It all began with an email from Anupam that he was looking for a photographer for his wedding which was couple of weeks down the line. Sometimes things fall into place for all the right reasons and I landed up photographing Shirley & Anupam’s Maharashtrian style wedding in Pune.
I remember the day when I entered the venue and I saw Anupam extremely relaxed walking along with his best buddies arranging some prints of their Goan wedding which happened a couple of day ago. These two lucky love birds got married twice in the span of just a few days in two different styles! How awesome is that :D It was a super chilled out feel. Shirley has one of the best, filled with happiness and warmth smile!! Like ever! She gave multi million expressions in one go. I had a mad time photographing them together. Expressions 101 = Shirley + Anupam. We laughed and we rolled .. well digitally 😉
The wedding itself was a super sweet Maharashtrian wedding with modifications. The best part was the rituals we made to match the bride-groom. Their best friends hung around since morning and made is one beautiful day. Slowly close relatives started pouring is as we drew close to mangalasthaka. The highlight of the day if you ask me would always be how wonderfully they had planned the day. Indian weddings are chaotic and more real-time. But these two hand a plan. They planned to enjoy the day, laugh, hang around with their family and friends, take photos, be in the moment, have a great time and have a traditional wedding. Afterall it’s their day! If you getting married .. prioritize the day around you. It’s YOUR day!
Later we hung around & took some portraits and called it a day. After all these years I’m a little unhappy they didn’t call me for the goan wedding .. :P (but that’s a story for another time.. hehe) but I have big happy grin seeing all these photos again and meeting Shirley & Anupam and calling my friends forever. Thanks you two .. you guys are awesome 😊
