Traditional Bengali
Meera and Kabir's wedding was, in Meera's words, "every Bengali wedding cliché we grew up loving" — and they leaned into every one of them. Held across two adjoining banquet halls in South Kolkata, the four-day affair moved from gaye holud to bou bhaat without missing a single tradition.
A classic red-and-white banquet hall was chosen deliberately over a boutique venue — the couple wanted the traditional shamiana feel, complete with a live shehnai player greeting guests at the entrance and a conch shell sounding through the courtyard during the bor jatri.
"Our families wanted every ritual done properly, and honestly, so did we. There's a reason these traditions have lasted generations."
Red and white theme flowers dominated the mandap, with hand-painted alpana patterns leading up to the stage. The reception shifted to a gold and ivory palette, with a chandelier-style floral installation above the couple's table that became the evening's most photographed corner.
Every ritual was observed in full — dodhi mangal, gaye holud, the saat paak carried by Meera's brothers, and an emotional bidaai that had all 350 guests reaching for tissues. Kabir arrived on a decorated palki, a nod to his grandfather's own wedding four decades earlier.
