Make up by Gouri Kapur and Photo credits to Simon Photography .

To look radiant on your wedding day, don’t camouflage your beauty by wearing bright coloured eye-shadows and rouge. Opt for lighter and more natural colours. It’s safer not to over-correct any blemishes you might have, because if your concealer’s even a shade too light, odds are it’ll be overemphasised in your photos.

Wedding makeup trials are a must. Schedule one at least a month in advance, so you get to see what you’d look like on your wedding day. Take a photo of your wedding dress so that your makeup artist has an idea of what you’d look like in it and can take cues from it while  planning your makeup for the wedding.

Make up by Harish and Photo credits to Love’ll Dsouza

Not many people are aware of this, but world renowned makeup artists’ advice against using talc-based powder foundations. It is believed that this type of foundation can oxidise and darken on your face, giving you a splotchy look as the day progresses. Instead, opt for gel based foundations, as they leave your skin moisturised.

Emphasise your eyes but don’t get carried away by the latest trends. Shimmers, highlights and any light-refractive makeup can leave your skin with a very unflattering shine. Stick to neutral shades for your shadows and opt for eyeliners in black, navy or brown.

Make up artist Ralph  Daniels and Photo credits to creative couple

Everyone loves the Blushing Bride look. Opt for a peach or rose tinted blush. Cream blushes work well to give you the lovely natural dewy glow, but if you tend to have oily skin powder blushes can be used to give you the same effect.

Pink, rose and red lip colours look absolutely stunning for all skin tones. In addition, it leaves you looking bright and vibrant all day long.

Make up artist Yani Shrivastava and Photo credits to Lucky Malhotra

Get the best out of your lip-liner by using it evenly over your lips and not just to highlight the contours. This helps you with long lasting lip-colour, and when your lipstick fades, it fades out evenly.

And finally, enjoy yourself. Smile a lot, ‘cause no makeup can make up for that radiant smile in all your photos!

Make up by Santosh and Photo credits to Vinay Aravind Images

**As your Wedding Planners we encourage you to most importantly try cruelty free cosmetic products. (Cosmetics that are not animal tested). May be you ll be one of those people who will actually make a difference at the wedding !**

Credits to Vijay Isaac.

By definition, candid photography is photography accomplished without preparing a subject for a pose. In reality and in the context of weddings, it is a set of your most frank, natural and loveable moments caught on camera. No ‘smile please’, ‘say cheese’ or ‘look here madam’.

Over the past few years, candid wedding photographers have become a complete must for a successfully memorable wedding. This has mostly come about because of the lifelong beauty candid photographers add to a wedding. Yes, every nuptial agreement still has its down-the-road studio guys doing their thing—picture flashy lights, average cameras and non-stop and non-aesthetic photography. This apart, candid photographers have come to be in a league of their own because of the way they operate, the equipment they possess and the output they deliver which can be soft copies of photographs or high-quality wedding albums, or both. Of course, the quality of service can vary from photographer to photographer.

Credits to Simon Photography

A good candid wedding photographer can operate in two proven ways. One, he or she can go about their business without asking the bride or groom to pose specifically for them. Two, he or she can get some of the best shots taken without even being detected by the bride or the groom, maybe just like a sniper, but a one who shoots with a camera and thankfully not a gun. Sometimes, wedding photographers can also ask couples to pose, to add some rhythm to their candid shots. This will mostly be done during a pre-wedding or post-wedding photo shoot.

Why Are We Vouching For The Breed Of Candid Wedding Photographers?

For this one, we can go on and on about why you should have a candid photographer at your wedding, but there are just a few hallmark reasons that demonstrate why a good wedding photographer put to work is an absolute must.

Credits to Nitin & Preetham – F shutter Photography

Professionalism – Pro Vs. Joe

Professional candid wedding photographers come with the promise of professionalism. Just like how a doctor would go about executing a surgery, a professional wedding photographer would go about covering a wedding. Do not look at saving on the dough by hiring your neighbor’s son to cover your wedding because he shot great pictures of your uncle’s pet pony running around in a farm. BIG MISTAKE! Weddings and the skillful photography associated with it are entirely a different ballgame. You need a professional. You wouldn’t trust your cousin with a tooth extraction because he owns a dentist’s drill, loves dentistry and knows six dentists, would you? Then why even get into NOT hiring a professional to cover your wedding, something that is possibly a thousand times more important than a tooth extraction.

Credits to Reagan Raj 

Quality – Why Compromise?

Like how candid wedding photographers come with the promise of professionalism, they also do come with the promise of quality. With the hiring of an experienced and reputed wedding photographer what you get is nothing short of beauty. To draw a parallel for you, think of how an exceptional artist effortlessly paints on canvas, a wedding photographer does something very similar to this, but only on film. Beautiful edits, well-chosen words, unconventional shots of conventional wedding features and a progression to the pictures without randomness are just a few value additions you can expect from a candid wedding photographer.

Credits to Sowmya Photography

Going The Distance – A Higher Level Of Involvement

Candid wedding photographers don’t just start their shooting when the ceremony begins and stop when it ends, they go the distance. Couples are whisked away for pre-wedding and post-wedding shoots and at beautiful locales. Everything is covered: the cufflinks of the groom, the bride’s diamond earrings, the makeup, the dress, the tuxedo, the shoes, the flowers on the wedding car, the ceremony, the décor, in-laws, relatives, friends, the pageboy, the flower girl, etc. This way you’ll REALLY have something to show your kids.

The Memory Remains

Believe it or not, but your wedding album very naturally becomes a part of your family’s heirlooms, to be passed on from generation to generation. It’s probably that one thing you will treasure the most about your wedding and to remain with you for life. And since you are making a memory out of it, may as well make the memory worth it—timeless photography is what you need to be looking at.

Credits to Vinay Aravind Images

Know Budget! No Hole!

Contrary to what you might think, a decent wedding photographer shouldn’t put a hole in your wedding budget. Yes, while there may be the burning-a-hole-in-your-pocket guys, you can always arrive at a compromise. The costs of hiring a professional wedding photographer can begin at a little lesser than half of a lakh rupees and go on to a couple of lakhs. With a little bit of asking around, you can very smartly choose the kind of photographer who fall comfortably into your budget allocations.

Credits to Creative couple

Credits to Priyanka Daga – Photo alchemy

As your Wedding Planners and Wedding Consultants we recommend that you invest time, money and interest into Candid Photography.

Old Indian poets have been known to have written endless poetry about the charms and powers of the bindi to draw lovers together.

Placed in the centre of the bride’s forehead, the bindi is the only accessory that heightens all of the brides features and draws instant attention to her face.
While the term ‘bindi’ originally meant ‘a drop’, today, the term encompasses a wide range of forehead ornamentation in a variety of colours and designs.

While intricately hand-painted bindis, which are drawn over the arches of the eyebrows, are known for their traditional nature, there’s a lot more that can be done to make the traditional patterns absolutely stunning.

For instance, one can opt for the designer one-of-a-kind bindis that use organic colours and shimmers to make the bindis more vibrant. But if you’ve got worries about the colour spreading and merging, you do have the option of choosing sticker-bindis, which are studded with kundan work and semi-precious stones.

Consider using the Maang-Tikka style bindi if you’re planning to have a regal bridal ensemble, and you intend to use antique jewellery. The Maang-Tikka, like the jhoomar jewellery, is meant for the forehead and extends into the hairline. The main beauty of the Maang- Tikka lies in the pendant that extends to the middle of the forehead and plays the dual role of a bindi.

These bindis come in a variety of styles, with intricate work that is often embedded with precious stones. The diamond Maang-Tikkas are extremely elegant and chic; a brilliant bindi choice, as most jewellery is essentially based around the Maang- Tikka.

If you’re more inclined towards simple bindis, consider using a single decorative style of bindi, which comes in a variety of shapes and sizes. Available in all sorts of materials like plastic, crystal, stone, vinyl, among others most bindis have sequinned embellishments, and are dusted with gold powder. Some designer bindis also have beads and hand-printed designs. In addition to these bindis, each community has culturally specific bindis that are used on special occasions.

However, while choosing a bindi, try to find one with a hypoallergenic adhesive, as this base prevents allergic breakouts. Also, remember to wear your bridal bindi a few days before the wedding, to see if you have any allergic reactions to it.

Photo credits : Image 1 – Regan Raj : Image 2 – Creative Couple : Image 3 – Simon photography : Image 4 – Simon Photography : Image 5 – Sowmya Photography

Every wedding comes with a gamut of tasks: running around to find a quality caterer, a great wedding photographer, a dreamland wedding venue, deciding on décor, finalizing invites, an Aunty to call, an Uncle to ‘not’ call, the list goes on and it’s almost always the whole nine yards with a few extras thrown in. Boom! Boom! It’s Action Time!

Now, with so much going on, what a young bride and bridegroom can easily forget to do is enjoy themselves and soak in all the attention they probably will begin to get as soon as a date is announced and even randomly so.

Fresh As A Flower

To stay fresh and lighthearted from the time your wedding planning stages begin up until your wedding day, all you need to do is focus on ‘the macro-manage’, not ‘the micro-manage’(that’s what us wedding planners are there for).

First Comes First

For the macro-management bit, you will need a checklist and this one should be together based on priorities, and not preferences. For example, you don’t need to be dwelling over the details of a dress, when a venue is not is not decided upon.  What comes first has got to come first, priority over preference really.

Seal out your budget and try to fit everything within available bandwidths. Then, move on to zeroing in on a professional and experienced wedding planner. Contrary to popular belief, wedding planning services aren’t expensive at all. In fact, when you the find the right wedding planner, you will realize that service charges will be fair and the service itself extremely necessary. When we sit down to plan a wedding we spend time with the couple, we get to know them a little better, find out everything about their likes and dislikes, tastes and preferences. We focus on what are the most important things for the couple, put it all down on paper and start executing plans of action within predetermined frameworks.

With a wedding planner firmly in place, look at deciding on your venue and décor. As far as we are concerned, nothing hogs the limelight more than a wedding venue and décor does. Yes, people will talk about how beautiful or handsome you looked on your wedding day, but they will talk twice as much or maybe even for an eternity on how beautiful or exotic your wedding venue was. Now you know why people crave for destination weddings? No surprises there.

Note: Don’t break a sweat over a décor details, leave it to the professionals. Hint on the path you want to take with this one and allow us to lead the way.

Planner, venue and décor checked, push towards finding a caterer; your wedding planner should have some suggestions in this department or you can bring to the table who you think is best.

Tip: If you went to a friend’s wedding and liked the food, try getting in touch with that particular caterer.

Dress For The Occasion

With some of the core areas taken care of, you can look at what you may want to wear for your wedding. This is where a thousand opinions may come in, your mommy dearest asking you to pick just that one saree or an uncle from the Army asking you to wear a ridiculous scarf around your neck (this is in the case of the bridegroom). But really, here, listen to your heart; it after all helped you decide on who ‘the one’ is going to be. You can bring in a good mix of what is trending, what is comfortable and what your personal statements are. The key here is not to look overdressed but to also not look a little too casual with your attire; it’s your wedding after all.

Invites: Trendy or Conservative?

Almost everything ticked off, a wedding invite can be looked at. Your wedding planner may know just the people for the designing of an invite. Make this one count, it is not a must to stick to conservative looking invitations. Here too, you can hint on the path you want to take and your wedding planner will have it done.

Tip: If you have a décor theme going on for your wedding, your wedding invite can reflect just this.

Photography: Who’s Clicking Who?

With almost everyone positioning themselves as photographers, worse still, wedding photographers, deciding on who is going to be that one guy or girl to shoot your wedding can be tricky. But going by our experiences in working with photographers and about-to-be married couples, it would do you a whole lot of good to work with a snapper who has got enough and more wedding shooting familiarities against his name. Someone who is professional, yet someone who you are comfortable around will help do the trick. As wedding planners, we always look at providing our clients with the services of some of the best wedding photographers around.

Tip: No matter how talented your neighbor’s kid seems with a camera, do not entrust him with the responsibility of shooting pictures for your wedding.

That’s about it, with priorities fixed, looks like you can get married and ‘knot’ just now.

Credits to Vijay Issac