Before
Pre-Wedding Photography
A relaxed shoot before the wedding rush begins.
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Wedding coverage in Wanowrie — including the quiet morning, which is the part most families wish they had covered.
The morning before
Ask anybody about their wedding album and the gap is almost always the morning.
The house before anyone arrives, a parent sitting alone for a moment, somebody being helped into something, the ordinary domestic chaos of getting ready.
None of that is ceremonial and all of it is the part people describe most vividly years later.
It gets missed because coverage is usually booked from the function onwards, which is when the schedule says the wedding begins.
The wedding began several hours earlier in a kitchen with too many people in it.
Extending coverage at that end rather than the other is one of the few genuinely high-value decisions available in a wedding booking.
The late-evening hours produce far less than people expect, because by then everybody has been photographed repeatedly.
It is worth photographing the house rather than only the people in it during the morning.
Chairs pushed against walls, food covered on a table, somebody's things spread across a bed. The house behaves differently on that day and it is never recorded.
It takes a few minutes while everybody is busy elsewhere and it is frequently the most evocative material in the set.
It is also worth covering the quiet twenty minutes that exists at some point in every wedding morning.
Usually one person alone for a moment before everything begins, and it happens in every house on every wedding day.
A photographer who is looking for it finds it. One who is not, misses it entirely.
Getting ready
Extending at the right end
Extend coverage into the morning rather than into the late evening. The late hours produce far less than people expect.
Open every curtain in the getting-ready room before we arrive.
Send the group photograph list early, with someone on each side responsible for gathering people.
Planning it
What we plan around
Whether the morning is covered, which is where most of the gap usually is.
Which functions you want covered.
And whether there is a hard finish.
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The engagement
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Ring ceremony and engagement coverage.
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Weddings in Wanowrie
How the session itself works is covered in full on the main wedding photography page.
- 1st Floor, Behind G S Mahanagar Co-op Bank Ltd, Sai Nagari, Mathura Nagar, Wadgaon Sheri, Pune, Maharashtra 411014
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What do families most wish they had covered?
The morning, almost always. The house before anyone arrives, and the ordinary chaos of getting ready.
Should we extend into the evening instead?
Usually not. By then everybody has been photographed repeatedly and the yield is low.
Which areas do you cover?
Wanowrie, Fatima Nagar, Ghorpadi, Hadapsar, Salunke Vihar, Wadgaon Sheri and Koregaon Park.
Do you travel outside Pune?
Yes, across Maharashtra and for destination weddings.
Can we book only some functions?
Yes. Tell us which.
Do you work with a second photographer?
For larger weddings often yes.
When will we receive them?
It depends on the size of the wedding and it is confirmed with you in writing when you book.
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.
Extend into the morning
It is where the gap almost always is, and the late evening produces far less than people expect.