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YOUR WEDDING
Make it an unforgettable celebration.
The one event in your life that ought to be truly glorious is your Wedding. Breaking from the monotony of having a conventional wedding, The Knot Planner specializes in planning modern, exceptional and chic weddings. We bring a fresh perspective and innovative approach to wedding design, event planning and management, merged with traditional wedding planning and etiquette. We turn your day of love into an unforgettable event and a day you will cherish for the rest of your life. The Knot Planner will do the all the work required to ensure a smooth wedding, from start to finish. With excellence in execution and organisation The Knot Planner assures you personalisation to the very core.
Apart from the actual wedding day, there are many other occasions to host and organise depending on whether one represents the bride's side or the groom's side. A traditional Bengali wedding will have aiburobhaat the day before the wedding, bashi biye, the day after and bou-bhaat when the new bride serves the elders in the family in her in-law's family. And of course there is gaye holud on the morning of the wedding both at the bride's place and the groom. Now a days, Mehendi and Sangeet and Cocktail-receptions have also become a part of a Bengali wedding, even though these are North Indian customs. Each of these occasions requires a separate ambience, where different rituals are followed and arrangements have to be made for the same. The Knot Planner will help to organize each of these and more.
We will help the client to choose the card or design it as per the client's artistic sensibility, offering colour and design options. Then we take the responsibility of printing the cards and once they are printed, we do the name and address labels and finally courier them as well.
Depending on the requirement of the client, the budget and the number of invitees, we help the client to identify the venuesometimes it is different venues for different days and help with the booking of the place.
There are several packages on offer, with co-ordinated colour schemes, again depending on the client's preference, budget and requirement of the venue. Decorations could also be theme specific. The floral decoration of the groom's car, the floral decoration of the bridal bed, the bodoler mala etc -The Knot Planner will take care of all of this.
We will post reliable security people at the venues and even at home during the days of the wedding. This includes security persons with guns and without and the rates will depend on which category of men is chosen.
At venues which do not offer Valet Parking, we will make arrangements for the same to facilitate parking for guests and ensure that there are no traffic snarls at the gates of the venue.
We have a wide range of Caterers to suit different budgets and each caterer has an array of cuisines and menu options to choose from.
Much importance is given to Tattwo, being an integral part of a Bengali weddingÑright from the selection of trays to the arrangement of the trousseau that the client wants. Apart from clothes and cosmetics and toiletries, fruits, vegetables, fish, dried-fruits etc are all artistically presented and carried to the venue, showcasing the Bengali heritage and artistry.
We will organize Shanai to be played;this can be the taped version or live. We also book the DJ, who provides the sound as well, for Sangeet . If there is a requirement for it, we can also organize live singers and live bands and dancers for Sangeet
Some of the best known names from the world of Beauty and Make-up in the city will be responsible for the dressing of the bride and other members of the family if there is such a requirement.
A group of Mehendi artists will be present on the day specified to take care of the brideÕs hand and feet and for all the other members of the family who want to have Mehendi applied on their hands.
Tailoring needs are looked into for both the bride and the groom, and other members of the family. Suitable tailors will be recommended, depending on the requirements of the client.
Assistance with Trousseau shopping will be given if required and The Knot Planner will help the client to identify shops and areas for shopping. The same applies to shopping for Namashkari sarees. Shopping for items required for Bidhhi and the wedding from Doshokormo Bhandar will be done by The Knot Planner and carried to the venue.
Skilled Alpona artists will take care of alpona at the venue Piris with alpona for the bride and the groom at the wedding site will be provided Borondalas and Kulos and Dwar-ghots can be customized if the client so wishes it
The company will arrange for both still photography and videography and the entire event will be covered. The stills will be made into an album (either a conventional album or a Digital album) and handed to the client. The videos will in DVDs
Arrangements will be made for out-station guests at Guest Houses, depending on choice of budget, location and availability
Arrangement for rented cars will be made as per the requirement of the client. Airport pick up and drop off can also be arranged.
Rajesh and Mita Ghosh are from Houston, Texas, USA and when I first met them in January 2010, they were in India to decide on where the wedding of their daughter Priyanka would be held,and discuss the areas of work that they wanted me to handle. At first, there were the cards; one set for the engagement and one for the wedding to be held in December 2010 We handled this right from the sampling to couriering the finished product. I helped with the Venue selection; there were three venues chosen for the three functions that they had decided to haveThe Knot Planner took care of the Sangeet Mehendi evening for which we followed a specific theme; in decor, food, music, ambience etc A special Interactive dance was on the cards and Dhaakis were brought in to showcase Bengali heritageThe Bidhhi, the shopping from Doshokormo Bhandar and for the Bidhhi, the wedding arrangements,the gaye holud,thebashi biye and ashirbad and the Bou Bhaat were all done by The Knot PlannerWe got the Horse and the Band for the Baraat and the priest to conduct the ceremony. We organized the Caterer and selected the menu, we did the Tattwo, we organized Mehendiwalis, the beautician for the Bride and her family,the photographer, the DJ,the live Shehnai players,the florist and the decorator as well.
Most of the work for the Wedding of Rumi Ray and Peter Ortiz (held In Kolkata in February 2010) was communicated to me over email and the telephone from USA where Rumi's mother Chitra Basu Ray lives.At the initial stage we did the cards; right from the designing, to the printing, the labeling and the couriering. Then I worked on the venue, the decorator and the florist, the menu selection,got the requisite licenses for playing recorded music and for live performances, got live shehnai at the wedding venue, made security arrangements at the residence where the family was staying,and took care of the car-logistics.I also did the Tattwo and took care of the Art work and the Mehendi evening.
One of the earliest NRI weddings was Taj and Vijay Chelliah's daughter Shamantika's wedding in February 2007. This is a Dubai based family. The bride is from Andhra Pradesh,the groom is from Bihar, so this was a fusion wedding of sorts. I had to organise a house for members of the bride's family and the groom's groomÕs to stayin during the wedding period..and arrange for their food..and their transportation.I organised Live Carnatic musicians, who had to be brought from Andhra Pradesh, picked up from Howrah Station, put up for a couple of days, brought to the venues where they were to perform, and then dropped off at the station after it was all over.Special South Indian food was organized for them too. A car was put at their disposal, big enough for them to carry their musical instruments in. A Hundred gift boxes had to be packed with some special items, to be given away at the wedding venue to the ladies who were invited - a family custom. I organised the Mehendi ceremony, where I also organized the food and took care of the decor. The mehendiwali was contacted, a bangle display was done for the lady guests to wear and participate in the sangeet which followed. Had organized the DJ and the sound system as well
Pralab and Anuradha Barua are from London. Their daughter Payal(Poochie) married Michael (Mike).The Venue was Taj Aquada Beach Resort, Goa. This was a FUSION wedding with rituals adapted from the bride's father's side (Assamese) and her mother's side(Bengali) and a lot of western inputs as well. For the Mehendi ceremony, the DJ and the food was organized by the Hotel. We did the bangle display and the wedding favours. For the Sangeet we did the script and the dances.For "Gaye holud" everything was bought and carried from Kolkata. For "Joroon " the Assamese version of Ashirbad, we took a "Fish" which was actually a sandesh and a tattwa tray each for the bride and groom, again taken from Kolkata. We organised a priest who was flown in from Delhi to conduct the wedding ceremony.For Bashi Biye/Bou Bhaat we took care of the rituals, which were more like games, which the bride andgroom played, and for which explanations were given to the assembled guests who had come from various parts of the world. The Reception, 'A BOLLYWOOD NIGHT', had live music by Usha Uthhup, who also went from Kolkata, followed by DJ music.
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