Eight specialities

Every ceremony, in its own language.

Pelli, Pasupu, Sangeet, Seemantham. Each one has its own rhythm, its own light and its own guest list — so each one is designed separately, then made to belong to the same weekend.

How this is scoped

Book one function,
or the whole
weekend.

Nothing on this page is a package. Every service below can be taken on its own, or folded into one design that runs from Friday’s Mehendi to Sunday’s reception.

Most couples start with the mandap, because that is the room everybody will be looking at, and add functions as the guest list settles. Some arrive having already booked a venue and only need the walls, the ceiling and the light fixed — that is the florals and draping commission, and it is a perfectly normal way to work.

What we will not do is sell you a tier you do not need. If a Seemantham for forty people is the whole job, that is the whole quote.

Scope is decided by three things, in this order: which ceremonies your family is actually performing, what the venue permits, and how many people have to see it. Flowers are chosen last. That order is the whole method.
How a booking runs, step by step
A banquet room dressed with white florals and hanging greenery
One hand, every function

Eight specialities. Six of them regularly happen inside somebody’s house.

What we design

The work, and what
it actually involves.

Each list below is what is drawn, sourced, built and struck. Nothing on it is an upsell — it is the description of the job.

Pelli

Wedding & Mandap Design

A mandap has to hold a priest, a fire, two families and a thousand photographs. We design yours around the rituals you are actually performing — the muhurtham, the talambralu, the jeelakarra bellam — so nothing sacred gets blocked by a flower.

See a mandap build

What that includes

  • Custom mandap build
  • Floral canopy & pillars
  • Aisle & entrance design
  • Backdrop panels
  • Kalasham & pooja staging
  • Seating & family chairs

The homam needs clearance and air. We build the canopy high enough that smoke does not sit under it, and we read the venue’s open-flame clause before drawing anything.

Pelli Kuthuru

Pellikuthuru & Pellikoduku

These are the warmest days of the whole wedding and they are almost always at somebody’s house. We work in living rooms and back gardens — a seating swing, a floral arch, a floor rangoli — and we make it look intentional, not improvised.

See a home ceremony

What that includes

  • Seating & jhoola setup
  • Floral arch or backdrop
  • Rangoli & floor design
  • Ritual thali styling
  • Home-scale draping
  • Photo corner

A domestic ceiling is eight feet. Everything is scaled to that and lit from below — a ballroom backdrop dropped into a living room reads as exactly that.

A floral mandap with decorated pillars and a carved seat
Mandap & muhurtham staging
Pasupu / Mehendi

Haldi & Mehendi

Haldi is turmeric, water and chaos — so every surface we build is chosen to survive it. Mehendi is the opposite: low seating, long evenings, lantern light and somewhere comfortable to sit still for three hours.

See a haldi morning

What that includes

  • Marigold garlands & torans
  • Haldi chairs & platform
  • Mirror & pot styling
  • Low seating & bolsters
  • Mehendi artist station
  • Lantern & fairy lighting

Turmeric stains stone, grout and hired linen permanently. A washable floor goes under the haldi seat, and the venue is told before the day, not after.

Sangeet

Sangeet & Reception

Reception design is the one night that is purely yours — no rituals, no muhurtham. We build a stage that photographs from every angle, light it so the room stays warm after dark, and keep the dance floor clear of anything breakable.

See a reception stage

What that includes

  • Stage & couple seating
  • Entrance & photo wall
  • Table & centrepiece design
  • Uplighting & drapery
  • Dance floor framing
  • Cake & sweet table

The stage is designed backwards from two things: the DJ’s lighting rig and the photographer’s longest lens. If the couple cannot be read from the back of the room, the flowers have not worked.

A sangeet stage draped in pink and gold
Stage, drape & lighting plot
Nischitartham

Engagement, Dhothi & Half Saree

Nischitartham, the Dhothi ceremony, the Half Saree function. Smaller guest lists, tighter frames, and every single photograph is a close-up. That changes what we build: fewer, better details, at eye level.

See an engagement

What that includes

  • Ring & tray styling
  • Intimate stage design
  • Backdrop & name signage
  • Traditional pooja setup
  • Family seating
  • Welcome & entry decor

A ring tray is shot from directly above. That is a top-down composition, not a backdrop — which is where a small engagement budget should go first.

Seemantham

Seemantham & Barasala

A Seemantham is designed for one person to be comfortable and everybody else to be able to see her. We keep the seating supported, the flowers unscented where it matters, and the cradle where the light is best.

See a Seemantham

What that includes

  • Cradle & swing decor
  • Mother’s seat & backdrop
  • Pastel floral schemes
  • Traditional tray setup
  • Gift & return-gift table
  • Naming ceremony signage

Tuberose and heavily scented lilies come out of the scheme. A warm room, a pregnant guest and three hours of sitting is not where they belong.

A white floral aisle beneath hanging blooms
Fabric first, then light, then flowers
Pushpalankarana

Floral, Draping & Lighting

Most venues in the Northeast are beige boxes with a chandelier. Fabric fixes the walls, light fixes the ceiling, and flowers fix everything else. This can be booked on its own for a venue you have already secured.

See a floral commission

What that includes

  • Fresh & preserved florals
  • Ceiling & wall draping
  • Uplighting & pin-spots
  • Entrance & foyer styling
  • Car & baraat decor
  • Venue transformation

If the budget is tight, we light before we buy stems. Twenty uplights change a beige ballroom more than another hundred flowers will.

End to End

Full Design Curation

Booked most often for three- and four-day weddings. We hold the palette, the moodboard, the vendor conversations and the load-in schedule so that Friday’s Mehendi and Sunday’s reception look like they came from the same hand. Because they did.

See the full portfolio

What that includes

  • Concept & moodboard
  • Colour story across days
  • Vendor coordination
  • Floor plans & renders
  • Load-in & strike schedule
  • On-site design lead

One schedule for the whole weekend. Friday’s Mehendi has to strike before Saturday’s mandap can go up — that is a calendar problem before it is a design one.

In every quote

Six things you never
have to ask for.

These are not add-ons and they are not line items you can be talked out of. They are what makes the difference between a decorator and a designer.

Design concept & palette

A moodboard and a written direction for every function, agreed before a single stem is ordered. If Friday is marigold and Sunday is plum, this is where we prove they belong to the same wedding.

Floor plans & elevations

Drawn against the venue’s real dimensions, not a template. You see the mandap in elevation, and the aisle measured, before anybody starts building it.

Vendor coordination

Your planner, photographer, priest, caterer and DJ all get the same schedule we are working to. The earlier they have it, the better the photographs are.

Load-in & build

Crew, transport, rigging and the venue’s load-in window are ours to manage. Hotels give you a four-hour slot and mean it; we plan the build around that.

On-site design lead

Somebody who drew it is standing in the room while it goes up, and stays through the function. Not a subcontractor holding a photograph of a moodboard.

Strike & make-good

Everything comes down the same night or the next morning, and the venue goes back exactly as we found it. That is usually in your venue contract. It is always in ours.

Every detail matters — which is a promise about the boring parts, not just the pretty ones.

Where the work happens

Ballrooms, back gardens
and living rooms.

Based at 26 Heritage Pointe Dr, Clifton Park, New York. Travel beyond the list below is quoted per event and is genuinely welcome.

Albany & the Capital Region Saratoga Springs Hudson Valley New York City New Jersey Connecticut & New England Destination — on request
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8 Ceremony specialities
100% Custom-built, never templated

A great deal of the Pellikuthuru, Haldi and Seemantham work happens in family homes. Domestic-scale design is a different skill from ballroom design, and it is one used here constantly.

Money, honestly

How pricing
actually works.

There is no price list on this page, because there is no flat wedding. A three-hour Seemantham in a living room and a four-day wedding in a ballroom are not the same job, and pricing them the same way would be a lie.

Every quote is built from your venue, your guest count and the ceremonies you are performing. It arrives as a line-item document — mandap, florals, drape, lighting, labour, transport, strike — and you see it before you commit to any of it. If a line is too expensive, we cut that line. We do not quietly thin out the rest.

The first conversation is free, and there is no charge for the concept discussion. A formal design proposal with floor plans is prepared once the scope is agreed.

Venue
Ceiling height, rigging rules, load-in window
Guest count
Table count, aisle length, seating
Ceremonies
One function, or a four-day weekend
Flowers
Fresh, preserved, or a deliberate mix
Travel
Distance, overnight crew, transport
Turnaround
Same-room strike and rebuild between functions
A circular white floral arch over a draped seat
Small rooms, priced small
Three ways in

Scope tiers, not price tiers

These describe how much of the weekend we are holding — not how much it costs. Two weddings in the same tier can differ by a factor of three, and both quotes would be right.

Single ceremony

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  • One function: Haldi, Mehendi, Seemantham, engagement or the wedding day itself
  • Concept, palette and a floor plan for that one room
  • Full build, on-site lead and strike
  • Often possible at two to three months’ notice
Scope one ceremony
Wedding weekend

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  • Two to four linked functions across one weekend
  • One colour story carried from Mehendi to reception
  • Shared load-in schedule and one crew across the days
  • Briefing pack for your planner, photographer and priest
Scope a weekend
Most booked Full curation

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  • Everything from the first conversation to the strike
  • Renders and elevations for every day of the wedding
  • Vendor coordination held by the studio, not by you
  • On-site design lead for the entire weekend
  • Guest-facing detail: signage, entrance, favours, car
Scope the whole weekend

Every tier above is a description of scope. The number attached to it is written after we have seen your venue and your guest list — never before.

About the services

Four questions we
get every week

Yes. A Haldi, a Mehendi, a Seemantham or the wedding day on its own are all normal bookings, and so is a florals-and-drape commission for a venue you have already secured. Single functions can often be taken at two to three months’ notice where the calendar allows — a full weekend wants nine to twelve.

Both, deliberately. Fresh where it will be seen and smelled up close — garlands, the mandap, the bridal seat. High-quality preserved or silk where it has to survive an outdoor Haldi in July or hang from a ceiling for three days. The quote says which is which, line by line, so nothing is a surprise on the morning.

Both, and strike is included in every quote. The venue is returned in the condition we received it — that is usually a contractual requirement, and it is always ours to manage rather than yours. Where two functions share a room, the strike and rebuild between them is scheduled and priced up front.

Tell us as soon as you know. Guest count and layout changes are usually straightforward and are simply re-quoted line by line. A venue or a date change is a bigger conversation — new dimensions, new rules, new load-in window — but it is a conversation, not a catastrophe.
Every other question, answered
Now booking 2027 & 2028

Tell us which
ceremonies you are planning.

Send the dates, the venue if you have one, and the list of functions. You will get a scope and an honest answer about the budget within one working day.

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