How To Choose The Right Wedding Mandap

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Initially a covered structure with wooden pillars, now wedding mandaps come in many creative themes for different budgets. Be it a Hindu, Muslim, Jain or Christian wedding, wedding mandaps play a major role in making the function look elegant and royal.
10 Tips to Choose Your Mandaps
You may have come across many types of mandaps at your friends or relatives’ weddings. In the festive mood of the weddings you would not have paid close attention to minute details that makes those mandaps look amazing. Here are 10 tips to choose the right mandap for your wedding:
1. Set your budget for the mandap.
2. In India mandap manufacturers are not many. Surf through the internet and find out who provides wide variety of mandaps.
3. Get their products list and pictures. Discuss with your fiancé/fiancée/your family and decide on a theme that you all like.
4. Ensure that the style of mandap you choose goes in sync with the kind of wedding attire you are planning to wear.
5. There are different colour of lightings and choose the best that goes with the ...
... theme and the colour of your wedding attire. Also choose those colours that would make the wedding photographs look stunning.
6. It would help the mandap manufacturers in making an apt mandap, if they are informed of the number of guests expected at the wedding.
7. Ensure that the backdrop of the mandap is attractive and gives an elegant feel.
8. Ensure that the furniture goes well with your theme.
9. The colour and material of the drapes should also go well with the theme you choose.
10. Your mandap and the way leading to the mandap must have neat carpeting with a colour that goes well with your theme.
Types of Wedding Mandaps
Traditionally for Hindu weddings, mandaps were decorated using pots filled with water, mango leaves, banana leaves, coconut leaves etc. Though many follow the same traditional method, today modernized versions with crystals, fabrics, lights, flowers, fiber glasses etc, are much in popularity, especially in cities.
Crystals: This gives a lustrous look to the function and enhances the royal festive mood.
Fabrics: Fabrics come in different colours and drapes. This makes the mandap decoration look aesthetically beautiful.
Lights: Lighting is done inside and outside the mandaps, in variety of colours that goes with the theme.
Flowers: Flowers are an important part of the mandap design and variety of flowers, both local and imported are used in decorations.
Fiber glasses: Very often fiber glasses are used to build the structure.
What to Look for in Mandap Suppliers
Do proper background checks of the supplier. Ask them for the photographs of their past works. Ensure that the supplier you choose can deliver the service at reasonable rates. Most importantly, you must understand if they are capable enough to create theme based mandaps without any lapses.
You know better about your budget and before you assign a team to do your mandap, make sure that there are no hidden costs and the price you pay is within the budget.