A Wedding Named Marriage
Wiwaha is the Sanskrit word for marriage — the sacred union. When Madhavan Iyer and Preethi Subramaniam visited this Balinese-inspired wedding destination in Nellukunte, Bettahalasur, Yelahanka, the name felt like more than coincidence. Both from traditional Tamil Brahmin families, they needed a venue where the space felt sacred — not simply functional. Wiwaha by Praman understood that completely.
The Wedding
Welcome arch: Panigrahana designed a banana leaf column and marigold torana entrance. Every guest who passed through felt they were entering a ceremony, not a venue.
Wedding morning: Homam began at 5am. Mandap positioned facing east as tradition requires. Morning light entering the ceremony space from 7am.
The mandap: pure South Indian tradition — banana leaf pillars, mango leaf torana, mogra cascading from every column, brass vessels with sacred flowers, nilavilakku lamp burning throughout. Simple. Perfect. Sacred.
Reception: The same hall transformed into deep red and gold with the couple's initials in a floral installation 3 metres high.
"It was exactly what a Tamil Brahmin wedding should feel like," says Preethi's mother. "And also beautiful enough to feel relevant today."
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