I’m based in Delhi and I’m getting married in February, 2027. I’m planing to wear a red saree like the first image. Can someone suggest brands/shops where I could find a saree like this. Also I have a budget for 60K max for the saree veil and blouse.

Hi all, the left is what I showed as an inspo photo and the right is what I got. I can’t wear it for the anand karaj - any ideas on whether I can make this work for any other wedding events? 😬🫩

My saree drape will be exactly this (I'm 5'6" and my build is similar to the model here). Day wedding. No chunni on head.

2nd photo is my actual blouse piece. 3rd is my actual saree (colour looks different from blouse piece because saree photo was taken in store lights).

I'm thinking i should go for a deep v neck blouse but I'd love suggestions.

Me and my partner are from different faiths and different states of India. So our mother tongues are also different. I’m from South India (female-29) and my partner is from East India (male-31).
We have been dating each other for past 8 years.

We have informed our parents and got them to meet each other 3 years back. Since then, there have been 3-4 phone conversations between our parents in a mutually comfortable language, Hindi.
We planned to get a SMA done and then do traditional cultural wedding.

My parents have consulted a priest and have gotten a date confirmed for exactly a month later. But the issue is that they haven’t communicated it to his parents yet.
I don’t know if it is hesitation, anxiety, disagreement or simply avoidance of a significant conversation.

At any point when I bring this up, my mom goes into an emotional fit and she exits the room.
My dad doesn’t want to go ahead without taking her onboard. Cos he feels, if he does call the to be in-laws without onboarding my mom onto the plan, she will altogether behave very badly at a later point.

I feel stuck to be a part of a family where they are displaying no emotional maturity. And to be planning a long life with a partner who feels I’m to be blamed for my family’s activities.

Is it good for mehendi.......cozy home function with 40-50 guests. Also please drop styling ideas.

This is my mother wearing my lehenga

Hello! I’m ethnically pakistani but born and raised in the US so I hear from a lot of my relatives that I don’t really know the full traditions and customs of desi culture. I want to wear a sari to a baraat but my aunt and mom keep saying that it’s a semi formal dress and not formal enough for a baraat and I should opt for a lehenga or a maxi like dress instead. any insight would be appreciated! it’s for my cousins (dads brothers son) wedding!

Need help- the designer who was going to make my wedding dress fell through and now I am panic searching for any websites that deliver to the USA in under 3 months.

I am okay with ready made but ideally red and a gown style.

If you have any websites you’ve worked with or like: please send them my way! Looking to spend no more than $3,500.

Thank you so much.

Hi! Anybody have suggestions for wedding album printing in Delhi?

27 f, if anyone's been to Tamil Nadu or from Tamil Nadu...For kanchipuram , silk sarees which r the best shops in Tamil Nadu please recommend me ASAP also the shops here have homes (built in shops inside homes) where they tell they sell it to branded shops and showrooms is it true?

ALSO TELL ME where will I get a good anaarkali or lehenga/ lehenga davani from kanchi it's for a family function n I need reccos ASAP help me out.....

Hi everyone,

Need suggestions for wedding venue in Bangalore for a gathering of about 150-200 people in a budget of around 1.5L-2L. The wedding would be in March or April. I was looking for Farmhouse collective but they’re closing the venue by this November.

Preferring open garden type setting similar to Farmhouse.

I wanted to know where can I get a natural gemstone ring in Bangalore, preferably Sapphire or emerald. Also I visited a few big stores like Kalyan Jewellers, Malabar etc but the natural gemstone they showed were cloudy and didn’t sparkle at all. I understand that synthetic gemstone would do the job but i saw a few natural gemstone on Instagram stores that were completely different from what I saw in stores. Any suggestions would be helpful as I don’t have much knowledge about gemstones

Hello!

I’m looking to get a lehenga stitched in Chandni Chowk and delivered to Australia within the next 6 weeks. I’ve attached the style I’m looking for.

I’d appreciate any recommendations or feedback on reliable designers or boutiques that can recreate this style, especially those experienced in international shipping and meeting tight deadlines.

I’m currently considering Ritu Dzign. Has anyone had any experience with them, or would you recommend any other boutiques in Chandni Chowk?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Hello, m looking for a resort near Mumbai to celebrate my wedding with my friends- dance,booze -in January 2027

Total 30 people max - 1 night

Also suggest a host - it will be like sangeet

Need good space inside so that we can dance and click pictures and play games

Thanks

Hi everyone,

I wanted to ask all the brides and grooms here, especially those who were working full-time while planning their wedding. What were the biggest challenges you faced and what do you wish you had planned earlier?

Me and my bf are planning to get married next year and would love to take ideas from other's experiences.

How did you manage the shopping and planning amidst a full-time job? Things like buying outfits, getting them tailored, jewellery shopping, venue booking, guest lists, decor and themes, menu, invitations, etc. How much time does all of this realistically take and how early would you recommend starting? Also, what were the simplest workarounds that saved you time, stress and unnecessary running around?

PS: We live in a different city than our families and planning to have a destination wedding. Our parents too are working professionals and won't be able to help much in planning. That's why we wish to be prepared in advance. I also hope your advice helps other couples in this subreddit planning their wedding.

PLEASE SAVE ME

I'm torn! I can't decide between designer saree, south indian style lehenga made of kanchipuram silk saree or the usual lehenga.

Only thing I'm certain of is I want to go for something simple and elegant. I find heavy work saree/lehenga tacky (at least the ones I can afford, high end ones are a different topic).

Please suggest which one you think is best for reception out of the 3 above

For reference I'm 5'2 and 50 kgs

I’m looking for suit boutiques in Pakistan - India that take orders through WhatsApp, usually via their Instagram or Facebook page. Which shops have you had a good experience with?

budget max £200

Thanks!

Looking for shop recommendations in Chandni Chowk for my bhabhi’s engagement lehenga!
We’re looking for subtle yet unique lehengas with modern embroidery, not the usual heavily shimmery golden/champagne/copper designs. I’ve attached reference images for the kind of work we like, but haven’t been able to find similar designs.
We prefer pastels or champagne shades, avoiding grey and white. Budget is ideally under ₹60k, max ₹80k.
Please suggest shops that have unique designs and not just the usual generic/traditional stuff.

Shops we have already searched- jb designers, dvasa by abhi and ctc global

Hey everyone!

Getting married this December in Dehradun, and I’m trying to understand how wedding expenses are traditionally divided between the bride and groom’s families, especially in North Indian weddings.

For some context, here’s our guest count:

• Engagement/Sangeet

• Groom’s side: 40

• Bride’s side: 100

  • Haldi

• Groom’s side: 40

• Bride’s side: 100

  • Wedding

• Groom’s side: 60

• Bride’s side: 200

Around 30 guests from my side will be travelling to bride’s city uttarakhand and will need accommodation.

Current expense arrangement:

• I’m contributing 40% towards the wedding venue(haldi+wedding same day - 18 lakhs, engagement a day before-2 lakh).
• I’m covering accommodation for my 30 guests.
• I’m also contributing 40% towards wedding photography.(1.6 lakh is what photographer quoted)
• Baraat band, ghodi, etc. are additional expenses I’m trying to figure out.

I’ve heard that traditionally, when the wedding happens in the bride’s hometown, the bride’s family takes care of accommodation and hospitality for the baraatis, while the groom’s family handles the band, ghodi and procession.

But I’m not sure how commonly this is actually followed nowadays.

Would love to hear from people who’ve recently gotten married in North India, especially Uttarakhand, Delhi, UP or Punjab.

How did you split these expenses? Did the bride’s family arrange the groom’s guests’ accommodation, or did each side cover their own guests? And who paid for the baraat band and ghodi?

Also, when there’s a big difference in guest count between both sides, do families usually split wedding expenses 50/50, proportionally, or just follow traditional customs?

Not trying to make it a competition about who pays more. Just genuinely curious about what’s considered normal these days, since this is all pretty new to me.

Would appreciate some real experiences!

I had gold champagne dress in my mind for my sangeet . I thought it would look good on me as a brown skin girlie but when I went for shopping it was not suiting me at all. Ended up buying this blue one.

My fiance was not a big fan of the fish cut. But I think it looks good on my body

Thoughts please ? 🥲

So I’m getting married and I have some family I didn’t want to invite. Specifically one aunt in law who has spoken a lot of bad things about my mum and grandparents, started fights, looks down on my other aunt in law, and started rumours about me. She has previously called me to say bad things about my grandparents and when I told the family, she declined and said I’m lying. Everyone but my uncle (her husband) believed me. My mum didn’t let me release an audio recording I had of the convo to keep the peace.

In the last 3-4 years they have not spoken to me or asked about me at all. They come to our city and stay with friends and see my mum outside. This is different to before. My uncle even came to my house overnight and didn’t speak to me while I was at the same dining table. He did speak to me to say bye when he left.

Now for the wedding, because of all these issues and how my aunt always says shit about me and has ruined the last 3 big family functions. I said I don’t want to invite her. Mum and I discussed this in so much detail and it was a huge cause of stress. My family would talk bad about her but still wanted me to invite her for peace. Even though everyone agreed she could mess up things.

We finally agreed to invite them and sent invitations. She asked them to start speaking to me again (I didn’t know) so that I’d be comfortable. They didn’t bother. My mum asked my aunt not to wear red because I’m wearing red, my aunt said she would because that’s her favourite colour. She also said she’d be staying at a family friends house who was a big part of mums divorce/rumours about me.

Mum and I are paying for the wedding jointly and I’m handling everything with no support. I was going through so much stress due to this issue I started to have medical issues (same with mum).

Eventually one day mum and I fought and mum (I said not to) called my uncle and asked him to only come to our second wedding ceremony and not the first one or the sangeet or come by himself. He said okay.

The fallout: nothing happened directly with us. But my other uncle has said he won’t come to any event either. He’s sick so wouldn’t come to all anyways. My uncle (who we disinvited) said he won’t even come to the Sikh wedding to my other uncle because we don’t want them at the other events.

I know my mums upset. She’s a family person. But she also maintains that she’s not spending all this money for my wedding to be ruined because if my aunt comes that’s certain. My other family said they don’t blame me but I can’t help but feel like a horrible person who’s torn the family apart.

My uncle isn’t bad. He can’t help who he’s partner is. But I genuinely wouldn’t have been able to enjoy my own wedding due to constant fear of history repeating itself. I fear I’m the problem.

Anyone been in a similar situation? Just venting frustrations but open to advice.

i’ve been searching through pakistani brands, but have preferred indian designs so far because i like more intricate heavy work. the issue is indian brands aren’t very keen on extending the choli, and sometimes i can tell the lehenga wouldn’t even look right with a modest choli. does anyone know any brands that has modest options? or options that wouldn’t look odd if customized modest? my budget is $3k and this is my cousins wedding

Any leads for card vendors for sikh wedding will be appreciated

It will be for Sangeet.

Looking to buy something like this for my partner for our Walima. But, it's been rather difficult looking for something affordable. Any chance, anyone knows about shops or designers in the UK who sell or make such outfits and not cost a fortune (under £800)? 😭😭😭

Hi everyone,

I am getting married in November 2027, I am from Delhi, my partner and I want to do Haldi function a day before the wedding together and the next day we will be getting married.

The gathering of Haldi will be around 250 people and gathering of wedding will be around 600 people!

My partner and I are in the research phase and want to explore venues in Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon.

Our budget for both the events + food + Venue + Music + Decoration is around 16-17 lacs.

Suggest some venue options, it can be open ground, Banquet hall (Preferred), any 3 star hotel.

Also the budget is a strict restriction we can’t go above that!