Before you message.

Yes. Within Mumbai, travel is included. Outside the city, it's the cost of travel and a night's stay if the call time is before eight in the morning — quoted in writing before you commit to anything.

For a wedding in season, four to six months. I only take one wedding a day, so dates in November, December and February usually go first. If your date is close, message anyway — cancellations happen.

Then you don't book, and you've paid ₹4,000 to find that out instead of finding it out on your wedding morning. That is precisely what the trial is for.

Sixteen hours, through a Mumbai December and through crying. The base is built for it, which is why it takes two hours and not forty minutes.

Yes, alongside a bridal booking. Their looks are kept quieter than yours on purpose — you should be the loudest face in the photographs.

Your outfit photographs, your venue and its lighting, your call time, and any skin history I should know about. We go through all of it at the trial.