Arti knew exactly what she wanted the very minute I spoke to her on the phone; “A shoot in autumn in Paris!” I knew this is my kinda bride! I love it how the couples who are booking me ‘get’ me and my vision. We are on the same wavelength. Immediately I envisaged  a Parisian chic styling for the shoot, simple and elegant and drew up a moodboard with inspiration of autumnal colours and visual concepts. I had’nt had the opportunity to meet the couple before hand so like you do..we arranged to meet in Paris ..daaarrrling.

I had taken a fellow photographer friend to assist me on the shoot, especially for the night time portion, I always need an extra pair of hands on shoot to help with lighting. Due to unforseen circumstances my lighting assistant couldnt be there on the night we were set to shoot. One thing I have learned and developed my skill in shooting weddings over the years is to expect the unexpected. I had to think on my feet. We couldnt re schedual the shoot, we only had that one night in Paris… and there was no way I could let my lovely couple down..they looked like they were dressed for a red carpert event, super stylish! In the end I scrapped my flashes an extra bulky lighting equpment and utilised what most people had in their pockets…an i phone! So if you look closely to the iamges taken at night infront of the Eiffel Tower you’ll see it was lit using 3 iphones..who needs fancy equipment hey?

This shoot was also featured on the popular wedding blogsite My Asian Wed!

I have been meaning to blog some of my recent very stylish pre wedding shoots for some time, I just don’t know where the time disappears?! Sachin and Kaveeta;- what can I say about this couple?! We are a match made in photo’g/ client heaven, that what I can say! From the moment we met last year discussing their wedding plans, I knew they just ‘got’ me, they understood my vision and style and what I was about, as I could see it reflected their personalities too. We discussed many themed/ stylised/ editorial concepts for their pre wedding shoot, and had finally settled on a theme and a date for the shoot. I got a call from the couple two weeks before our shoot to say they had changed their minds, though they loved the idea of a themed shoot they said it just didn’t feel ‘them.’ Kaveeta gave me her idea of shooting around London;- a theme and look that has been done many times over. However Kaveeta re assured me saying it would have “the Rima look” lol – and it would look totally different that the usual stereotypical London, touristy type photos.

I have to say how impressed I was with Kaveeta’s research and planing, she had studied my previous editorial type shoots and looked into several different locations and outfits. Kaveeta’s father was even on hand as our personal chauffeur to take us around London for each scene of the shoot. (Even our cars matched! yes we fit like a glove!)

I have so many images from this set and I have tried to narrow it down for this blog, here is what Ive come up with, seriously one of my favorite sessions to date!