The Wedding story of Asma & Irfan

This wedding story, mainly focuses around the brides preparation for her big day,  the beginning of the day, quite relaxed, and serene,  her sisters around her, all getting ready and having a bit of fun, which was a contrast from when the groom arrived in a supercar, dancers and drummers on the street, topped off with an impromptu firework display.  The rest of the day was pretty much the same laughter and celebration. The biggest challenge was the bride and groom shoot, at the end around 1pm, and i had 5 minutes to shoot them (as they had a long journey down to Nottingham). but in those 5 mins  we got what we set out to achive, 5 mins, 5 locations lots of images and one very dark night!

hope you enjoy the images,  as a wedding photographer, we try to be unobtrusive and ninja like in capturing the image the bride and groom want us to.  but sometimes when the drums and playing,  the weddings cars are roaring, and the fireworks are blasting you can’t help but get involved.

 

 

 

 

 

Asian Wedding Photography Oslo, Norway

Well it has been a very busy summer,  one of my assignments late summer was another Asian destination wedding, over in Oslo,  Norway.  We had the privilege of being commissioned by a lovely couple, Sarmad and Zunera, to cover their Asian Wedding Celebrations, over a three-day period, We covered the Mendhi, Wedding (shaadi) and Walima.  Our team was the usual motley crew of creative and talented individuals and not forgetting the master of creativeness mr amrit basran over at ohh weddings

We spent three days with their families and friends, and everyone made us feel welcome.  Sarmad and Zunnerah, were an awesome couple to work with, they had a special connection which made taking their bride and groom moments that much easier.   The wedding was held at Oslo misjonskire,  and the walima was held at the famous Hira Hall.   Here are just a few images from the wedding.

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Wedding Photograph of the month

Its been a very long summer of asian weddings,  and at this time of year post summer weddings, we archive our wedding work, in doing so i come across some gems which i enjoy taking. This one was from last summer, a long day but a great one. 

The winner of the North West Asian Wedding Fair Asian Bride of the Year

Well 12 months of planning, Numerous phone calls, lots of meetings (one meeting actually took place at midnight in the brides house 5 days before the wedding day) later the wedding of the year happened at the weekend, Where the Lucky winner Zunerah & Saqab had their big Asian Wedding at Capesthorne Hall.   Zunnerah won the awesome prize thanks to the North West asian wedding fair 2010, where the organisers were giving away a Asian wedding.  The prize composed of  Capesthorne Pavilion for free, table decorations courtesy of Simplicty Events,  A cake worth £250 from The Cake Deli, Stage from Abdalis, and not forgetting the awesome photographic talents of some phat bloke called monir ali photography .  A big thank for all the team on saturday,

The day – started off  with signs of heavy cloud and spattering of rain, but we trooped on, as we approached Siddington, the home of Capesthorne Hall, the light shone through and gave us a awesome day of sun, blue sky and lots of celebration and an awesome shoot on the grounds of the fabulous Capesthorne Hall.

here are  few choice of shots from the day.  Congratulations Zunni & Saqab.

To see more of the wedding, and to view more of our wedding work please visit www.monirali.com.  for bookings, enquiries and for a general chat about what we can do for your wedding please feel free to call us on 07984 864 723.

love. peace. and sunshine.

Mitesh & Henna eshoot – Embankment

A few weeks back,  i shoot with an awesome couple, Henna & Mitesh.  There wedding is in July, and we had planned this Pre wedding shoot since Decenber last year.  So with dark clouds looming overhead all day, we ventured in to the heart of London.  As the day begin to wind down, the sun seemed to come out and play with us for a while. Two hours,  1 couple,  1 awsome backdrop and plenty of lovely images.  Enjoy. To see the full story visit the featured galleries on my website www.monirali.com

If you like our preshoots, guess what you dont have top be getting married to enjoy a day of pictures. We offer a range of lifestyle photoshoots for everybody, even if you have been married a while! get in touch and see what we can do for you.

Asian Wedding at Capesthorne Hall

A few weeks ago, i was commissioned to document the walima for a couple, Alim & Reshma. Seems ordinary enough. Heres the big but…it was a surprise reception for the couple.  The brief story.  The couple got married in Bangladesh early in the year,  and decided when they got back to the uk, they will have a small intimate wedding meal with a choice few friends at a local restaurant.  The grooms family had other ideas. The cogs of the wedding planning had in action the sisters and brothers,  had invited more friends, booked the grand venue of Capesthorn Hall in Macclesfield and hatched a big plan.  The Bride and groom were told to meet at the restaurant as normal, when they got there a horse and carriage awaited them with a change of clothes.  under instructions they changed and headed off for a carriage ride to be greeted by 300 guests.

If you have a wedding comming up, and would like us to document the occasion for you, feel free to call monir on 0794 874 723.   see you soon.

Pre wedding Shoots -

Pre wedding shoots, is a new buzzword for a lot of photographers. but not us no. We have been  doing pre wedding shoots, engagements shoots for a few good years.  I enjoy Pre weddings shoots, as this is the time the Asian Bride and Groom, get to know me and what i do at Asian Weddings on the day.

nine times out of ten the bride and groom are so relaxed in front of the camera, we get some real awesome shots.  The benefits of a pre wedding shot for my wedding clients and myself is that we both get to learn about what each other requires from the other on the Big day.  We all know what you want from the photographer, but it also works the other way!  By the end of a pre shoot my Wedding clients know what i expect from them on the big day, so that i can provide them with the results they book me for.

Here’s a recent photograph from a pre wedding shoot back in march.  I like this shot, it was unplanned, but i just caught it at the right moment.

If your are looking for an asian wedding photographer for a pre shoot, please feel free to call me on 07984 864 723 and discuss your requirements.to see more pre shoots visit www.monirali.com

Picture of the month_march

Yes i know its a little late…almost april…ahhh,  but we have been a tad busy.  but never late than never.  At the end of last month we had the pleasure of capturing the wedding of Neha & Shakamal. The Wedding took place in St Albans, at Sopwell house hotel.  Awsome venue,  made even better by the sophisticated wedding, full of cheer and love.  the day was long, and the wedding party went on untill the wee hours of the morning.  one of the highlights was the lantern release.

 

A quick note i received from Neha & Shakamal

Hi Monir,

I hope you are well??  We got back from our honeymoon last week – we had an amazing time and want to go back!!  The weather was great and we loved the food there cos everything was halal so we have come back with some considerable weight on!!

Anyway, I wanted to drop you a note to thank you for everything on the wedding day.  you were brilliant and we really appreciated your chilled out appraoch to the day – and crazy posing demands!!  I hope neha was not too bossy though!  we also hope you somehow enjoyed the day as well in between working very hard.

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If you want to experince some of those crazy posing demands, and have a wedding coming up and hav’nt booked your wedding photographer yet, call us to see what we can do for you 07984 864 723 or visit www.monirali.com

a day in the life of…

Many a day,  i’m asked what do you do all day.  The age old question,  to answer that in short will be “it depends, each day is different, some days i’ll be shooting for 12 hours,  another day i’ll be with clients all day, proofing, image selection and  wedding consultations to name but a few things that happen in our day…but here  is a quick insight…

Photograph of the Month_the joint wedding of Umma & Steve and Latha & Jim

Feb is kicked in and almost passed me by, so far we have four weddings, one engagement, one civil cermony, and three preshoots. The weather has not been the kindest to us,  so i was remencing about some summer weddings, then i had a call from a client from two years back who wanted a BIG reprint of a picture from her wedding.  When she emailed me the File number, i remeber which one it was, and this made me smile.

It was the summer of 2009,  and i had the privelge of  being selected to being Umma & Steves wedding photographer, but a week later i got a call asking if they could come see me to discuss thier wedding. At the meeting they Umma brought her sister Latta, and dropped a bombshell. “monir we want you to shoot lattas wedding too. …and its happening on the same day…! ” so a Joint Hindu Wedding was planned,  My team expanded to include the talented Ms Karina Lax, and spectacular wedding followed.  Having some time, we nipped over to a park in oldham, sun was shining, two units of photographers and videographersm catpturing some private moments with the brides  & grooms -  a shoot with al four, took place, but this is one of my favs.

hope you enjoy..

if you have a wedding coming up and would like to discuss your memories please feel free to call me on 07984 876 723