Mandap Decoration
The structure the ceremony happens under, built and dressed by the same people, so the shape and the flowers are designed together rather than negotiated on the day.
A mandap has to work from two distances at once. Up close it frames the couple and the families sitting inside it, so the detail near eye level has to hold. From the back of a lawn it is a silhouette, and if that shape is weak no amount of floral work will save it. We design the form first and dress it second.
Because we fabricate our own structures, the mandap is not chosen from a catalogue of three. Arched, pillared, open pergola, closed and canopied: the frame is built for the venue and the ceremony rather than adapted to fit.
Lighting is designed with it, not added afterwards. An evening ceremony needs the mandap lit from inside to read at all, and that is a decision made while the structure is still on paper.
What kinds of mandap does Kature build?
Arched, pillared, open pergola, closed and canopied. Because we fabricate our own structures, the mandap is not picked from a catalogue of three: the frame is built for the venue and the ceremony rather than adapted to fit them.
Can the mandap be designed for a specific venue?
Yes, and it should be. A mandap has to work up close, where it frames the couple and the families sitting inside it, and as a silhouette from the back of a lawn. The venue decides which of those is doing more of the work, so we design the form first and dress it second.
Is lighting part of the mandap design?
Yes. Lighting is designed with the structure rather than added afterwards, because an evening ceremony needs the mandap lit from inside to read at all. That decision gets made while the structure is still on paper.
Can a mandap be built on a lawn or on bare ground?
Yes. Lawn and open-ground ceremonies are a large part of our wedding work, and because the same company handles the structure, the power and the lighting, a site with nothing on it is a starting point rather than a problem.
Tell us about the wedding
The date, the venue, roughly how many guests, and the feeling you want in the room. We will come back with an approach that covers the decor and everything holding it up.
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Reception Stages
The one thing every guest looks at all evening, and the one thing that has to survive being photographed from forty feet away.
Floral Design & Installations
Flowers used as a building material rather than as a garnish: walls, arches, columns and suspended forms that hold their shape for a whole evening.
Ceiling & Lighting Installations
The half of the room nobody books and everybody photographs: what happens above head height, and what it is lit with.
Entrances & Guest Walkways
The first ninety seconds. What a guest walks through between the car and the function, which sets what they expect from everything after it.
Sangeet & Social Celebrations
The functions either side of the wedding, where the brief is usually colour, comfort and somewhere to actually sit.