Sagai · Mehfil · Mehndi · Baraat
Marwari weddings are built for grandeur: mehfil nights of song and dance, the mahira arriving with the maternal family’s gifts, a baraat on horseback, sword and all, and the toran struck at the door before seven pheras around the fire.
We’re set up for a Marwari / Rajasthani wedding — this is what we’d walk through with you, function by function.
Sagai · Mehfil · Mehndi · Baraat
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
01 / 10
Also: Mudha Tikka, Tilak, Roka, Sagaai
Weeks before, or a day or two before
The engagement — the families’ formal yes.
A mic for the priest and the speeches, and as much music after as the families want.
2 days before
02 / 10
Also: Ganesh Sthapana, Griha Shanti, Naandi Ganesh Pooja
About two days before
The puja that opens the wedding, at each family’s home.
Usually nothing from us — at most a priest mic and a small speaker.
2 days before
03 / 10
Also: Pithi, Pitthi Dastoor, Marwari haldi, Haldi
In the days before
Turmeric, traditional songs and a dhol at each home.
A dhol that needs no help, songs that do — a speaker and a mic for the singers, kept clear of the paste.
1 day before
04 / 10
Also: Sangeet, Mehfil-e-Sangeet, Geet Samelan
The evenings before the wedding
Song and dance, performed for the couple seated in pride of place — traditionally separate gatherings for the men and the women.
Performance production — playback, a stage, moving light, a screen for the family videos — and, if the families keep separate men’s and women’s mehfils, two sound zones or two time blocks so each one gets the full show.
1 day before
05 / 10
Also: Mehendi, Mehandi, Henna night, Mendhi
The 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.
1 day before
06 / 10
Also: Mahira, Mayra, Myra, Bhaat
After the pithi, before the wedding
The maternal uncle’s family arrives with gifts — sometimes in a procession of its own, with music.
A battery speaker that can walk with them in, and a mic for the moment it’s presented.
The day
07 / 10
Also: Barat, Nikasi, Toran, Torana
The wedding day
The nikasi send-off, a rider on horseback with a sword, the band and the dancing — and the toran struck at the door.
Mobile sound for the procession, a mic for the moment at the toran, and a clean hand-off to the indoor system for the aarti welcome.
Inside, typically
The day
08 / 10
Leads the weekend
Also: Lagan, Paanigrahan, Panigrahan, Pheras
The wedding day
Varmala, granthi bandhan, paanigrahan and seven pheras around the fire.
Invisible AV. Lav mics on the officiant and the couple, discreet front-fill so the back row hears every word, uplighting that still reads in daylight, and a multi-camera stream with a clean feed for grandparents watching from overseas.
Inside, typically
The day
09 / 10
Also: Vidaai, Vidai, Bidaai
After the ceremony
The farewell from home — quiet, emotional, short.
A music bed cued as the family walks, light on the doorway and the car.
The day
10 / 10
The evening of the ceremony, or a night after
The whole guest list, dressed up, with nowhere to be in the morning.
Show design from the grand entrance on. Lighting cued to your entrance and the first dance, a gobo of your monogram, IMAG screens so the back tables see every speech, and a system that carries the dance floor until the venue says stop.
01 / 10 · Sagai
Where it applies
Not every family wants every rule, and culture isn’t the same as religion. We ask first — then we follow what applies, exactly.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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