Indian Wedding Photographer Toronto

 Focus Indian Wedding Photography crew understands the important cultural traditions and what are the significance of each event.

• Hindu wedding takes days to celebrate; it is not a typical type of wedding like the other cultures or race that completes the entire wedding ceremony and celebration in one day. That’s why Focus offers multi day discounts.

• To make sure that our indian wedding photographer would not miss any important event, Focus schedules meeting with the couple and family to make a list of the important parts of the wedding celebration.

• We ask the couple as to who among their close family member could help us with regards to identifying the people or relatives that should be included in each frame for every set of photos based on clan or family. This coordinator could greatly be of help to the wedding photographer in organizing the crowd while photos of the bride and groom are being shot.

• In indian weddings there is a need for another or a secondary indian wedding photography shooter, this is because the bride and the groom have their own special rite and rituals to go through even before they arrive the indian wedding venue for the actual indian wedding ceremony; these separate events could not be handled by only one photographer as both events occur simultaneously on different locations.

• Everyone who attends an indian wedding is considered family and there might be hundreds of friends, relatives, and family that will be attending the special and memorable moment as the couple starts their life together as one. Focus will work together with you to make a list of each clan or group to be able to organize the people and avoid crowding during the family picture shots.

The Mehndi

• The Sangeet. the pre wedding party which could have different themes. This party is intended to entertain close family and friends before the actual wedding celebration.

• The Barat. In this event, the groom is brought to the wedding venue riding a horse, an elephant, or a four-wheeled vehicle. This would be in a sort of procession where the family of the groom accompanies him going to the venue dancing to traditional Hindu music.

• The VarMala. Standing on a small yet well-decorated stage called a “Mandap”, the couple exchanges flower garlands as part of the start of the wedding rites.

• The Pheras. The couple stands in front of the Holy Fire and exchange their vows. The couple then walks around the Holy Fire seven times while holding hands.

• The Mangal-Sutra. This is the event where the groom offers the bride a golden locket and the groom thread them around the bride’s neck as a symbol of them getting married; this is the same as when the groom of a different culture slides the ring to the bride’s fingers during the wedding.

• The Kanya Daan. This is when the family of the bride hands over their precious daughter in marriage to the groom and his family as a start of the bride being part of their family.

• The Bidaai. This is a very emotional event where the bride leaves her home and journey going to his groom’s house where they will start their own life together and raise their own little ones.