An Udaipur wedding atelier · est. 2014
Some weddings are staged. Ours are grown.
Marigold & Mogra is a small, garden-rooted planning studio in Udaipur. We tend each celebration the way you would a garden — slowly, with our hands in the soil — from the first mehndi to the last vidaai, until it becomes wholly, unmistakably yours.
Every wedding begins the same way a garden does — as a single, quiet idea, held in two pairs of hands.
We don't believe a wedding can be ordered from a catalogue. It has to be grown from who you already are: the way your families tease each other across the table, the song that empties a sangeet floor, the city you first fell in love in.
So we plant slowly. We follow what's in bloom rather than what's in fashion — genda and rose in the winter season, mogra and tuberose in the heat. We leave room for the unplanned: the toast that runs long, the chacha who knows every Kishore Kumar song, the monsoon cloud that arrives anyway.
What grows is never the same twice. That is exactly the point.
Marigold & Mogra grew from a crate of genda and a shared, slightly reckless idea.
Meera learned flowers in her grandmother's haveli courtyard garden in Rajasthan, where she was paid in strings of mogra to deadhead the roses. She arrived in Udaipur as a florist, certain she'd spend her life arranging other people's celebrations.
Aanya ran events for a heritage hotel in Kochi before the lakes of Udaipur caught her too. The two met, improbably, fighting over the last crate of marigold at Jaipur's Phool Mandi on a wet monsoon morning in 2014. They split it down the middle and talked until the market closed.
Six months later they planned a friend's wedding in a mango orchard — forty guests, one dholak, a tower of mithai on a charpai. By the time the last guest left, Marigold & Mogra existed. We've been growing it, carefully, ever since: from a desk above a flower shop to a small studio and a team we'd trust with our own families.
“We promised each other we'd stay small enough to remember every couple's name — and every flower we put in their hands.”— Meera & Aanya, founders
Planning with us unfolds in four seasons of growth. You're never more than one stage ahead of yourself.
Weeks 1–3
We begin with a long, unhurried conversation about the two of you — your families, your rituals, the feeling you want the days to leave behind. Not décor, not yet. By the end we've drawn the shape of the celebration and agreed on its soul.
The long middle
The structure goes in underground. We curate and book the people who'll bring it to life — caterer, pandit or qazi, décor, dhol, mehndi artist, photographer — build the full design world, and keep a living budget you can actually read.
Final 8 weeks
Everything tightens into a plan. We confirm every count and contract, write a minute-by-minute run of show for each function — mehndi, haldi, sangeet, the pheras, the reception — and run the rehearsals.
The days themselves
You wake up with nothing to manage. Our team is on the ground before the first delivery and stays past the last function — cueing the baraat and the dhol, steaming a lehenga, tucking your nani's brooch into the kalire, walking you to the vidaai.
Three ways to grow a wedding with us — from a hand-tied posy of help to the whole, tended garden.
MograMonth-of coordination
A small, hand-tied gathering of help for couples who've planned it themselves and want a steady hand for the finish.
₹2,50,000starting investment
Explore The Mogra
GulabPartial planning & design
Our most-chosen package — a full, gathered bouquet of design and vendor curation, with you holding the stems.
₹7,50,000starting investment
Explore The Guldasta
GendaFull planning & design
The whole garden, tended end to end — bespoke design, our own florals & décor studio, and every logistic carried for you from the roka to the thank-you notes.
₹18,00,000starting investment
Explore The BaghEvery wedding is a garden with its own weather. Here are a few we've had the joy of tending.
Six gardens we've grown — each one entirely its own. Drag, swipe, or use the arrows.
WinterJagmandir Island
A December wedding by Lake Pichola, where the baraat came across the water by boat and the pheras happened at sunrise.
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AutumnA private farmhouse
A two-faith celebration on a Delhi farm — a nikah on Friday, pheras on Sunday, and one extremely happy mehndi in between.
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Late WinterA private beach villa
A barefoot beach wedding in Goa, where the pheras faced the sea and the sangeet became a bonfire.
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SpringA heritage tharavadu
A South-Indian wedding wrapped in jasmine and banana leaf — a muhurtam at dawn, a sadhya served on the floor.
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WinterA palace hotel
Four hundred and fifty people, a baraat on a white horse, and enough dhol to wake all of Chandigarh.
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SpringA hillside homestay
Thirty people, a deodar forest, a short hike to the mandap. Our smallest wedding, and quietly one of our favourites.
Read their storyThe truest measure of a wedding is what couples say a year later, when the petals have long been pressed.
“We came to Marigold & Mogra exhausted by a year of WhatsApp groups, and somehow they made the last six weeks the calmest of the whole wedding. On the day itself I didn't touch my phone once.”
“They planned a two-faith wedding for two hundred and eighty people and made it feel intimate. When the storm hit, they'd already solved it before we even knew there was a problem.”
“As the mother of the bride I expected to spend the wedding managing things. Instead I got to be a guest at my own daughter's shaadi. I will never be able to thank Meera and Aanya enough.”
Six seasonal letters a year — what's in bloom, a real wedding fresh from the field, and the rare open date before it's spoken for. No noise, ever.
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