A three-day wedding.
A 300-year-old Rajasthani castle.
An experience designed, not just celebrated.
Hosted by the couple who’ve spent years crafting everyone else’s.
When Palak and Mohit finally got married – three days, five acts, a 300-year-old castle in Shekhawati, the wedding industry took notice. Not just for the immersive, experiential art installations or the earthy bridal palette in full conversation with Mandawa stone. But because of who they are.
Palak and Mohit are Canonboy Productions – one of India’s most distinctive wedding photography and films studios, built from Surat, built together. For seven years they have stood behind the lens at other people’s weddings, holding love stories with extraordinary care: the tension before a first look, the silence after vows, the frame that makes a family remember exactly how they felt.
Then came their own.
The couple who’ve spent seven years telling other people’s love stories just told their own. It was always going to be something.
The Story Behind the Studio
Mohit was fifteen when he started Canonboy Productions. Not a hobby. A production company – because he already knew what he was building. Surat, a city that runs on diamonds and textiles, wasn’t the obvious home for a wedding storytelling studio. That was precisely the point.
When Palak joined after college, she found an instinct she hadn’t known she had – for atmosphere, for the emotional weight of a room, for the moment just before the moment. The work revealed her. Together, they built Canonboy into what it is today: a studio that doesn’t photograph weddings so much as narrate them. Every frame a sentence. Every film a story that outlasts the event itself.
All the while, their own story was quietly writing itself.
The Proposal – Dunnottar Castle, Scotland
For nearly two years, Mohit held one image in his mind: the ruined silhouette of Dunnottar Castle on the Scottish coast. Storm-soaked. Elemental. He’d known instantly – that’s where he would ask.
The 10th of November. Their anniversary. The weather delivered a storm, as if it understood the assignment. And then, for the precise moment that mattered, everything stilled. The rain softened. The skies held their breath.
Palak said yes.
A man who has spent years studying the perfect moment to press the shutter waited for the perfect moment to ask the question. Of course he did.
The Wedding – Five Acts, One Story
Castle Mandawa – three centuries old, textured, deliberately unpolished – was never going to be dressed up. It was going to be in conversation. The aged stone walls already spoke the visual language Palak and Mohit had spent years developing. The venue wasn’t a backdrop. It was a co-creator.
Three days. Five acts. One arc – moving from intimacy toward legacy.
Private Universe – The Rehearsal Dinner
No formality. Only storytelling. Guests weren’t there to be entertained – they were participants, pulled into an evening of shared memory and genuine emotional openness. Vulnerability was the only appropriate beginning.
Nyota – The Cultural Celebration
Rituals honoured. Visual language entirely their own. Jewellery, fashion, styling – reinterpreted rather than inherited. Finding the living pulse within tradition instead of simply wearing it.
A Decade in Motion – The Sangeet
A decade of partnership rendered in rhythm, movement, and atmosphere. Less a party, more a portrait – capturing a relationship built not on grand gestures, but on years of quiet, daily creation.
Art House – The Pre-Wedding Event
The clearest expression of who they are. A live, participatory art environment – Kintsugi experiences, collaborative canvases, hand-painted lamps, interactive pieces. The philosophy they’ve lived by, made physical: life is not meant to be observed. It is meant to be experienced.
Full Circle – The Ceremony
The quietest of the five, and perhaps the most powerful. Palak emerged from within the castle’s stone architecture, moving toward a tree that anchored everything. Earthy palette. Tonal. In full conversation with the Mandawa stone. A circle, completed.
Fashion
Palak approached each look the way she approaches a shoot – with intention, reference, and a clear point of view.
Private Universe: Samta Gaudani. Nyota: custom Surat designer. Sangeet: Satrang, Delhi. Art House: Heena Verma. Full Circle: Aditya & Mohit.
Jewellery, makeup, and hair across all five events by Sejal Savaliya – sculptural, conceptual, deeply personal. The most talked-about piece: a custom headphone accessory, worn as bridal jewellery. A quiet tribute to Mohit – to the hours spent in edit suites, headphones on, shaping other people’s love stories while their own unfolded in the next room.
Mohit wore Rohit Doshi across multiple events, Hirika & Dhruti for Nyota, and a local Surat designer for the ceremony.
Credits
Photography & Films – Canonboy Productions
Wedding Planning – Event Pitara
Venue – Castle Mandawa, Shekhawati, Rajasthan
Wedding Design – Mohit, Palak, Event Pitara
Bride – Private Universe: Samta Gaudani | Nyota: Custom Surat Designer | Sangeet: Satrang, Delhi | Art House: Heena Verma | Full Circle: Aditya & Mohit
Groom – Rehearsal / Sangeet / Art House: Rohit Doshi | Nyota: Hirika & Dhruti | Full Circle: Local Surat Designer
Jewellery, Makeup & Hair – Sejal Savaliya
