Chaar Bhai

The photographs your family keeps

We photograph and film weddings, and have done since 2013. Over eighteen hundred of them so far. We’re based in the Greater Toronto Area and we travel.

We plan the boring parts

We sit down with you before the day and go through it properly. Which events matter most, who has to be in the family photos, what you want us nowhere near.

It’s not the interesting part of the job. It’s the reason things don’t get missed.

Recent work

  • Portraits
  • Night before
  • Henna
  • Arrival
  • Ceremony
  • Reception
  • Farewell

Engagement · Nikkah and reception portraits

An hour away from everyone, sometimes months before, sometimes between the ceremony and the reception. Two people, whatever light there is, and nobody watching.

The night before

Dholki · Sangeet · Jaggo · Mayoun

Days before anything official happens. The house fills up, someone digs the dhol out of a cupboard, and nobody goes home.

Henna and haldi

Mehndi · Haldi · Gaye holud · Vatna

Henna, turmeric, or both, depending on the family. Whatever yours calls it, it is the loudest and most crowded room of the week.

The arrival

Baraat · Milni · Entrances

Both families walking in. You hear it a long time before you see it, and there is always somebody’s grandmother waving at the back.

The ceremony

Nikkah · Anand Karaj · Pheras · Bibaho

Usually the quietest hour of the whole week, and the only part of it that is actually binding.

The reception

Walima · Reception · Bou bhat

The formal one. The photographed one. The one the aunts have opinions about.

The farewell

Rukhsati · Vidaai · Doli

Twenty minutes, and the hardest part of the whole week to shoot properly.

We stay out of the way

The aim is to be as unobtrusive as we can, so most of the day gets documented as it actually happens. When a shot needs setting up we’ll step in and direct it, then get out of the way again.

336,600+

photographs we’ve delivered since 2013, for more than 1,800 couples.

That’s before the 1,800 films.

“They turned my dream Bollywood wedding into a reality.”

“You guys have literally covered each and every moment.”

“They made us feel completely at ease and captured every special moment so naturally.”

“Truly mesmerizing, especially the candid shots.”

Tell us about your wedding

Send us the date and the venue and we’ll come back to you.