Location
Lake Como, Italy
Venue
Villa Erba & Villa d'Este
Guests
300 guests
Investment
₹6.8 Cr
Duration
3 days · June 2024
A second-generation NRI couple from Chicago, Simran and Arjun dreamed of a European wedding that their Punjabi grandparents would still recognise as a Punjabi wedding. The two worlds had to meet on the marble terraces of Lake Como.
Italian venues are built for 120-guest seated dinners, not 300-guest Indian celebrations with live cooking, dhol processions and a haldi that stains everything yellow. Permits, noise ordinances, and a supply chain with no Indian wedding infrastructure stood in the way.
We imported the soul and sourced the setting. Garden roses and wisteria met marigold and jasmine; a string quartet handed off to a Punjabi dhol; our Delhi chefs ran a live tandoor beside a Lombard kitchen. The palette stayed European — blush, sage, ivory — so the colour came entirely from the people.
A three-day celebration that Italian staff described as the most joyful event the villa had hosted in a decade. The haldi happened on a private lawn we tented overnight against forecast rain that never came. Guests called it 'a Punjabi wedding that happened to be in heaven.'
Defining Moments
- 01Dhol procession along the villa waterfront
- 02Delhi chefs flown in for live cooking
- 03Overnight weather-tenting of the haldi lawn
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