Growing up most of us dream of the perfect wedding, we know exactly what we want and everything has its place. Ever since my dream has become my reality I have found planning such a nightmare! Everything I envisioned was just a fantasy and its so stressful making it come to life.
The wedding has taken up every second, minute and hour of my day! Mine and Hari's lunch breaks both consist of emailing potential vendors or making appointments.
Although I want that perfect wedding I have to understand all of that comes with a hefty price tag. I think this is where the stress kicked in...
Budgeting is very important when planning and Hari has been amazing with that. He has carefully researched and allotted each vendor/task a certain amount. However, when you actually met with potential vendors i.e. Photo/videographers you realize that the budget set may not have been realistic!
Since booking the venue, we have been researching potential photo/videographers. We met with 3 companies after narrowing down our search.
First company- Adnan Ansah.
http://www.adnanansahphotography.com/
I came across this photographer while on modernrani.com and he had gotten great reviews, his attention to detail and colour was spectacular. We went to meet him and he was such a nice person, he took us through his work. He really focused on colour when taking his photos and we loved that. Indian weddings are the most colourful and we have so much detail so it went perfectly. He was also very flexible and his pricing was great. The only downfall we faced was he was a one man show ( his wife, who is just lovely is his assistant) and he didn't do video!
Second Company- Kumari Photo & Cinema
http://kumariphotoanddesign.com/
I also came across this company through Modern Rani, I fell head over heels with them. The work they showcased was just flawless in every way, I also noticed my cousins sister-in-laws wedding was featured on their website which they covered amazingly! I was able to book an appointment with Dan, he is known as the friendly giant on the website I believe. He was such a lovely person, he made Hari & I the most delicious tea. Dan was very accomodating and helped us customize a great package within our budget.
Third Company- Channa Photography
http://www.channaphotography.com/
I came across Channa's work whilst on facebook LOL!! A friend of mine had posted a video of his sisters next day edit, after watching that I had to book an appointment. We went to meet them and the lead photographers were brothers. We primarily worked with Sukh, he is so down to earth and really listened to what we were looking for. He knew we had a strict budget and gave us various options. He also was able to customize a package for us!
Other companies we considered were; Banga photography, Kujit Rehal, Photokitch and Big Al's photography.
It was so tough picking one company, we had a moment were we thought of even merging two companies together to cover the wedding. I wanted both Kumari and Channa whereas Hari loved Adnans work. After many arguments and going back and forth to speak with the photographers- we finally agreed on ONE.
We picked CHANNA PHOTOGRAPHY!
We cannot wait to work with these guys and on a positive Sukhs wife is from England like me --which is a bonus in it self! haha :)
Awesome post! Finding an Indian wedding photographer can be really stressful! We actually also offer Indian wedding photography services if you ever want to check us out!
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