the couple beyond the immediate families.

Those requests surface during the function otherwise, and each one takes time nobody allowed for.