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Kismet Wedding Show | AliphAurMeem Featured

AliphAurMeem — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:59:13 +0000

Woot Woot! We are super excited to share this bit of news. Our engagement shoot featuring Parag and Mona from earlier this summer that you can see here, was picked to be featured in Kismet magazine this year!

You can find the magazine at your local Chapters/Indigo location. To see a complete list of locations where you can find the magazine visit the Kismet Magazine’s website.

Cute Things

AliphAurMeem — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:32:11 +0000

I hate checking mail! Not email; the old postman, two bills and a million flyers, snail mail! Having dodged it for weeks, after much struggle today, I dragged my feet to the mailbox around the corner and came back home with a 4 inch thick stack of multi-colored shiny pieces of paper, 99.9% of which will end up in garbage moments later. Somebody needs to take a satellite picture of me holding all this paper waste and send it to Al Gore!

Anyways, after all the tearing and shredding, at the bottom of the stack I found a small yellow envelope with our names on it. I turned it over and it said “If undelivered return to: Uroos Ali …” followed by an address. I opened the envelope, and inside I found the cutest little card congratulating us on the birth of our little one! Now, we’ve meet Uroos twice, one for the initial client meeting, and second when she came by to sign everything for her wedding this December. But the fact that she actually kept up with what was going on in our lives, and took the time to go out, find a card and mail it, means a LOT to us! I immediately went upstairs, woke Mehreen up and started waving the card in her face.

So Uroos and Khalid, we couldn’t just send you a lame email saying thank you, which you’ll still get. Your card gets its own entire blog post!

Oh, btw, Afroz turned a month old today!

Best Wedding Photography Toronto | Hashim + Mehvish

AliphAurMeem — Fri, 27 May 2011 03:27:11 +0000

What a blur of excitement this last week has been! We covered Hashim and Mehvish’s perfect wedding in Toronto starting from their Nikaah, to Mayoun, to Mehndi, to Shaadi and finally Valima. It was all a perfect mélange of colors, music, ceremonies, and immaculate Urdu (the language of choice for MCs on all days) we haven’t heard since our Grade 12 final exams in Pakistan.

Mehvish had been in Dubai till about a few weeks ago and so our point of contact had mostly been Hashim and Mehvish’s brother Faraz on her side. We met Mehvish for the first time at the wedding, and she is the cutest, shyest, most sweetest bride on this planet ever! She was so nervous and shy that when we asked her to look at Hashim for one of the portrait shots, she couldn’t for more than a few seconds and had to look away all red in the face! As the days went by, she opened up with us, and with some guidance she was rocking the pictures in no time.

Hashim, Mehvish, congratulations to both of you and your families once again, and we wish you a very long, happy, prosperous life together Insha’Allah. May you stay forever smiling. Aameen!

If you were a guest at Hashim and Mehvish’s wedding in Toronto and would like to see your pictures, please send us an email at AliphAurMeem@gmail.com.

Thompson Toronto Hotel Wedding Photography | Saima & Awais

AliphAurMeem — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:03:44 +0000

This past weekend we covered Saima and Awais’ three day wedding in Toronto. We started off with Nikah on Friday, followed by Mehndi on Saturday, and finally the Reception on Sunday. On the reception day, we also did their wedding shoot at the uber cool Thompson Toronto. We got tons of amazing shots from all three days. We did a highlights reel for the couple on Sunday night even including some shots from the shoot in the afternoon. We got so many compliments on the slideshow at the wedding that it made all the running around and stress totally worth it!

We wanted to tell the story of the entire wedding, and there are so many other great shots that didn’t make the cut because of the time constraints in this slideshow. We are going to be posting many of those images in the days to come. For now, we hope you enjoy our first wedding for 2011! Don’t forget to leave us some love.

Toronto Wedding Pictures | Alison + Marc Wedding

AliphAurMeem — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:55:38 +0000

Happy 2011 everyone! Here are a few of our favourite shots from Alison and Marc’s wedding earlier this summer. Enjoy!

London Ontario Wedding | Ali + Nasma Mehndi

AliphAurMeem — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:50:37 +0000

What a year has 2010 been! Wow! We’re sorry for dropping out of the blog world for a few months there, but we’ve been busy shooting and editing like never before. Throw into the mix this year’s Suhaag Wedding Show which we participated in for the first time, and things have been crazy! Good crazy that is! And 2011 is looking even good-er! Nevertheless, having made bunch of our clients happy this summer, we’re now here to post some of our favorite weddings and pictures from this summer.

To kick things off then, here are a few of our favourite snaps from Ali and Nasma’s Mehndi that took place in London, Ontario.

Toronto Wedding Photographers | AliphAurMeem Featured on Maharani Weddings

AliphAurMeem — Mon, 31 May 2010 14:23:54 +0000

We are happy and proud to share with you the news that AliphAurMeem Photography was featured on Maharani Weddings. You can find our features on Maharani Weddings website here and here. We got coverage on two seperate days, back to back! Schweet!

If you would like to see our blog entries for Jeet and Nidhi’s weddings you can see their Ottawa Engagement Shoot here, Jeet’s Mayan Ceremony here, their Sikh Wedding Pictures here, the Indian Hindu wedding ceremony pictures here, and finally their wedding portrait pictures here.

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Wedding Photographers Toronto | Re-inventing Ourselves

AliphAurMeem — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:40:39 +0000

As wedding photographers, one of the things we feel the need to do, is to constantly re-invent ourselves. That means constant learning; be it shooting techniques, lighting techniques, post processing, or just improving and strengthening our visual aesthetics so we can see shots before we click. And due to the nature of wedding photography, there isn’t a whole lot of practice or experimentation that can be done in-the-field so to speak. When a couple hires us, we don’t go in and “try” stuff. At the same time, we know that we need to have an ever-growing arsenal of shots and techniques in our belt to be able to pull them out and use them in tight spots.

Consequently, we are always using each other as guinea pigs to try out new stuff on our off days. A good by-product of having to do this is that we can end up with some shots of ourselves that we would otherwise never take. Interestingly enough, we both fight to be behind the lens rather than in front of.

We took the following shots in this little corner in our building gym. This is what the corner actually looks like (sorry about the noise; iPhone picture):

These following shots were taken in this same corner without any backdrops.

In case you are wondering, Mehreen was listening to Black Eyed Peas.

Toronto Wedding Photographers | Jeet and Nidhi Wedding Reception

AliphAurMeem — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:52:20 +0000

Concluding Jeet and Nidhi’s series was their wedding reception that also took place at the Tudor Hall in Ottawa. The couple looked absolutely radiant and was all fun and laughs from their entrance right to the dance floor. We got some amazing shots. Enjoy!

Right after their entrance Jeet and Nidhi brought it to the dance floor. We love this following slow shutter capture.

The couple then took front seats in the middle of the hall while their siblings, cousins and friends did their thing.

And obviously which wedding dance performance these days is complete without a homage to the king.

Some of Jeet’s friends abroad (Australia) had sent a video containing some emotive, heartfelt, naked guy with a guitar on the beach moments.

They opted for a sit down dinner at the reception, and the food was served in these amazing little dish stands. How traditionally Indian looking.

And we’ll conclude with our favourite series from the entire wedding.

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Toronto Wedding Photography | Jeet – Mayan

AliphAurMeem — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:51:04 +0000

Here is the first in a series from Jeet and Nidhi’s wedding we covered this past summer. It was a three-day long indian wedding, with the first day being Jeet’s Mayan in his backyard.