Indian Wedding Photographer in Queens, NY

Surya Garigipati Photography & Films photographs Indian weddings across Queens: ceremonies at the Ganesh Temple in Flushing, receptions at Terrace on the Park and Russo’s on the Bay, and Indo-Caribbean weddings in Richmond Hill. The New Jersey studio has photographed more than 400 South Asian celebrations since 2013, is rated 4.9 on Google, and includes Queens travel in every collection.

At a glance

Studio	Surya Garigipati Photography & Films LLC, Flemington, New Jersey
Covers	Flushing, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Richmond Hill, Ozone Park, Howard Beach, Bayside, Jamaica, Forest Hills and the rest of Queens
Venues we know	Terrace on the Park in Flushing Meadows, Russo’s on the Bay in Howard Beach; Leonard’s Palazzo and Sand Castle just over the Nassau line
Ceremonies	The Ganesh Temple in Flushing, community temples and mandirs across the borough, the gurdwaras of Richmond Hill, or the venue itself
From the studio	About an hour and a quarter
Travel	Included in every collection, across the five boroughs
Experience	Weddings since 2013; more than 400 South Asian celebrations
Reviews	4.9 on Google from 38 public reviews: read every one
Pricing	By event, not by the hour: packages and prices

Queens weddings, from the side of the camera

Queens is where New York’s South Asian weddings are densest: Gujarati, Punjabi and South Indian families in Flushing and Bayside, Bangladeshi and Pakistani families in Jackson Heights and Jamaica, and the Indo-Caribbean community of Richmond Hill and Ozone Park, whose Guyanese and Trinidadian Hindu weddings have their own order and their own music. A Queens weekend often has the home events in a two-family house with forty relatives in the living room, the ceremony at a temple in the morning, and the reception at a hall by the bay or the park that evening. We photograph the borough as part of every New York season.

Where Queens Indian weddings happen

• Terrace on the Park, Flushing Meadows: the tower in the park that has run South Asian weddings for decades, with the skyline from the upper floors and room for the baraat below.
• Russo’s on the Bay, Howard Beach: the bay and the gardens, used by half the families of Nassau as well as Queens.
• Richmond Hill and Ozone Park: the halls along Liberty Avenue where Indo-Caribbean weddings fill the weekend, with a two-hour havan in the morning and a tassa band at night. Our guide to Guyanese Indian wedding photography covers the ceremony.
• Just over the line: Leonard’s Palazzo in Great Neck and Sand Castle in Franklin Square, covered on our Long Island page; and the Manhattan and Brooklyn rooms on our New York City page.

Our guide to Indian wedding venues in New York City covers the Queens and Manhattan rooms in more detail.

The Ganesh Temple and the borough’s mandirs

The Hindu Temple Society of North America’s Ganesh Temple in Flushing is where many Queens and Long Island ceremonies have taken us, usually in the morning to the priest’s muhurtham, with the reception elsewhere in the evening. Temple halls are lit warmly from above, so we place our own soft light around the mandap before the family arrives where the temple allows it, and we follow each temple’s rules on flash, positions, footwear and dress, confirmed before the day. For the Anand Karaj, Richmond Hill has the borough’s gurdwaras, and we confirm each one’s rules before the day. Our temple wedding photographer page explains how we work inside a temple, and the South Indian and Sikh wedding pages go through the ceremonies.

Muslim weddings in Jackson Heights and Jamaica

Pakistani, Indian Muslim and Bangladeshi families in Queens are a regular part of our calendar: the dholki and mehndi at home, the nikah at a mosque or at the hall, the rukhsati late in the evening and the walima on another day. We bring a female photographer for a ladies-only hall when that is wanted, and galleries are kept private. Our Muslim wedding photographer page covers the week in detail.

Portraits in Queens

• Flushing Meadows Corona Park: the Unisphere and the lawns, minutes from Terrace on the Park.
• Gantry Plaza State Park, Long Island City: the Manhattan skyline across the East River at golden hour.
• Forest Park and the Queens Botanical Garden: green frames in the middle of the borough.
• Fort Totten and the Bayside waterfront: the Sound and the Throgs Neck Bridge.

City parks and gardens usually require a permit or a fee for professional photography; we check every location and arrange it before the day. For an engagement session, our guide to engagement photoshoot locations includes the skyline spots on both sides of the river.

Travel and timing

Queens is within the five boroughs, Long Island and Westchester that every collection includes, so there is no travel charge. Queens traffic is the one thing we plan around: for a temple morning and a reception across the borough the same evening, we build the drive into the timeline and often stay overnight for a multi-day weekend. Check your date and Surya replies personally within 24 hours.

What couples wrote on Google

"Surya and his team was amazing to work with! They were able to capture all of the beautiful moments of our wedding! Everyone made us so comfortable and were easy to work with!" — Karthiyayini Mahendrakumar

"Surya and his team did a wonderful job for my Hindu wedding and reception this past August and we cannot thank him enough. He far exceeded our expectations and was professional through the entire process" — Ashley Deonarine

Questions Queens couples ask us