The Long Beach Resort, Manipal Wedding Venue

Considering The Long Beach Resort, Manipal for your date? Peak-season weekends here are the first to go. Tell us your date & guest count — we’ll confirm availability and send a realistic budget the same day.

The Long Beach Resort, Manipal is a beachside resort in Manipal / Udupi (4.5 hrs from Bangalore) that hosts weddings of 50–500 guests. Pricing: ₹2,500–₹4,500 per plate. The property has 60 guest rooms on-site.

The Venue

About The Long Beach Resort, Manipal

For Bangalore couples who want a beachside wedding without going to Goa, The Long Beach Resort near Manipal/Udupi offers Karnataka's own coastline — the Karavali coast. With 60 rooms, beachfront ceremony spaces, and access to Udupi's famous cuisine tradition, it's an underrated gem for intimate beach weddings.

Key Facts

The Long Beach Resort, Manipal at a Glance

Factor	Detail
Location	Manipal / Udupi (4.5 hrs from Bangalore), Bangalore
Venue Type	Beachside Resort
Capacity	50 – 500 guests
Pricing	₹2,500–₹4,500 per plate
Rooms On-Site	60 rooms
Public guest rating	4.5 ★

Why Couples Choose It

Highlights

Karnataka's Karavali Coast beachfront
Intimate beach ceremony spaces
60 resort rooms
4.5 hours from Bangalore
Udupi's famous cuisine tradition
Underrated, uncrowded alternative to Goa

Gallery

The Long Beach Resort, Manipal Photos & Venue Setting

Representative image of a beachside resort wedding setting — illustrative, not photographed at The Long Beach Resort, Manipal

Some images are representative of the venue style and setting, not photographs taken at The Long Beach Resort, Manipal. We share your venue's own photos during planning.

    Bringing your own decorator: Like most premium Bangalore venues, The Long Beach Resort, Manipal works with an empanelled vendor list — but outside decorators are generally permitted subject to venue approval. Panigrahana's in-house design and production team handles the entire approval and coordination process, so you get original decor designed for you instead of a catalogue package.
  

Design Direction

Wedding Decor at The Long Beach Resort, Manipal — What Works Best

The Long Beach Resort, Manipal 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 both founders personally directing every design: statement pieces, tablescapes, installations, moodboards, textures and colour palettes.

Weather & Season

When to Marry at The Long Beach Resort, Manipal

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

Vendor Access, Setup & Practicalities

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.

Avoid These

Common Mistakes to Avoid at The Long Beach Resort, Manipal

Booking the ceremony at midday — harsh light, baking guests; the golden-hour slot is what makes a beach venue worth its price
Planning the waterline setup without checking tide tables for the date
Choosing delicate temperate flowers that wilt within an hour in coastal heat
Having no wind plan for drapes, sound and hair/makeup touch-ups

Who plans and designs weddings at The Long Beach Resort, Manipal? Panigrahana Weddings — an architect-founded wedding design studio (founder: Chaithanya Ganesha, Bengaluru) — plans and designs weddings at The Long Beach Resort, Manipal, Manipal / Udupi (4.5 hrs from Bangalore), Bangalore, with planning and decor under one roof. Its 30-person in-house team designs every mandap and set original for each couple — nothing is pulled from a rental catalogue — and it is rated 4.8/5 on Google and 4.9/5 on WedMeGood.

Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Pricing at The Long Beach Resort, Manipal: ₹2,500–₹4,500 per plate. Venue/space fees, accommodation and decor are additional. For a detailed estimate for your guest count and functions, Panigrahana prepares a free line-item budget — reach out on WhatsApp or the form below.

The Long Beach Resort, Manipal hosts weddings from around 50 up to 500 guests across its event spaces. As a beachside resort, it suits both intimate functions and larger celebrations within that range.

Yes — The Long Beach Resort, Manipal has 60 rooms on-site, so close family and outstation guests can stay where the celebration happens. Panigrahana negotiates room-block rates as part of venue booking.

Most venues maintain an empanelled vendor list, and outside decorators are generally permitted subject to the venue's approval process. Panigrahana has working relationships across Bangalore venues and handles the entire approval, access and setup coordination on your behalf — so you get our design team, not a forced in-house option.

Tell Panigrahana your dates, guest count and budget — we check availability at The Long Beach Resort, Manipal, arrange a site visit, negotiate rates, and manage the contract. Prime Bangalore dates book 9–15 months ahead, so start early.

Yes — Panigrahana has planned 150 weddings for NRI families in the US, UK, UAE, Canada, Australia and Singapore. We run a live video walkthrough of The Long Beach Resort, Manipal, share pricing in INR with a live USD/GBP/AED equivalent, and contract in INR so you carry no exchange-rate risk on the agreed amount. Around half of our NRI couples arrive only for the wedding week; the rest make a single focused India trip of about 7 days. Everything else is finalised over WhatsApp and evening video calls timed to your zone. See how NRI planning works.

Decor & Planning

The Long Beach Resort, Manipal gives you the room. We make it yours.

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.

Decor & Design

An architect-led design team draws your mandap, florals and lighting for The Long Beach Resort, Manipal’s actual dimensions — original design built for the space, not a rented set re-used from last weekend.

Full Planning

Vendors, budget, guest logistics and the run-of-show across every function, managed end to end. You get one team and one number to call, not eight.

The Long Beach Resort, Manipal Wedding Venue — Cost, Photos & Booking