Real Weddings – Vasundhara’s & Chetan’s Punjabi+Bengali wedding ceremonies

I know I have not been able to blog all the weddings I’ve shot in the last one year (and there’s so much exciting stuff to share!) But it’s never too late. So I am starting with one that has a very unique story and with time I’ll blog all the rest as well. I present to you Vasundhara’s and Chetan’s interesting story.

Vasundhara & Chetan were two strangers, separately visiting “Passion my cup of tea” in Saket, Delhi at the same time. It’s a small little cosy place next to a forest department nursery thus making the surrounding environment absolutely lush green and delightful. While sipping on their respective teas at their respective tables, they heard a Bob Dylan song that they both liked and started humming it. Their eyes & smiles met and the rest as they say is history. They realised their love for travel and traveled to many places together, sometimes impromptu. The full moon has a special place in their life & they got married on “Sharad Poornima” (Harvest moon) on 11th October, 2011. If one were to watch a film with this storyline, one would brush it aside with a “This never happens in real life” reaction. But real life, as they say is sometimes stranger than fiction.

Vasundhara has a Punjabi Army officer father & a Bengali mother who have a base in Delhi as well as Dehradun. Her brother is married to a Japanese woman and they have a cute son – Ruou. Chetan is a Punjabi and his family resides in Shimla while he works in Australia. Their engagement function was held in Delhi and the other functions were held at Dehradun at Vasundhara’s delightful house with a sprawling driveway and lawn. The decoration was very simple and done by all the family members. The rituals were a mix of Punjabi and Bengali traditions and it was a most colourful affair. Apart from the functions I also did a “couple portraiture shoot” for Vasundhara & Chetan at “Passion my cup of tea” as well as Tons river, Dehradun.
This is an attempt to recreate the magic of love over pots of tea.