{"id":7119,"date":"2013-09-19T11:34:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/?p=7119"},"modified":"2013-09-19T11:39:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:39:57","slug":"philadelphia-engagement-session-sarita-chirag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/philadelphia-engagement-session-sarita-chirag\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Engagement Session &#8211; Sarita &#038; Chirag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew from my very first chat with Sarita that we were going to be a great fit for her and Chirag&#8217;s spectacular Indian Wedding coming up in November! We have been very excited about branching out into doing more and more cultural weddings, and Sarita&#8217;s personality and photography wants seemed to mesh perfectly with our fun, photojournalistic style.<\/p>\n<p>I had a blast doing this couple&#8217;s engagement session ALL OVER Philly! I admit I had my doubts we&#8217;d make it to all three locations they had chosen in the allotted two hours time, but with Sarita&#8217;s keen planning and the help of Chirag&#8217;s sister and brother-in-law as chauffer&#8217;s, we were totally able to make it happen!<\/p>\n<p>We started off in Olde City, where unfortunately, the Merchant&#8217;s Exchange Building was completely covered in scaffolding, but I was quite happy to settle for a cool looking historic bank nearby.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7123\" alt=\"Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_1\" src=\"http:\/\/laurenbrimhall.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_1.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7132\" alt=\"Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_5\" src=\"http:\/\/laurenbrimhall.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_5.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_5.jpg 900w, https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_5-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7125\" alt=\"Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_4\" src=\"http:\/\/laurenbrimhall.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_4.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_4.jpg 900w, https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_4-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7124\" alt=\"Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_3\" src=\"http:\/\/laurenbrimhall.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_3.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_3.jpg 900w, https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Olde_City_Philadelphia_Engagement_3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By the time we got to City Hall, I noticed two things: 1.) That Sarita was a natural in front of the camera! and 2.) The Chirag I was seeing wasn&#8217;t the &#8220;real&#8221; Chirag. The real Chirag is a way more fun, relaxed type of guy and I changed my direction a little to make him feel more comfortable. I think his smile becomes so much more genuine after our chat \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7120\" alt=\"City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_5\" src=\"http:\/\/laurenbrimhall.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_5.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_5.jpg 900w, https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_5-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7121\" alt=\"City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_7\" src=\"http:\/\/laurenbrimhall.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_7.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_7.jpg 900w, https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_7-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7122\" alt=\"City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_8\" src=\"http:\/\/laurenbrimhall.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_8.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_8.jpg 900w, https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_8-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7136\" alt=\"City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_9\" src=\"http:\/\/laurenbrimhall.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_9.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_9.jpg 900w, https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/City_Hall_Philadelphia_Engagement_9-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By the time we got to Race Street, I felt so comfortable with this couple. The light was beautiful and we were all just being natural and having fun!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7126\" alt=\"Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_10\" src=\"http:\/\/laurenbrimhall.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_10.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_10.jpg 900w, https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_10-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7127\" alt=\"Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_11\" src=\"http:\/\/laurenbrimhall.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_11.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_11.jpg 900w, https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_11-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7128\" alt=\"Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_14\" src=\"http:\/\/laurenbrimhall.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_14.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_14.jpg 900w, https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_14-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7129\" alt=\"Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_15\" src=\"http:\/\/laurenbrimhall.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_15.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_15.jpg 900w, https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_15-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7130\" alt=\"Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_16\" src=\"http:\/\/laurenbrimhall.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_16.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_16.jpg 900w, https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_16-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7131\" alt=\"Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_17\" src=\"http:\/\/laurenbrimhall.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_17.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_17.jpg 900w, https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Race_Street_Pier_Engagement_17-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chirag and Sarita, I absolutely can&#8217;t WAIT for your wedding! Thank you so much for entrusting me with such an important event. I&#8217;ll have an AMAZING and FUN team with me that day and we&#8217;re all really looking forward to it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew from my very first chat with Sarita that we were going to be a great fit for her and Chirag&#8217;s spectacular Indian Wedding coming up in November! We have been very excited about branching out into doing more and more cultural weddings, and Sarita&#8217;s personality and photography wants seemed to mesh perfectly with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[169,171,168,167,170],"class_list":["post-7119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-engagements","tag-city-hall-engagement-session","tag-indian-wedding-photographer","tag-olde-city-engagement-session","tag-philadelphia-engagement","tag-race-street-pier-engagement-session"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7135,"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions\/7135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}