Rubeeta + Narendra — A love greater than love.

There was some­thing that stayed with us from our very first meet­ing with Rubee­ta. She want­ed a wed­ding cin­e­matog­ra­ph­er that could look beyond the grand­ness that can gen­er­al­ly char­ac­ter­ize south asian wed­dings. She want­ed us to cap­ture the still­ness of the inti­mate moments amidst all the cer­e­monies, cel­e­bra­tions and per­for­mances. In short, she was speak­ing right to our hearts.

Our entire style and film­mak­ing approach is based on the idea of bring­ing per­son­al­i­ty and an emo­tion­al, impact­ful nar­ra­tive to com­pli­ment extrav­a­gant cel­e­bra­tions; hon­ing in on the lit­tle moments that speak about the cou­ple, their loved ones, and their over-arching sto­ry. It’s some­thing we’ve done for mul­ti­ple NHL wed­dings, Marie-Antoinette-themed muse­um soirees with bal­leri­nas, multi-day bohemi­an vine­yard cel­e­bra­tions, etc, etc. And yet, Rubee­ta inspired us to take that approach a step fur­ther. Not that it was dif­fi­cult, either. Rubee­ta and Naren­dra togeth­er exude that very still­ness — a qui­et calm­ness in which only they exist. It’s a mag­i­cal, spir­i­tu­al thing to behold.

Across the five days we spent with these two, we shot in some of the most beau­ti­ful loca­tions in the GTA, from Pro­peller Cof­fee Co. to Tara McMullen’s Sanc­tu­ary in PEC (remem­ber that one?), to the Lib­er­ty Grand and a per­fect­ly cloudy hike to a water­fall in Hamilton.

Tech­ni­cal­ly speak­ing, we pulled out all the stops. Slow-motion and speed ramp­ing com­bined with immer­sive sound edit­ing to elon­gate and empha­size those beau­ti­ful moments while slow­ing down the epic ones. A lot of MoVI Pro gim­bal work to cre­ate those smooth mag­i­cal move­ments that make each shot flow into the next to progress the sto­ry. And lots and lots of the new Canon 85L for those dreamy close-ups.

Enjoy this vibrant, colour­ful wed­ding film!