This is guide is intended to be used by Bride who is ready to get marry. These articles are written and published in our Website blog. It has helped many of our readers and customers. We have consolidated those articles for use of South Indian Brides. All the photographs used in this book are taken by Giri Stills. Giri Stills has 25+ years of experience in Wedding Photography. In these years we have photographed more than 3000+ couples in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra etc. It is difficult to generalize all the community needs. In this book we have tried to guide brides on Wedding Planning, Event Management, Wedding Photography, Makeup Tips, Costumes, Jewels etc. Wedding is such an event that it is more than what we address. We will bring more information in the future editions . You are free to use this ebook and re-distribute it to the needy without any modification. for more details visit http://www.giristills.com

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GETTING READY FOR WEDDING
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INTRODUCTION
This is guide is intended to be used by Bride who is ready to get marry. These articles are
written and published in our Website blog. It has helped many of our readers and customers.
We have consolidated those articles for use of South Indian Brides.
All the photographs used in this book are taken by Giri Stills. Giri Stills has 25+ years of
experience in Wedding Photography. In these years we have photographed more than 3000+
couples in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra etc. It is
difficult to generalize all the community needs. In this book we have tried to guide brides on
Wedding Planning, Event Management, Wedding Photography, Makeup Tips, Costumes, Jewels
etc. Wedding is such an event that it is more than what we address. We will bring more
i n f o r m a t i o n i n t h e f u t u r e e d i t i o n s .
You are free to use this ebook and re-distribute it to the needy without any modification.
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WEDDING PLANNER WORKSHEET
We have created a worksheet for organizing the wedding and related events.
prepared for Indian Weddings. You can print it and it will help you in planning
and organizing
EVENT MANAGEMENT PROCESSES
Schedule Events and dates – Engagement, Wedding, Reception
Estimate the budget
Select Locations
Select Venues
Estimate the number of guests
Select Wedding Card Design and Print
Draft Guest list and Key contact list
Select Priest
Select Chief Guest
Select Wedding Photographers
Select Candid Wedding Photographers etc.
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Wedding Planner
Description Budget Estimate
Venues
Wedding Card Design and Print
Invitation Postal/Courier
Invitation Distribution
Priest
Wedding Photography 
Catering
Jewellery
Wedding Dress
Tailoring
Transporters
Decorators
Flower Suppliers
Grocery Suppliers
Vegetable Suppliers
Fruits Suppliers
Drinks Suppliers
Food Suppliers
Water Suppliers
Bridal Make up
Travel Arrangements
Accomodation
House Keeping
Security
Music and Entertainment
Honeymoon Packages
Print photo Album
Registration of marriage
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HOW TO SELECT WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER
The Photography plays a major role in everyone's wedding. Before searching for photographers,
1st you must think about what type of photographers, what type of style, you need to shoot your wedding.
Wedding Photographs and videos will be with you as your long lasting memories. So be careful before
selecting a wedding photographer for your marriage.
Style
When choosing a professional wedding photographer, one thing you may want to consider is their style
of photography. Choose a photographer, who has an innovative approach to photography! Spice up your
wedding memories with eye-catching candid wedding photography.
Expertise
The photographers should have experience in variety of projects such as Wedding Photography,
Candid Photography, portrait photography and kids portraits. More years experience of photographers
have experience and reputation. You cannot risk your lifetime event with inexperienced photographers.
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Depends on the experience and creativity you can select the best photographer for your wedding.
Above 15/20 years of experience the photographers (Giri Stills® is 25+ years of experience) will
have all the creative and qualitative stuffs about the camera, color, lighting, composition, etc, so you can
go for well trained and experienced photographers for capturing your special memories with creativity.
Photography Team
The team of photographers needs to be divided into two teams to cover the event as well as candid photography.
One team shoots formal shots to photograph all the guests and memorable events. Candid photography team
will get casual and beautiful moments. So the team should be big enough with experienced photographers for
better results.
Equipment
The photographers should equip good quality cameras, powerful lenses, chopper cams, slide cams, and glide
cams to name a few. This helps to capture experienced to produce best photographs of your events.
Post Production Team
Post Production Team is story tellers. The clicks will be a visual treat because of extremely creative post
production team,. Their albums should like magazines, it should catch anybody's eye and the final images
after the post production process should be aesthetic compositions. So check a photo album of
photographers to ensure that you have selected right Photographers.
Get Reference
You can get reference but don't get opinion from friend or relatives about photography without researching.
If your friend gives reference for the photographer he/she used for their wedding, ask to show you the
album of photos. Don't consider only the photography you should give importance for videos too. A mixture
of colorful video footage adds to this long lasting film style which is called as Cinematic highlights or Montage
Video. A montage/candid wedding video captures every detail from every virtual angle.
Get Pricing
Once you short listed then send your requirement (Example: How many days shoot, Pre wedding Photography,
Post wedding Photography, Reception, Candid Photography, Videgraphy, Album requirements etc.) The pricing
will be generally depends upon work quality and your requirements. Get quotes and finalize the dates.
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How to Select Wedding Theme
Wedding theme is a style and design that you apply to elements of your wedding. You can apply a wedding
theme for your wedding invitations, wedding dress, wedding decoration etc.
The best advice we can offer is for the couple to select a theme that is truly meaningful to them. The theme
should be fairly easy to incorporate into a number of different elements of the wedding. So check for
feasibility and affordability.
Why you need wedding theme?
Your wedding theme can be a way to express you, your personality, your dreams, and creativity. Having
a wedding theme for the wedding can make it much more fun for the guests.
When to select wedding theme?
Couples who wish to have a wedding theme should make a decision early stage of wedding plan. It is
important to make this decision early because most of procurement activities like buying jewellery,
wedding dress, invitations are begin approximately three to six months before
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the wedding date. This will give the couple plenty of time to select these items, order them and have them
delivered in time.
Wedding Theme Ideas
The idea of a country theme, peacock theme, musical theme, royal theme, modern theme etc. Do a research
on internet and use your creativity. The ideas are unlimited.
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How to Smile for Photographs
Smile Please! When a photographer ask you to smile, that is the time many of us become expressionless
or we fake a smile with out confidence. Because of this, photographers use candid photography to capture
natural expressions. Learn few tips to express confidently with your smile in everyday life.
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Smile With Your Eyes
Eyes are windows to the soul. A genuine smile will naturally include your eyes. To get a feel for how to
make your eyes smile, stand in front of a mirror and practice smiling, but concentrate only on your eyes.
You may find it helpful to cover the lower part of your face with a piece of paper.
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SELECT A STYLE FOR SMILE
Look at photos of yourself smiling in different ways. Decide what type of smile you like best and
replicate it in front of the mirror. Once you're comfortable with the smile, practice without a mirror.
Practice what you feel to be your most attractive natural smile. You will feel confident when you smile.
Smile First
Always smile first. Have you ever seen a complete stranger, caught their eye, and they smiled so big you
smiled back almost involuntary. Try giving someone this gift everyday.
Keep Smiling
Always smile from your heart. But smiling in hard times will help you to overcome the situation.
Offer a genuine smile to others whenever possible. Even if you aren't in the best mood, think of something
that truly makes you happy before you smile. That can often lead to a genuine smile.
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Smile to Kids
A baby's first smile is mesmerizing. Smiling is a huge milestone for babies. As a kid they are angels.
They smile from their heart. small children smile around 400 times a day – at least 100 times more often
than adults do. No wonder they still know how to have a good time. Those smiles are contagious, too.
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Benefits of Smiling
Smiling releases lots of good hormones in your body, including oxytocin. Your smile will excite the mirror
neurons of the person in front of you. They will reflect your happiness that you are sending them.
Smiling improves your appearance. A person who is smiling is more attractive.
Smiling create trust and rapport. It is a simple way to make other people feel more comfortable
around you.
These are some of the beautiful quotes about smile.
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those
who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.
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How to Pose for Wedding Photographs
Naturally Embrace and Stay Together
Look back and Smile
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Stay Together
Show your Love
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Carry on Back
Look in to Eyes
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Holding the Bride in Arms
Be Spontaneous
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Bridal Makeup Tips for HD Photography
Wedding Photography technology is so much advanced now and we use High Definition (HD) quality camera
for photography and video shoot. These HD quality pictures especially close shots gives a lot of details.
The details may be pleasant or unpleasant. So it is essential to take care of make-up.
The objective of make up is to highlight the beauty and hide the flaws of a person. The make up artists
shows the makeup as real beauty. Makeup mistakes could reduce the beauty of wedding photography.
Many time our digital artists does the work of make up artists in post production work
If a little care is taken to avoid the following mistakes.
Not Looking Like Yourself
Not Booking a Makeup Trial from a Professional
No makeup for hands and visible body
Not Retouching. Always keep retouch up kit when you leave makeup room.
Applying blush like a clown
Smudged lipsticks
Clumpy Eyelashes
Asymmetrical eyeliner
Have a perfect makeup and look great in your big day photos.
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Bridal Hairstyles
Bridal Hairstyles For Wedding
The Bridal hairstyles for wedding play an important role in giving the bride that perfect bridal look.
The brides were usually put heavy hair styles on wedding like plait, pony and buns. For traditional hairstyle
saree with plait is the best one. After tied your plait, apply a gel on your hair only then it will not disassemble
the hair. Then fix some hair traditional ornaments like tikka on your hair prefer golden color ornaments for
wedding, because your ornaments with golden will give rich look especially for wedding photography the
bride with golden color jewels will give you perfect photographs
After that you keep designer flowers on your hair according to your bridal saree / gown color. Now a days
there are lots of trendy and colorful flowers available in the market. In market there are wide range of
accessories like natural flowers, diamond clips, crystals, hair jewelry can glam up your hair instantly. So do
your hairstyle with prior plans and be gorgeous on stage. These pictures will help you to get some ideas for
wedding bridal hairstyle,
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Bridal Hairstyle For Reception
In South Indian wedding, Bridal hairstyle also play an important role in giving the bride that perfect bridal look.
There are a lots of hair style arrangements are available in parlor and salons. The main aim behind such
hair arrangements is to give the Indian bride a traditional yet trendy look. Based on the bride face, structure,
height, color, wedding dress etc the hair style should be selected. Here you can check some of the hairstyles
for reception,
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Tips for Pre and Post wedding Photography
Selection of location and time in pre wedding photography and post wedding photography are most important
factor. Based on your choice the wedding photographer decides what lighting to use, what shots to take,
what poses to use etc. We are providing some of the useful tips to select Pre wedding and Post Wedding
photography location.
Location
Giri Stills® love out door shoot. They will be able to perform in any location. But couples prefer to shoot
in unique and beautiful locations. So when you select a location consider the consent from your spouse and
photographers. Outdoor locations are public places where the privacy is limited. If you plan dress change
you check the necessary convenience available or not. Consider the travel time, safety, privacy first along
with beauty and grandness of location.
Monuments, Museums, Land marks, Temples, Gardens, Farms, Gardens in Hotels and resorts, parks, abandoned
buildings, jungles, road side, coffee shop, malls the list is endless.
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Time
Preferred light for out door photography is 6 to 8 AM or 4 to 6 PM. Try to be in these timings. That will help
to take better photographs. Professional photographers can do magic with his creativity, advanced equipment
and tricks. For Giri Stills time is not a constraint for good photograph. Only thing you should have booked
the date in advance.
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Style
Talk to your life partner and photographer about the style of photograph you preferred. That could be fun,
romantic, ultra romantic, love what emotion you want to highlight? Select a style and start. But spontaneous
and candid moments are great opportunity for cool photographs. Giri Stills will take care of that part.
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Advantages of Post Wedding Photography
Now you are married. You are busy in honey moon schedule and visiting relatives homes for feast. But relax,
take sometime to capture the fragrance of love. Post wedding photographs will be a beautiful bouquet of
memories in your wedding album.
Post wedding has its own advantages. Few points are shared here!
The intimacy between couples expressed better after the big event. Cherishing this memorable
time is essentials in your life.
During wedding most of the brides and grooms are tensed and tired of rituals. The couples are
relaxed after sending off their guests.
They can choose different locations for the shoots.
They can select different attire for the shoots. That can be a palace, coffee shop, park, honey
moon spot, high way, tree top etc. The options are unlimited.
Totally creative and wishes of the couple. No formalities and no rules.
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