Location
Udaipur, Rajasthan
Venue
The City Palace & Taj Lake Palace
Guests
640 guests
Investment
₹4.2 Cr
Duration
4 days · December 2024
Anaya, an architect raised in London, and Vikram, heir to a Mumbai industrial family, wanted a wedding that honoured a heritage neither of them had grown up surrounded by. The brief was singular: make our families feel the weight of history without it feeling like a costume.
Three functions sat inside a 460-year-old UNESCO-sensitive monument where almost nothing may be drilled, hung or moved. Every structure had to be free-standing, every light heritage-safe, and a 640-guest baraat had to cross open water — at night.
We treated the palace as the protagonist and designed around it in deep Mewar tones — oxblood, antique gold and palace-blue. The mehndi unfolded in a mirrored courtyard; the sangeet became a candlelit opera on the lake terrace; the pheras took place at dawn on Jagmandir island, reached by a flotilla of garland-draped boats.
Twelve hundred hand-lit diyas, a 60-boat baraat and not a single mark left on the monument. The City Palace trust later called it one of the most sensitively produced weddings they had hosted. The couple's grandmother said she had 'finally seen the Udaipur of her childhood stories.'
Defining Moments
- 0160-boat baraat across Lake Pichola
- 02Dawn pheras on Jagmandir Island
- 03Heritage-safe conservation lighting
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