The guides

Planning a Bangalore wedding: the working guides

The questions every family asks on the first call, answered properly and left where you can find them.

Per-plate and rental rates for the venues that publish them, band by band.

The three kinds of Bangalore venue, and which wedding each one actually suits.

Venues for a guest list that flies in — the north-Bangalore arithmetic.

Dhare, kashi yatre, the antarpata and the three knots — the rituals, and what each one needs from a venue.

The verified muhurat calendar, the South Indian difference, and which weeks Bangalore’s halls will sell first.

The Telugu midnight muhurtham, the TamBrahm two-morning wedding, Iyer and Iyengar — what each asks of a Bangalore venue.

The havan is non-negotiable in the rite and negotiable with every hotel. Which venue types allow it, and what to fix in writing.

The booking sequence in Bangalore order: date from the priest, hall inside the fortnight, caterer and photographer next.

Traffic is the city’s co-planner: transport math, timing rules and the outstation-guest plan.

What the studio does, in the order we do it.

Tell us about the wedding

Dates, guest numbers, which side of the city. Enough for the first reply to be useful rather than a brochure.