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Naming ceremony coverage in Wanowrie — the ritual, and the house full of people it happened in.
A house full of people
What families remember about a naming ceremony is the house, not the ritual.
Everybody crammed into two rooms, shoes piled at the door, the kitchen producing food continuously, somebody asleep on a sofa by ten in the morning.
The ritual itself is short and it is covered properly, because that is the formal record and it matters.
The rest of the morning is what people describe when they talk about that day, and it is almost never photographed.
It needs nothing arranged. It simply needs the photographer to keep working after the ritual finishes rather than packing up.
That is a booking decision more than a photographic one, and it is worth an extra hour.
Where the family disperses quickly it may be less, and we will say honestly what is worth booking.
It is worth photographing what the house had to become for the morning.
Furniture pushed back, a floor cleared, a corner turned into something ceremonial and then turned back by lunchtime.
That transformation lasts a few hours and it is never recorded, because everybody is looking at the ritual.
It is also worth photographing the food being served afterwards and the people serving it.
That is where the family energy actually is once the formal part has finished, and it is usually when the photographer has left.
An extra hour covers it and it changes what the set is about.
Getting ready
Staying after the ritual
Book an extra hour after the ritual rather than finishing when it does. That is where the morning actually is.
Nothing needs arranging for it. Shoes at the door and a full kitchen are the subject.
Lay everything out the evening before. An early muhurat leaves no margin.
Planning it
What we plan around
Whether coverage continues after the ritual finishes.
The muhurat and when preparation starts.
And numbers, which decide what is physically possible.
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A selection of recent photographs. Each one is tagged with the kind of shoot it came from — tell us what you are planning and we will show you the work closest to it.
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Naming ceremonies in Wanowrie
How the session itself works is covered in full on the main naming ceremony photography page.
- 1st Floor, Behind G S Mahanagar Co-op Bank Ltd, Sai Nagari, Mathura Nagar, Wadgaon Sheri, Pune, Maharashtra 411014
- +91 79032 43332
What is worth photographing besides the ritual?
The house full of people. Shoes at the door, the kitchen working, everybody crammed into two rooms. It is what families describe later.
Does that need extra time?
An hour, usually. Where the family disperses quickly it may be less and we will say honestly.
Which areas do you cover?
Wanowrie, Fatima Nagar, Ghorpadi, Hadapsar, Salunke Vihar, Wadgaon Sheri and Koregaon Park.
Our ceremony is very early.
Normal for this ritual. Tell us the muhurat.
Do you know the sequence?
Yes, so you do not have to explain it.
Will you use flash near the baby?
Kept minimal, and we work with the room where we can.
Will you get everyone in one photograph?
Sometimes there is nowhere to stand. If it matters, tell us and we will find somewhere.
Does this replace what we booked?
Never. Whatever you booked is the main part of the session and gets done properly. This is an addition, usually ten or fifteen minutes.
It feels strange to ask for.
It does, and it stops feeling strange about five minutes in. That reluctance is extremely common and it is not a reason to skip it.
Do we need to prepare anything for it?
No, and preparing would defeat it. The point is the thing as it actually is rather than as it would be if it had been arranged.
How do we book?
Send us the date and what you have in mind, and you get a clear quote for the coverage you actually need.
Stay an hour after the ritual
The house full of people is what families describe later, and it is almost never photographed.