Happy Portraits Of The People You Love By Rob & Lauren

So as many of you likely know, between January and April of this year Rob and I were traveling South East Asia and India. We were very fortunate to be able to do quite a few photo shoots while we were abroad, and one of the most memorable would certainly have been shooting at the Taj Mahal with Megha and Chakshu.

It was a crazy, stressful, and amazing experience, and resulted in some of the most striking images I think we’ve ever captured. For those of you who didn’t see it I’ll post a few shots here and you can go and see more on our The Wedding Travelers blog.

What was really special about the whole experience is that we actually stayed with Megha and Chakshu in their home for a week while we were in Gurgaon (a suburb just outside of New Delhi). They really made us feel at home at a point in our trip where we were longing to be back in Canada. Without them I don’t know what we would have done!! We also got to go to the Lodhi Gardens in Delhi for a photo session in their wedding clothes and got even more amazing photos! You can see more of these ones right here on The Wedding Travelers.

Well, the time had finally come for the event that initially brought us together with Megha and Chakshu, and that was their reception in Edmonton. Megha has been studying here for the past 7 years to become a really awesome pharmacist. The whole time she and Chakshu have been having one of the longest long distance relationships I’ve heard of. When you are around these two you can totally understand how they made it through such a challenge, they were definitely meant to be together. So we were very excited to see these two again since the last time we saw them was when we said good-bye in Delhi!

They were getting ready together in their room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, which was really fun to see both of them at once!

Megha was all smiles. I think she was really excited to finally have reached this last stage in their wedding! She had been waiting months since their wedding in India to get to celebrate with her Canadian friends.

I LOVE this one. A little different for us, but it’s just so interesting.

And believe it or not, those two crazy kids, Mona & Mohit made ANOTHER appearance with ANOTHER crazy awesome dance! These guys get around :)

The night was filled with lots of laughs.

Now this was amazingly sweet. Chakshu surprised Megha with a song. He sang “When You Say Nothing At All” to her as well as played keyboard. And let me tell you, Chakshu can SING. Wow!!! It was incredible!

And then a very cool first dance!

Jaggo!

Then we snuck them outside for a few really cool shots with the city streets in the background.

And that’s that! It was such a long time coming, and so many amazing stops along the way, but we were so glad to spend so much time with Megha and Chakshu. We’ll never forget shooting at the Taj Mahal with them, and couldn’t have asked for better models. I hope you guys are enjoying life in India, and I know we’ll be seeing you again soon!

Lauren :)