Founded in 2013, WeddingNama is a Mumbai-based wedding photography and filmmaking establishment by photographer Ankita Asthana and filmmaker Akash Agarwal. The studio approaches weddings as living, evolving stories through contemporary portraiture and photojournalistic storytelling.
At the heart of WeddingNama’s visual language is a belief in authenticity. Being an NID-trained photographer, Asthana draws on her background in fashion, documentary and visual storytelling to create images that are considered yet never overly staged. Her philosophy is rooted in observation: reading the room, anticipating emotion and knowing when to step closer and when to disappear. The result is work that feels cinematic without losing the intimacy and imperfection of real moments.
Together, Asthana and Agarwal have built a multidisciplinary team of photographers, cinematographers and editors, allowing WeddingNama to approach each celebration as a complete visual narrative. From destination weddings across India and the world to intimate family moments, their work is shaped by an instinct for detail, emotion, light and rhythm.
What distinguishes WeddingNama is perhaps its ability to marry the grandeur of a celebration with the quieter stories unfolding within it. Rather than simply documenting how a wedding looked, the studio seeks to capture how it felt—preserving glances, gestures, relationships and fleeting moments alongside the spectacle. In doing so, WeddingNama continues to champion a form of wedding storytelling that is sophisticated yet sincere, cinematic yet deeply human.
“Aesthetics are important to us, but they should serve the moment rather than dictate it.”