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Shameer and Bindu at the Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Garden before the reception above and below.

Shameerpaul Sangha and Bindu Dulai were married in a traditional Sikh wedding ceremony in Houston, Texas and a week later on June 26th had a wedding reception celebration in Seattle at the Great Hall of Union Station for all of their family and friends in the Seattle area.

What a wonderful celebration it was with great Indian food and fabulous dancing. I was sorry the traditional Sikh wedding ceremony was so far away and could not photograph it but the wedding reception was so much fun I had a blast making pictures and watching the fun everyone was having. Shameer and Bindu were moved by the welcome and danced for much of the evening. Here are some selected highlights of the evening. Below is a mini gallery of 40 images for the reception. To see the web gallery with all of the pictures of the wedding celebration reception click on this link: Sikh Wedding Reception of Shameer and Bindu

The Great Hall at Union Station is a national landmark noted for being an architectural masterpiece. Also noted for it’s spectacular black and white mosaic floor and over 460 white lights glittering from it’s 55 foot barrel-vaulted ceiling, The Great Hall’s grand ambiance is unique and if you are having more than 300 people to a reception, it is one of your best choices for a venue. It can hold up to 500. Built in 1911 and restored in 1999, the stunning interior is dominated by a central barrel-vaulted ceiling, antique tile floors and classical pilasters accented by a series of archways. The Great Hall at Union Station has been completely restored to recreate its original historic charm.

Catering was provided by Jewel Hospitality

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Below is a mini-gallery with some more of my favorite images from their wedding reception celebration.

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Daniel Sheehan, specializes in photojournalism and portrait photography for publications and corporations and is a wedding photographer.

I just returned from a week in Washington DC photographing the wedding of Ganesh and Surbhi in a traditional Indian wedding ceremony according to the Hindu Holy Scripture using Veda mantras written in Sanskrit, the root of all Indian languages. I was lucky to work with an old friend and Washington DC portrait photographer Scott Robinson on this wedding. While I have just returned and have only downloaded and backed up the files and have not started to process any pictures this one caught my eye and I thought I would share it with you here. Scott made a behind the scenes photo of me as we started to do the formal posed pictures after the wedding ceremony. He had already set up the lighting and was just keeping an eye on me for problems and made this picture of me waiting for the bride and groom with the brides grandparents.  Thanks to Scott and thanks to Ganesh and Surbhi for flying me in for a really grand wedding celebration in the Indian tradition. Hope to have more pictures up here sometime soon.

> Daniel Sheehan, specializes in photojournalism and portrait photography for publications and corporations and a Seattle wedding photographer.