Question 1

Should you hire a wedding content creator?

Accepted Answer

Only if you want the wedding on your own accounts within hours. A content creator shoots phone video and photos for reels and stories, edited the same day, while the photo and film team delivers in weeks. Solo creators charge ₹12,000–20,000 a day, two-person teams ₹30,000–60,000, named teams ₹1–3 lakh a day plus travel. Our own behind-the-scenes service runs ₹15,000–1.25 lakh.

Question 2

How do you choose a wedding photographer in India?

Accepted Answer

Look at two full weddings they shot, not a highlights reel, and check the light and skin tones in the night functions. Then compare deliverables, not price: edited photo count, film lengths, team size per day and delivery time. Published bands run ₹50,000–3 lakh for typical coverage and ₹2.5–20 lakh for multi-day candid plus film packages. Book 9–12 months out.

Question 3

What should a wedding photography contract specify?

Accepted Answer

The lead shooter's name and the team size per day, what happens if they are replaced, the number of edited photographs, film lengths, drone and album as separate lines, raw-file policy, delivery dates with a number of days, travel and stay for outstation functions, the payment schedule and whether 18 percent GST is included.

Question 4

Do you need two videographers at an Indian wedding?

Accepted Answer

For a single-function city wedding, one is enough. For a baraat, pheras and reception running in parallel spaces, or any destination wedding, two shooters are standard, one with the groom's side and one with the bride's, because the milni, the entry and the vidaai happen in different places at the same time. Name both in the contract.

Question 5

How much should a wedding DJ charge in India?

Accepted Answer

Platform-published 2025-26 rates put a typical wedding DJ at ₹50,000–1.5 lakh, basic setups from ₹7,000 and name DJs at ₹1–7 lakh, before 18 percent GST. The difference is who reads the room: at the bottom you rent equipment with an operator, in the middle someone who runs an Indian sangeet floor. Sound and LED are usually priced separately.

Question 6

How much does a wedding choreographer cost in India?

Accepted Answer

Choreographers run ₹15,000–60,000 for a whole wedding, ₹2,500–3,500 an hour or ₹10,000–12,000 per performance, on well-sourced platform data. Agree the basis in writing before rehearsals start, because a sangeet with eight family acts is a different bill from one with three. Sound and light for the night add ₹40,000–2 lakh.

Question 7

How much does bridal makeup cost in India, and why per function?

Accepted Answer

Established Delhi NCR and Mumbai bridal artists charge ₹20,000–40,000 per function, premium names ₹45,000–1 lakh and celebrity artists ₹1–2 lakh and more, with family members at ₹8,000–25,000 a head and airbrush extra. A three- or four-function package runs ₹60,000–3 lakh. It is per function because each look is a fresh three-hour sitting. Outstation adds travel, boarding and lodging.

Question 8

Do wedding food tastings cost money?

Accepted Answer

Usually not at hotels and banquet halls once you have shortlisted them, though some charge a tasting fee of ₹1,500–5,000 a head that is adjusted against the booking. Independent caterers may charge for a full-menu tasting with more than four people. Ask before you go, and taste the actual menu at the contracted plate rate.

Question 9

What is included in a per-plate wedding catering price?

Accepted Answer

The menu as written, service staff, crockery, buffet set-up and usually soft drinks and water. Not included unless the contract says so: live counters (₹500–1,500 a plate), premium stations, the bar and bartenders, corkage, extra service hours, late-night snacks for the baraat and 18 percent GST. Count the stations before comparing plate rates.

Question 10

How much more does a non-veg wedding menu cost than veg in Delhi?

Accepted Answer

At premium Delhi venues a non-vegetarian menu typically prices ₹300–500 above the vegetarian plate, so about ₹5,500 veg against ₹6,000 non-veg at a five-star and ₹2,500 against ₹2,900 at a mid-range banquet. The bigger swing is live counters, which add ₹500–1,500 a plate each, and the bar, priced separately.

Question 11

Do wedding venues include food?

Accepted Answer

Hotels and banquet halls almost always do, with in-house catering and a minimum spend per plate; the hall is often free above a guaranteed count. Farmhouses, forts and some heritage palaces hire the space and let you bring a caterer, sometimes for an entry fee. Destination resorts bundle rooms and meals in a two-day buyout price.

Question 12

Do wedding venues offer payment plans?

Accepted Answer

In stages rather than EMIs. Venue-group guidance puts the signing advance at 10–25 percent, a second instalment of 25–40 percent at 30–45 days out and the balance near the event, and most hotels will agree a three- or four-step schedule in writing. A venue asking 60 percent at signing is asking you to carry its risk; negotiate.

Question 13

How many venues should you visit before booking?

Accepted Answer

Three to five, chosen on paper first by capacity, rooms and date. Visit each at the hour your function will run, walk the service entrances and the covered rain backup, and ask for curfew, corkage, overtime and GST treatment in writing. More than five visits usually means the brief is unclear, not the venues.

Question 14

What is a mandap, and what does one cost?

Accepted Answer

The four-pillared canopy under which the pheras are taken, representing the four parents and the home the couple builds. On its own it has no published price: decorators quote it inside a mandap-stage-entrance bundle of roughly ₹1–5 lakh, with flower-heavy or crystal mandaps rising above that. Compare bundle against bundle, and reuse it as the reception backdrop.

Question 15

How do you do wedding stage decoration on a low budget?

Accepted Answer

Spend on light, not flowers: a lit fabric backdrop, a festoon or fairy-light ceiling and uplighters on the venue's own walls transform a stage for ₹25,000–75,000 in our experience, well under the ₹1–4 lakh basic-décor band. Use one large floral piece, marigold or foliage over imported blooms, rent the stage from the venue, and reuse the sangeet set for the reception.

Question 16

Where can you buy wedding decor cheaply in India?

Accepted Answer

Wholesale flower markets, Ghazipur phool mandi in Delhi, Dadar in Mumbai, KR Market in Bengaluru, for marigold strings and loose blooms at a fraction of retail; Sadar Bazar and Chandni Chowk lanes for fabric, lights and props; rental houses for furniture and structures. Buy flowers the morning of the function and let a decorator do only the build.

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