Rejani + Lejoe : modern events {indian creek, il}
- January 29, 2010 -
To end of last year’s shoots, I had the honor of capturing the formal engagement ceremony of Rejani and Lejoe, in Indian Creek, Illinois. Rejani is from Baltimore, and it was awesome to see both families come together to celebrate their plans for marriage. I started out at Lejoe’s house for a quick prayer before the ceremony.
We then headed over to the beautiful St. Mary Of Vernon Catholic Church in Indian Creek, Illinois for the engagement ceremony.
An Indian ceremony tradition for engagements that I love is when the two fathers hug-
After the ceremony, we headed back to Lejoe’s house for a luncheon. They did an amazing job decorating their place!
I was able to steal the two of them away for about 5 minutes for a mini-shoot, and we made the most of it!
Lejoe and Rejani, thanks for letting me serve you guys during your engagement. I wish you all the best as you prepare for the wedding day this year, and married life from then on!
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Rejani + Lejoe : modern events {teaser}
- December 14, 2009 -
Rejani and Lejoe were a great couple to end the 2009 season with. They had an engagement ceremony at the beautiful St. Mary of Vernon Catholic Church in Indian Creek, Illinois followed by a small reception at his house in Gurnee, Illinois. Here’s a quick tease from the 5-minute photoshoot I was able to steal them away for during the reception:
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Alphy + Sony : E-Session (teaser)
- April 20, 2009 -
This past Saturday, I spent the day with Alphy and Sony shooting their formal engagement ceremony during the day followed by their e-session. It was such a fun day from start to finish, and we were blessed with beautiful weather in Chicago finally! Here’s a little tease from their e-session that afternoon.
I’m looking forward to posting their full set soon enough, so get ready for that!
Still To Come:
- Young & John’s Proposal
- Life Community Church’s In-Between Service
- Jaimy & Sijin’s Engagement Ceremony
- Alphy & Sony’s Engagement Ceremony/E-Session
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Bobby + Reeny : engagement ceremony
- April 1, 2009 -
After a break from shooting for a couple months, I got back into the swing of things with an engagement ceremony. But this wasn’t your average engagement- Bobby is my 2nd cousin, and we pretty much grew up together being the closest in age among the male cousins in the family. Reeny is from North Carolina, so the wedding is going to be held out there in September, so the family held a formal engagement ceremony here in Chicago for a bit of a pre-celebration. The engagement ceremony was held at beautiful Ashyana Banquets is Downers Grove, Illinois.
I love this shot! The lobby was quite busy as everything was getting set in the hall.
There’s always good food at Indian functions :)
The ceremonial handshake/hug between the fathers…
Bobby’s cousins sang a special song during the event as well…
I’ll end with this shot of my competition ;) These are actually my aunt/uncles bringing a bit of photo and video “fusion” to the event…I need to up my game!
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Monday Night Recap?
- March 9, 2009 -
OK, so I feel like it’s been FOREVER since I last posted, and for that I’m truly sorry! Things have been quite busy lately, and it’s going to get even more hectic, but that’s no excuse. Don’t worry, I’ll get back on track with all of this. But while I’m here, I figured I’d give a bit of an update of what’s been going on.
MacBook Pro
One of the main reasons why I’d been MIA: the logic board on my MBP fried. At first I thought it was my hard drive that crashed, and was just going to replace it (lucky for my I backup). Apple looked at it, though, and confirmed it was the logic board that was gone, so they got that replaced for me. Took about a week to get my laptop back- I felt so alone during that time. But it finally came home this past weekend, and I’m good to go! Thanks for your concern.
ABDC
Since I haven’t been doing the MNR anymore, unless you follow me on twitter you didn’t get updated on my following of America’s Best Dance Crew! Much respect to the top teams, but Quest Crew seriously was amazing. There was a heated debate between friends about who deserved to win based on the entire season- Quest Crew or Beat Freaks. My take: Beat Freaks were amazing. They had some great performances, EXCEPT for the last show, where both performances were unimpressive. Quest Crew brought something new each week. Some shows they were outperformed by Beat Freaks, but there wasn’t a single performance where they didn’t show up. Based on creativity and consistency, the best team definitely won.
S.A.L.T.
Cornerstone Fellowship at the University of Illinois in Chicago held their second annual SALT Conference, and I was blessed to help cover part of the event for them again. Now that I’ve got my laptop back I can start catching up on my editing again, and will get a full post up about soon.
One thing that I have a serious problem with is design: I am never satisfied and constantly try to design and re-design the heck out of things. I’m already thinking of revamping this site again, and I’m surprised I’ve kept it like this for as long as I have. One thing I decide to change up, which was a semi-quick one, was redesigning my twitter home page. I realized that more and more people me check out my tweets who might not actually “know” me or follow my blog like the three of you, so I re-designed it a bit to give a bit more info and ways to connect with me. So go to my page and check it out! (and follow me if you’re on twitter…you’ll definitely get updates much faster than just reading the blog :))
Wedding Website
This was the other big design undertaking that I took. Last fall I built my wedding website, and I was semi-pleased with it, but definitely not satisfied. About 6 months have gone by since it went live, and I felt I needed to completely overhaul it. We wanted to make it more fun for people to come to the site and bring people back more often. And since I’m already a blogging fiend, I think you already how I redesigned it. :) Once again, big ups to Kenny Kim for his e-session pics that are scattered throughout the site. Head over to our new and improved wedding website (http://www.nateandnithya.com/) and let me know what you think! (Don’t forget to sign the guestbook (multiple times if you’d like :)), and if there’s anything you’d like me to blog about over there, let me know!)
NCAA Tournament
It’s that time of the year again! This is one of my favorite sporting events of all time because you seriously do not know what’s going to happen next. My beloved Illinois is definitely in the tourney again, and it’s only a question of what seed they get (looking for a good showing in the Big Ten tourney this week to help them out). all 65 teams will be announced this weekend, and then the fun begins! I’ve set up a pool over on ESPN so you can go and get setup right now, but you’ll only be able to make your bracket after Selection Sunday. I’ll get another post up when it opens up to remind everyone, but head over there right now to create your logins and stuff (and tell your friends too…the more the merrier!).
Group Name: NMP Tourney Challenge
Also, to sweeten the deal a bit, winner of the tourney will get a $10 iTunes gift card! (If I win, I’ll wait patiently for one of you to send me a gift card :)) If that’s not reason to get involved, I don’t know what is! So again, let people know and get ready for the madness we all love, starting this weekend!
Alright, that should hold you guys over for a bit longer, right? ;)
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natemathai | filed under: Formal Engagements, Modern Events, Modern Weddings, Personal, [MNR]
