
This post isn’t about one wedding — it’s about a decision that affects every wedding we shoot going forward: an exclusive partnership with Diego Stuart Films for wedding cinema.
Sometimes being better at what you do means knowing what you shouldn’t be trying to do yourself.
And that realization is a big part of why The Regeti’s and Diego Stuart Films now share an exclusive partnership for our wedding films.
When COVID stopped the world, it gave us time to think. We watched convenience become increasingly attractive and technology make it easier to convince ourselves that one person—or one company—could simply do everything.
But we kept coming back to a different question:
Just because we can, does it mean we should? What happened when the world stopped moving…
Photography is our craft.
We’ve spent more than two decades studying it, practicing it and refining it. Filmmaking deserves exactly that same respect.
We’ve worked alongside a lot of filmmakers over the years. Some good. Some very good. And occasionally you work beside someone whose talent, instincts, professionalism and care make you realize: this is different.
That is what we found with Diego Stuart Films after knowing them a decade.
So rather than turning The Regeti’s into a company that does a little bit of everything, we chose collaboration.
COVID did what nothing else had managed to do in twenty years of running this business — it stopped us long enough to actually think. Everywhere we looked, convenience was winning. Technology made it easy to believe that one company could photograph your wedding, film it, edit both, and hand you a single tidy package. We had the equipment. We had the eye. We could have added cinematography to our own offering and called it growth.
Instead we kept asking ourselves one question: just because we can, does that mean we should?
The Regeti’s remain photographers. Diego Stuart Films remains filmmakers. Why photography and filmmaking are not the same skill
Two established businesses. Two specialized crafts. One collaborative team giving our couples and their families the photographs and films their memories deserve.
And now we’ve made that collaboration easier for our clients and planners, too.
Photography is the craft we’ve spent over two decades studying — not just operating a camera, but learning how a Hindu wedding ceremony moves, where a Sikh Anand Karaj holds its stillness, how a baraat builds and breaks. That kind of fluency doesn’t transfer automatically to film. Filmmaking has its own language: pacing, sound, motion, the rhythm of a scene unfolding rather than a moment frozen. It deserves the same years of devotion we’ve given to stills. We’ve worked alongside plenty of videographers over the years. Some were good. A few were very good. Occasionally, someone’s instincts made us sit up and think — this is different. That’s what we found in Diego Stuart Films.
What makes this partnership different
We didn’t hire Diego Stuart Films. We partnered with them. The Regeti’s remain photographers. Diego Stuart Films remains filmmakers. Two separate businesses, each specialized, working as one team on your wedding day.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. We already know each other’s rhythms. We’ve talked through how to share light without stepping on each other, how to stand during a ceremony so neither of us blocks the other’s shot, who moves first during a garland exchange. We’re not two crews meeting for the first time on your wedding morning, negotiating position while your baraat is already coming down the street. The coordination happened long before your date was even booked. If you’re curious how much of that planning happens before a single photograph is taken, our post on why we ask about your traditions before the wedding day gets into exactly that.
Couples can book The Regeti’s + Diego Stuart Films together, directly through us, under one contract – What this means for the families we work with
One vendor relationship. One contract. One coordinated photo + cinema team.
And no building a cinema collection only to discover that the things you actually expected are another add-on, and another, and another.
We’ve intentionally structured our cinema coverage around what we believe a family should actually receive when investing in wedding films. The important end products aren’t treated like afterthoughts.
There’s a creative benefit to keeping us together, too.
We know each other. We communicate. We understand how the other works. We aren’t meeting for the first time in a bridal suite and suddenly negotiating who gets the light, where someone stands or whose shot takes priority.
Photography and cinema shouldn’t compete for your wedding day. The should complement one another.
Here’s the thing about wedding photography and film — they’re not deliverables. A photograph might be the only way your grandchildren ever see what their great-grandmother looked like in her wedding saree. A film might be the only way they hear a voice they never got to know — a laugh, the particular way someone said your name across a crowded room.
COVID reinforced something we already believed: memories become valuable long before anyone realizes they’re becoming memories.
That’s why we didn’t want to rush this decision, and why we didn’t want to try to be everything ourselves. Photography and cinema shouldn’t compete for space at your wedding. They should complement each other — one holding still, one holding motion, both holding the same day. If you want a sense of how much detail lives in the unscheduled moments a good team is watching for, take a look at the five minutes no one puts on the timeline.
The Regeti’s and Diego Stuart Films: photography by photographers, cinema by filmmakers, created collaboratively — because your family deserves both done exceptionally well.

More from the blog
- Why We Ask About Your Traditions Before the Wedding Day
- Before You See the Bride, You Meet Ganesha: A Ganesh Chaturthi Story From The Regeti’s
- Introducing what we have been building – SAWL: South Asian Wedded Life — The Conversations That Begin After the Wedding
- Tara and Birju’s Wedding: Two Ceremonies, One Very Full Day
- The Five Minutes No One Puts on the Timeline
- Inside a South Asian Wedding Reception at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium
- How We Plan Family Portraits for Big South Asian Weddings Without the Chaos
- Soumya and Samir’s Wedding: Why the Room Matters Before the Ceremony Ever Begins

