{"id":1026,"date":"2010-03-28T00:38:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T07:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrenaphoto.goodgallery.com\/blog\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:13:58","slug":"palak-simmy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrenaphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/palak-simmy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu and Sikh Wedding Ceremonies &#8211; Palak &#038; Simmy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess who smiles all the time? The beautiful Palak, who was married to Simmy in a Hindu ceremony at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anaheim.crowneplaza.com\/\">Crowne Plaza Anaheim<\/a>, and in a family-only Sikh ceremony at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buenaparkgurdwara.org\/\">Buena Park Gurdwara<\/a>. Palak&#8217;s dad earned some immediate bonus points with me because he used to work at Samy&#8217;s Camera (a mecca for all West Coast photographers) here in Los Angeles. So I really enjoyed chatting with him when they came by my studio to see my albums.<\/p>\n<p>Palak&#8217;s easy and genuine smile is infectious, and you just know that it was all over for Simmy once Palak first flashed that smile his way. I love all my couples, but this couple has a special key to my heart, and that key is caffeine. I&#8217;m crazy about both coffee and chai (true, unsweetened, Indian chai [no, not the Starbuck&#8217;s imposter]), so I thought it was just too cute that Simmy and Palak used coffee beans in their centerpiece vases, and gave each guest a personalized package of coffee to take home with them. Palak&#8217;s friends all chipped in to help place the favors on the table, and I loved that so many of her bridesmaids really worked hard so Palak could relax and change into her reception outfit. They were a very supportive and great group of girls. Meanwhile, like many Sikh grooms, Simmy used his reception-outfit-change-time to shave off his beard and swank it up a bit. And Simmy is blessed with a gorgeous smile, too. I spent half the wedding telling them that their children were going to be genetically blessed in the dental department. With videography by April and the talented team at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roblesvideo.com\">Robles Video<\/a>. I&#8217;ll update the rest of the vendor list when I hear back from the bride.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_01v\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_01v.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"657\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_02\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"589\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_03\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"657\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_04\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"589\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_05\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"657\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_06\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"589\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_07\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"589\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_08\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"589\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_09\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"589\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_10\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"657\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_11\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"589\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_12\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"589\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_13\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"589\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_14\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"589\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_15\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"453\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_16\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"589\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"palakwed_17\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/misc\/DWF2010\/palakwed_17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"657\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess who smiles all the time? The beautiful Palak, who was married to Simmy in a Hindu ceremony at the Crowne Plaza <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/andrenaphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/palak-simmy\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indianweddings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrenaphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrenaphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrenaphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrenaphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrenaphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/andrenaphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/andrenaphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrenaphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrenaphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrenaphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrenaphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}