Investment
Every celebration is different, so our collections are built around the shape of your wedding — a single day, a two-day celebration, or a full weekend — rather than by the hour.
REQUEST COLLECTIONSA complete experience
Built around the celebration, not the clock.
Each collection is designed as a complete experience. Coverage scales with the number of events, days, and spaces you are bringing together, while the creative direction remains consistent from the first conversation to final delivery.
Fine-art coverage, from $6,900.
For couples who already have a filmmaker they love — or who want photography alone. Nothing is reduced because you chose one discipline.
Fine-art coverage
/ The Single Day
- Professional photography team — multiple photographers, scaled to your celebration
- Unlimited professionally edited photos — no cap
- Guaranteed delivery of 600+ edited images
- Raw photos (unedited)
- Professional colour correction, by hand, for South Asian skin tones
- Portraits, details and candids across the whole celebration
- Full printing rights, forever
- Full-resolution downloads
- Sneak peek within 72 hours
- 60-day delivery
- Private online gallery — viewing & downloading
- Your own personal web page
- Heirloom album, designed by hand
- Always included
- A dedicated producer for your whole weekend
- Complimentary engagement session
- Female photographers where you want them
- Travel within your metro
- Long-term archival of everything we shoot
- Whole-day coverage — no overtime surprises***
Fine-art coverage
/ The Two-Day
- The team
- Professional photography team
- Each celebration covered by its own crew, on its own day
- Whole-day coverage — no overtime surprises***
- Your photographs
- Unlimited edited photos — no cap
- Guaranteed delivery of 1,200+ edited images
- Raw photos (unedited)
- Each event delivered as its own complete gallery — the Mehndi as the Mehndi, the Sangeet as the Sangeet
- Colour corrected by hand, for South Asian skin tones
- Delivery
- Sneak peek within 72 hours
- 60-day delivery
- Private online gallery — viewing & downloading
- Your own personal web page
- Full printing rights, forever
- In your hands
- Heirloom album, designed by hand
- Heirloom albums for both families
- In every package
- A dedicated producer for your whole weekend
- Complimentary engagement session
- Female photographers where you want them
- Travel within your metro
- Long-term archival of everything we shoot
Fine-art coverage
/ The Wedding Weekend
- The team
- Full photography crew
- Parallel coverage — when the bride’s suite and the Baraat happen at once, two teams work at once
- Whole-day coverage — no overtime surprises***
- Every celebration, photographed
- Mehndi · Haldi · Sangeet · Baraat · The Ceremony · Vidaai · Reception — each covered in full
- A complete gallery for every single event
- Your photographs
- Unlimited edited photos — no cap
- Guaranteed delivery of 2,500+ edited images across the weekend
- Raw photos (unedited)
- Colour corrected by hand, for South Asian skin tones
- Delivery
- Sneak peek within 72 hours
- 60-day delivery
- Private online gallery — viewing & downloading
- Your own personal web page
- A private page your family in India can open
- Full printing rights, forever
- In your hands
- Heirloom album, designed by hand
- Heirloom albums for both families
- Album design revised with you until the sequence feels like the day itself
- Multiple venues
- Coverage across different venues and cities, including the travel between them
- In every package
- A dedicated producer for your whole weekend
- Complimentary engagement session
- Female photographers where you want them
- Travel within your metro
- Long-term archival of everything we shoot
Cinematic films, from $7,900.
For couples who come to us for the film alone — and often they are the couples who care about it most.
Cinematic films
/ The Single Day
- Professional cinematography team — multiple filmmakers, scaled to your celebration
- Same-day edit, screened at your reception
- 8–12 min cinematic highlight film
- 3–5 min trailer-style film
- 60-sec social / Instagram trailer
- 30–60 min cinematic feature film
- Full ceremony, uncut
- Full speeches, toasts & performances
- High-quality ceremony & speech audio
- Music license
- Professional colour correction
- Cinema-grade 4K cameras
- 4K drone, where permitted
- High-resolution photos pulled from the film
- Raw footage (unedited)
- 60-day delivery
- Cinema gallery + your own personal web page
- Always included
- A dedicated producer for your whole weekend
- Complimentary engagement session
- Female filmmakers where you want them
- Travel within your metro
- Long-term archival of everything we shoot
- Whole-day coverage — no overtime surprises***
Cinematic films
/ The Two-Day
- The team
- Professional cinematography team
- Each celebration filmed by its own crew, on its own day
- Cinema-grade 4K cameras
- 4K drone, where permitted
- Whole-day coverage — no overtime surprises***
- Your films
- A Same-Day Edit for each principal evening — two, not one
- A Highlight Film for each celebration — your Mehndi film, your Sangeet film
- The Weekend Film — one grand film uniting both days
- The Trailer — 3–5 min
- A Social Cut for every event, vertical, ready to post
- The Feature Film — 30–60 min
- The Families’ Film — a longer, warmer cut, made for the living-room screen
- All ceremonies, uncut
- All speeches & performances, uncut
- For the family who could not travel
- Subtitles in your family’s language — Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil or Urdu — so your grandparents understand every word
- Sound, craft & delivery
- High-quality ceremony & speech audio
- Music license
- Professional colour correction
- 60-day delivery
- Raw footage (unedited)
- High-resolution photos from the film
- Cinema gallery + personal web page
- In every package
- A dedicated producer for your whole weekend
- Complimentary engagement session
- Female filmmakers where you want them
- Travel within your metro
- Long-term archival of everything we shoot
Cinematic films
/ The Wedding Weekend
- The team
- Full cinematography crew
- Parallel coverage — two teams when two events happen at once
- Cinema-grade 4K cameras
- 4K drone, where permitted
- Genuine Super 8 film, if you wish it
- Whole-day coverage — no overtime surprises***
- A film for every celebration
- The Mehndi Film
- The Haldi Film
- The Sangeet Film
- The Baraat Film
- The Ceremony Film
- The Reception Film — each event, its own film, not a folder of clips
- And the films that hold the whole weekend
- The Weekend Film — one grand cinematic film uniting every day
- A Same-Day Edit for every principal evening
- The Trailer — 3–5 min
- The Feature Film — 30–60 min
- A Social Cut for every single event
- The Families’ Film — the long, warm cut for the living-room screen
- All ceremonies, uncut, across every day
- The Super 8 Reel — a short, warm, grainy film of its own
- For the family who could not travel
- A live stream of your ceremony, for the relatives who could not fly
- Subtitles in your family’s language — Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil or Urdu
- A private page your family in India can open
- A year later
- The Anniversary Edit — a new cut of your weekend, delivered on your first anniversary
- Sound, craft & delivery
- High-quality ceremony & speech audio
- Music license
- Professional colour correction
- 60-day delivery
- Raw footage (unedited)
- Cinema gallery + personal web page
- Coverage across multiple venues, including the travel between them
- In every package
- A dedicated producer for your whole weekend
- Complimentary engagement session
- Female filmmakers where you want them
- Travel within your metro
- Long-term archival of everything we shoot
Both, under one vision.
Booked together, our photographers and filmmakers move as a single team — the same creative direction, the same understanding of your day. Nothing is duplicated, nothing is missed.
Photography and film, taken separately, would be $14,800.Together, they begin at $11,900.
The complete story
/ The Single Day
- Everything in Photography / The Single Day
- Guaranteed delivery of 600+ edited images — no cap on your gallery
- Raw photos · heirloom album · personal web page
- Full printing rights, forever
- Everything in Videography / The Single Day
- The Same-Day Edit, screened at your reception
- The Highlight Film · The Trailer · The Social Cut
- The Feature Film · The Ceremony, uncut
- Raw footage · music license · 4K drone
- And because both teams are ours
- One creative direction across both disciplines — the photographs and the film look like they belong to the same wedding, because they do
- Photographers and filmmakers who never block each other’s frame
- High-resolution stills pulled from the film, on top of your photo gallery
- In every package
- Whole-day coverage — no overtime surprises***
- A dedicated producer for your whole weekend
- Complimentary engagement session
- Female photographers & filmmakers where you want them
- Travel within your metro
- Long-term archival of everything we shoot
The complete story
/ The Two-Day
- Everything in Photography / The Two-Day
- Guaranteed delivery of 1,200+ edited images
- A complete gallery for every event
- Heirloom albums for both families
- Raw photos · full printing rights · personal web page
- Everything in Videography / The Two-Day
- A Highlight Film for each celebration — your Mehndi film, your Sangeet film
- The Weekend Film — one grand film uniting both days
- A Same-Day Edit for each principal evening
- The Families’ Film — the long, warm cut for the living-room screen
- Subtitles in your family’s language — Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil or Urdu
- All ceremonies uncut · raw footage · social cuts for every event
- And because both teams are ours
- One creative direction across both disciplines
- Each event delivered as a complete package of its own — its gallery, its film, its social cuts, together
- In every package
- Whole-day coverage — no overtime surprises***
- A dedicated producer for your whole weekend
- Complimentary engagement session
- Female photographers & filmmakers where you want them
- Travel within your metro
- Long-term archival of everything we shoot
The complete story
/ The Wedding Weekend
- Everything in Photography / The Wedding Weekend
- Guaranteed delivery of 2,500+ edited images across the weekend
- A complete gallery for every single event
- Parallel coverage when two events happen at once
- Album design revised with you · albums for both families
- Everything in Videography / The Wedding Weekend
- A film for every celebration — Mehndi, Haldi, Sangeet, Baraat, Ceremony, Reception
- The Weekend Film — one grand film uniting every day
- A Same-Day Edit for every principal evening
- The Super 8 Reel · The Families’ Film
- For the family who could not travel
- A live stream of your ceremony, for the relatives who could not fly
- Subtitles in your family’s language
- A private page your family in India can open
- A year later
- The Anniversary Edit — a new cut, delivered on your first anniversary
- And because both teams are ours
- One creative direction across every day and both disciplines
- Every event delivered as a complete package of its own — gallery, film, social cuts, together
- One producer for the entire weekend, coordinating both crews across every venue
- This is the complete story
- Six celebrations are not one long day. They are six days of work — and this is the only package that treats them that way.
- In every package
- Whole-day coverage — no overtime surprises***
- A dedicated producer for your whole weekend
- Complimentary engagement session
- Female photographers & filmmakers where you want them
- Travel within your metro
- Long-term archival of everything we shoot
Six celebrations are not one long day. They are six days of work — and the Wedding Weekend is the only package that treats them that way.
Whole-day coverage. No clock-watching, no overtime surprises.
We do not price your wedding by the hour, and we will not hand you an invoice afterwards for a Baraat that ran long. Your celebration is covered from the morning preparations to the last hour of the dancing.
*** Each celebration day is covered for up to twelve hours — in practice, the whole day: a Baraat at noon and a reception ending at midnight fit comfortably inside it. If a celebration runs beyond twelve hours, we stay, and the additional hours are quoted before the day — never after it. If your day is shorter, tell us: the figure comes down.
“The dancing did not stop until two. Neither did they.”
What others charge extra for.
This is not a list of what we are proud of. It is a list of what the rest of the industry sells back to you, one line at a time.
| What you receive | Maharani Films | Typical studio |
|---|---|---|
| Hours of coverage per day | Whole-day coverage*** | 6–8 hours. Overtime billed per hour |
| Additional hours, if needed | Quoted before the day, never after | Invoiced afterwards, as a surprise |
| Same-day edit, screened at your reception | Included | $795–$1,495 extra — or not offered |
| A film for every celebration | Included (Weekend) | One film for the whole wedding |
| Live stream for family abroad | Included (Weekend) | Not offered |
| Subtitles in your family’s language | Included | Not offered |
| A private page your family in India can open | Included | Not offered |
| The Anniversary Edit, a year later | Included (Weekend) | Not offered |
| Number of photographers & filmmakers | Scaled to your celebration | One or two. Each additional person billed separately |
| A dedicated producer for the weekend | Included | Not offered |
| Each event as its own gallery and its own edit | Included | One folder for the entire weekend |
| The full ceremony, uncut | Included | Charged as an add-on |
| Full speeches & performances | Included | Charged as an add-on |
| Complete raw footage & raw photos | Included | Charged, or refused entirely |
| Cap on the number of images | No cap | Typically capped — extra images sold back to you |
| Full printing rights | Included, forever | Restricted, or sold separately |
| Colour corrected for South Asian skin tones | By hand, every image | Batch-processed — skin pushed grey or orange |
| Crew who know the rites of your tradition | Included | Not offered |
| Female photographers & filmmakers | Included, where you want them | On request — and not guaranteed |
| Engagement session | Included | $500+ extra |
| Heirloom album | Included | Quoted afterwards |
| Albums for both families | Included | Sold per copy |
| Your own personal web page | Included | Rarely offered |
| Sneak peek within 72 hours | Included | Charged, or not offered |
| Aerial coverage & music license | Included | Charged as add-ons |
| Long-term archival of your footage | Included | Not offered — a lost drive is a lost wedding |
Nothing on this list is an upgrade.
There is nothing to upgrade to.
Four things, and none of them are hours.
How many days
A three-day weekend is three weddings, not one long one.
How many events
When the bride’s suite and the Baraat happen at the same moment, we need two teams — not one team moving quickly.
How many guests
Six hundred people in a room is a different photographic problem than eighty, and it is solved with people, not with equipment.
Where you are
Within our metros, there is no travel charge. Beyond them, the logistics are quoted honestly and without margin games.
Tell us these four things, and we will tell you the figure — in writing, within 24 hours.
It means what it says.
The figures on this page are where each collection begins, and most of our couples book at or near them. The number moves for one reason only: the size of your celebration. A wedding for a hundred and fifty guests in one venue does not need what a six-hundred-guest weekend across three venues needs, and you should not pay as though it does.
Tell us your days, your events and your guest count, and we will send you the exact figure — in writing, within 24 hours. It will not change afterwards.
You will not be chased, and you will not be sold to. If we are not right for you, we will say so.
Three things. We would rather you heard them from us.
Every studio has a list like this. Most of them keep it in the contract, where you find it later.
Hours beyond twelve, on any single day
Twelve hours covers the whole of a wedding day, and almost always does. If yours runs longer, we stay — and the additional hours are quoted before the day, never after it.
Travel beyond our metros
Within New York, New Jersey, the Bay Area, Houston, Dallas, Chicago and Washington DC, travel is included. Beyond them, flights and accommodation are quoted at cost, with no margin added.
Events added after the contract
Celebrations grow, and families add ceremonies. Tell your producer, and we will tell you what it costs before you commit to it.
That is the entire list.
There is nothing else waiting for you at the end.
You write
Your date, your city, your events, and the traditions you are bringing together.
We reply within 24 hours
With our availability, and with your exact figure.
We talk
You will speak to the producer who would run your weekend, not to a salesperson.
A proposal
Written, specific, complete. Nothing in it will change later.
Your date is held
A contract, a retainer, and your producer begins.
Dates are held on a first-come basis, and the weekends of the season go early.
“We were quoted less by two other studios. A year later, watching the film with my parents, I understood exactly what we had paid for — and I would pay it again.”
It is where the collection begins, and most of our couples book at or near it. The number moves only with the size of your celebration — the days, the events, the guests.
Because you should not be watching a clock during your own Vidaai. Each day is covered for up to twelve hours, which is the whole of a wedding day.
We stay. The additional hours are quoted before the day, never after it.
Yes — three packages for each. Booked together they cost less than the two apart, and the teams work to one creative direction.
In every package, without exception. Most studios charge extra for it. We do not charge for it at all.
No. The proposal is the price. If you add an event, we will tell you what it costs before you commit to it.
Not within our metros. Beyond them, flights and accommodation are quoted at cost, with no margin added.
We will tell you immediately, and honestly. We would rather lose the booking than take a date we cannot cover properly.
Tell us about your weekend.
Your dates, your city, your events, and the traditions you are bringing together. We will check your date, and we will tell you exactly what your celebration would need. We reply within 24 hours — and we take a limited number of weddings each year.
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