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Urmie & Enrique: Engaged in Old Town Alexandria @ the Torpedo Factory!

It’s that time of year where wedding season is about to hit all of us professionals pretty hard. Love is in the air and engagement season is finally here, it’s when couples either start their wedding planning or are beginning to wrap it up as their weddings are right around the corner. All the worker bees (event professionals) – including ourselves begin to come out of hibernation, give a great big stretch and begin to create these amazing events/images that were dreamt of over the last year or so. For Urmie and Enrique it just so happens that coincidentally they scheduled their engagement session on exactly the same date one year after their engagement, totally ironic!

With photographers, engagement season is our first true sign that spring is near, as our couples venture out of their homes and begin to embrace the warmth of the soon to be spring air. We dust off our camera’s and cleanse our sensors & lenses for all of the beautiful and unique image captures that await us in the new wedding year.

For Srinu and I – in the midst of our new client consultations, it’s great to step out with a current client and remind ourselves of why we do what we do – we were able to enjoy a breath of fresh air as Urmie and Enrique ventured out to Old Town Alexandria to meet up with us at The Torpedo Factory and Old Town Hall for their engagement portraits before their upcoming wedding is here on April 27th.

Urmie is such a southern belle, the total package with her sweet southern accent (where it comes from – none of us are totally sure!), sense of style and her candid laughter that makes anyone around her want to join in the party even if it’s solo! When you see these two together the amount of love they have for each other is quite obvious and out there, Enrique would do anything to make sure she is content and happy – this is a very good start to a long and happy marriage! The best part about it is that it came through in their images that the moment Urmie is in his arms nothing else seems to matter, it’s a sense of security that each girl seeks in companionship. Despite the cold, numbness and chattering of her teeth, Urmie pushed through the session and we were able to yield a few great captures from the day.

After today’s engagement session we are that much more excited for our wedding season to begin this year as we have a line-up of some pretty special couples. Blessed we are that Urmie and Enrique are among one of our first weddings to kick off a fabulous season of events!

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We are honored to say that this engagement session was featured on Weddings by Style Sweets blog!
Urmie and Enrique's Engagement Photos

Urmie and Enrique’s Engagement Photos

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    There is someone who greets the guests at almost every Hindu wedding we photograph before they ever see the bride or groom.

Lord Ganesha. ❤️

Today is Ganesh Chaturthi, and after more than two decades of photographing Indian and fusion weddings, Ganesha has become one of those details we instinctively look for.

Sometimes he’s grand and surrounded by flowers. Sometimes he’s a small murti quietly placed near the ceremony entrance. But his presence means something: new beginnings, wisdom, prosperity and the removal of obstacles.

And what bigger new beginning is there than marriage?

For our Indian-American and fusion families, we also think there’s something important in this: traditions don’t have to remain frozen in time to remain meaningful.

Celebrate them. Explain them to your children. Let grandparents tell the stories. Blend traditions from both sides. Add the birthday cake if you want to! There is no cultural purity test your family needs to pass.

Tradition survives because we continue carrying it forward—even when the next generation carries it a little differently.

And a Regeti family fun fact? Ganesh isn’t our only birthday today. Our son Brijesh turns 24 while spending his birthday in Peru in the Peace Corps! ❤️

He also has medical school applications out there in the universe, so given Ganesha’s reputation for removing obstacles… we’re just saying, a little birthday favor would be perfectly timed. 😉🙏🏽

Happy 24th Birthday, Brijesh. We love you tremendously and are so proud of you.

And Happy Ganesh Chaturthi from our fusion family to yours.

Different paths. Beautiful together. ❤️
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What detail on your dress (or your partner's outfit) are you most excited for us to capture? Tell us in the comments, or DM us to chat about your big day! 👇
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Have a getting-ready moment like this you still think about? Tell us in the comments, or DM us if you're planning your big day and want these details captured too. 💛
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This is my favorite kind of chaos to photograph — the in-between moments right before the doors open, when a wedding party of tiny humans (and their very patient grownups) are doing everything they can to hold it together for just a few more minutes. Been shooting these hallway holding patterns for almost 20 years and they never get old.

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This is exactly why we love fusion weddings — the joy, the family energy, the sheer logistics of pulling off two ceremonies in one day. Tara and Birju, you crushed it. 🙌

Planning a multi-ceremony celebration of your own? Drop a comment or DM us — we live for this kind of beautiful chaos.
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Moments like this are exactly why we love what we do. Ready to capture yours? Send us a DM or book a consult with us!
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Here's what decades of doing this has taught us: nobody remembers to ask for the posed shots in the moment. They're too busy living the day. That's our job — to know which ones matter before you do, and to make sure you have them when you're looking back in year 10, not just scrolling in year one. 

Whose photo like this do you still have hanging up? 

Tell us in the comments, or DM us if you're planning and want to talk through what shots matter most for your family.

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