How to decorate your home for Diwali in Bengaluru

More money buys more flowers, on more of the house. Mahinava Events' setup that starts at ₹12,000 outside festival weeks is marigold strings, a simple drape and two brass lamps: neat, bright and traditional. From about ₹20,000 the flowers fill the whole wall behind the goddess, like Dream Party Link's layered garlands in the temple style. At the top, Dream Decor builds the whole corner around a printed Pichwai scene, with the flowers, lamps and colours picked to go together.

One door can cost ₹10,000 because event decorators have a smallest job. Mahinava Events' smallest flower job is ₹10,000 outside festival weeks, so one door with her costs what a bigger job does. Give her the doors and the pooja corner and the money goes further, with transport in the price and everything taken down the same day. For one door on its own, a flower seller does it for a few thousand.

Ask for the list, whoever you book. "Diwali decoration" can mean one toran or every door in the house. Get each door, the pooja corner, any rangoli and the lamps named in the quote. Flowers are priced by the kilo, the kind of flower, the length of garland and the wall they cover, so a list lets you compare two quotes. Got a quote already? Send it to us on WhatsApp and we'll tell you whether it's fair.

Pick a look to see what each size costs

Lakshmi pooja cornerMarigold and mango leavesFlower rangoliFairy lights behind a drape

Look: Lakshmi pooja corner

Asked for in 36 of 78 Bengaluru pooja requests to mytribe. What makes it this look: Flowers behind the idol, lamps and diyas in front

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   Version 1 of 3: A pooja niche framed in flowers

   Price

   From ₹12,000 outside festival weeks

   Whose price

   Mahinava Events. More in Diwali week, so ask her

   In it:

   Flower strings, a simple backdrop, two brass lamps. The flower crown and the petals on the shelves in the photo may cost extra

   Get options like this: A pooja niche framed in flowers (Lakshmi pooja corner)
2. 

   Version 2 of 3: A garland arch behind the idol

   Price

   From ₹20,000 for the backdrop alone

   Whose price

   Dream Party Link. The photo shows more than the backdrop, so ask what this one costs

   In it:

   The arch in fresh flowers. Decorating the idols is extra

   Get options like this: A garland arch behind the idol (Lakshmi pooja corner)
3. 

   Version 3 of 3: A printed Pichwai backdrop

   Price

   ₹22,000 to ₹50,000 a themed setup

   Whose price

   Dream Decor, plus transport

   In it:

   A printed panel, flower strings and lamps in the photo. Ask what this one costs and what the price includes

   Get options like this: A printed Pichwai backdrop (Lakshmi pooja corner)

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Look: Marigold and mango leaves

Asked for in 29 of 78 Bengaluru pooja requests to mytribe. What makes it this look: Marigold over the door, strings down the sides, mango leaves

1. 

   Version 1 of 2: Marigold round a door

   Price

   From ₹10,000 outside festival weeks

   Whose price

   Mahinava Events. More in Diwali week, so ask her

   In it:

   Her smallest flower job: basic marigold work like this

   Get options like this: Marigold round a door (Marigold and mango leaves)
2. 

   Version 2 of 2: The main door and two or three inside doorways

   Price

   ₹12,000 to ₹15,000

   Whose price

   Dream Decor, plus transport

   In it:

   The main door, torans inside, a welcome board. It leaves out the pooja corner, so ask what one adds

   Get options like this: The main door and two or three inside doorways (Marigold and mango leaves)

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Look: Flower rangoli

Asked for in 6 of 78 Bengaluru pooja requests to mytribe. What makes it this look: Petals in a round, often with a brass lamp in the middle

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   Version 1 of 1: A petal rangoli round a lamp

   Price

   Ask

   Whose price

   Mahinava Events, as part of a bigger flower job

   In it:

   Petals round a brass lamp. Ask for its price on its own line

   Get options like this: A petal rangoli round a lamp (Flower rangoli)

Look: Fairy lights behind a drape

What makes it this look: A drape lit from behind, a flower border on top

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   Version 1 of 1: A lit drape behind the idol

   Price

   Ask

   Whose price

   Mahinava Events. Ask what the lights add

   In it:

   A drape lit from behind, a flower border, lamps

   Get options like this: A lit drape behind the idol (Fairy lights behind a drape)

Lights are priced separately. Lights you buy for a balcony cost under ₹4,000 by our estimate, even with an electrician to put them up. The front of a house costs more, and the lights answer below has the numbers.

Doing it yourself costs about ₹2,400 at shop prices, for balcony lights, diyas, a ready-made toran and a kilo of marigold. If you've bought the flowers already, you can pay someone just to put them up: one Bengaluru decorator who isn't one of the five here charges ₹1,500 to ₹3,000 for a simple setup at home.

A deep clean, a coat of paint and dinner for guests are separate jobs, and the shorter answers below cover them.

1. Now

   Book the decorator, and the painter and the cleaner if you need them. Get the arrival time in writing along with the day.

2. 20 and 21 October

   Ayudha Puja and Dasara, 18 days before Lakshmi Pooja. At Deepavali 2021 a KR Market trader said flower demand was well below Ayudha Puja's.

3. A week before the crew comes

   Get your association's yes in writing, and a gate pass for the crew.

4. Friday 6 November, Dhanteras

   Painting and the deep clean are done. The lights go up.

5. Saturday night or Sunday morning

   Fresh flowers go up. Mahinava Events sets up a morning function the evening before or before dawn.

6. Sunday 8 November, 6:17 pm

   The Lakshmi Pooja muhurat in Bengaluru, till 8:20 pm. Ask for everything ready a couple of hours before.

7. Tuesday 10 November

   Balipadyami. Friday to Tuesday is five nights of lights.

8. After

   Rented lights go back on the date in the quote. Fresh flowers are often yours to clear.

Fresh flowers are the real thing in front of the goddess, and marigold, roses and jasmine smell of the festival. They're at their best that evening. Artificial flowers stay bright till the decorator takes them back, and look good in photos.

If the backdrop is mostly for photos, artificial costs less: Dream Party Link's starts at half his fresh price. If you want real flowers at the pooja, pay for fresh. Or mix the two: fresh at the door and in front of the idol, where people look closely, and artificial on the big wall behind.

Fresh can cost more in Diwali week, because flower prices go up around festivals. Some decorators build that into the first quote, and with others a quote given early may not hold, so ask which yours is. Jasmine, chrysanthemum and kanakambara jump the most.

Ask every lights quote for five things: how many nights, how many metres or floors, rented or yours to keep, who climbs, and the date they come down. Lucky Light House writes the set-up and removal dates into the quote.

• You can buy lights instead. They cost the same however many nights they stay up, and you keep them. A 20 m LED string is ₹259 at Glimmer Lightings. With an electrician and a helper to put them up and take them down, the front of a two-floor house comes to about ₹4,600 to ₹15,100, by our estimate, depending on the shop and the days they take.
• You can hire a floodlight: TechnoRent's 2024 price list has ₹250 a day, or ₹400 for three days. It offers delivery and setup and doesn't say if they cost extra. A floodlight lights up a wall, which is a different look from strings of lights.
• Height changes the job. A balcony is one person on a stool. A second-floor parapet needs a ladder crew, and we found no one who publishes what that adds. Before anyone goes up on your roof, ask who pays if they fall.

Floral decorators here put fairy lights on a drape or a backdrop. Their rangoli are all in flowers or petals, so a powder rangoli is yours to draw.

• Dream Decor adds ₹1,000 to ₹1,500 for transport in the city and more for the outskirts. Others include it within the area they work in. Ask for it as a number, and ask if your area counts as the outskirts.
• Ask who brings the ladder and the extension board, and who provides the water.
• Ask for the idol and the lamps as separate lines, as in the photo below. Brass lamps may come without oil and wicks.
• Some decorators take everything down the same day, as part of the price. Others leave the fresh flowers for you.
• Ask which parts of the photo you pick will look different in the real thing.
• Not every decorator gives a GST invoice. If you need one, ask before you book.

A pooja setup, piece by piece

Tap a number to see what it is and what it costs.

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1. 1

   The flower backdrop

   From ₹20,000

   Dream Party Link's price in fresh flowers, for the backdrop alone

   Add to my request: The flower backdrop
2. 2

   Decorating the idol

   Ask

   Dream Party Link charges for it on top of the backdrop. We hold no figure, so ask him

   Add to my request: Decorating the idol
3. 3

   The brass lamps

   Starts at ₹600 to ₹700 each

   Dream Party Link's lamps or brass pots. Ask if you hire them or keep them

   Add to my request: The brass lamps

Before you pay the rest, check the work against your written list. Photograph it next to the reference, and put any gap in writing that day. If you don't want your house on their Instagram, say so in the booking message.

You can sometimes pay after the work. Sankalana Decorations takes 10% and the rest after, and Dream Party Link sometimes takes nothing up front if you insist.

• If they're late: get the name of who's coming, agree a ready-by time a couple of hours before the muhurat, and keep a string of lights and a box of diyas at home anyway.
• If they don't come, section 74 of the Indian Contract Act says what a business keeps when a deal breaks has to be reasonable compensation, whatever the booking calls the advance. On 22 July 2026 the Hyderabad consumer commission ordered an events firm that refused to finish a family's pre-wedding functions to refund ₹5.60 lakh and pay ₹1 lakh in compensation (LawTrend). Keep the WhatsApp thread and the payment receipt.

A fresh toran instead of the ₹500 set costs less at this year's marigold prices, about ₹65 to ₹250 for a kilo or two of marigold and a bunch or two of mango leaves. Tie it the morning you want it up.

• 20 m of LED string is ₹259 at Glimmer Lightings and ₹999 at Harold Electricals. Neither page says what you get for the extra ₹740, so check the plug: Glimmer's own page says the plug and battery box on its string aren't waterproof.
• If marigold jumps in Diwali week, the ₹500 artificial set can cost less, because one decorator puts marigold at ₹600 to ₹800 a kg in festival season. You can hang the set again next year too.
• If you rent, hang everything on adhesive hooks and cable ties, so the landlord finds no holes in the wall or the grill.

Thick rope light draws more power per metre, and still comes to only about ₹75 for 40 m over ten nights, by our estimate.

• A home can run festive lights on its own connection, up to its sanctioned load, at the normal rate (KERC's tariff order of March 2025).
• Glimmer's curtain light is rated IP44, which takes splashes from any side. The plug and the controller are the weak point in rain, so keep them indoors or under cover.
• LED strings draw little power. What can heat up is a cheap multi-plug with more boards chained off it, so don't chain extension boards, and switch the lights off when nobody's home.
• The electricity safety regulations of 2023 (regulation 44) require a residual current device of 30 mA or less in a home: the trip switch with a test button on your board. If your board hasn't got one, have an electrician fit it before the lights go up.