30 to 80 guests
Intimate & destination
A ceremony in Udaipur, Tuscany or Cabo, planned from New Jersey so that all you pack is the lehenga.
Est. 2001 · New Jersey & New York
Twenty‑five years of beginning beautifully
Full-service South Asian wedding planning for couples who want a wedding that is entirely their own, and a year that is not consumed by it.
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Planning South Asian weddings since 2001
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Across New Jersey, New York and abroad
- 30–600Guests
Intimate ceremonies to grand celebrations
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Venues, caterers, priests, décor houses
Who we plan for
You are building a career. You are also building a wedding.
Most of our couples are in their late twenties and thirties, with demanding careers on the East Coast and parents who are generously bringing to life a celebration imagined for decades. You want it exclusive, personal and effortless. You do not have four hundred spare hours. We do.
At home
The backyard event
A haldi or mehndi in your parents' garden that feels like a private members' club. Tent, power and permits included.
400 to 600 guests
The big fat Indian wedding
Three days, two families, one calm timeline. All of the grandeur, none of the chaos.
The grand entrance
A baraat that closes the street
Police permits, the horse, the dhol, the timing. Handled, so the only thing you notice is the joy.
Our weddings typically range from $300,000 to well over a million. We plan each with the same care, and we treat every dollar as if it were our own.
25years in the room
The honest question
Why hire a planner with twenty-five years of experience?
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Because we have seen every version of this wedding.
Thousands of weddings, every faith, every season, every kind of weather. There is very little left that can surprise us, which means very little can surprise you.
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Because the best vendors answer our call first.
Twenty-five-year relationships with the caterers, décor houses, priests and venues that matter. Better dates, better pricing, better behaviour on the day.
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Because a budget needs a guardian.
Whether it is $300,000 or well over a million, we build the budget with you and your parents, then protect it with a discipline that only experience brings.
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Because families are the wedding.
Two households, two sets of traditions, occasionally two opinions. We are the calm, neutral voice in the middle. We speak fluent parent.
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Because you should be a guest at your own wedding.
You will not check a timeline, chase a vendor or look for the groom's shoes. That is our work. Yours is to be present.
Our philosophy
Larger than life, yet grounded.
A South Asian wedding is never one event. It is a week of them, each with its own rhythm, its own elders and its own way of going quietly wrong. We create the grand moments: the entrance, the mandap, the first look, the last dance.
And we are equally devoted to the small ones. The priest who arrives on time. The chair for your grandmother beside the stage. The samosas that are still warm at four o'clock. When those are handled, completely and without fuss, something rare happens: the family is present at its own wedding.
Grandeur is easy to promise. Presence is what we deliver.
Planning weddings in New Jersey since 2001
- A mandap built for six hundred
- A chair for your grandmother, right beside the stage
- The baraat that closes the street
- The groom's shoes, found in time
- A thousand candles at the walima
- Samosas still warm at four o'clock
- Your first dance, lit like a film
- The priest on time, every single time
- Fireworks over the reception lawn
- Someone who actually answers the phone
Multi-day expertise
One wedding, five beginnings
Every event has its own rhythm. We plan each on its own terms, and all of them as one story.
- Day one
Mehndi
An afternoon of henna, chaat and the first songs of the week.
- Day two
Sangeet
Choreographed families, a live band, a finale nobody rehearsed.
- Day three
Haldi
Turmeric, marigolds and the loudest laughter of the week.
- Day four
Ceremony
Pheras, nikah or anand karaj. The oldest hour, handled with the most care.
- Day four, later
Reception
Candlelight, the first dance, and a chai bar that outlasts the DJ.
The experience
As much, or as little, as you need
Whether you need us for eighteen months or eighteen days, you will work with the same senior planners from the first conversation to the last car.
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Full planning
Every event, every vendor, every decision, held by one team from the first conversation to the vidaai.
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Partial planning
You have begun; we bring it home. We step in mid-journey, fill the gaps and carry the plan through to the day.
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Wedding management
Your plan, our hands. We take over in the final weeks and run every event so your family can simply arrive.
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Destination weddings
Udaipur, Cabo, Tuscany, Antigua. Planned from New Jersey with partners we have worked with for years.
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Design & décor
Mandaps, florals, lighting and tablescapes composed as one story, in a palette that is unmistakably yours.
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Vendor curation
Twenty-five years of relationships. Caterers, priests, DJs and décor houses we trust with our own name.
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Signature weddings
A few of the beginnings we have been trusted with
Different families, different faiths, different scales. What they share is the feeling on the day.
- Three days
Priya & Arjun
The Legacy Castle · Pompton Plains, NJ
Four hundred guests, a baraat that closed Sunday traffic, and pheras at sunset.
- Nikah & Walima
Ayesha & Omar
The Venetian · Garfield, NJ
A nikah at golden hour and a walima lit by a thousand candles.
- Fusion
Meera & Daniel
Liberty House · Jersey City, NJ
Two faiths, one ceremony, and the Manhattan skyline as witness.
- Destination
Simran & Karan
The Leela Palace · Udaipur, India
A palace wedding planned from Edison, down to the last marigold.
How it works
Five steps, one calm path
Refined over two decades so that you always know where you are, what comes next, and who is holding it.
Conversation
An hour, in the studio or on a call. You tell us about your families, your must-haves and your worries. We listen more than we talk.
Vision
Events, scale, budget and mood in one clear document. Every decision for the next year is measured against it.
Design
Mandap, florals, lighting, stationery. Composed so the mehndi and the reception feel related, never repeated.
Coordination
Vendors, timelines, contracts and families, managed across every event without overwhelming anyone.
The day
We arrive before the first vendor and leave after the last guest. You are a guest at your own wedding.
What couples and families say
A note from the founder
Grand is easy. Present is the work.
Twenty-five years ago I planned a cousin's wedding from a kitchen table in Edison, a notebook in one hand and a camera in the other. Four events, three hundred guests. I remember the terror, and I remember the moment on the last night when my aunt put her hand on my shoulder and said, simply, “I got to enjoy it.”
I have chased that sentence ever since, through thousands of weddings, from behind the lens and from beside the mandap. You learn things from that vantage point that no planning course teaches: which moments matter, which ones nobody remembers, and exactly where a day quietly starts to go wrong.
We are not a large agency, and we do not want to be. We take a limited number of weddings each year so the people you meet at the first conversation are the same people standing beside the mandap. We will tell you the truth about budgets. We will be kind to your vendors. We will never make your wedding look like ours; we are here to make it feel like yours.
Amish
Amish Thakkar · Founder
Begin quietly
Tell us about your wedding
A few details are enough to start. We reply within two business days, usually sooner.
Amish reads every enquiry personally. No sales team, no automated reply. Just a conversation.
- Call or WhatsApp
- +1 (732) 555-0148
- Studio
- 1655 Oak Tree Road, Edison, NJTue – Sat, 10am – 7pm, by appointment
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