Indian Wedding Photographer in Westchester, NY

Surya Garigipati Photography & Films photographs Indian weddings in Westchester County and the Hudson Valley as part of every New York season: White Plains, Tarrytown, Yonkers, New Rochelle and the estates up the river. The New Jersey studio has photographed more than 400 South Asian celebrations since 2013, is rated 4.9 on Google, and includes Westchester travel in every collection.

At a glance

Studio	Surya Garigipati Photography & Films LLC, Flemington, New Jersey
Covers	Westchester County: White Plains, Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Yonkers, New Rochelle, Scarsdale, Rye and Peekskill; the Hudson Valley estates north of the county
From the studio	About an hour and a half, over the Tappan Zee or the George Washington Bridge
Travel	Westchester is within the 90 miles of New Jersey included in every collection
Traditions	Hindu, Sikh, South Indian, Gujarati, Muslim and fusion weddings
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

Why Westchester weddings photograph the way they do

Westchester gives a New York wedding the one thing Manhattan cannot: ground. The county’s estates and country clubs put the mandap on a lawn, with trees behind it and the river or a valley in the distance, and the light in the last two hours of a September evening is as good as anywhere we work. Many couples planning a wedding here live in the city or in New Jersey and want a full weekend in one place: a sangeet in a ballroom on Friday, a lawn ceremony on Saturday afternoon and a tented or ballroom reception that night, with the families staying on site. We plan those weekends from the light outwards.

Where in Westchester and the Hudson Valley

• Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow: the estates and hotels along the river, with the Tappan Zee and the Palisades behind the portraits.
• White Plains, Rye and New Rochelle: hotel ballrooms for the large reception and the country clubs along the Sound for a lawn ceremony.
• Yonkers and the southern county: minutes from the Bronx and the George Washington Bridge, for families on both sides of the river.
• The Hudson Valley: an hour north of the city, the estates and vineyards along the Hudson host destination-style Indian weddings for New York families who want the whole weekend in one place: a lawn ceremony, a tented reception and the river.

We walk any venue we have not worked in before the day, usually the afternoon before, to see where the mandap goes and which way the light falls at the hour of your ceremony. Our guide to outdoor Indian wedding venues in New Jersey and New York covers what an estate has to allow for a mandap, a havan and a baraat.

Temples, gurdwaras and ceremonies at the venue

Westchester families hold the ceremony at the venue with their own priest, at a community temple close to home, or at the larger temples of Queens and New Jersey, with the reception back in the county. For a temple ceremony we confirm the rules on flash, positions and dress before the day; for a lawn ceremony we ask that the mandap faces so the couple are not looking into the sun. Our Hindu wedding, Sikh wedding and South Indian wedding pages go through the ceremonies, and the ceremony timeline gives realistic durations for each stage.

Portraits along the river

The Hudson is the portrait location. Tarrytown’s riverfront and the lighthouse at Sleepy Hollow, the Rockefeller State Park Preserve’s carriage roads, the Kensico Dam plaza in Valhalla and the Sound shore at Rye give very different frames within twenty minutes of most venues, and the venue’s own grounds are often the best of all at golden hour. Many parks require a permit or a fee for professional photography; we check every location and arrange it before the day.

Travel from New Jersey

Westchester is within the 90 miles of New Jersey that every collection includes, so there is no travel charge, and for a multi-day weekend the team stays nearby so the haldi and the sangeet are covered without an early drive. The same applies across the city: see our pages for New York City, Queens and Long Island, and for Connecticut, just over the state line.

Photographs and film from one team

Cinematography has been in-house since 2016. Couples receive a four-to-six-minute highlight film and a twenty-to-thirty-minute feature film with the vows and speeches in full, recorded on lapel microphones; a licensed drone, where the venue and the law allow, earns its place on an estate above the river. Watch real weddings on the films page, then check your date; Surya replies personally within 24 hours.

What couples wrote on Google

"Surya did a phenomenal job of helping us capture the wedding of our dreams. His attention to detail and the passion he has for his work is unmatched. He came up with many innovative poses and locations for us to take photos with our family" — Priyanka Sahu Yalamanchili

"My Fiance and I could not be more happy with the dedication, creativity and kindness of Surya. We are going to be using him for all of our events and future weddings in the family!" — J S

Questions Westchester couples ask us