Apart from your grand wedding venue, and your overflowing guest list, if there’s one thing that need not be overlook on your wedding day, is your wedding photos! They are what you will have to treasure many years long after the wedding bells have stopped ringing.
Weddings are filled with rituals and celebrations that continue for several days. Many wedding rituals are common among Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and even Muslims. They combine local, religious and family traditions.
A wedding is a once-in-a-lifetime affair. It is a celebration of love, togetherness, and bonding. So why to cut a dull and boring picture on your big day when you can frame all the craziness and fun you have had at your wedding.
Here are some unique nuptial photo shoot ideas for the bride and groom to be:
Celebrating with the greens and meadows
All weddings, especially Indian weddings are full of colour. Indians are known to have a vast acceptance regarding their colour palate. It would be precise to say that our choice of colours comes from the diversity and multi-dimensional society that we live in. In such a condition, almost all wedding photographs of the bride and groom are expected to display lots of colour, gold, accessories, make-up and what not!
To cut these stereotypical wedding shots of the bride and groom, why not take a hike to a nearby hill or meadow and get yourself clicked there enjoying yourselves in nature’s lap. A refreshing breeze, lush green background, and unbeatable natural light! What’s not to love with this unique nuptial shot of the bride and groom to be?
Dance in glory!
The first dance as lawfully wedded husband and wife is something very special for the bride and groom. First dance symbolizes one of the very personal moment that the bride and groom share with the world! It is full of emotion and love for each other. It is in itself so mesmerizing. It is a moment to remember, cherish and it is definitely one which deserves not one but many snaps.
A beautiful photo of the bride and groom, with their alluring dress-ups dancing in their own glory, is something that they will treasure all their lives. It will capture that first intimate moment, first glance into each other’s eyes, and the smile that lightens up their faces! Need we say anymore?
Bollywood tadka
Indian weddings! What does one think of when these two words pop in front of one’s eyes? Grand venues, wonderful themes and decorations, music, colour, dance, mehndi, sharing, love, affection, lots of people, delicious food and without any doubt – Bollywood. Bollywood, or the Hindi film industry, as it is also known as has set many benchmarks in the field of weddings and celebrations.
Bollywood was the one, who actually perhaps coined the term – The Indian Big Fat Wedding! They gave weddings and the possible grandeur in it a new vigour, vogue and stature. Bollywood extended people’s imagination by leaps and bounds in their films, and awakened a desire in every bride and groom’s mind to recreate a similar Bollywood experience on their special day! Well, a Bollywood tadka deserves a filmy photo shoot, doesn’t it?
Mirror magic
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most beautiful of them all? This is a question that every bride asks the mirror on the day of her wedding. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most handsome of them all? And this is the question that every groom asks the mirror on the day of his wedding. Everyone, we mean everyone, wants to look perfect on their special day. The dress, the jewellery, the rings, and everything else that matters must be perfect on the day of the wedding.
Mirrors, for that matter, also can work as amazing and awe-inspiring props for nuptial photoshoots. Nowadays, wedding photography is considered as an imperative aspect of the special day. Modern day brides and grooms like to go beyond the stereotypical ritualistic snaps to form their memories. Here, everyone wishes to go unique. So here is the chance to use mirrors cleverly. Multiple reflections create beautiful images and help to highlight the dresses and jewellery aptly.
Getting ready for the big day
Weddings are one of the most celebrated occasions in India and across the world. Moreover, in India, it goes beyond just celebrating a day. Celebrations make everyone happy and cheerful. And we celebrate it for almost a week! Mehndi, sangeet, engagement, bachelor – bachelorette parties, and then finally the most awaited, the wedding day. Photos are clicked at every moment in this joyous and pompous celebration of the coming together of not just two people, but two families.
In today’s photo crazy world, candid shots take a very important place in capturing every glimpse, every moment of the day. The anxiety that the bride and groom feel while getting ready is golden. These are the moments when both of them are thinking of their loved one. They are thinking of the beautiful life that they are going to spend with their better half. These are moments that you must not leave out of your photo bucket list for your wedding day.
Bridesmaids and Best Men
Your wedding is definitely your special day. It marks the grand onset of the new and fresh life that you are about to start with your loved one. In India, weddings are also about connecting two families on an emotional level. Guests also have their own important place in the celebrations as they give their good blessings to the bride and groom for a prosperous and healthy life together.
Another bunch of people who feel almost as special and blessed on the wedding day are none other than – the Bridesmaids and the Best men! These are the people who are considered right next to, or almost as equal and as important as an immediate family by the bride and groom. They have been dreaming and talking about this special day with the bride and groom from years together. As the newlyweds start their dream life together, the bridesmaids and best men are their pillars of support and give them a pump of confidence to get on with their lives. Here’s you want to capture a special shot of the bridesmaids and the best men with the bride and groom respectively.
If you want to spice up your traditional wedding photo shoot, try to capture your small-small emotions, moments, and the atmosphere of your special day in a unique way. Whether candid or posed, we hope you liked our ideas for those must-capture moments!