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Soulful Weddings

A sudden lockdown imposed in 2020, showed us a side of weddings, we couldn’t have imagined in a world like India. In a land of big fat Indian weddings, the guest list was restricted to only 50. And we saw so many weddings happening with this guest list, a statistic data we would surely want to divulge into. Questions like how do we even choose the fifty and plan an intimate wedding had been buzzing through our phones over and over again. Being boutique wedding planners & décor designers, we have always emphasized on the importance of cherishing the big day with the most important people.

Pre-Covid, we wouldn’t take projects of more than 300 people and now the government decides this number for us till we don’t know when. But is it fair enough to term it as a modern take to the Indian wedding or is it a forced mindset for the Indians to be accepting rules? We have always instituted that every person who has made the effort of coming to your wedding should be made to feel special just as the bride and groom are. As wedding planners, we are so involved with the bride and groom and their families, that we often forget to plan for the people who are attending the wedding. But with us, choosing to always concentrate on the smaller numbers, we have designed a way of super personalising every aspect of the wedding not only for the bride and groom but for every person attending the wedding, after all, in the land of ours, we truly believe in Athithi Devo Bhava – “guest is god”. It is an honour, when someone accepts the invite and comes to attend the wedding, then why not also put an equal amount of thought for that very person. Why have a guest list when you can’t even recall the names of the people you have called.? To us, intimate means magic, and it truly translates to a day filled with love and a treasure of memories waiting to unfold. Intimate weddings or rather Micro weddings also allow us to hyper personalise every detail. A sit-down dinner with your loved ones, speeches by your best friends and the first dance where everyone can’t take their eyes off the couple are truly sights, we have seen in weddings with a confined guest list. Taking inspiration from the western weddings, when have we ever seen a crowd and yet every wedding is so pristine and beautiful. We aren’t sure, this restriction will be an eye opener for Indians or just a forced law to trim their guest list.

A marriage between two souls should be experienced by people who truly matter to the two families. Every person present there having shared memorable moments with the bride & groom. The reason for destination weddings are so beautiful and soulful, is primarily a selective guest list which in turn allows you to choose the best exotic locations.

The Modern Wedding does see some new additions surely, a sanitizer in your fancy clutch and a fashionable mask to match your outfit. We are still getting used to this New Normal. Rules might have changed, but our dreams haven’t. Even with Budget cuts, couples still dream of fresh red roses hanging from the beautiful mandap under the moonlight. The only alternation that is needed is the change of thought and a solution will be right there across the lane, and if you don’t get it there – we are always here to solve the impossible. Seeing so many happily afters during lockdown, the faith in us was reborn. Hope floats above all and love conquers all are our takes from the year which was deemed to have been the most devastated. Last minute weddings to intimate destination weddings to home weddings, 2020 saw it all. It was a year, of living weddings the old-world style where people mattered a lot more than the entire satire, where food was selected keeping in mind the choices of people and not just a mere menu flaunting 1000 dishes, where we still resort to our mothers’ wardrobe to find the most suitable wedding lehenga, where the union of two souls was far more precious than throwing away money on concepts people would forget when they go back home. So, just like we have since the beginning of our inception, we shall continue to dedicate all our years to celebrate love and curate Soulful Weddings. Weddings which withstand the test of time, weddings where we know everything is just right, weddings which are meant to be and based on just true love. So, we would rephrase it to not call it a modern take on weddings but rather to celebrate a day which is just about you and has your loved ones around to fill your heart with memories to cherish for a lifetime. Here’s to living love stories and celebrating true love with every wedding.