Colorado Wedding Photography | Sonya and Faisal: Mehndi Ceremony

Aug 07, 2008

I spent three days last week at Sonya and Faisal’s Indian / Pakistani wedding. It was a giant treat for me to get to experience their traditions and spend three consecutive nights with their family and friends. We got to know them so much better because of all the extra time we spent together! And of course I am totally enamored with their cultures. I hope we will have the opportunity to shoot many more Indian and Pakistani weddings!

For all of their sneak peek posts, I am going to do my best to name and describe things, but forgive me if I make a few mistakes! For my pre-wedding research, I spent a lot of time at this blog about Indian wedding photography.

In terms of the back end work, it’s a lot like proofing three separate weddings that just happened to be back-to-back, so my proofing isn’t going as quickly as I’d anticipated. So instead of one giant sneak-peek, I’m going to do a couple. Here are a few pictures from the first night.

Sonya’s family and friends completely transformed the hall. There were so many amazing textures and colors.

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If you’re thinking that I must have thought I was in color and fabric heaven, you’re totally right!

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Sonya was carried in by her family:

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Faisal’s arrival was marked by cheers and shouts as he entered the hall with his family:

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They were fed sweets and fruit by family and friends:

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And then the entertainment was turned over to their family and friends. There were choreographed dances that blew me away and the coolest video skit EVER.

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Next installment coming soon!

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