The Wedding Story

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A candlelit mandap in a palace courtyard at dusk, marigold garlands catching the last light.

Weddings • Destinations • Experiences

We build the day you will keep

An Indian wedding design studio working in palaces, on lakes and along coastlines — for couples who want a celebration that could only have been theirs.

See our weddings What we do
A long banquet table laid in bone linen and brass, lit by low candlelight.

Our belief

A wedding is not an eventto be managed.It is a worldthat deserves building.

A bride in bridal red and gold, turned away towards a sunlit window.

The art of celebration

We don't arrange weddings. We build worlds.

We are a small studio, and that is a decision rather than a stage we are passing through. A handful of weddings a season means the people you meet first are the people standing in the courtyard at midnight, checking the candles.

Our method comes from architecture. Before anything is booked we draw: plans, elevations, a light study for every hour the celebration runs. It is slower at the start and far calmer at the end, because by then nothing is being decided in a hurry.

  1. 01

    Story

    We start with the two of you, not with a venue list.

  2. 02

    Design

    Drawn to scale, lit hour by hour, before a single deposit.

  3. 03

    Experience

    Arrival, dusk, dinner, the last hour. Each one authored.

  4. 04

    Execution

    One standard across every vendor. Nothing improvised on the day.

What we do

Six disciplines, one studio.

Most couples come to us for all of them. A few come for one. Both are fine — what does not work is splitting the design from the execution and hoping they meet on the day.

Signature weddings

Three celebrations that had not existed before.

Illustrative of how we work. Details are representative, not records of specific couples.

An ivory mandap under a mirrored canopy, ringed by candlelight.
Ivory orchids and candle flame reflected in a mirrored surface.
01 Case study

The Ivory Hours

Jaipur · Three days · courtyard palace

A daylight wedding that had to work just as hard after dark. We kept the palette to ivory and glass so the stone stayed the loudest thing in the room, then spent the budget on light rather than on flowers.

Guest experience
Arrival through a candlelit arcade, one courtyard at a time
Décor direction
Ivory orchid, mirror, and a great deal of live flame
A lakeside marble pavilion in monsoon light, boats moored below.
Rain beading on marble inlay beside still lake water.
02 Case study

Monsoon & Marble

Udaipur · Four days · lakeside

Booked in the season everyone avoids, which is exactly why the lake was empty and the light was extraordinary. Every ceremony had a wet-weather twin, drawn and staffed, so nothing had to be decided in the rain.

Guest experience
Guests crossed the water at golden hour, a boat at a time
Décor direction
Wet marble, grey silk, almost no colour at all
A coastal wedding table on sand at golden hour, palms overhead.
Salt-worn timber and a single frangipani on white ceramic.
03 Case study

Salt & Gold

Goa · Two days · coastal

No marquee, no imported flowers. The brief was a wedding that felt like the place it was in, so we worked with what grew within an hour of the site and let the sea set the timing of the whole weekend.

Guest experience
Barefoot dinner on the sand, one long table
Décor direction
Local greenery, salt-worn timber, hard coastal light

The transformation

From an empty courtyard to a world.

An empty sandstone courtyard before any dressing begins.
01 The space Stone, proportion, light. We begin with what is already beautiful.
The same courtyard with structure going in, unlit.
02 The structure Frames, sightlines, and where four hundred people will actually walk.
The courtyard at dusk as the first lighting comes up.
03 The light Lit hour by hour. This is the decision that changes everything.
Florals installed across the canopy and arcades.
04 The florals Installed last, so they are at their best when the doors open.
The finished courtyard in full candlelight, guests in soft blur.
05 The celebration And then we get out of the way.

Where we work

A studio without a home city.

We work where the celebration belongs, and we only list places we know street by street — which vendors answer on a Sunday, which courtyard takes the light at five.

A pink sandstone palace facade in Jaipur at low sun.
Palace courtyards and carved sandstone Formal, architectural, unmistakably royal. Best November to February.
White marble palace rising from still lake water in Udaipur.
Marble, water and long approaches Quietest and most beautiful just after the monsoon breaks.
Palms leaning over an empty Goan beach at golden hour.
Coastline, palm and hard bright light Dry, clear and warm from November through March.
The blue city of Jodhpur below a fort wall at dusk.
Indigo rooftops beneath a fort Dramatic at dusk. Best in the cooler months.
A colonial-era Mumbai facade in humid evening light.
City weddings with a sea behind them Best between December and February.
Desert dunes at sunset with a distant tented camp.
Desert camps and glass towers Outdoor season runs November to March.
A cypress avenue on a Tuscan hillside in warm haze.
Cypress, stone villas and long tables Late May, or September into early October.
A stone temple gate framed by dense green in Bali.
Cliff edges, dense green, dark stone Driest from May to September.
A timber jetty over pale shallow water in the Maldives.
Small islands, pale water, few guests Clear skies from December to April.

The album

Six thousand candles, lit by hand.

Every image on this site is generated art direction, not documentary photography of a past wedding. Real project imagery goes up only with the couple's consent and the photographer's licence.

A hand lighting one of many candles along a stone step.
A bride's hands holding a dupatta edge heavy with gold work.

The detail nobody photographs is the one your guests will describe to you a year later.

A baraat procession in motion blur under evening light.
Marigold strands hung floor to ceiling in a stone corridor.
Sparklers and silhouettes at the end of the night.

How it unfolds

Five stages, and no surprises in any of them.

  1. 01

    Discover

    A long conversation about the two of you. No decks, no venues yet.

  2. 02

    Imagine

    A written direction and a first set of drawings to argue with.

  3. 03

    Design

    Plans, elevations, a light study, and a budget that holds.

  4. 04

    Produce

    Vendors contracted to one standard, rehearsed before the day.

  5. 05

    Celebrate

    We are there from the first delivery to the last guest.

In their words

What couples say

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It felt less like planning a wedding and more like watching something we had described out loud get built.

We were guests at our own wedding. That was the whole thing we wanted and did not know how to ask for.

Two days of rain and we never once saw anybody panic. There was simply a second plan, already staffed.

The studio

The people who will actually be there.

Roles are accurate; names are still to be added.

  • A designer at a drafting table, hands and drawings in frame.

    Founder & Creative Director

    Trained as an architect. Draws every wedding before anyone books anything.

  • A production lead with a radio, seen against a lit venue.

    Head of Production

    Owns the schedule. Has never missed a baraat departure.

  • Hands conditioning flower stems at a florist's bench.

    Design & Florals

    Sources within an hour of the venue wherever that is possible.

A palace courtyard at night, lit only by candles and warm uplight.

Begin

Tell us about your wedding.

The two of you, a rough season, and roughly where. That is enough for a first conversation — we will tell you honestly whether we are the right studio for it.

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