Gokarna beach-road resort with a 100-guest hall and a lawn.
Resort · Main Beach Road, Gokarna 581326 (Kumta taluk), Uttara Kannada, Karnataka
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Indicative pricing at Poornima Beach Stay: ₹750 per plate (WeddingWire-listed). Rates move, so message us on WhatsApp and we’ll send the current number for your date, guest count and function list.
Poornima Beach Stay is a resort in Main Beach Road, Gokarna 581326 (Kumta taluk), Uttara Kannada, Gokarna, Karnataka that hosts weddings of 60–100 guests. Pricing: ₹750 per plate (WeddingWire-listed).
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Couples usually compare a venue on three axes: destination, setting and cost. These are the strongest next reads for a family deciding whether Poornima Beach Stay belongs on the shortlist.
Poornima Beach Stay, Main Beach Road, Gokarna 581326 (Kumta taluk), Uttara Kannada, Bangalore — wedding cost: ₹750 per plate (2026), so catering alone for a two-function wedding runs about ₹2 lakh for 150 guests, ₹5 lakh for 300 guests and ₹8 lakh for 500 guests, before rooms, decor and taxes. Panigrahana Weddings, the architect-founded studio behind 500+ weddings since 2018, plans and designs weddings at Poornima Beach Stay on a flat planning fee quoted for the agreed scope with no vendor commissions, and sends a line-item estimate for your date and guest count. Indicative, the venue confirms rates per date.
| Component | Low | High | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per plate | ₹750 | ₹750 | published band, taxes extra |
| Catering, 150 guests × 2 functions | ₹2 lakh | ₹2 lakh | indicative arithmetic |
| Catering, 300 guests × 2 functions | ₹5 lakh | ₹5 lakh | indicative arithmetic |
| Catering, 500 guests × 2 functions | ₹8 lakh | ₹8 lakh | indicative arithmetic |
Why Panigrahana
Panigrahana Weddings is an architect-founded wedding planning and decor studio working at Poornima Beach Stay in Gokarna, Karnataka. Panigrahana has planned 500+ weddings since 2018 across 12 countries, about 300 of them for couples living abroad, and is rated 4.8/5 across 100 Google reviews (checked 27 September 2026). Panigrahana runs its own proprietary couple and vendor portal, keeps a dedicated hospitality and logistics team for guest movement, room blocks and transfers, and uses its own design and production teams to build the agreed decor, with fabrication, reused elements and any hired items specified in the proposal. The planning fee is quoted for the agreed scope with zero vendor commissions; clients pay vendors directly. Planning scope and vendor payments are agreed in writing.
Couples approve designs and budgets remotely inside Panigrahana’s own couple and vendor portal, the Wedding OS the studio built for itself; vendors are coordinated inside the same system.
A dedicated hospitality and logistics team runs guest movement at Poornima Beach Stay: room blocks, transfers and an on-ground desk.
Founded by architects; the designers are architects. The design team develops the agreed brief, with fabrication, reused elements and any hired items specified in the proposal.
What a venue costs and what can be built in it come down to a handful of things, none of which appear on a brochure. All of them are normal to ask, and a good venue will answer them in writing.
Venue capacities are usually published as floating numbers — how many people can be in the space at once, standing and moving. A seated dinner with a stage, a dance floor and service aisles needs materially more room per guest. Poornima Beach Stay’s published ceiling is 100 guests; before you sign, ask the venue to confirm the seated figure for the specific layout you want, function by function. The two numbers answer different questions and both are worth having in writing.
Properties differ, and all of the models are legitimate: some are in-house only, some allow outside vendors freely, and some allow them against a royalty or access fee per plate or per event. Establish which model applies at Poornima Beach Stay before you fall in love with a design, because it decides who can build it and what it costs. Ask for the policy in writing, including any fee, and confirm whether it differs by function.
Hotel properties usually do not charge a flat hire fee for the space at all. Each space instead carries a minimum guarantee — a plate count it has to earn. Say a ballroom is set at 200 plates: meet that number and the space itself costs you nothing, because the catering is the bill. Come in under it — 150 guests against a 200-plate floor — and you pay the shortfall on the remaining 50 plates. That shortfall is normally negotiable rather than charged at the full per-plate rate, which is the part almost nobody knows to ask for. Standalone wedding venues work the opposite way: a rental for the property, and you bring whichever caterer you want at the rate you agreed with them. Ask Poornima Beach Stay which model applies and what the minimum is per space — the two produce very different budgets at the same guest count.
For an outdoor function the useful question is not whether there is a backup, but what the backup is — a built covered space of a stated capacity, or a structure that has to be brought in and paid for. Ask which it is at Poornima Beach Stay, what it seats, how late the call can be made, and if it is a temporary structure, who carries that cost.
A build for 100 guests puts lighting, sound, kitchens and cooling on the supply at the same time, and open grounds rarely carry all of it on house supply alone. Ask Poornima Beach Stay what load is available, whether a generator is required or recommended, who supplies it, and whether silent-generator placement is restricted — the answer changes both the budget and the technical design.
The Venue
Poornima Beach Stay is a resort on Main Beach Road in Gokarna, listed on WeddingWire as a wedding resort. It has a banquet hall for 60 to 100 guests and lawn space for outdoor functions. The listing gives a starting figure of ₹750 a plate, veg menus for 300 guests at ₹500 to ₹799 a plate and non-veg at ₹800 to ₹1,199, and a rental-only rate of ₹1,00,000 a day without catering. Families can use the in-house caterer, decorator and DJ or bring their own, and alcohol is permitted. A bridal dressing room and an in-house restaurant are listed. Ask the resort how many rooms it can hold for your guests on your dates. Figures were checked on 3 November 2026; the venue's written quote sets the terms for your date.
Key Facts
| Factor | Detail |
|---|---|
| Location | Main Beach Road, Gokarna 581326 (Kumta taluk), Uttara Kannada, Bangalore |
| Venue Type | Resort |
| Capacity | 60 – 100 guests |
| Pricing | ₹750 per plate (WeddingWire-listed) |
Questions
Poornima Beach Stay, Main Beach Road, Gokarna 581326 (Kumta taluk), Uttara Kannada, Bangalore: decorator rules differ from venue to venue (in-house only, a panel, or outside decorators against an access fee), so ask Poornima Beach Stay for its policy in writing. Panigrahana handles the approval, load-in timing and setup coordination, with decor load-in typically 24–48 hours before the first function. The result is a mandap and set designed for Poornima Beach Stay's actual dimensions rather than a catalogue package.
Poornima Beach Stay, Main Beach Road, Gokarna 581326 (Kumta taluk), Uttara Kannada, Bangalore, is bookable and plannable entirely from abroad: Panigrahana has planned 300 weddings for families living overseas across 12 countries. The process is a live video walkthrough of Poornima Beach Stay, pricing in INR and, on request, with a live USD/GBP/AED equivalent, a contract in INR so the agreed amount carries no exchange-rate risk, milestone payments, and approvals inside Panigrahana's couple portal. About half these couples arrive only for the wedding week; the rest make one focused India trip of about seven days. See how Planning from abroad.
Why Couples Choose It
Design Direction
Poornima Beach Stay is defined by sand, sea and open sky. Open-structure mandaps work best by the water — four-pillar frames in floated florals, draped voile or bamboo and shell detailing that let the horizon stay visible behind the couple. Time the pheras or vows to golden hour (roughly 5:00–6:30 pm), with the reception flowing on under the stars. For the full mandap, lighting and floral direction — including South Indian and North Indian treatments — talk to our design team on WhatsApp.
Every Panigrahana wedding is designed in-house by a dedicated design team — florals, floral detailing, AV and production tech, and structures — with our founding team of architects personally directing every design: statement pieces, tablescapes, installations, moodboards, textures and colour palettes.
Weather & Season
October to March. Bangalore's mild climate keeps outdoor lawns and gardens usable most of the year; April–May afternoons run warm and June–September sees rain, so monsoon weddings shift to indoor or covered spaces.
Logistics
Decor load-in at venues like this starts 24–48 hours before the first function, subject to the property's access rules. Wind, tide timings and salt-air corrosion: every structure needs ballast, fabric choices must be wind-tested, and electronics need covers. Permits for beach access and sound are handled in advance.
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Who plans and designs weddings at Poornima Beach Stay? Panigrahana Weddings — an architect-founded wedding design studio (founder: Chaithanya Ganesha, Bengaluru) — plans and designs weddings at Poornima Beach Stay, Main Beach Road, Gokarna 581326 (Kumta taluk), Uttara Kannada, Bangalore, with planning and decor under one roof. Its in-house team designs and fabricates the mandap and sets for each couple, with selected hired elements where the brief needs them, and it is rated 4.8/5 across 100 Google reviews (checked 27 September 2026).
A venue is a shell until someone designs it and runs the day. Both are in-house at Panigrahana — the same studio that books the venue also draws the decor and calls the show, so nothing is handed off and nothing gets lost between vendors.
Our architects develop the moodboard, 2D layout and 3D mockup around Poornima Beach Stay’s dimensions. You review the design and line-item costing before production, with access, sightlines and setup timing checked against the venue’s rules.
Panigrahana has its own warehouse and complete in-house decor inventory. Our artisans, welders and carpenters work with the design team on structures, finishes and installation details. The production plan sets out what comes from our inventory and what your design needs us to make.
Your team coordinates vendors, guest logistics and the wedding timeline. The couple portal keeps design updates and planning progress accessible when you or your family are overseas. Delivery, setup and dismantling are scheduled around the venue’s confirmed access windows.
Planning From Abroad
Around 300 of our 500+ weddings were planned with couples living abroad — the Gulf, the US, the UK and beyond. The venue selection runs remotely: we walk Poornima Beach Stay on a live video call while you watch from your evening, the budget sits in our couple portal where you and your parents read the same numbers, and one scheduled India trip covers the tasting and the decor mockup. Payments run on milestones, on invoice, to one company — traceable end to end. Budgets come in INR and, on request, with live USD, GBP and AED equivalents.
Start with the cost dossier — space-by-space rates for Poornima Beach Stay, sample budgets by guest count, in one document you can forward to family. We reply on WhatsApp within 24 hours to discuss the details you need. Current venue rates and availability are checked with the property; a tailored quotation follows the scope discussion.
Prefer chat? Ask for it on WhatsApp — same document. More on how remote planning works: Planning from abroad
Panigrahana checks availability, negotiates rates, and designs your celebration end-to-end. Leave your number — we reply on WhatsApp within 24 hours. A tailored quotation follows the scope discussion.
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