Wedding Planning
in Kolkata.
A day built around the two of you. Planned so your family can be present for all of it.
From the first conversation to the last guest leaving, we plan every function — every vendor, every timeline, every detail — so the people who love you most can show up as guests instead of organisers.
Wedding Philosophy
The wedding you want. Not the wedding everyone has.
Most weddings in Kolkata follow a template. Same vendors. Same flow. Same décor everyone has seen at the last three weddings they attended. The result is technically a wedding — but rarely the wedding the family actually wanted.
We start somewhere else. Before we talk vendors, we talk to you. What kind of wedding are you imagining? Loud or intimate? Traditional or modern? Bengali, Marwari, Punjabi, South Indian, Muslim, Christian, inter-community? What did you love at the last wedding you attended? What did you hate?
Then we plan backwards from that.
Every wedding we plan is built around the couple and the family hosting it — never around what was easiest to repeat from the last one. The vendors are sourced for you. The timeline is built for you. The pricing is transparent from the first quote. And on the wedding day, one team handles everything — so you don't have to.
Purple Crown Events plans weddings of every tradition in Kolkata — Bengali, Marwari, Punjabi, Muslim, South Indian, Christian, Bihari, Jain, and inter-community — end-to-end, with transparent planning fees and one dedicated planning team through every function.
What Full Planning Includes
Everything that goes into the wedding. Done by us.
Eight things every Full Planning wedding includes. The scale changes between a ₹5 lakh wedding and a ₹30 lakh wedding. The list doesn't.
Concept and design
The vision for each function — colour palette, mood, flow — built around your family, not pulled from a folder of past events.
Vendor sourcing and management
Decorators, caterers, photographers, makeup artists, priests, transport, lighting, sound, entertainment — we source, vet, negotiate, and manage every one of them.
Budget structuring
A detailed budget you can actually read. Every line item, every vendor cost, planning fees separated from event costs. No hidden margins, no last-minute additions.
Multi-day timeline planning
Mehendi, Haldi, Sangeet, wedding, reception — sequenced across days, locked to the minute, shared with every vendor in advance.
Ritual and tradition coordination
Pandit liaison, ritual sequence planning, briefing the families on what happens and when — especially when two communities are coming together.
Guest management
Invitations, hospitality, transport, accommodation for outstation guests, on-day coordination — handled by us.
On-day execution
Our team is on the ground from setup to closing, managing every vendor, every transition, every moment. You and your family are guests.
Post-event closure
Final settlements with all vendors, return of rentals, the cleanup. The wedding ends when we say it ends — not when you have to start chasing payments.
Pre-Wedding Functions
The functions before the wedding day.
A Kolkata wedding is rarely one day. These are the functions we plan in the lead-up — each one its own event, with its own setup, its own vibe, and its own coordination.
Tilak / Roka / Engagement
The formal start. Family meets family, the engagement is announced, the wedding date is fixed. Smaller in scale, but the tone of the entire wedding is often set here. We plan the venue, the décor, the catering, and the rituals — depending on the tradition.
Aiburobhat
The bachelor lunch in Bengali tradition — the bride or groom's last meal as an unmarried person, hosted by the family. Intimate, deeply emotional, deeply photographed. We handle the styling, the catering, the seating, and the floral setup.
Mehendi
A morning or afternoon function — bride, her friends, her family, mehendi artists, sometimes a small live music setup. Often held at home or at the venue where the wedding party is staying. We plan the décor, source the artists, coordinate the catering, and run the day.
Haldi / Gaye Holud
The turmeric ceremony — vibrant, messy, photogenic. In Bengali families it's Gaye Holud. In North Indian families it's Haldi. In Marwari families, Pithi. We coordinate it for whichever tradition the family follows — sometimes both, when two communities are joining.
Sangeet
The biggest pre-wedding function. Performances by family and friends, a stage, lighting, a DJ, choreographers if the family wants them, full F&B. Often the largest setup of the week after the wedding itself. We handle every element.
Cocktail Night
Increasingly common in larger weddings — usually the night before or after the Sangeet. A more intimate gathering, a bar setup, music, sometimes a live band. We coordinate the venue, the bar service, the entertainment, and the flow.
The Multi-Day Timeline
What a multi-day wedding actually looks like.
Every wedding we plan is different. This is one example of how five days might flow. Yours may have more functions, fewer, or be structured entirely differently.
Mehendi
Bride, her family, close friends, mehendi artists.
Aiburobhat
The bachelor lunch.
Haldi → Tilak + Sangeet
A turmeric ceremony in the morning at the family home or hotel. In the evening, the Tilak ceremony, immediately followed by the Sangeet — performances, dinner, late night.
Wedding Day
The main ceremony. Bride's entry, groom's entry, varmala, pheras or whatever ritual the tradition requires, dinner, reception.
Bidaai / Bou Bhaat
Morning farewell, or the groom's family's reception (Bou Bhaat in Bengali tradition, Reception in others). The week ends.
Every function can be at a different venue. Every function can have a different theme. We build the timeline around the family — not the other way round.
Two Ways To Work With Us
Pricing, fully published.
Planning fees only. These are separate from the event budget — the actual cost of vendors, venue, food, and everything else that goes into the wedding itself.
Full Planning
Starting from ₹1,00,000 or 15% of event budget — whichever is higher.
We plan and execute the entire wedding — every function, every vendor, every detail, from concept to closing. Engaged 4–12 months out.
Partial Planning
Starting from ₹50,000 or 15% of event budget — whichever is higher.
For families who want us to plan specific functions only — for example, just the Sangeet, or just the wedding day. Same scope, same team — just narrower in coverage.
Most planners in Kolkata don't publish their fees. We do. The fee is what you pay us for the planning, the coordination, and the execution — the work. The event budget is everything else: vendor costs, venue, food, décor, photography, and so on. Those are billed transparently, with vendor invoices visible to you.
Every Tradition We Plan
Every community. Same standard.
We have planned weddings across most of Kolkata's wedding communities. Each one is planned with full respect for the rituals, the order, and the cultural details — never as a template.
Bengali weddings
full ritual sequence, Aiburobhat, Gaye Holud, Shubho Drishti, Sindoor Daan, Bou Bhaat.
Marwari weddings
Tilak, Mehndi, Sangeet, Pithi, Phera, multi-day celebrations.
Punjabi weddings
Roka, Sagai, Mehndi, Sangeet, Anand Karaj.
Muslim weddings
Mangni, Mehndi, Nikah, Walima, full halal hospitality coordination.
South Indian weddings
Engagement, Nichayathartham, Kashi Yatra, full ceremony sequence in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalee, and Kannada traditions.
Christian weddings
Church ceremony, reception planning, full Anglo-Indian or community-specific traditions.
Bihari weddings
Tilak, Mehndi, Haldi, Shaadi, Bidaai — coordinated for Bihari families settled in Kolkata or returning home for the wedding.
Jain weddings
Vinayak Sthapana, Lagna Lekhan, ceremony in line with Jain ritual sequence and food restrictions.
Inter-community weddings
when two traditions are coming together. Carefully sequenced so both families' rituals are honoured in full.
If your community isn't on this list — ask us. The list is what we have planned. It isn't the limit.
Destination Weddings
Weddings outside Kolkata.
Some families want the wedding closer to home — but the location they call home is somewhere else. Others want the wedding away from everything — a hill, a beach, a quieter city. We plan destination weddings across India, with our base of operations in Kolkata and travel built into the planning.
The most common destinations our clients ask about are within driving distance of Kolkata — Mandarmani for beach weddings, Darjeeling and Siliguri for the hills, Sikkim for the mountains. Further destinations — Goa, Rajasthan, Kerala — we plan too, with longer lead times and on-ground coordination.
The model is the same as a Kolkata wedding. Planning fees on the same scale. Travel and accommodation costs for our team are added transparently to the budget — never hidden in vendor margins.
A Real Wedding
Riya and Karthik.
Five days. Three venues. Two traditions. And one Sangeet that almost happened somewhere else.
Her family from Salt Lake. His from Bangalore — flying in for a Bengali wedding, which neither side of the family had ever attended each other's style of. Five days, three venues, close to three hundred guests on the wedding day. We had four months to plan it.
The brief from Riya's father was simple. “His family is coming all the way to Kolkata. Make them feel the Bengali in everything.”
We started with the food. Every meal across the five days had at least one Bengali dessert. The wedding day menu was fully Bengali. Even the in-between teas had a touch of it — mishti, shondesh, kheer. None of it announced itself. It just arrived, alongside the South Indian and North Indian dishes the rest of the menu carried.
Guests stayed at Taj Vivanta. Mehendi and Haldi happened there. The wedding ceremony was at Raajkutir in Swabhumi.
The Sangeet — that was the one that tested us.
It was booked at a banquet hall. Thirty-six hours before the function, Riya's father called. He wanted to upgrade it to a cruise on the Ganges instead. The Ganges Queen. The event was on Sunday. He was calling on Friday night.
You don't say no to that conversation. You say yes and then you don't sleep.
The LED stage configuration we'd planned for a flat banquet floor had to be recalculated for a moving deck. The DJ rig, the lighting plan, the dancers' entries — all of it had to fit a space that was a fraction of the original, on water, with no walls. Guest transport had to be rerouted to a jetty. Catering had to be re-coordinated with cruise operations. The décor, which wasn't even ours originally, we took on too — there wasn't time to onboard anyone new. Fairy lights, drapes, the stage backdrop, all sourced and installed inside thirty-six hours.
By Sunday evening, the guests were boarding the Ganges Queen. Music carrying across the water. Riya's father stood on the deck looking like he'd planned it that way from the start.
The wedding the next day was structured as two ceremonies, back to back. The Bengali rituals came first — Riya entered in her red Banarasi, sat through Shubho Drishti, Sindoor Daan, the full sequence. Then a planned half-hour pause. Outfit change. She entered again in her South Indian look, Karthik in his, and the Tamil ceremony began. Two ceremonies, one wedding day, both families seeing their traditions fully — not folded into a compromise.
A few days after the event, Riya sent us a review:
“I had the pleasure of working with Abeer from Purple Crown Events for my wedding, and I couldn't be happier with the experience. Abeer and his team did a phenomenal job with every detail. The anchor, the dancers, the lighting, the sound — everything came together exactly the way it should have. The coordination was seamless, and Abeer made sure every moment was perfect. The Sangeet was a huge success — everyone loved the performances and the vibrant energy of the evening. When it came to the wedding, Abeer exceeded all expectations once again. I highly recommend Purple Crown Events for anyone planning a celebration that matters.”
A celebration that matters. That's the part we kept thinking about.
More From Our Recent Weddings
A short selection.
From weddings we've planned across Kolkata — across communities, across budgets. The full portfolio lives a click away.
Frequently Asked
Things couples and parents ask before booking.
For Full Wedding Planning, our planning fee starts at ₹1,00,000 or 15% of the event budget, whichever is higher. For Partial Planning, it starts at ₹50,000 or 15% — whichever is higher. These are planning fees only. They cover our work — concept, vendor sourcing, coordination, and execution. The actual cost of vendors, venue, food, and décor is the event budget, billed separately and transparently.
For Full Planning, ideally 8–12 months out. The best vendors in Kolkata book out 6–9 months in advance, and the better the lead time, the better the vendor selection and the better the rates. For Partial Planning or single-function planning, 3–4 months is workable. For destination weddings outside Kolkata, start at least 10–12 months early.
Eight things — concept and design, vendor sourcing and management, budget structuring, multi-day timeline planning, ritual coordination, guest management, on-day execution, and post-event closure. Everything from the first conversation to the final vendor payment. The full breakdown is above on this page.
Marwari weddings are multi-day affairs — Tilak, Mehndi, Sangeet, Pithi, the wedding ceremony, and the reception, often spread over four to seven days. We work with Marwari families in Kolkata regularly, source pandits familiar with Marwari ritual sequences, coordinate the food — pure vegetarian, often Jain-friendly — and plan the décor in line with traditional colour palettes. Every function is planned individually, but the week is built as one connected celebration.
If your wedding is small, single-day, and entirely traditional with vendors your family has used before — probably not. You can do that with a list and a few phone calls. If your wedding is multi-day, multi-function, has 100+ guests, involves vendors you haven't worked with before, or involves two traditions coming together — a planner saves you not just time but money, by sourcing better vendors at better rates and preventing the cascading mistakes that drive most Kolkata wedding budgets 30% over the original estimate.
Yes. We plan destination weddings within driving distance of Kolkata — Mandarmani, Darjeeling, Siliguri, Sikkim — as well as further afield like Goa, Rajasthan, and Kerala. The lead time is longer and the planning fee scale is the same. Travel and accommodation for our team are added to the event budget, never hidden in vendor margins.
This is one of the things we're built for. When two communities are coming together — Bengali and South Indian, Marwari and Punjabi, Hindu and Muslim — the wedding has to honour both sides fully, not fold them into a compromise. We plan the rituals in full sequence for both traditions, brief both families on what happens and when, coordinate priests or officiants for each, and design the food and décor so both sides see themselves in the celebration. Riya and Karthik's wedding above is a real example.
Something almost always does. A vendor runs late. Power flickers. A guest count expands without notice. The difference is what happens next. Our team is on the ground from setup to closing, and the entire vendor list is on speed dial — replacements pre-identified for every category before the day even starts. The family doesn't hear about most of these moments. They hear about them later — sometimes, if we feel like telling the story.
Why Couples Choose Us
Four things that aren't industry standard in Kolkata.
Transparent planning fees, published.
Most wedding planners in Kolkata won't tell you their fees until you're three meetings in. Ours are above. Whatever the wedding, the fee structure is the same. Whatever the vendors cost, the invoices are visible to you.
Every tradition, fully planned.
Bengali, Marwari, Punjabi, Muslim, South Indian, Christian, Bihari, Jain, inter-community. The planning depth is the same for every one of them — never a template, never a copy-paste.
A limited number of weddings per season.
We deliberately take on a small number of weddings each wedding season. Not as a marketing line — as the model. It means your wedding isn't being run between two others on the same weekend.
Built for Kolkata, not Googled the night before.
Four years of vendor relationships across the city. Venue managers we know personally. Decorators, caterers, photographers, lighting teams we've worked with on 40+ events. You're getting a planner with Kolkata in their phone book, not in their browser history.
Ready To Talk
Tell us what you're imagining.
No commitment, no pressure — just a conversation. WhatsApp, email, or a free 30-minute call.