Start planning a Melbourne wedding and you learn quickly that almost nobody will tell you what anything costs until you have handed over your date, your venue and your email address. Rohit Jhawar simply puts the numbers on the website. It is a small thing that turns out to matter enormously when you are trying to build a budget out of twelve open browser tabs.
The price guide is refreshingly blunt. Wedding photography is $2,100 for four hours of coverage, which brings every image personally edited, high-resolution print-ready files, two 30-minute Zoom consultations, cloud storage for a year and a print gallery. Wedding videography is $3,500 for eight hours, which delivers a two-to-three-minute edited highlight film, one lead videographer and — unusually — the complete raw footage as part of the package rather than an upsell. An elopement is $1,200 for two hours. All of it includes GST and travel within 25km of Melbourne.
The extras are itemised with the same directness: $300 an hour beyond the booked coverage, $250 for a slideshow, $300 for a film-style special edit, $1,190 for a 10-by-10 fine art album, 35mm film photography starting at $500 and $200 for eight Polaroid exposures. You can assemble a fairly precise number for your own day in about five minutes, which is not something you can say of most of the field — Allure Productions, to name one, quotes only on enquiry.
The way he works
The transparency would matter less if the pictures were ordinary, and they are not. The house style is documentary and firmly unposed: "Instead of staging or posing, we seek and choose to show your loving chemistry in its most raw and authentic state," the site says, and the portfolio bears it out — bridal parties mid-laugh, a couple walking off with drinks in hand, guests caught in the half-second before they notice the camera. The stated aim is imagery that is "elegant and evokes heartfelt emotions", and the frames that work hardest are the quiet ones.
It is also worth knowing that this is a studio rather than a one-man operation. Four people are introduced on the about page — RJ himself, plus Gus, Shekhar and Nathan — and the films are credited to Shekhar Rawat. Gus describes being drawn to "the unposed, the unexpected, and the beauty found in the in-between", which is about as concise a summary of the whole studio's instinct as you will find.
What lands, and when
The practical detail is equally well documented. The team shoots 100 to 150 images an hour on average. Editing takes four to five weeks, and Rohit says he personally manages the entire workflow rather than farming it out. From the full set he pulls 150 to 200 highlights for a further creative pass, retouched with film presets — Kodak Chrome and Gold, Ilford Delta, Fuji — which is where the warmth in the galleries comes from.
Payment runs in three equal instalments: one on booking, one four weeks before the day, and the balance within two weeks afterwards. Photographs are delivered as high-resolution edited JPEGs; if you want every raw file released as well, that is an extra $250. Need a couple of frames for thank-you cards in a hurry, and he will email them the next day.
The track record
He is not new to this. Rohit holds a two-year full-time photography diploma from Melbourne Polytechnic, completed with distinction, and has been photographing weddings since graduating in 2012 — more than 300 of them, by the studio's count. The venues run across the city and well beyond it: Kensington Bowling Club, Hubert Estate, Cleveland Estate, Treasury Gardens, an industrial room in Richmond, and a steady stream of Indian ceremonies and receptions.
In November 2024 he was included in Wedlockers' list of the 20 best wedding photographers in Melbourne — a directory listing rather than a juried prize, but a useful signal all the same. The couples on his testimonials page are less measured about it. "RJ was brilliant. His creativity was absolute perfection," wrote Emily and Michael.
What the price guide really buys, in the end, is a shorter road to a decision. You can work out whether this studio fits your budget before you have spoken to anyone, and then spend the conversation talking about the day itself — which is, presumably, the part you actually wanted to discuss.
