Aditi & Vikram

Aditi and Vikram both grew up in Udaipur, so coming home to marry by the lake was less a decision than an inevitability. Our job was mostly to get out of the lake's way.

We built the four days around the water: a boat baraat across Lake Pichola, a mandap of marigold and mogra on the ghat, the pheras at first light when the palace turns gold. Three hundred and fifty guests, four functions, one thunderstorm we had a plan for — and the whole point of all of it was two families becoming one over endless cups of chai.

By the last vidaai nobody was sitting on their own side of the family any more. Some weddings you design from nothing; this one, you simply protect.