yasmin & tyseer: wedding | raleigh wedding photography
April 6, 2010 | Filed Under wedding posts
so, as promised, here are yasmin and tyseer’s wedding pictures! well, a few of them… still plenty more i’m working through! but i wanted to share these as soon as possible. as i said in the mehndi post, it was such a joy for me to be involved in this wedding as i was – my family was invited anyway, as guests, but i had the honor and pleasure of capturing it as photographer.
i also met tyseer and his family before this wedding; tyseer’s wonderful mother got in touch with me after she met me at the wedding of her best friend’s daughter, sanjana, which i blogged about in january. so amidst the friends i grew up with – yasmin is part of the generation a few years younger than me who are going through the “wedding phase” now – it was honestly one of the best times i’ve had photographing a wedding. i was especially excited because yasmin is one of those AWESOME brides who actually schedules enough time to allow for more creative bridal portraits; i also enjoyed being able to photograph two different bridal gowns, as yasmin – with her mixed heritage of syrian and pakistani – donned both a white wedding gown with hijab and a traditional pakistani lehnga (though in a unique dark blue and red combination!) during the course of the evening. in two weeks i’ll get to picture yasmin in yet another bridal dress – a sari, at her walima celebration in minnesota which will be rooted in tyseer’s bangladeshi culture.
yasmin’s shaadi, or wedding celebration, was held at the beautiful, classy brier creek country club in raleigh, so we got to take advantage of a sweet little courtyard designed for weddings and portraits, as well as the gently rolling golf course right next door. we had been worried that the sun might be too glaring for our late afternoon portraits, and then that it might rain, but we ended up with the softest, cloud-filtered, golden sunset light one could imagine. after portraits, everything took place indoors, and the families had a series of wedding traditions and rituals – a shared drink, a cake-cutting, the traditional desi shoe-stealing (which ended up in yasmin’s shoes being stolen, too – very untraditional! – some punjabi dancing from the men, and the bride’s friends blocking the couple’s way out at the end for payment from the groom’s brother and friends (that shot at the bottom with the ladies lined up in front of the door? yeah… that’s not a pose :) )
hope you all enjoy this – please leave a comment if you do! at the end of the pictures there’s a slideshow with about twice as many images, if you want to see more of the wedding story :)
EDIT: meant to add i COULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS WITHOUT MY AMAZING SECOND SHOOTER, sara haddad, with whom i’ve shot two weddings before this. sara took a few of the shots you see below, including the AWESOME capture of tyseer dancing. she captured some great moments from angles and places where i couldn’t be, and definitely made this wedding story complete.
and here, if you have the time and want to sit back and relax with it, is a somewhat longer slideshow with a fuller story of the wedding day – hope you all enjoy it!
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masha’Allah!! some of the best work i’ve seen from you to date Ayesha. Man, you covered every aspect of this wedding and displayed it so well. Very nice. The emotions you captured were phenomenal, truly inspirational. Keep it up!!
dude, I’m in love with your stuff mashaAllah :D
Great work as usual Ayesha. mashAllah!
Stunning! I want to know where they got their stage! Congratulations and Ayesha I can’t wait for you to cover mine!
Beautiful pictures Ayesha! You really have a way of capturing emotions, amazing work mA! Yasmin looked stunning and they make a beautiful couple, mA!
Beautiful!! That photo of the women pulling faces is CLASSIC! Love it, beautiful bride, beautiful colours, beautiful day, beautiful images :)
Brilliant! You really captured the fun of the event!
Lovely work – and looked like a lot of fun to shoot as well.
Wow. These are Excellent Ayesha. You brought out the big guns for this one eh? :) This is definitely your strongest work. You managed to get everything, and all of the images look great.
oh my! Such wonderful details and colors…excellent work. Must have been in heaven shooting this wedding.
What a lovely wedding!! That cake is awesommmeeee. You did such a wonderful job capturing this couple’s beauty & love. It looks like it was a great day to be a part of.
Oh What a beautiful wedding!! You did an awesome job!
O M G. The colors, the outfits, everything…Wonderful. I love the one of all the girls just being silly, it shows who they really are and that’s awesome. The detail shots are FABULOUS! You did fantastically!! :)
Beautiful photos Ayesh – you got some great shots!
I adore all the colour, the henna, the details. And the groups look so colourful, gives a whole other twist to formals. Great job.
I love your weddings!! They’re so fun and colorful! great job capturing the day.
Dear Ayesha ,
Assalam Aleikum .
I wanted to write you a comment a very long time ago , but I guess I never had the chance . I want to tell you that your photography is just awesome mashallah . Your photography is always full of love and life !! Your doing a great job ! congratulations !! I always visit your blog from time to time to remember how life is great and full of joy and happiness .
I’m a Moroccan muslim teenage girl and I wear hijab just like you !!
What I love the most about Yasmin & Tyseer wedding pictures , is how everyone is so relaxed and especially the bride . It’s also amazing to see that most of the girls are wearing hijab !! And their dresses are so beautiful….
I’m also interested by photography , I wrote my blog adress if you want to visit it , than you’ll see me in pistures !!
Even if I don’t have a real material pf photography , but whenever I get the chance I take some pictures qith my cell-phone or with a digital camera .
Once again your job is wonderful so keep on it !! And I’ll be always visiting your blog !!
You also have my e-mail if you want us to be friends !!
Ps ; I’m also Haris Sair’s pen friend !! and actually he’s the one who encourages me to photgraphy !!
Regards ,
Yousra (pronouced “yusra” )
These are so beautiful and rich! I loved the emotion and all the fun you captured.
[...] the country to join in. yasmin – who wore a white dress and a dark blue and red lehnga at her wedding, to honor the arab and pakistani aspects of her heritage – this time donned a stunning [...]
Simply wonderful! That photo with the dress spread out is amazing. Keep up the great work!
Craig
[...] maryland in 2000, i didn’t see much of suzanne at all again until meeting her at our friend yasmin‘s wedding last year. she’d grown into such a graceful, calm-spirited, lovely young [...]
Ace photographs! The bright colours works perfectly with the clothes being worn! Love the photo of all the women pulling funny faces and the groom sitting in the middle of them with no expression. Quality!