Vendors · April 2026 · 9 min
What your caterer wishes you knew about multi-day menus
Four ceremonies, four menus. How to brief a caterer so the mehndi lunch doesn't read like the reception, and both still feel like you.
By Rupa Shenoy
The Marigold Journal
Honest, practical guidance on planning an Indian wedding — from briefing vendors and pacing a multi-day celebration to budgets, menus, and the small decisions that make a day feel like yours.
Planning · April 2026 · 7 min
The anatomy of a great sangeet set list
Two decades of wedding floors, one clear pattern. The sangeets people talk about afterward aren't the loudest — they're the ones built in three acts.
By Marigold Studio
Planning · March 2026 · 6 min
Muhurthams and mornings
On building a schedule around a muhurtham without losing the guests who flew in for it.
By Marigold Studio
Planning · March 2026 · 4 min
In praise of the small guest list
Three hundred is not a ceiling. Sometimes it's a load-bearing wall you'd be happier without.
By Rhea Singh
Vendors · February 2026 · 7 min
Why we chose Jaipur
A visit to the press that sets our stationery, in its fifth decade and third generation.
By Neel Ananya
Real Weddings · February 2026 · 10 min
Four days in Plano: the Reddy–Menon wedding
A Malayali–Telugu wedding across a rented estate, a temple, and a ballroom — told through the moments we kept coming back to.
By Marigold Studio
Planning · February 2026 · 5 min
The sangeet playlist problem
How to build a sangeet that isn't just a Spotify shuffle of four decades of Bollywood hits.
By Marigold Studio
Style · January 2026 · 4 min
A quiet mandap
What restraint looks like in a room that has historically been defined by abundance.
By Kavita Rao
Traditions · January 2026 · 8 min
Interfaith unions, a practical note
Two traditions, one day. What actually works, and what looks good on paper but fails on the morning-of.
By Pandit Vishwanath
Traditions · January 2026 · 6 min
The vidaai, rewritten
A rite designed around a bride leaving her home, staged for a couple who lives three states away. Here's what we've learned letting families adapt it.
By Pandit Vishwanath
Style · December 2025 · 6 min
Reception looks: four looks, one bride
The fittings, the contingencies, and the quiet calendar behind a multi-ceremony wardrobe.
By Anjali Shah
Traditions · December 2025 · 5 min
Henna, the two-week countdown
How to prep skin, set expectations, and avoid the three mistakes that show up in every bridal photo gallery.
By Asha Kurian