Excellence in chettinadu Wedding Photography and videography

The CPVA is a congregation of the best Chettinad wedding photographers with immense talent, experience, and a path-breaking approach to crafting the Chettinad wedding stories. We commit ourselves to promoting excellence, innovation, and raising the bar of wedding photography in Tamil Nadu. We are the proud ambassadors of manifesting the intrinsic Chettinad Culture to the world through our photographers since the 1950s ....

TNattukottai Nagarathars were originally from Naganadu. This ancient land Naganadu is believed to be destroyed (either in an earthquake or floods) and this place was either North or North West of Kanchipuram. The Nagarathar or Nattukkottai Chettiar were originally salt traders and historically an itinerant community of merchants and claim Chettinad as their traditional home. How they reached that place, which at the time comprised adjacent parts of the ancient states of Pudukkottai, Ramnad and Sivagangai, is uncertain, with various communal legends being recorded. There are various claims regarding how they arrived in that area. Among those are a fairly recently recorded claim that they were driven there because of persecution by a Chola king and an older one, recounted to Edgar Thurston, that they were encouraged to go there by a Pandyan king who wanted to take advantage of their trading skills. The legends converge in saying that they obtained the use of nine temples, with each representing one exogamous part of the community ....