July 24th, 2018 by OYO Team

Indian Wedding Decorations are always elaborate and need your full attention and a lot of time. There has to be a lot of planning with your chosen wedding places. Since a lot of lights and flowers are involved they have to be done at the last minute, so have the plans well chalked out, and the ingredients ready.

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  • Mandap

The wedding mandap, exclusively made for performing Indian wedding rituals is the prime focus inside the wedding hall. It needs to be well prepared with flowers and everything beautiful. Make sure it is big enough for the phere, the holy fire, and the priest to move about freely in. The mandap is typically decorated with flowers and drapes. To make it stand out, use some pinwheels in addition. Make sure the drapes are secured to the posts. Keep inflammable things away from the fire.

Go for strong strings holding big flowers. If you are using big flowers, space them out. If you are using small flowers, use a lot of them. Match the drapes with the colour of the bride’s wedding outfit. There will be an aesthetic symmetry to it. Use many colours and don’t forget to use some white. White makes the other colours stand out. That is for the flowers. For the drapes, either use pastels like peach and lilac, or bright colours like red and orange.

  • Entrance

The entrance decoration to the wedding venue is the first impression your guests will have about your wedding. Make sure it is stunning. Have the bride and groom’s names written in cool graphiti. Have a series of broad arcs for the guests to walk under. Do not go cheap on the entrance. Avoid the balloons. Go for greens and flowers. A lush green canopy with some creepers dangling around is the perfect entrance to a wedding.

  • Dining area

The dining area is often right after the entrance. Look for a wedding venue where the dining venue is somewhere else, inside, away from plain sight. It should be in a secluded place that isn’t also a passage for everybody getting in and out of the venue. You have all the freedom to decorate it however you want. You can have an open space with string lights or a place with a roof and lampshades hanging. Freshen up the place with a lot of little plant pods, unless it is already a garden.

  • Dining tables

It is fun to decorate dining tables, mostly because there are numerous options. The tablecloths need to be beautiful, to begin with. The cutlery and plates need to be of light and fine glass. Coloured glass will make it all look so much prettier. Have vases at each table. Lampshades will be a good idea too. It will keep the table lit well without putting too bright light in your eyes while you eat.

  • Wedding room

The wedding room has to be a big one because many people will want to be in it during the wedding. The air conditioning must work properly, especially for the sake of the bride and the groom who will have too many things all over them, suffocating them literally.

Keep the wedding room decorations simple. Ample lighting, some drapes to give coloured layers to the light. Make sure the rest of the room is not more decorated than the mandap itself. Frame the doors and windows with flowers. Cover the walls in drapes.

  • Lighting

The lighting is one of the most crucial elements of any event decor. The right lighting can make everything look ten times better. Wrong lighting can kill everything. Make sure every pathway is lit with bulbs covered in beautiful yellow and orange lampshades. Covering the plants in fairy lights is a little tacky. Go for coloured bulb strings over them instead.

  • Drapes

There has to be a lot of drapes for a wedding decoration. That isn’t a new piece of information. The trick is to get the colour combinations and fabric right. Get satin for the drapes. This fabric has the exact transparency required to let just enough light to pass through to keep things well lit. Go for reds and pinks around the wedding mandap or peach and yellow. Do not mix up all the colours in the same place. It will look tacky. Put the light pink and purple in the same place. Put the yellow and orange together. Put red and purple together.

  • Walls

The walls need to be covered if they are not painted to fit the colour of the lighting and the drapes. Cover them entirely in the drapes. Give a different tone to each room. Also, the outer walls of the building need to be well decorated. String lights are common but still the best option. Again, don’t go for one string each of every colour. Keep it to a single colour, maybe yellow or white, to make it bright. Never go for pink, blue, yellow, everything together. It will look, you know it by now… tacky.

  • Flowers

The flower arrangements have to be done very meticulously. Flowers are where most of the decoration money goes. So with a strategic arrangement of flowers, you can use the least of them and still fill up the whole place. Go for green leaves in pods for starters. Cover some of the walls in plants. Keep plants on either side of the passages. Keep flower vases on the dining tables. Put big flowers at a reasonable distance among the plants. The mandap has to have a lot of flowers.

  • Photo Booths

Too many people try to take selfies at weddings and that ends up getting the place crowded. So, make a special corner dedicated to photographs. Keep it well lit with white and yellow lights. Keep a mirror if you want to but make sure there is a dressing room open for guests where women will line up to fix their lipsticks, or men will fix their hair. You know how it gets when you have mirrors. So, make sure the photo booth mirror is for photo sessions only. Decorate the photo booth with quirky decorations. You can even use different wedding themes and décor ideas too.

  • Flower Chaadar

The bridal flower chaadar has to be as stunning as the bride’s wedding attire. Get a strong framework for it and make it just as long as it needs to be. Too long chaadars needs to have more handles and more handlers.

It becomes complicated when too many people need to hold it while entering the wedding venue or climbing down the stairs. Put nice lights in it or tassles to make it look unique. The dupatta and the flowers in it will, of course, be there.

  • Ingredients for rituals

There will be various ingredients for every ritual to follow on the wedding day. But for a long time, they will just have to be there and not be used. So, you need to make sure they are arranged well. Keep a separate box for everything. Keep boxes of various shapes and put them in decorated trays. Place them in the order the priest will be needing them. It just shows how well organised you can be.

  • Stage

The wedding mandap is not the only stage there will be. The stage where the bride and groom sit on their royal chairs and have to stand up to get clicked with their relatives and friends, is the stage they will be on most of the time. Decorate it with flowers, evenly placed carpets that do not fold in to trip anyone, and enough lighting. Make sure the drapes do not cast a shadow on the chairs because the bride and groom’s faces need to be clear in the candid photos taken.

  • Car

The wedding car is iconic in an Indian wedding. The car looks unique in an Indian wedding decorations concept. But you don’t want it to look too typical. So, instead of just covering it with flowers, go for leaves too. Make a canopy on the roof of the car. Put some vines on the sides and stick attractive flowers in the vines. Make sure the front and back are not cluttered with decorations. The driver’s vision shouldn’t be blocked. It is weird so many people make this rookie mistake and have half the decoration undone because of not thinking things through.

  • Your house

Most weddings don’t take place in the bride’s own house anymore. If your house is the venue you have nothing else to take care of. But if it isn’t there will be some guests or co-hosts helping you out making trips back and forth. So, some string lights along the outer walls and some flower decor at the entrance of your house is a must. Also, the rooms that are unlocked should be tidy, no matter how busy you were. Assign someone to clear up after you.

These wedding decoration ideas will help you pull off a great Indian wedding.

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