Real Wedding · bangalore

Raghav & Divya

Bangalore → Moongate, Chikkajala, International Airport Road, North Bangalore

Mirror ceiling panels, a live drone light show, and a mandap of reclaimed teak and suspended copper lamps, in a purpose-built estate ten minutes from the Bangalore airport. The most design-forward wedding our studio has produced in the city.

Raghav and Divya's guest list was almost entirely drawn from Bangalore's technology industry — engineers, product managers, designers, and founders who had collectively attended hundreds of conventional wedding productions. The brief was explicit: do something that none of them had seen. The budget was significant. The mandate was novelty.

Moongate gave us the canvas: a purpose-built 10-acre wedding estate at Chikkajala on International Airport Road, 10 km from the airport, whose Opa hall is 10,000 sq ft of uninterrupted floor. Our team spent three weeks designing a transformation of that hall. Mirror ceiling panels, installed in a grid across the full floor area, created a reflective sky above every guest. The effect, when the room lights came up for the reception, was of standing inside an infinite space.

The mandap was constructed entirely from reclaimed teak sourced from a demolished colonial-era building in Coorg, with 340 individual suspended copper oil lamps at varying heights creating a warm, intimate light source in the centre of the transformed hall. The contrast between the mirrored grid overhead and the handcrafted teak beneath it was the visual argument of the event.

The drone light show — 120 drones, a 12-minute choreographed sequence above the Pavilion Lawn, visible from every window — was the moment that produced the loudest collective reaction of any event we have produced. Divya, who had been composed throughout the entire day, burst into tears when the drones assembled into the shape of her and Raghav's initials in the sky above Bangalore. 'I did not know that was happening,' she told us afterward. It was the one surprise we kept.

The Team

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