Wedding PlannerKolkata
Every ritual, in order. Every moment, yours.
Wedding planners in Kolkata for every tradition — planned end-to-end, so your family can be guests at their own celebration.
Why We Do This
A wedding is one day. The memory of it lasts the rest of your life.
The Idea
So you should be in it — not running it from the side of the room.
How We Work
We hold every thread. The vendors, the timeline, the thousand small things. You hold the moments.
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.
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.
The Wedding Week
Your tradition. In its right order.
No two communities run a wedding the same way — and the order of the rituals is not a detail, it is the wedding. Choose your tradition. This is the week we would build for you.
A Bengali wedding traditionally flows: Aashirbaad → Aiburobhat → Dodhi Mangal → Gaye Holud → the wedding night (Bor Jatri, Shubho Drishti, Mala Bodol, Sampradan, Sindoor Daan) → Bidaay → Bou Bhaat.
Weeks before
Aashirbaad
The elders' blessing. Both families bless the match with dhaan and dúrba — husked rice and grass — and from this moment, the wedding is real.
A day or two before
Aiburobhat
The last meal as an unmarried person — hosted by family, heavy with favourite dishes and heavier with feeling. Intimate, emotional, deeply photographed.
Wedding morning
Dodhi Mangal & Gaye Holud
At dawn, married women feed the couple curd and chiré. Then the turmeric travels from the groom's house to the bride's — and the families turn each other gold.
Wedding evening
Shubho Drishti & Mala Bodol
Carried in on a piri, the bride circles the groom seven times — then the first look, eyes meeting over betel leaves, as garlands change hands three times and the ululation rises.
The auspicious lagna
Sampradan & Sindoor Daan
The giving away at the sacred fire, the saat paak, and the vermilion that makes it final — the heart of the Bengali wedding night.
The day after
Bidaay & Bou Bhaat
The farewell, rice thrown back over her shoulder — and the next day, the groom's family hosts Bou Bhaat: the bride's first meal served as one of their own.
We also plan Christian weddings (church ceremony and reception, Anglo-Indian and community-specific traditions), Bihari weddings (Tilak, Mehndi, Haldi, Shaadi, Bidaai), and Jain weddings (Vinayak Sthapana, Lagna Lekhan, full ritual sequence with Jain food restrictions). If your community isn't listed — ask us. We plan to each tradition's own sequence rather than a template, and the list isn't the limit.
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 ₹40 lakh wedding. The list doesn't.
Full wedding planning with Purple Crown Events includes 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.
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 — your planning fee shown separately from your event budget, every cost grouped clearly, nothing buried. One clear event budget, agreed upfront — no surprise line items later.
Multi-day timeline planning
Every function sequenced across days in your tradition's correct order, 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.
Wedding Décor
Wedding décor in Kolkata.
Most wedding conversations in Kolkata start with the look — the mandap, the stage, the gate your guests walk through, the flowers on every table. Wedding decoration is where a celebration first becomes visible, and it's where we start designing. Every wedding we plan gets its own décor concept: the stage and mandap design, the entrance gate, the flower décor, the lighting, and the colour story that runs from the first function to the reception.
We deliberately don't keep an in-house décor team. Instead, we work as your wedding decorators in Kolkata through vetted decorator partners — chosen per event for the style your wedding actually needs. A traditional Bengali mandap calls for a different maker than a contemporary floral stage. We design the décor, brief the decorator, negotiate the rate, and direct the installation — so the look is designed for your wedding, not pulled from a catalogue.
Biye Bari
Bengali wedding decoration — biye bari, done right.
A Bengali wedding isn't one event — it's a week of them, and each has its own look. Bengali wedding decoration done properly means designing the whole biye bari: the home dressed for the days of rituals, the gate, the courtyard, the seat where every blessing happens. Biye bari decoration is its own craft — kulo and topor motifs, alpona at the threshold, banana stems and a mango-leaf toran at the gate, marigold and tuberose everywhere the family gathers.
The ritual functions each get their own treatment. Gaye holud decoration is built around the haldi seat — yellows and marigolds, a backdrop that photographs beautifully while the turmeric flies. The aiburobhat decoration frames the last meal as an unmarried person — the thala laid out, the favourite dishes presented like the feast it is. Totto decoration dresses the trays of gifts that travel between the two families — arranged and carried in procession, because in a Bengali wedding the totto is displayed, not just delivered.
And on the wedding day itself: the chhadnatola, the mandap, the wedding gate decoration the borjatri walk through, and the reception stage. We design each of these through the same vetted decorator partners, in sequence, so the week reads as one celebration rather than seven separate setups.
Two Ways To Work With Us
Pricing, in full.
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.
A wedding planner in Kolkata typically doesn't publish fees — Purple Crown Events does: Full Planning is 12% of the event budget, from ₹50,000 up to ₹1,50,000, and Partial Planning is 12% from ₹30,000 up to ₹1,00,000.
Full Planning
From ₹50,000 — 12% of your event budget, up to a maximum planning fee of ₹1,50,000. Published, not quoted behind closed doors.
We plan and execute the entire wedding — every function, every vendor, every detail, from concept to closing. Ideally booked 6 to 12 months out.
Partial Planning
From ₹30,000 — 12% of your event budget, up to ₹1,00,000.
For families who want us to plan specific functions only — for example, just the Sangeet, or just the wedding day. Same standard, same team — a defined slice of the wedding rather than the whole.
All planning fees are exclusive of GST.
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 as one agreed event budget, fixed before we start — the number you approve is the number you pay.
A Real Wedding Story
Riya and Karthik.
Five days. Three venues. Two traditions. And one Sangeet that almost happened somewhere else.
IChapter One
The Setup
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.
IIChapter Two
The Twist
The Sangeet 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.
IIIChapter Three
The Wedding
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.
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 as a clear line in your budget, agreed before we begin.
International weddings are taken on case-by-case — tell us the destination and we'll tell you honestly whether we can hold our standard there.
Purple Crown Events plans destination weddings from its Kolkata base — Mandarmani, Darjeeling, Siliguri and Sikkim within driving distance, plus Goa, Rajasthan and Kerala further afield — with the same published fee structure and team travel costs added transparently to the budget.
The Traditions We Plan
Weddings we plan, across every tradition.
We plan weddings across communities and across budgets in Kolkata. The full portfolio lives a click away.
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 — and the event budget is one number, agreed upfront, before we start.
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.
One team, from first call to final payment.
The people who plan your wedding are the people running it on the day — not a day-of coordinator you meet for the first time that morning. One team holds every thread, start to finish.
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.
Frequently Asked
Things couples and parents ask before booking.
For Full Wedding Planning, our planning fee is 12% of the event budget, starting at ₹50,000 and capped at ₹1,50,000. For Partial Planning, it's 12% starting at ₹30,000, capped at ₹1,00,000. These are planning fees only, exclusive of GST. 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.
Weddings are booked 2 to 12 months out, and the ideal window is 6 to 12 months — the strongest vendors in Kolkata book out 6–9 months ahead. The fastest we can take a wedding is one week, though that narrows venue and vendor choice. For destination weddings, start 8–12 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 — Roka, Tilak, Mehndi, Sangeet, Pithi Dastoor, 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 small mistakes that snowball and push most wedding budgets well over what the family first planned for.
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 as a clear line in the event budget, agreed before we begin.
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. The Riya and Karthik story above draws on real weddings we've planned this way.
Something almost always does — a vendor runs late, the power flickers, a guest count jumps without notice. The difference is what happens next. Our team is on the ground from setup to closing, with replacements pre-identified for every vendor category before the day even starts. Most of these moments, the family never notices — and that's the point. You're meant to be present at your own wedding, not managing it.
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Tell us what you're imagining.
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