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Wedding Photography Trends for the Modern Couple

Weddings are one of the most significant milestones in life, and in today’s modern world, couples are increasingly looking for unique ways to document their special day. Wedding photography has evolved over the years, with new trends emerging that reflect changing tastes, technology, and cultural influences.

Whether you're tying the knot in an intimate ceremony or a grand celebration, the wedding photography trends of today are designed to ensure your memories last a lifetime. As an Indian wedding photographer in Chicago, Shan Photography is dedicated to capturing these beautiful moments with a fresh and artistic approach.

In this blog, we'll explore the latest wedding photography trends for the modern couple, so you can stay ahead of the curve and ensure your wedding photos are as memorable as your love story.

1. Candid and Documentary-Style Photography

Gone are the days of stiff, posed wedding portraits. Today’s couples want their wedding photos to reflect the raw emotion and spontaneous moments that make their day unique. Candid photography allows the couple and their guests to be captured in natural, unposed moments—whether it’s a tearful father-daughter hug or an impromptu dance-off.

Shan Photography specializes in documentary-style photography, ensuring that every precious moment is authentically captured. This style is particularly popular in Indian weddings in Chicago, where the vibrant celebrations and traditions provide endless opportunities for beautiful, candid shots.

2. Drone Photography and Aerial Shots

The rise of drones has revolutionized the wedding photography world, providing breathtaking aerial shots that capture the grandeur of the event. Whether you're hosting your wedding outdoors or at a stunning venue, drone photography allows you to capture your wedding from an entirely new perspective.

At Shan Photography, we incorporate cutting-edge drone technology to capture sweeping views of your wedding venue, sprawling landscapes, and the vibrant energy of your celebration. These unique shots add a cinematic touch to your wedding album and give you a view of your big day that you wouldn’t otherwise have.

3. Fine Art Wedding Photography

For couples who love a more editorial, artistic feel to their wedding photos, fine art photography is a trend that has seen a rise in popularity. This style emphasizes beautiful, soft lighting, creative compositions, and a more dreamy, editorial aesthetic. Fine art photography often mimics the look of a fashion magazine, with a focus on sophisticated details, elegance, and luxury.

As an experienced Indian wedding photographer in Chicago, Shan Photography combines fine art photography with traditional cultural elements. From the bride’s intricate henna designs to the intricate draping of the saree, every detail is captured with an artist’s eye for beauty.

4. First Look Photos

The “first look” photo trend continues to grow in popularity, where the couple sees each other for the first time before the ceremony. This intimate moment is often emotional, providing a perfect opportunity for photographers to capture genuine reactions and feelings. The first look also allows couples to take portraits before the ceremony, giving them more time to enjoy the celebration afterward.

At Shan Photography, we understand the significance of the first look and aim to capture the excitement, emotion, and anticipation that comes with that unforgettable moment. It’s one of the many ways we help couples create lasting memories of their special day.

5. Elopements and Intimate Weddings

In contrast to large, traditional weddings, elopements and small intimate weddings have become a growing trend in recent years. Many couples are opting for a more personal, low-key celebration with a smaller guest list, often in stunning locations that hold special meaning for them.

As an Indian wedding photographer in Chicago, Shan Photography is well-versed in capturing these intimate weddings, from beautifully understated ceremonies to deeply personal vows. No matter the size of your wedding, we ensure that every meaningful moment is preserved for years to come.

6. Themed and Styled Shoots

Couples are increasingly incorporating unique themes into their weddings to reflect their personalities and passions. Whether it’s a bohemian-style celebration, a traditional Indian wedding with a modern twist, or a vintage-themed gathering, styled wedding shoots add a creative, fun element to wedding photography.

For couples planning their wedding in Chicago, Shan Photography excels in capturing the essence of your theme. From the vibrant colors of a traditional Indian wedding to a more minimalist, modern design, we help showcase the unique vision that makes your wedding day distinctly yours.

7. Creative Lighting and Nighttime Shots

As weddings increasingly extend into the evening, creative lighting has become an essential part of wedding photography. Whether it’s using string lights, chandeliers, or even sparklers, nighttime photography offers opportunities for stunning, magical shots.

At Shan Photography, we love to play with light, creating dramatic nighttime photos that highlight the beauty of your venue and the joyful spirit of the evening. Whether it's a beautifully lit outdoor ceremony or a chic indoor reception, we make sure your evening celebrations shine brightly through the lens.

8. Incorporating Video with Photography

Couples are now looking for ways to document their big day in a more dynamic way, often incorporating both video and photography. Instead of hiring separate teams for photography and videography, many wedding photographers are now offering both services, providing a seamless package that captures the entire day from start to finish.

At Shan Photography, we offer integrated photography and videography packages to capture the magic of your wedding day in both stills and motion. From emotional speeches to the first dance, our team ensures that no memory is left behind.

9. Cultural Fusion in Wedding Photography

Chicago is home to a rich, diverse community, and many couples are embracing cultural fusion in their weddings. This includes blending traditions from different cultures into a single ceremony, creating a vibrant celebration of love and unity. As an Indian wedding photographer in Chicago, Shan Photography is highly skilled in capturing both traditional Indian rituals as well as Western wedding elements, ensuring that all aspects of your multi-cultural celebration are beautifully documented.

10. Personalized Wedding Albums and Photo Books

While digital photos are convenient, there’s something truly special about holding a tangible wedding album in your hands. Personalized photo books and albums have made a comeback, with many couples opting for high-quality, bespoke albums that tell the full story of their day.

At Shan Photography, we offer customized wedding albums that reflect the unique style and emotions of your celebration. These albums are designed to be heirlooms—timeless keepsakes you can cherish for years to come.

Conclusion: Capturing Your Unique Love Story with Shan Photography

Wedding photography is all about telling a couple’s unique story, and the trends of today are focused on preserving authentic moments while blending creativity, technology, and personal style. As an experienced Indian wedding photographer in Chicago, Shan Photography is dedicated to using these trends to create stunning, personalized images that reflect the essence of your love and your cultural heritage.

Whether you're drawn to the timeless elegance of fine art photography, the spontaneous beauty of candid moments, or the cinematic appeal of drone shots, Shan Photography ensures that every image captures the magic of your wedding day.

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Oak Street Films is one of the top creative Chicago wedding videographer studio servicing greater Chicago area. Our over sixteen years of experience as South Asian and American wedding videographer.

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In this blog, we explore how drone wedding photography is revolutionizing the way we document weddings, especially in the vibrant, culturally rich context of Indian weddings. We also delve into the reasons why couples in Chicago are choosing drones for their wedding photography and how a trusted Indian wedding photographer in Chicago, like Shan Photography, is incorporating this trend into their services.

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Best Indian wedding Videographers in Chicago

Chicago’s Oak Street Films is one of the top creative Indian wedding videographer studio servicing greater Chicago area. Our over sixteen years of experience as Indian wedding videographer (Hindu, Sikh), as well as video coverage of all Indian pre-wedding events (mehndi, sangeet, rass garba, grashanti, pooja’s, pithi…) allowed us to develop intermixture form of filming.

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5/9-15: Went Chicagoan Jewish for a Day (or not really) (aka ‘antek-antek Yahudi!’ as some jerk would say)

33rd WEEK, MAY 9-15, 2016.

Many exciting things happened this week.

But I have the right to prioritize which one deserves to be mentioned first.

This Thursday, I finally (finally) watched Captain America: Civil War.

And if you’re reading this blog for quite some time, it can be seen that I am sort of a hardcore MCU fangirl. At least compared to my friends.

I just died watching the movie. Imagine my heart is an egg and the movie screenwriters and actors were some extremely good scrambled egg makers.

I just can’t.

I cussed and swore so much during the movie, even though I was there by myself (actually—it’s because I was there by myself), and just being emotional in my own little world. By the time the movie was over entirely, I didn’t even have the mood for anything. I was either about to explode or just melt and let myself washed away to the drain and to the Puget Sound. And never come back again.

Huh. I wish my fangirl fellow Darin or Ica was here. They have been the only ones qualified enough to talk the shit out of any marvel movies with me. We can handle each other, and other people, apparently, just can’t handle or understand me being emotionally overwhelmed over some fictional stuff.

Anyway.

Summer is approaching, and on Wednesday the 11th the day hit the thermostat a good 26 Celcius, so after school I went to Capitol Hill and bought myself an unapologetic cup of frozen yogurt across the street from Seattle Central.

However, the highlight of the week, like with almost all cases, came on the weekend.

Karen’s nephew, Gabe, was having his bar mitzvah that weekend. Good news: his family, of course, invited Karen and her family over for it. Good news #2: Karen’s sister and her family lived in Chicago, IL.

Hell yeah! It’s not everyday you can go to big cities like Chicago (unless, well, you live in or nearby Chicago) AND go to a bar mitzvah (unless, well, you happen to have a lot of Jewish relative or friends).

For those who haven’t known, bar mitzvah (or bat mitzvah, for female) is a coming-of-age ritual, meaning a ritual that marks a young person’s transition from being a child to being an adult, that is practised by the Jews—

“Jews?!”

—is probably what your response would be if you’re a typical, religiously conservative Indonesian Muslim who credit most of your knowledge to controversial-titled articles on Facebook that are shared by friends from exclusively your own circle.

But I’m getting ahead of myself, and I’m not supposed to talk about my tolerant/intolerant country in this entry, so let’s get back to my main point.

Gabe here was 13 years old, so, in order to mark his coming to adulthood, a bar mitzvah was held. Let’s say... uhm, a bar mitzvah is an equivalent to Indonesian ‘khitanan’, a ritual after a boy’s circumcision to celebrate his first steps to adulthood.

Karen and Eric and I left Seattle in the afternoon, which means I had to leave school a couple hours earlier to catch the plane. After we arrived, we rented a car and drove to the hotel. Later at night, I finally met Ayesha, Karen’s mother, and us four spent some time talking.

Saturday morning, we went to Downtown Chicago to have breakfast and walk around. We crossed the Chicago River and passed by the Trump Tower. But our main destination was Millenium Park.

You see, when I thought of Chicago, I thought about this particular piece of art I wanted to see for myself. It was this sculpture, sitting right in the middle of the park. The sculpture has a power to amaze everyone who sees it, and at the same time providing a new perspective to see the Chicago skyline and the buildings surrounding it. Designed by an Indian-British artist Anish Kapoor in 2004, the stainless-steel sculpture was initially and officially named “Cloud Gate”. Thanks to public’s creativity and appreciation of its shape, the sculpture is more widely known as... The Bean.

To be fair, it DOES look like a bean. However, I felt somewhat sorry for the artist that had surely thought about the philosophy behind the name Cloud Gate and how the name will inspire people and all that. But I guess the first time people saw the sculpture, they went “oh, it looks like a giant bean!” hence the name.

Think about nicknames that you give to your friends or that have been given to you by your friends. It’s like how a person is named Richard, but everyone just end up calling him Dick. Or a name as pretty as Zahra but everyone end up calling her Ijah. Or something like that. There are indeed some people in my school who are so widely known by their nicknames, anyone hardly know what their real, birth names are.

However, in any way, The Bean (or Cloud Gate, whatever) is so pretty, no matter the weather. It can be sunny or cloudy and it still manages to reflect the whole scenery around it perfectly.

And right under the bean structure was ever crazier. The structure was bent and shaped in such a way that it provided multiple reflections of you in different forms, like a kaleidoscope. Looking at it was hypnotizing, and making me dizzy if I stared at it for too long.

Oh, and it’s cool that I could see the photographer in the picture because he was reflected by the bean behind me. Ehe.

Then we moved to the next block, the next cool thing about the city, the Art Institute of Chicago. (which is what we could cram in a day of Chicago) More than a place where people study—like the sound ‘Institute’ gives—it was more like a museum, like the Met. It had everything in there, for real.

I would say that the Met has more complete collection than Art Institute of Chicago just because the Met is more famous and the whole building is probably as vast as my neighborhood back home, but AIC contained a lot of artefacts and other kinds of old stuff from different times and places, like Ancient Greece and Roman Empire. There were also extensive collections from the Middle East during the rise of Islam, from India, Africa, China, and Europe, with artefacts related to their respective culture and certain religion the region was dominated by.

I’m a statue person, and most likely not a painting person. Seriously, though, my art senses are probably dull enough that I don’t enjoy paintings as much as people do in general (especially those of abstract paintings). Thus, what I did when Eric and Karen and pretty much everyone in the room were philosophically and emotionally connected to an acrylic representation of grass, I took pictures of them.

Alright. Time to bail as evening was approaching and we needed to be at Karen’s sister’s house for dinner before the ceremony. Karen told me to dress real formal—because maybe last time they took me to a formal event—that was a wedding—I wore a cardigan over a long-sleeved shirt and—wait for it—a pair of sneakers. Karen made sure I did NOT wear sneakers (or shirts) for the bar mitzvah, and thus, left me with the only acceptable shoes I had: a painful pair of high high heels. It was black and fancy and I looked good in it, but it was for sure after the event I decided to throw those elegant representation of hell.

When we got to the venue, it became clearer that it was indeed a black tie event. Good thing about having a dinner party with the Jews: kosher food! Kosher is like food guidelines for Jews, the same way us Muslims categorize food and beverages into halal or not halal. Now, I don’t know the full scope of what makes a food or beverage kosher, but I do know that both kosher and halal guidelines strictly and entirely prohibit swine (or any kind of pig product), and that is good enough for me in this kind of situation.

Quick tip: when you’re in the US and is really self-conscious about your belief in halal diet, if you can’t find a proven halal food, look for kosher ones. (especially for products in packaging like salt or biscuits and such kinds, finding a kosher mark in the packaging is good enough if you can’t find products with halal mark on it)

After dinner we moved with our respective vehicles to the synagogue for the ceremony. Synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer. Before we entered the main room, the men were given this small head covering—that was so small it didn’t really cover the whole head—that I’d later figured is called a kippah. Gabe, the man of the hour, besides wearing a kippah himself, also wore a kind of prayer shawl called tallit.

(illustration--photography was not allowed during the ceremony--at least the one i attended)

During the ceremony, there were chants and songs—in Hebrew—but the main event was the reading of the Torah—big rolls of Jewish scriptures. Presumably just about everyone in the room paid attention to the reading but me, but to be honest it’s not even easy for me to concentrate when an imaam—the leader of a Muslim prayer, when done collectively—recites long verses of the Quran during prayers (being able to read and write Arabic doesn’t help when you can’t understand the language itself), let alone a set of long verses in Hebrew. So what does a girl with zero understanding of the Torah and a quite short attention span do during this time?

She decided to open the holy book in front of her seat and tried to decipher the Hebrew alphabet.

Prepare for a quick elaboration on her observation regarding Hebrew and its comparison to Arabic. (<--calon judul skripsi S1 Sastra Arab/Ibrani)

I guess now I understood why people who don’t understand Arabic see nothing but unreadable wiggly lines—even I’ve heard people said to me that all the scribbles look the same. It took a while for me to figure out that Hebrew and Arabic have pretty much the same system. (uhhh I don’t know how to explain this. But like in Arabic a letter needs to have an accent that serves as a vowel, in order for the letter to be readable. So, for instance, if there is a certain accent above the Arabic letter ‘s’, that accent’ll give an ‘aah’ sound so the letter will be read as ‘saa’. Another accent gives the ‘ooh’ sound, hence ‘soo’, and another gives the ‘eeh’ sound, hence ‘see’) (why am I suddenly giving Arabic lessons)

Anyway, it’s not exactly the same, but some letters in Hebrew, if accompanied by certain accents or additional wiggly line, will be read differently than without accents.

(I can’t give you an example) (because by the time we all got home in Seattle I already forgot the whole thing) (not that you asked for one anyway right)

(well, I guess it would be kind of cool if I preserved on deciphering Hebrew. Albeit the language itself I can’t understand, at least I can write things I don’t want people around me to know in Hebrew letters)

After the whole ceremony ended, we moved to another room, which was a vast hall, where we had dinner (again) and heard speeches and overall celebrated Gabe’s first step into adulthood. Pictures would’ve been cool, but photography weren’t allowed during such ceremony.

The next day, on a nice Chicago Sunday morning, all the family members gathered in a cafe for brunch. Got into some more talking with Karen’s extended family members, since I didn’t do so much talking during dinner the previous day.

It was quite a small place for such a big family and it wasn’t as easy to move around, but I got to one point where I met one of Karen’s family members (I forgot who, sorry) who happened to be the heart surgeon for Indonesia’s back-in-the-day famous General A.H. Nasution. (General Nasution was a member of the military who was lucky to escape the terror attack from rogue members of Indonesian Communist Party in 1965) (it took a while for me to figure out when he was telling me he did a surgery for Nasution, because apparently if you pronounced the name ‘Nasution’ the English way it sounds waaaaaay different than the Indonesian way)

As if it weren’t enough, I met Karen’s brother-in-law and he told me he’d met Indonesian former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Give me a break. I technically live closer to President SBY and I’ve never seen the guy live, or even General Nasution.

(well, probably NOT General Nasution, as the guy had died long ago)

We went back to the hotel and took off to the airport right after, Karen’s mom Ayesha came with us to the airport so she could tell me about my personality and prospect for the future through my birth date and place and chakra flow. Accompanied by good thick Chicago pizza. Mmm.

It wasn’t exactly a trip to Chicago a tacky tourist like me would expect because we barely got around Chicago, because it really isn’t a tacky tourist kind of trip, but a family event. Nonetheless, if I think wide and positive enough, chances of me visiting Chicago as a tacky tourist is bigger than chances of me attending a bar mitzvah. Therefore, one shall not remorse on being unable to explore Chicago, because one can always come back.

(aamiin)

(brb melamar jadi buruh cuci tetangga)

And I shit you not, the experience of attending a bar mitzvah is one of the most impressive point in my exchange year I will always remember. Thinking about the time where I could casually walk into a synagogue without being questioned (maybe Karen gave a heads-up to the family, I assume?), and imagining how a Jew—or anyone else, for that matter—should always be treated the same way if the situation were to be reversed.

Peace out.

Salam dari yang baru pakai high heels dua kali langsung dibuang,

Nabila Safitri.

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There are two types of fairytales, one that we see on T.v and other that we imagine from childhood. Especially girls, who do have a typical fairytale of having a princess type dreamy wedding. And why not? Every girl is a princess and every guy is a prince, so why not make a wedding fairytale to celebrate the union of the prince and princess!

Now you have to consider two things, the color theme and a professional Indian Wedding Photographer in Chicago to capture the whole fairytale wedding. read more

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Wedding photography has always been about capturing memories, emotions, and the special moments that make your day unique. Let’s explore what the future holds for wedding photography, from groundbreaking trends to new technologies, and how an Indian wedding photographer in Chicago can bring your vision to life.

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Chicago’s Oak Street Films is one of the top creative Indian wedding videographer studio servicing greater Chicago area. Our over sixteen years of experience as Indian wedding videographer (Hindu, Sikh), as well as video coverage of all Indian pre-wedding events (mehndi, sangeet, rass garba, grashanti, pooja’s, pithi…) allowed us to develop intermixture form of filming.

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