Hindu Wedding Photographer in Hemel Hempstead

Serving Hemel Hempstead

Hindu wedding photographer serving Hemel Hempstead couples

Hemel Hempstead is a busy Hertfordshire town close to the Chilterns. The banqueting halls and mandirs that Hindu families favour in Hertfordshire are well known to us, and the same goes for the venues clustered around Berkhamsted, Watford and Kings Langley. During the ganesh puja that opens the ceremony, we stay quiet and low, photographing the priest, the offerings and the small gestures of the family as the day is blessed.

We move through the crowd gently at the reception, reading who is about to speak or dance, so the candid moments are photographed cleanly without us being noticed. We work in soft, natural light for the couple portraits, finding a quiet corner between the ceremony and the reception so you get a calm moment together on a busy day. We use discreet, quiet cameras during the ceremony so the shutter never competes with the mantras, keeping the room's attention on the priest and the rituals.

We have photographed enough weddings in Hemel Hempstead to know it properly. Hemel Hempstead is a busy Hertfordshire town close to the Chilterns, and we cover the surrounding towns of Hertford and Stevenage just as often. Around Hemel Hempstead we regularly photograph at Shendish Manor, The Watermill and Cress Lakes, among others.

Hemel Hempstead is a busy Hertfordshire town that expanded as a post-war new town, sitting close to the Chiltern Hills and keeping a historic Old Town high street. Hemel Hempstead station at Boxmoor is on the West Coast Main Line to London Euston, and the M1 and M25 meet nearby. For relaxed couple photographs, we like Gadebridge Park, with its walled garden and open riverside fields, and St Mary's Church, one of the finest Norman parish churches in the country gives the day a strong sense of Hemel Hempstead.

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Every Hindu ritual

Every Hindu ritual in Hemel Hempstead, captured with care

We photograph the seven pheras around the sacred fire closely but unobtrusively, following the vows and the quiet glances between you as the priest leads each round of the ritual. The saptapadi, your seven steps together, is photographed step by step, and we keep the frames clean so the vows spoken at each stage are never lost in the crowd. The baraat is where the energy peaks, and we are in the middle of it, photographing the dhol, the dancing and the groom's arrival as the two families meet at the entrance.

We stay for the after-hours of the reception when the formalities relax, photographing the late dancing and the quiet corners where the day finally settles into celebration. The pithi is intimate and full of teasing, and we photograph the closeness of it, the cousins with paste on their hands and the laughter that fills the room. We photograph the sangeet performances from the wings and the crowd both, so the choreography, the nerves and the standing ovation are all there when the night is done.