Four events, two shooters, two cards each, and a couple who will scroll the gallery looking for every aunt. By the time you have imported the haldi, the mehndi, the sangeet, the wedding day and the reception, the cull alone takes longer than the wedding did.
That is the normal shape of a South Asian wedding in the GTA. Statistics Canada counts about 2.57 million South Asian people in Canada in the 2021 Census, 7.1% of the population, and CIC News puts about 1.1 million of them in the Toronto CMA, which includes Brampton and Mississauga. If you shoot in Peel or the 905, a big share of your season can look like this.
Why multi-day galleries break a normal editing workflow
A single wedding day has one timeline. A multi-day wedding has several, each with its own light, guests and shooters, and they all land on your hard drive in the same week.
What usually goes wrong:
- Volume. Two shooters across four or five events, on long days, produce far more frames than a single-day workflow expects. Culling 2,000 frames is an evening. Culling many thousands is a week.
- Duplicates across cameras. The same entrance from two angles, both sharp, both fine. Someone has to choose.
- Light changes every event. A daylight haldi, a tented mehndi, a stage-lit sangeet, a baraat in hard sun, a banquet hall reception with LED walls. One preset won’t hold all of it.
- Big guest lists. Hundreds of guests, and a gallery that misses a grandmother is a gallery that gets an email.
The fix is to treat it as several connected projects, not one big one.
Event by event: what each one needs in the edit
Coverage is often booked per event, so it helps to grade per event too, then tie them together at the end.
| Event | Typical light | What to watch in the grade |
|---|---|---|
| Haldi | Daylight, often outdoors | Turmeric yellow on skin and clothes that should look bright, not jaundiced; splashes that blur in the cull |
| Mehndi | Daylight or warm tents, bright decor | Rich yellows, oranges and pinks without orange skin; henna detail that stays deep, not muddy |
| Sangeet | Stage light, coloured washes, spotlights | Skin under coloured light; noise in the crowd shots; keeping the energy of the colour |
| Baraat | Outdoor, often midday, fast movement | Hard shadows, motion blur in the cull, coloured smoke |
| Wedding day | Indoor halls, outdoor setups, decorated stages | Every key moment in order; red and gold outfits that clip easily; clean audio for films |
| Reception | Tungsten, LED walls, uplights, flash | Entrances, speeches and family portraits under mixed light; matching flash and ambient frames |
The outfits make this harder than it looks. Deep reds, saturated pinks and heavy gold embroidery are the first things to clip or shift hue when you lift exposure. Grade outfit colour with a light hand and check it on several skin tones before you sync.
Family coverage: build it into the brief
Nobody outside the family can know who matters most. What we can do is cull against a clear list. The brief for a multi-day wedding works best when it includes:
- The must-have list. Grandparents, parents, siblings, the relatives who travelled, and any groups the couple asked for, such as each side of the family or the friends from university.
- Three or four reference frames of the key people, so the cull can recognise them across events.
- The formal portrait sets you shot, so none of them is trimmed to “best one”.
- Anything sensitive. A guest who shouldn’t appear, or a moment the family asked you not to include.
We cull against that list and flag anyone we couldn’t find, so you can check before the couple does. That is a checklist, not a promise that an editor knows the family. You stay the last pair of eyes.
Films: one per event, plus a highlight across them all
If you shoot film too, multi-day weddings usually want more than one cut. The common shape is a film per event and a highlight that runs across all of them, with the vows, speeches and performances kept in full where the couple wants them.
Things worth putting in the film brief:
- Which events get their own film and roughly how long each should be.
- Music for each, or whether you want us to cut to the songs played on the day.
- Where the speeches and sangeet performances are, and which mics recorded them.
- Whether you flew a drone at the baraat, and whether you want a drone-only edit as well.
If the photos and the films come from the same studio, editing them together keeps the grade the same across stills and film, so the reception doesn’t look warm in the gallery and cold in the film.
Pricing: our standard packages, nothing special
Multi-day and big weddings are charged at our standard package prices. There is no separate quote and no surcharge for the size of the family or the number of events. The Wedding gallery covers up to 3,000 raws across the whole wedding, all days and events together. Choose the packages that fit what you covered:
| Package | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Engagement gallery | 100–200 images from up to 1,000 raws, 2 revisions | C$70 |
| Wedding gallery | 300–500 images from up to 3,000 raws, up to 3 revisions | C$110 |
| Highlight film | 5–8 minutes, 1–3 cameras plus drone, 2 revisions | C$140 |
| Feature film | 15–40 minutes, speeches in full, 1-minute teaser, 3 revisions | C$205 |
| Signature | Wedding gallery plus Feature film, one grade across both | C$275 |
Add-ons are the same too: Social reels (three 9:16 cuts) C$55, Drone-only edit C$40, Album design (20 spreads) C$80. Rush is 72 hours for +50% on the whole order, and the retainer takes 15% off at five projects a month, which a busy GTA summer reaches quickly.
In the brief, list the events, the number of shooters at each and what you want back, so we line up the right packages and you can see the total before you send.
About our team and the time difference
Our editing team is in Pakistan. The team knows the order of the days and what each event usually needs, but every family does things its own way, which is why the brief matters more than anything we know in general.
Toronto is nine hours behind Pakistan in summer and ten in winter. Our editing team works in shifts around the clock, so a wedding you send on a weekday evening is picked up soon after it arrives. Delivery is still seven business days from the point your link works and the brief is complete.
Your next step
The low-risk way to test this is one event.
- Send one event, such as the mehndi or the reception, as your free trial. It is edited and delivered like a paid project.
- See the South Asian events and everything else we take on in what we edit, and a film with mehndi details in our work.
- Compare every package in CAD on packages, then send the whole wedding through send a project.
For more on GTA venues and light, read the Toronto and GTA editing guide.