Black and white couple portrait in Mumbai, the woman looking back over her shoulder as she holds her partner's arm

Gurvinder Arora Photography Wedding Photographer in Mumbai

A modern approach to an age old tradition

Black and white bridal portrait of Shivani smiling in her veil and maang tikka

About

Every wedding is a story, not just a set of photos

I'm a wedding photographer and filmmaker based in Mumbai, and I have spent twelve years behind a camera. What keeps me there has never changed: people. The glance nobody else caught, the grandparent who finally sits down, the nervous laugh that turns into a real one.

My work in movies taught me to see a day the way a film unfolds — a beginning, a turning point, and an ending that stays with you. So at weddings I don't only take photographs. I make films, shaped around the people in them rather than a template.

Three years ago I founded Gurvinder Arora Photography with one aim: to bring that personal touch to every couple, so what you take home feels like your story, told the way it actually happened.

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We photograph weddings in Mumbai and beyond the way they actually happen — close to the people, patient with the light, and edited down to only the frames worth keeping.

Candid wedding photography from Mumbai & beyond

A bride in a jewelled veil, eyes closed, in black and white
A couple kissing at night as guests light sparklers around them
A bride in red touching the groom's face in a garden
A couple in a sequinned gown and tuxedo, in black and white
A couple seated in a flower-filled haldi setting as petals fall
A bride adjusting her maang tikka, the groom's turban in the foreground
A couple on a beach, the bride's pink dress lifting in the wind
Coloured smoke rising over a floral mandap as the couple stand beneath it
A couple laughing under a shower of petals at a floral mandap
A bride walking down the aisle of a chapel, in black and white
A bride in a yellow sari framed by the shadows of palm leaves
A couple forehead to forehead in warm evening backlight
A bride seen from above on a spiral staircase
A couple kissing, in black and white
A couple dancing across a chequered floor, in black and white
A bride and groom in pink and ivory circling the sacred fire
A bride in a red and ivory lehenga seated among tropical leaves
A bride's hennaed hand resting in the groom's
A bride beneath a frangipani tree beside a pool
Bridesmaids holding up a handwritten wedding vow
A bride in lilac surrounded by her bridesmaids
A bride kissing the groom, both garlanded
A bride arriving beneath a floral canopy, in black and white
Two men in suits framed in a doorway, in black and white
A groom in a pink turban holding the bride close beneath the trees
Guests throwing petals over the couple at the haldi
A bride and her bridesmaids descending a staircase
A couple walking hand in hand down palm-lined steps
A bride and groom with folded hands at sunset by the sea
A guest laughing as she shows off her henna
A bride in an ivory lehenga standing in a garden
Guests dancing under warm stage lights
The couple's hands and wristwatches, in black and white
A bride and groom on a green hillside
A bride walking beneath a canopy of flowers held by her family
A guest waving across a palm garden
A guest laughing with a baby at the evening reception

Recent Weddings

All stories
Achaman and Saumya with folded hands at sunset on the beach at their Goa wedding

Achaman and Saumya

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Bhavna walking down a staircase with her bridesmaids on her wedding day

Bhavna and Przemo

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Shivani and Abhishek in rose garlands on a hillside on their wedding day

Shivani and Abhishek

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Himanshi and Christopher kissing, both wearing wedding garlands

Himanshi and Christopher

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Every chapter of an Indian wedding

Guests in peach turbans dancing to the dhol at a baraat in Goa The Baraat Wedding portrait of a bride and groom in garlands, smiling on a hillside The Portraits The groom arriving on horseback beneath palm trees for his baraat in Goa The Arrival A guest smoothing haldi onto the bride's face at her haldi ceremony The Haldi Guests cheering on the dance floor at a wedding reception in Mumbai The Reception The bride with her family in a palm garden at her Goa wedding The Last Hour