Haldi, Mehendi & Sangeet Photography in Mundhwa, Pune

Different people each day

The three functions rarely have the same guests, and that changes what each one is for.

Some relatives come to all three, some to one. Which means each function is, in photographic terms, a different gathering.

That is worth knowing because it decides where the group photographs belong. Relatives who are only at the sangeet cannot be photographed at the haldi.

Families usually plan the groups once, for the wedding day, and then discover that several people who mattered were only present earlier in the week.

A short conversation about who is coming to what solves it, and it usually moves two or three group photographs into the earlier functions.

It also means the coverage weight can follow the numbers rather than being split evenly across three days.

It is worth confirming who from the wider family is staying across all three days.

Relatives who are present throughout can be photographed at leisure. Those attending one function cannot, and their frames have to be taken that day.

That is a small piece of information that changes the running order of an entire week.

It is also worth knowing which function the elders will attend.

They frequently come to one and not the others, and the photographs with them are the ones the family will look at in twenty years.

Where that function is the haldi, it is worth arranging those frames before the mess starts.

Where the three functions are on consecutive days, it is worth agreeing a start time for each rather than assuming.

Three functions each starting an hour late is an entire evening lost across a week.