Re: Can Non Desi Photographers really Capture our Desiness?
^ shay’s photog was awesome and she travels as well… perhaps you could contact her?
reportage, photojournalistic, or documentary-style shots are not the typical posed shots where everyone stands around the stage- its more fluid and natural and the pics are captured as people go about their wedding business.
for example, this is the website for my photographers - Boyfriend/Girlfriend l Professional Wedding Photography
if you scroll down a bit, you’ll see another pakistani wedding they recently shot. they do a mix of posed and photojournalistic shots, and they travel too. maybe you could email them to find out their rates- however, as with most photogs who travel, you’d have to pay to fly them in and put them up somewhere.
you should also check out the Wedding Photojournalist Association® | WPJA® | Wedding Photojournalism Photos and Wedding Photographers Resources | Reportage and Candid website and search by your state. they have listings of photogs which might be a good starting point for you.
send me a friend request to see my album on GS cos of the privacy settings 
when they give you one printout of all your pics after the wedding - usually these are 4x6 pictures- these are called your proofs… some photogs will put their obnoxious, annoying logos on them, so you can’t usually use those pictures for anything other than ordering prints from them. the best thing is to make sure the proofs are unmarked so you can put them in your wedding album perhaps or distribute to family/friends, and that you own the copyright to your pictures (so you dont have to pay the photog to make your prints later on), and that you get all your files on DVD (most photogs shoot digitally now). this way, you’re not tied to the photographer and their prices for printing- you can take your cd to somewhere like costco or somewhere more upscale if you wish, to get them printed as many times as you want and pay whatever price works for you.
what i put down in my initial emails when i was researching all of this (feels like forever ago, but was last year!) was if they were available for the date, and if so, what their hourly rates were and what this included. i would also specify that it was a cultural wedding and there was more than one event that would need coverage just so they’d know beforehand that i would need a custom package to cover the mehendi and shaadi. i find more events also gives you a bit more leverage for negotiation in terms of price. since you want a male and female photographer, i would specify this too to make sure both were available.