Weeks before
01 / 10
Lagna Lekhan
Also: Laghana Lekhan, Lagna Lekhan Vidhi
Once the match is set
At one family’s home, the priest fixes the date and the time.
No production needed — this one belongs to the family.
Mehndi · Sangeet & Garba · Jaan · Vivah
Jain weddings.
A Jain wedding carries its own vidhi — the Navkar, mangal geet, the pheras with their own hymns — inside a weekend that, for Gujarati and Marwari Jain families, looks much like their community’s: mehndi, a sangeet or garba night, the jaan. And the schedule may answer to sunset as much as to the muhurat.
Lunar is run by Aadi Shah, who is Jain and grew up in the community — so the vidhi is familiar from the family’s side of the mandap, not just the production desk. We’ve also installed AV for the Jain Samaj of Colorado.
We’re set up for a Jain wedding — this is what we’d walk through with you, function by function.
Mehndi · Sangeet & Garba · Jaan · Vivah
Every function, covered.
Choose your family’s tradition and how you want to celebrate. Every function, in the order your family will expect — and what we actually bring to each one.
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How you want it
Three to five days. The complete run, done properly — every function, elders front and centre, family abroad watching live.
Weeks before
02 / 10
Vinayakyantra Puja
Also: Vinayak Yantra Puja, Lagna Patrika Vachan, Lagan Patrika Vachan
After the lagna lekhan
The puja, then the wedding letter read aloud to the gathered family.
If the reading is to a full room, a mic and a small speaker so every relative hears the lagna patrika.
- Wireless mic
- Compact speaker
2 days before
03 / 10
Mehndi
Also: Mehendi, Mehandi, Henna night, Mendhi
A day or two before
Daytime, intimate, everyone sitting still for two hours while the henna dries.
Soft wash lighting, small discreet speakers for the music or the dholki singing, and a livestream for the family overseas who would have been sitting right there.
- Discreet speakers
- Wireless mic
- Soft wash
- Livestream
1 day before
04 / 10
Sangeet & Garba
Also: Sangeet, Garba, Raas Garba, Dandiya
The evening or two before
Performances and, for Gujarati Jain families, the garba circles — the loudest night of a Jain wedding.
Performance playback and moving light for the sangeet, then 360° coverage for the garba so every ring hears the same beat. Built to go until the families stop — not until the system gives up.
- Line array
- 360° fills
- Moving heads
- LED wall
- Live singer mics
1 day before
05 / 10
Pithi
Also: Pithi Dastoor, Haldi, Bana Betai
In the days before
Outdoors, bright and messy. Everyone leaves yellow.
Weather-rated speakers, wireless everything and nothing on the ground that can’t take turmeric. A playlist or a dhol, and a mic for the moments in between.
- Battery speakers
- Wireless mic
- Weather-rated gear
The day
06 / 10
Jaan
Also: Ghudchadi, Barati, Baraat, Jan
The wedding day, before the ceremony
The arriving family’s procession — sometimes stopping at a nearby derasar first — and the ponkhna welcome with mangal geet at the door.
Mobile sound for the procession, then quiet at the door so the welcome singing carries.
Inside, typically
- Ghudchadi
- Jaan
- Ponkhna
- Battery PA
- Wireless mics
- Indoor hand-off
The day
07 / 10
Leads the weekend
Vivah
Also: Lagna, Jain wedding ceremony, Hasta Melap, Granthi Bandhan
The wedding day
Mangalashtak, the hands joined and the garments knotted, the mangal pheras sung through with mangal geet.
The vidhikar’s mic is the most important one in the room, and the mangal geet gets its own: the singing is part of the rite, so it’s miked properly instead of competing with a speaker. Front-fill for the back rows, uplighting that suits a daytime ceremony, and a multi-camera stream with a clean feed for family abroad.
Inside, typically
- Mada Mandap
- Antarpat
- Mangalashtak
- Varmala
- Kanyadaan
- Hasta Melap
- Granthi Bandhan
- Mangal Pheras
- Saptapadi
- Ashirvad
Ceremony protocol we follow
- Many Gujarati Jain weddings in North America follow the Gujarati sequence, with Jain mantras in the vidhi. We plan the weekend around both.
- The muhurat can land early — sometimes before dawn — so the crew call is built backwards from it.
- The vidhi is devotional: mangal geet, the Navkar, the priest’s chanting. We ask the family and the vidhikar what music they want during it, then mic the singing properly.
- Some families keep the pheras around a closed lamp rather than a havan fire. It changes the conversation with the venue’s fire marshal, so we ask early.
- Observant guests may not eat after sunset, which can pull dinner — and the whole reception programme — earlier. We build the run-of-show around it, not the other way round.
- Crew meals follow the family’s Jain food rules on site.
- Fixed power, very few rigging points and a tight load-in window. We scout it first.
- Lav mics
- Officiant mic
- Front-fill
- Uplighting
- Multi-cam stream
- Assistive listening
The day
08 / 10
Vidai
Also: Vidaai, Bidaai
After the ceremony, or after the dinner
The farewell — quiet, and over too soon.
A music bed cued as the family walks, light on the doorway and the car.
- Music cue
- Exterior light
The day
09 / 10
Reception
The same evening, or a day or two after
Dinner, speeches and dancing — on a schedule that may finish dinner before sunset.
If observant guests won’t eat after sunset, dinner moves early and the show moves with it: entrance and speeches while there’s still light, dancing after. We build the cue list around the sunset time for your date.
- Line array
- Moving heads
- Gobo monogram
- IMAG screens
- Wireless mics
- Uplighting
The day after
10 / 10
Jina Griha Darshan
Also: Derasar darshan, Temple visit
After the wedding
The couple’s first visit to the derasar together.
Nothing from us — this one is the temple’s.
01 / 10 · Lagna Lekhan
Where it applies
The protocol we follow.
Not every family wants every rule, and culture isn’t the same as religion. We ask first — then we follow what applies, exactly.
- Many Gujarati Jain weddings in North America follow the Gujarati sequence, with Jain mantras in the vidhi. We plan the weekend around both.
Every ceremony
- The officiant’s mic matters more than the PA.
- The back row hears the vows — that’s what the front-fills are for.
- Nothing we bring should appear in your photographs.
- Someone from our crew is at the desk for the whole ceremony, not just the start.
For a Jain ceremony
- The muhurat can land early — sometimes before dawn — so the crew call is built backwards from it.
- The vidhi is devotional: mangal geet, the Navkar, the priest’s chanting. We ask the family and the vidhikar what music they want during it, then mic the singing properly.
- Some families keep the pheras around a closed lamp rather than a havan fire. It changes the conversation with the venue’s fire marshal, so we ask early.
- Observant guests may not eat after sunset, which can pull dinner — and the whole reception programme — earlier. We build the run-of-show around it, not the other way round.
- Crew meals follow the family’s Jain food rules on site.
At a temple
- Fixed power, very few rigging points and a tight load-in window. We scout it first.
- The priest’s lav is the most important mic in the building.
- Temple rules on shoes, cameras and music come first. We plan around them, not through them.
Hotels and ballrooms
- House rigging, house power and in-house AV rules — we coordinate with the venue’s team before the site walk is over.
- Many hotels restrict haze and some effects outright. We get the policy in writing before we design around it.
- Load-in docks, freight elevators and union rules shape the schedule. We build the timeline from them.
Sangeet · Reception · Walima · After-party
Then the room changes.
Even the most traditional weekend usually has one loud night. Here’s what that night can look like.
Sound that hits
Club-grade low end, and a DJ booth a touring DJ won’t complain about.
Subs sized for the room and the guest count, not the catalogue. A proper booth: two monitors, a clean power run, a mic that cuts through, a flat surface that doesn’t wobble when the floor jumps.
- Line array
- Cardioid subs
- DJ booth
- Booth monitors
Haze and atmospherics
Beams you can actually see.
Moving lights only read as beams through haze. We run a fine water-based hazer, set low, so the room glows without anyone coughing through the speeches.
The venue realityMany hotels, temples and some estates prohibit haze, or will trip their fire system on it. We get the venue’s policy before we promise you beams — and design a show that still looks great if the answer is no.
- Hazer
- Moving heads
- Beam fixtures
Cold sparks, CO2 and confetti
The grand entrance, the first-dance finish, the drop at midnight.
Cold-spark fountains for the entrance and the first dance, CO2 jets on the drop, confetti for the last song. Cued from the booth, not guessed at.
The venue realityVenues decide what’s allowed, and some need sign-off from the local fire authority. Cold sparks have no flame, but they’re still an effect — we confirm every one in writing before it goes on the run-of-show.
- Cold-spark machines
- CO2 jets
- Confetti cannons
LED floor, 360 booth, projection
Turn the room itself into the show.
A light-up dance floor, a 360 video booth for the reel everyone will post, and projection on walls or ceiling — your monogram, a skyline, a slow sky of lanterns.
- LED dance floor
- 360 booth
- Projection mapping
- Gobo monogram
Silent disco
The curfew hits at ten. The party doesn’t have to.
Wireless headphones with two or three channels — the DJ on one, Bollywood on another, something slower on a third. When the venue or the city says the speakers go off, the dance floor keeps going.
The venue realityThis is the answer to an outdoor noise ordinance or a hard venue curfew, and almost nobody pitches it. Ask about it at the first call if your venue has a cut-off.
- Silent-disco headphones
- Multi-channel transmitters
The after-party switch
When the elders head home, the room changes over.
We plan the moment: house lights down, haze up, the uplighting goes from warm to saturated, the subs come in and the DJ changes gear. Ten minutes from dinner room to club, with no one moving a table.
- Lighting cue stack
- Sub reinforcement
- Room-wide colour change
Built for one in the morning
A system that still sounds good at 1am.
Open-bar timing, a late set that’s scheduled rather than improvised, and an operator who is still at the desk — not packing up — when the last song plays.
The venue realityYour venue’s licence and the city’s ordinance set the real end time. We find out what it is, then build up to it.
- Late-night crew
- Show operator
- Load-out after last song
However your family spells it
Jain · jain vidhi livestream · Lagna Lekhan · Laghana Lekhan · Lagna Lekhan Vidhi · Vinayakyantra Puja · Vinayak Yantra Puja · Lagna Patrika Vachan · Lagan Patrika Vachan · Mehndi · Mehendi · Mehandi · Henna night · Mendhi · Sangeet & Garba · Sangeet · Garba · Raas Garba · Dandiya · Sangeeth · Pithi · Pithi Dastoor · Haldi · Bana Betai · Jaan · Ghudchadi · Barati · Baraat · Jan · Ponkhna · Vivah · Lagna · Hasta Melap · Granthi Bandhan · Mangal Pheras · Mada Mandap · Antarpat · Mangalashtak · Varmala · Kanyadaan · Saptapadi · Ashirvad · Vidai · Vidaai · Bidaai · Reception · Jina Griha Darshan · Derasar darshan · Temple visit
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