Roka & Shagun · Sangeet · Mehndi · Jaggo
A Punjabi wedding runs on dhol. Dholki nights, a jaggo that keeps the street awake, a baraat you can hear three blocks away — and then, for Sikh families, the stillest hour of the weekend at the gurdwara. The job is to be ready for both: bhangra-grade sound on one day, near silence the next morning.
We’re set up for a Punjabi wedding — this is what we’d walk through with you, function by function.
Roka & Shagun · Sangeet · Mehndi · Jaggo
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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.
Ceremony
Weeks before
01 / 12
Also: Roka, Kurmai, Shagun, Sagan
Weeks or months before — sometimes folded into the wedding week
The families make it official. Sometimes it’s an ardas in the living room; sometimes it’s a two-hundred-person party.
Scaled to whichever one it is: a speaker and a mic for the ardas and the speeches, or a full DJ setup when the engagement becomes its own night.
Inside, typically
4 days before
02 / 12
Also: Akhand Paath, Sehaj Path, Sukhmani Sahib, Sukhmani Sahib Path
In the days before
Prayer first, before any of the celebrating begins — at home or at the gurdwara.
Often nothing from us. If ragis are singing at home, a small, clean vocal system — and the gurdwara’s rules at home too: heads covered, shoes off, no music but the kirtan.
3 days before
03 / 12
Also: Ladies Sangeet, Dholki, Sangeeth, Sangeet night
A few days before
Boliyan and giddha around a dholki in the middle of the room — and, these days, a stage and a choreographer as well.
Two shows in one night. The traditional half: the dholki gets its own mic and the women singing boliyan get handhelds that won’t feed back. The performance half: intro videos per family group, a double-sided LED wall, a confidence monitor for the dancers and moving heads for every number. Then the DJ, on a system with the headroom for bhangra.
2 days before
04 / 12
Also: Mehendi, Mehandi, Henna night, Mendhi
One or two days before
Henna, singing and the first real dancing of the week — very often the same night as the sangeet.
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
05 / 12
Also: Maiyan, Mayian, Maiyaan, Vatna
A couple of days before, or the day before
Turmeric and mustard-oil paste at each family’s home, folk songs, and nobody in good clothes.
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.
1 day before
06 / 12
Also: Jago, Jaago, Jaggo night
The night before the wedding
A decorated pot of lit diyas, a dhol, and a family with no intention of sleeping.
Live dhol first, always — miked so it carries to the back without flattening the front. If it moves through the venue or down the street, battery sound moves with it. We plan around the open flame on the jaggo pot, and around the neighbours: residential curfews are real, and a silent-disco finish keeps it going after the speakers have to stop.
The day
07 / 12
Also: Chooda, Choora, Chura, Chooda ceremony
The wedding morning, or the day before
The maternal uncle and aunt, the red bangles, the kalire tied on — early, intimate, and the photos everyone keeps.
Mostly a lighting job: warm, flattering light in a crowded room at dawn, and a quiet speaker for the songs. Never in the photographer’s way.
The day
08 / 12
Also: Barat, Jañ, Janj, Ghodi Chadna
The wedding day, before the ceremony
Dhol, bhangra, a ghodi that has seen it all, and a street that knows exactly who is getting married.
Fully mobile. A battery PA on a cart or in the bed of a truck, wireless mics on the dhol players, and power that never depends on the venue’s outdoor circuits. Loud enough for a street procession, inside the city’s noise ordinance, with no cable on the ground between the staging lot and the door. The hand-off is planned: when the baraat reaches the entrance, the indoor system is already up and playing.
Inside, typically
The day
09 / 12
Also: Milnee, Milni ceremony
As the baraat arrives
The two families meet properly — uncle to uncle, grandfather to grandfather — one pair at a time, with garlands and a hug.
An MC mic so every pair is announced by name and relation, a speaker the whole forecourt can hear, and light on the meeting point if it’s early morning. Before a gurdwara ceremony the milni usually opens with an ardas, outside.
The day
10 / 12
Leads the weekend
Also: Anand Kaaraj, Anand Sanskar, Laavan, Lavan
The wedding morning, at the gurdwara
Four laavan around the Guru Granth Sahib, sung by the gurdwara’s ragis. About an hour, and the stillest hour of the weekend.
The gurdwara runs the darbar, so our role is usually the recording and the stream — done quietly, by the gurdwara’s rules. We take a feed from their desk where they allow it, keep cameras low and still, and send a clean, captioned stream to family abroad.
Inside, typically
The day
11 / 12
Also: Vidaai, Vidai, Bidaai, Doli ceremony
After the ceremony
Phulian thrown back over the shoulder, and everybody pretending not to cry.
The doli songs, cued the moment the family starts walking, and enough light on the doorway and the car for the photos.
The day
12 / 12
The evening of the ceremony, or a night after
A dhol entrance, speeches, and a dance floor that doesn’t empty until the venue makes it.
Show design built for a Punjabi floor: a dhol entrance cued with the lighting, IMAG for the speeches, your monogram in light, a first dance under a single warm spot — then a system with the low end and the headroom for bhangra until the venue says stop.
01 / 12 · Roka & Shagun
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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