If love is a many splendored thing then the best validation of this statement would have to be a wedding. While we’ve all experienced the incredible energy of an Indian wedding, imagine the transcendental energy in a room full of wedding orchestrators! Thanks to Ferns and Petals the wedding community has the opportunity to experience this once each year at the Wedding Fraternity Meet.
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Jack Daniel’s today announced that Mumbai is one of the 150 cities chosen for the Jack Daniel’s Barrel Hunt, a global scavenger hunt that will unite Friends of Jack across the world. To be held on August 20 in the city, the barrel hunt celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Jack Daniel distillery.
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Indians love weddings. With a whopping 2 billion populace it’s sort of intuitive that they would. Speak to any average-Joe affluent Indian about his view on weddings and two things will become amply clear- getting married is as essential as maintaining ownership of his left kidney and the wedding day demands only the ultimate demonstration of his love, invariably by throwing an extravagant party for almost everyone he or his family has ever known, because in our country larger-than-life is widely interpreted as married-for-life. Now while some may defy in outrage, the hard facts remain. The business of weddings in India is a sizeable one.
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Three and a half years old agency, Inextis Events, executed the 4th foundation day event for a PSU giant, Hindustan petroleum Ltd. Inextis has been designing and executing of HPCL’s Foundation day for the last 3 years. Over the years the event has had various themes, even the scale of the event going up and down. Commenting on association Dhruv Davar, CEO, Inextis Events said, “Needless to say it’s a great feeling to be executing the foundation day for the 4th consecutive year. HPCL was one of our first client and over the years we have been able to do some fantastic work with them. We feel proud at Inextis to be working with a Government of India Enterprise which is also a Global Fortune 500 company & wish do even better work in the coming years.” This year was a special one keeping the spirit of “Bringing Smiles, Touching Lives” children from NGO Cankids and Thinkfoundation were invited for a special performance which entralled the audience. The setup in addition to fabrication and technicals had good floral arrgements which enhanced the overall feel of the event. The event was attended by C&MD HPCL Shri M.K. Surana, whose address was webcasted live across India for all HPCL employees.
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What happens when Udaipur meets Jodhpur? It results in a spectacular wedding with a royal vibe. Lokesh Agarwal who belongs to the reputed family of Udaipur’s GR Infra Projects Ltd. and Riya Agarwal of Jodhpur’s Suncity Group of Companies tied the knot recently. It was among the most grand destination weddings Udaipur has hosted. The pre-wedding parties were organized at Balsamand Lake Palace, Jodhpur located beside the beautiful lake and at Taj Hari Mahal with a very graceful décor. The Mehendi function was held in specially made large AC dome on Pichola lakeside. Later, famous singer Charu Semwal mesmerized the guests with her music. Folk artist and singers entertained the guests and kept them moving to their beats. Sangeet function was held at Ananta Resorts which is surrounded by beautiful mountains. Famous singers Rahul Vaidya and flute player Baljinder Singh performed for the guests. Riya looked gorgeous as famous make-up artist Ojas got her ready for the functions. Laadi choreographed the dances for the family. The wedding was held at Shouryagarh, Udaipur. Drummers from Ahemdabad welcomed the royal baraat. Before the Varmala, there were grand fireworks with the backdrop of specially designed logos. There was a performance by an international symphony band. Lastly, a popular Sand Artist gave an emotional farewell to the bride. The entire wedding was organized by Anil Bohra, MD, Perfexion Events.
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Kerala recently witnessed the big fat wedding of NRI businessman Ravi Pillai's daughter Arathi at Asramam Maidan in Kollam, Kerala on Thursday, 26th November. Following the grand wedding ceremony, a reception was arranged at Le Meridian in Ernakulam on Saturday, 28th November by ‘The Royal Mandapam’. The extravagant reception venue boasted of a large indoor banqueting production of 75,000 square feet spread over different ballrooms. It took 20 days of pre-production, 300 skilled labours and 125 event managers to pull off this setup in Le Meridian which saw a roll out of 3100 elite guests which included many South Indian celebrities like Jayram, Dulquer Salmaan, Indrajith, Poornima, Mamta Mohandas and Ranjini Haridas to name a few. In addition, guests from the Middle East included the Royal families, diplomats and CEO’s arriving in private jets to bless the newly weds. The decor executed by ‘The Royal Mandapam’, was themed, 'Floral Extravaganza' with beautiful use of exotic flowers dressed up on rich drapes that adorned the hotel banquet. ‘The Royal Mandapam’ is a joint collaboration between Cochin based Impresario Event Management India Ltd., having over 20 years of experience in putting together formal events & weddings and ‘Studio Neelabh’- The Royal Group of Companies, Mumbai, one of India’s premium Design and Wedding Management group, famously known for creating unique signature events across the globe. Studio Neelabh is now consolidating its operations vertical, region wise in India and abroad. ‘The Royal Mandapam’ is a part of the pan India expansion of ‘Studio Neelabh’- The Royal Group of Companies, offering solutions in the domain of Wedding Management, Design, Stage Architecture and Entertainment for South India.
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After 8 months of planning and 19 days of on-ground production, a majestic set was created by Experiential Weddings by Studio Neelabh. The décor of the sangeet theme was inspired by the theme ‘An evening in Paris'. To bring the theme to life Studio Neelabh created a mesmerizing set. The entrance for the social event had a humongous moving windmill wrapped in red velvet followed by a red carpet while the stage resembled a mix of a life size Eiffel Tower and an enormous mascarade face mask. The main challenge of the wedding emerged in its execution as unexpected thunder showers and lighting struck upon arrival of guests making everything fall apart. However, the over-enthusiastic team of Experiential Weddings by Studio Neelabh managed to salvage the event and put everything back together in record-breaking time. The party was thrown-open with bubbly Karan Tacker playing host to the night and wooing the audience and the musical duo of Vishal & Shekhar performed on a few of their ground-breaking hit songs. Moving on with the wedding festivities, the reception at the MMRDA grounds saw another amazing set comprising of props inspired by The Royal Palace Gardens. The set was created inspired by Chiragin Palace of Istanbul with a fusion of Greek architecture and the mood was set with violinists playing to the guests. Furthermore, at the event Studio Neelabh introduced its new brand, The Royal Affairs which is a venue based wedding design and Management Company, catering in all hotel weddings in Mumbai. The brand currently is exclusively affiliated with Turf Club, Grand Hyatt and Trident Hotel.
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Panchhi events, an event company based out of Dehradun recently executed the 200 year celebrations of the Gorkhali regiment in the Indian Army. Being a 4 day event, Panchhi events was shouldered the responsibility of to create something spectacular for over 10,000 in attendance while taking good care of security at the same time as the likes of CM of Uttarakhand and CM of Sikkim were also to be present at the event. The event company rose to the challenge by conceptualizing and creating 3 light and sound shows for the audience in 3 different languages of Nepali, Hindi and English all played once on all the four days of the event. These light and sound shows demonstrated the history of the regiment in the army and instilled a spirit of nostalgia and pride amongst all the attendees. The main challenge for Panchhi events while executing the event was to engage the crowd in such large numbers. Speaking on how they overcame this hurdle, Rishabh Panchhi of Panchhi events said, “As the audience was also Gorkhali’s, we planned a lot of Gorkhali cultural programs which featured artists from all over the state and also included the special Kukhri Dance which is very popular for them. To further keep the audience engaged with the overall theme of the celebrations we also created a special film on the Journey of 200 years of the regiment.” Elucidating on the reaction of the audiences from the event Rishabh adds, “The attendees were became very emotional after knowing the journey of their regiment. They had no clue how much their soldiers have put in for the country. Though all 4 days of the event we were able to keep the attendees engrossed through elements like dances, live band performances etc. and they really enjoyed themselves.”
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