Multi-Day wedding coverage by Lulan Studio
Los Angeles · Photography & Film

Multi-Day Wedding Photography& Videography

Weekend weddings, multi-event celebrations, and the days on either side — across Los Angeles and Southern California.

How it works

One wedding.Several days of it.

A multi-day wedding is not one event photographed for longer. It is three or four genuinely different events, each with its own light, its own room, its own pace — and each needing a different lens, a different position and a different plan.

It is also not one community's format. South Asian wedding weekends are the ones we are asked about most, and a Mehndi, Haldi, Sangeet, Baraat, ceremony and reception is a real four-day schedule. But so is a Chinese or Vietnamese tea ceremony on the morning of the wedding or the day before it, a Persian aghd followed by a separate reception, a Nigerian traditional wedding and a white wedding, a Jewish weekend that opens with a Shabbat dinner, a Korean paebaek after the ceremony, a Filipino ceremony with its own sequence of sponsors and rituals. And plenty of multi-day weddings have no cultural component at all: a civil ceremony one week and the celebration the next, a church ceremony and a reception on separate days, or simply a Friday welcome party, a Saturday wedding and a Sunday brunch.

Nor is it only the wedding days. The couples who end up with the best archive usually photograph either side of it too — a pre-wedding or engagement session months ahead, a bridal shower, a rehearsal dinner, a day-after portrait session while the clothes still fit, sometimes a second reception in another city for the family who could not travel. Those are ordinary bookings, not exotic ones, and they are priced below.

What follows is the practical version: which days people actually photograph, how coverage is counted across them, what each day costs, and where a second team genuinely earns its place rather than being upsold.

Selected frames

Days that only happenonce each.

Haldi mornings, Mehndi evenings, tea ceremonies at an ancestral altar, a Baraat in the street, welcome dinners, pre-wedding sessions on the coast. Every photograph below is from a real celebration we covered.

Family applying turmeric to the bride during a Haldi ceremony
Close frame of relatives' hands during a Haldi ceremony
Bride laughing as haldi is applied to her face
Candlelit tables set for a welcome dinner the night before the wedding
Henna being applied to the bride's hands at the Mehndi
Bride in a red lehenga photographed in the garden before the Sangeet
Baraat procession moving through coloured smoke
Groom celebrating with his family during the Baraat
Ceremony structure set and waiting on the wedding day
Family serving the couple during a wedding-day ritual
Wide frame of an outdoor floral ceremony setup
Wedding ceremony photographed at a temple in white and gold
Family gathered at the ancestral altar for a Vietnamese tea ceremony
Relatives in ao dai during a Vietnamese tea ceremony
Reception terrace lit at dusk before guests arrive
Family group photographed together after the tea ceremony
Couple in hanbok photographed outdoors
Pre-wedding session photographed at sunset on the Southern California coast
Couple photographed on the cliffs during a pre-wedding session
Couple wearing garlands after a temple ceremony

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Selected work

Real weddings.Start to finish.

Two films from South Asian wedding weekends we covered. Press play on either — nothing loads until you do. The full reel covers every kind of celebration on this page.

Arshiya & Khader wedding film at Anaheim Hills Golf Club
South Asian weddingArshiya & KhaderAnaheim Hills Golf Club · 7:00
Neki & Rishi wedding film at Camelback Inn, Scottsdale
Same-day edit · Shot on RED®Neki & RishiCamelback Inn, Scottsdale

See the full reel — sixteen films

What counts as a day

Multi-day does notonly mean the wedding.

Couples usually come to us thinking about the wedding weekend and nothing else. In practice the days on either side are often the ones with the least pressure and the most honest photographs in them — and every one of these is a booking we take on its own.

Before

The months and days leading up

  • Pre-wedding or engagement session, any location
  • Bridal shower or bridal luncheon
  • Bachelor and bachelorette gatherings
  • Dress fitting and family heirloom portraits
  • Mehndi, Haldi, Sangeet or Roka
  • Tea ceremony with the family the morning before
  • Rehearsal dinner and welcome party

A pre-wedding session is also the cheapest insurance there is: you get used to being photographed, and we learn how the two of you actually behave together, months before it matters.

The wedding days

One ceremony, or several

  • Getting ready, often in two locations
  • Baraat, processional or grand entrance
  • The religious ceremony
  • A civil or second ceremony on another day
  • Family and group photographs
  • Cocktails, dinner, speeches, first dance
  • Late-night portraits and the send-off

Where two ceremonies fall on different days — a church wedding and a reception a week later, an aghd and a party, a traditional wedding and a white wedding — each is a full day of coverage in its own right.

After

The morning after, and later

  • Next-day brunch or after-party
  • Day-after portrait session while the clothes still fit
  • Paebaek or post-ceremony family rituals
  • A second reception in another city
  • Trash-the-dress or a location session
  • Album and print design from the whole archive

A day-after session is where the pictures people frame usually come from: no schedule, no guests waiting, and a location you could not have used on the day itself.

How it is usually shaped

Four shapesa multi-day booking takes.

Almost every multi-day wedding we photograph is one of these. None of them is a fixed package — each day is quoted on what that day actually is.

Two days

Ceremony and celebration, apart

  • A church, temple or civil ceremony on one day
  • The reception on another — a week or a month later
  • Or an intimate legal ceremony now, the party when family can travel

Two full days of coverage, usually with the same team on both so the two halves look like one wedding.

Three to four days

A cultural wedding weekend

  • Mehndi, Haldi and Sangeet across two or three days
  • Tea ceremony, aghd, traditional wedding or Shabbat dinner
  • Baraat, ceremony and reception on the main day
  • Paebaek or post-ceremony rituals after

Each event is genuinely different to photograph. This is where a second team on the busiest day earns its place.

A weekend

Destination and out-of-town

  • Friday welcome party or rehearsal dinner
  • Saturday wedding, start to finish
  • Sunday brunch or a farewell session

Common in Santa Barbara, Temecula, Palm Springs and Las Vegas, where guests fly in and the whole weekend is the event.

Spread over months

Before, during and after

  • Engagement or pre-wedding session months ahead
  • Bridal shower or an at-home family session
  • The wedding day itself
  • A day-after or second-city reception

Delivered as one connected archive rather than three unrelated galleries, shot by the same people throughout.

Send us your schedule and we will map the coverage to it

Traditions we photograph

Every one of theseruns over more than a day.

We have photographed all of the following in Southern California, and each has its own page with the running order, the moments that matter and real photographs from those days.

South Asian weddings

The hub page: Mehndi, Haldi, Sangeet, Baraat, ceremony and reception across three to four days.

Indian & Hindu weddings

Mandap, pheras and the full ritual sequence, usually with a reception on a separate evening.

Sikh weddings

Anand Karaj at the Gurdwara in the morning, reception in the evening or the next day.

Muslim & Nikah weddings

Nikah, Mehndi and Walima — frequently three separate events on three separate days.

Chinese weddings

The morning tea ceremony and door games, then a Western ceremony and a banquet in the evening.

Vietnamese weddings

Le Gia Tien at the family home, often the day before, then the ceremony and reception.

Korean weddings

The ceremony, then Paebaek with the two families afterwards in a separate room or on another day.

Filipino weddings

Sponsors, veil, cord and coin rituals inside the ceremony, with a despedida the night before.

Persian weddings

Aghd with the sofreh, then a reception that often runs on its own evening.

Jewish weddings

A Shabbat dinner or aufruf beforehand, then the chuppah, the hora and a brunch after.

Nigerian weddings

The traditional wedding and the white wedding — two full days, two entirely different palettes.

The Mandap

How the structure itself changes where a photographer can stand, and what that means for your coverage.

Mehndi  ·  Sangeet  ·  Haldi  ·  Baraat  ·  North Indian weddings

Collections & pricing

What each dayactually costs.

There is no fixed multi-day package, because no two wedding weekends are shaped the same way. Coverage is built from full days, and additional days are added and quoted individually. Every collection is all-inclusive: fully edited high-resolution images with personal print rights, a lifetime gallery, travel across Southern California, and no line items at the end.

Studio Team · Photography

Studio Team Photography

The anchor day, and the rate most additional days are quoted from.

$3,497

or $349.70 / month for 10 months — interest free

Two Studio Team photographers · 8 hours of coverage

  • 8 hours of wedding day coverage
  • Professional colour grading
  • Black & white editing
  • Cinematic editing style
  • Timeline building assistance across every day
  • Lifetime access to your personal digital gallery
  • High-resolution images ready for download and sharing

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Signature · Photography

Signature Photography

The artistry of Lulan and Alli, on Leica and medium format.

$5,997

or $599.70 / month for 10 months — interest free

Photographed by Lulan or Alli personally · 8 hours of coverage

Everything in Studio Team, plus

  • Leica® and medium format cameras
  • Leica® / Hasselblad® film 35mm and 120mm

See the film work

Studio Team · Cinematography

Studio Team Videography

Professional excellence at exceptional value.

$3,497

or $349.70 / month for 10 months — interest free

Two Studio Team videographers · 8 hours of coverage

  • 8 hours of wedding day coverage
  • 3+ cameras capturing multiple angles
  • Audio recording of vows and speeches
  • 4–6 minute highlight trailer
  • Raw footage provided for personal keepsakes
  • Your song choice integrated into the film
  • Lifetime access to your film for download and sharing

See the films

Signature · Cinematography

Signature Videography

Storytelling on RED cinema cameras and Super 8mm.

$4,997

or $499.70 / month for 10 months — interest free

Three Studio Team videographers · 8 hours of coverage

Everything in Studio Team, plus

  • Advanced lighting techniques for optimal image quality
  • Super 8mm or RED® footage for a timeless or high-definition look
  • Drone coverage for aerial views

See Super 8 & 16mm

The evening before · the morning after

Rehearsal dinner, welcome party, brunch

The hours around the wedding that usually go unphotographed — and the ones where nobody is performing.

$747

On its own · $497 added to any wedding collection

  • Rehearsal dinner & welcome party the evening before
  • Next-day brunch or after-party
  • Photography, film, or both
  • The same artists as your wedding day
  • One gallery delivered alongside your wedding images

Add it to your dates

Before the wedding

Pre-wedding, engagement & bridal shower

Months ahead, at a location of your choosing — the best rehearsal for being photographed there is.

$747

On its own · $497 added to any wedding collection

  • Locations of your choosing
  • As many outfit changes as you like
  • Bridal shower, luncheon or at-home family session
  • Photography, film, or both
  • Personal print rights, no watermarks

See pre-wedding sessions

Additional wedding days

How the second, third and fourth day are quoted

A Mehndi in a backyard, a Haldi that runs ninety minutes, a tea ceremony at seven in the morning and a full reception that night are not the same amount of work — so they are not quoted as though they were.

  • Each additional full day is quoted individually against what that day actually is
  • Shorter events — a Haldi, a tea ceremony, an aghd — are quoted as part days rather than as a full eight hours
  • The same team carries across every day wherever the schedule allows it
  • A second team is recommended only where two things genuinely run at once
  • One timeline is built across all of the days, not one per day
  • Everything is delivered as a single connected archive, not separate galleries

Send us the dates and we will price them

The Lulan experience

What every collectionincludes anyway.

None of the following is an upgrade, an add-on, or a line item. It applies on every day of your celebration.

Award-winning customer service

Nine years, more than 2,300 weddings, and a five-star average across Google, Yelp and The Knot. The studio manager who answers your first email is the one who answers your last.

Complimentary virtual planning

One timeline built across every day of the celebration, venue research, Q&A calls and monthly checklists.

Cinematic, tailored edits

No cap on the number of images we capture and refine. Both monochrome and full-colour versions are delivered, tailored to the aesthetic you show us.

Lifetime gallery access

Every day in one gallery, with a passphrase you can share with family here and abroad, and downloads on every device.

Insured, permitted and peaceful

Comprehensive liability insurance that satisfies every venue and place of worship, plus the permits needed for parks and public locations.

Flexible coverage

Multi-day schedules move more than single days do. Hours can be extended on the day, and the booking restructured before it without penalty.

Every collection can be split into ten interest-free monthly payments. Prices above are the studio's current published rates — the same ones on the full pricing page.

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Common questions

Before you ask.

How is coverage counted across several days?

Each day is its own booking. A full day is eight hours with two team members; shorter events — a Haldi, a tea ceremony, an aghd, a rehearsal dinner — are quoted as part days rather than as a full eight hours. There is no fixed multi-day package, because no two schedules are shaped the same way. Send us the dates and we will price them line by line.

Is multi-day coverage only for South Asian weddings?

No, and this is the most common assumption we correct. Chinese and Vietnamese tea ceremonies, Persian aghd and reception, Nigerian traditional and white weddings, Korean paebaek, Filipino ceremonies and Jewish weekends all run over more than one day — and so do plenty of weddings with no cultural component at all, where a civil ceremony, a welcome party or a second reception simply falls on a different date.

Can you photograph a pre-wedding shoot as well?

Yes. A pre-wedding or engagement session is $747 on its own, or $497 when added to a wedding collection, and it is the single most useful thing you can add — you get used to the camera and we learn how the two of you actually behave together, months before it counts. Bridal showers, bridal luncheons and at-home family sessions book the same way. See pre-wedding sessions.

What about the day after the wedding?

Also a normal booking. A next-day brunch, an after-party or a day-after portrait session is $747 on its own or $497 added to a collection. The day-after session is where a lot of the pictures people end up framing come from: no schedule, no guests waiting, and locations you could not have used on the day itself.

Do we get the same photographers every day?

Wherever the schedule allows it, yes — and it matters more than couples expect. The same team across every event means the Mehndi and the reception look like one story rather than two studios' work, and nobody is being introduced to your family on the most important morning of the weekend.

Can we book only some of the days?

Yes. Plenty of couples cover the ceremony and reception with us and handle a smaller event themselves, or add only the welcome party. We will tell you honestly which days we think are worth photographing and which are not, rather than quoting all of them by default.

Do you know the running order of these ceremonies?

Yes, and it is the reason to hire a team that has shot them before. We know when the Baraat actually arrives versus when the schedule says it will, that the Haldi is its own day rather than an hour of the wedding morning, where a photographer can and cannot stand at a Mandap or a Gurdwara, and how a tea ceremony's seating decides where the camera has to be before anyone sits down.

When do you need a second team?

Only when two things genuinely run at once — getting ready in two houses, a Baraat arriving while the ceremony space is being finished, a reception starting while family portraits are still going. On a three-day weekend that is usually one day, not all three, and we will say which one.

Do you travel for destination weekends?

Travel is included across Southern California, and we photograph regularly in Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Temecula and Santa Barbara. Further afield is quoted plainly with no markup games.

How is everything delivered?

As one connected archive rather than separate galleries. Every day sits in a single lifetime gallery with a passphrase you can share with family here and abroad, with both colour and black-and-white versions, and downloads on every device.

How far ahead should we book a multi-day wedding?

Earlier than a single day, simply because you are holding more of a calendar. Twelve to eighteen months is typical for peak dates, and multi-day weekends are the first thing to go. It costs nothing to ask about a date.

Where to go next

Related pages.

The individual days, in detail
  • MehndiHenna, hands, and a room lit by whatever is on the table
  • HaldiIts own day, in hard morning light
  • SangeetThe one event that behaves like a stage production
  • BaraatA procession that moves, usually down a street
  • The MandapWhere a photographer can and cannot stand
Traditions that run over more than a day
If your celebration is smaller — or you want it on film

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