Live acts for a wedding or event in Bengaluru
A live act happens once, in one evening, and almost nobody in Bengaluru puts a price on their page. So we read about 60 requests people sent mytribe for one, mostly for a caricature artist, the records of the painters and performers we work with, and the pages of the Bengaluru firms that do publish prices. This answers which act suits your evening, what it costs and what to settle with the venue before you pay.

Should I book a stage act or a roaming act for my wedding or event?
A stage act is a few minutes the whole room stops to watch: speed painting, sand art, a fire act or an aerial act. A roaming act runs for two or three hours beside dinner: a caricature artist, a live painter, stilt walkers or a mirror man. At a reception, where guests queue to greet the couple, a roaming act keeps the line happy. At a seated sangeet, a stage act works better.
What's the event?
A roaming act: a caricature artist, a live painter, stilt walkers or a mirror man. They keep the crowd busy while people wait to greet the couple. One family asked us for 40 to 45 drawings out of about 200 guests over four hours.
How much do a caricature artist, a live painter or a stilt walker cost in Bengaluru?
A caricature artist is the one act Bengaluru firms price in the open: from about ₹5,000 to ₹6,000 for one artist for two to three hours, with transport and extra hours on top. For a live wedding painting, Sumana M, a Bengaluru painter, says ₹40,000, but she hasn't yet told us whether that's a flat price or a start, or the canvas size, hours and travel. For stilt walkers, mirror men, LED dancers, fire, sand art and aerial acts, no Bengaluru performer's page we found gives a price, so you'll need a quote.
The two acts with a price in Bengaluru
A caricature artist
From about ₹5,000 to ₹6,000 one artist, 2 to 3 hoursTwo Bengaluru firms' starting prices, for 20 to 30 sketches. Transport and extra hours on top at one
- Time:
- 2 to 3 hours, about 5 to 10 minutes a guest
- Needs:
- A table and chairs near the crowd, and someone to run the queue
A live wedding painting
₹40,000 her own figureSumana M. Flat or a start, canvas size, hours and travel not confirmed yet
- Time:
- Ask her. Her hours on site aren't confirmed yet
- Needs:
- A spot with good light and room for the easel
What does a ₹35,000 live wedding painting get you, against a ₹40,000 one?
You can't tell from what's published why one costs ₹5,000 more, because the two prices include different things. The ₹35,000 is a Delhi studio's listed offer for one 18 x 24 inch canvas painted by one of its team, with travel and a stay extra, on a page dated 2020. The ₹40,000 is Sumana M's own figure for live painting in Bengaluru, and she does the painting herself. She hasn't yet told us the canvas size, hours or travel. Ask any painter the same three things: the canvas size, who paints, and what travel adds.
Sumana M, a Bengaluru painter
₹40,000

A Delhi studio's team painter
₹35,000
She paints it herself
Painted by one of the studio's team
The couple and your real stage, painted as a scene
One 18 x 24 inch canvas
In Bengaluru, so no travel from another city
Travel and a stay on top, price not given
Flat or a start, canvas size and hours not confirmed yet
Listed as an offer price, on a page dated 2020
What do we actually get from a live wedding painter, and when?
One canvas of your wedding, painted at an easel at the venue during the event. Before you book, ask how big the canvas is, how many hours the painter stays, whether it's finished that night or later, and whether the frame and travel are in the price. The look changes a lot from painter to painter, so ask to see a finished wedding painting of theirs.
How many guests can one caricature artist draw in an evening?
One artist draws about 25 to 36 guests in a three-hour slot in black and white, and about half as many in colour. At a 200-guest reception that's about one guest in six to eight, so decide who gets drawn, or add a second artist. Each artist starts at about ₹5,000 to ₹6,000 for the slot, and one firm's ₹5,000 covers up to 25 sketches.
Will my venue allow a fire act, sand art, stilt walkers or an aerial act?
Ask the venue in writing before you pay any advance, because the venue decides. A fire act needs open sky or a high ceiling, distance from drapes and flowers, and someone standing by with an extinguisher. An aerial act needs a hanging point someone signs off as safe, or a rig of its own. Sand art and LED dancers need a dark room. On an open lawn, loudspeakers have to stop at 10 pm.
Which acts work where you're holding it?
Fire works best here, on a calm night, well away from drapes and flower walls. Loudspeakers off by 10 pm. Karnataka counts 10 pm to 6 am as night for loudspeakers, so put a fire or aerial act with music before then. Sand art and LED dancers need it properly dark.
- Who says so:
- Karnataka's loudspeaker order of May 2022, and the venue
- How firm:
- A state order for the 10 pm part; the rest is the venue's call
Ask the hall in writing before you book fire or an aerial act. An aerial act needs a hanging point their engineer signs off, or a rig on the floor. Check the ceiling and the doors with a stilt walker before the day. After 10 pm the state order allows loudspeakers only in closed premises for communication within, such as banquet halls, so ask the hall whether an act's music counts.
- Who says so:
- The hall's management, and Karnataka's loudspeaker order
- How firm:
- Their call, hall by hall
The hotel decides, so get its yes into your contract. A wedding planner's notes on one five-star in the city say fireworks and sky lanterns aren't allowed there, and advise asking in writing for cold pyro. Ask for the hotel's rules on flame and rigging before you pay the performer.
- Who says so:
- A wedding planner's notes on one five-star's rules
- How firm:
- The hotel's call
Ask the committee in writing, especially for fire. Check the hall's height and doors for stilt walkers, and where the performers can change. Children will crowd round, so keep them back from fire and stilts.
- Who says so:
- Your society's committee
- How firm:
- Their call, building by building
Skip sand art and LED dancers unless the room can go fully dark. Sand art is watched on a big screen, and LED suits only show in the dark. A caricature artist, a live painter or stilt walkers work fine in daylight.
- Who says so:
- How the acts work
- How firm:
- No rule; the acts need it
How do I know a performer is good before I pay an advance?
Watch a long video of them at a real event, with the sound on, and ask who exactly will come. Many acts are sold by a firm or a party shop that sends one of its performers, and one Delhi studio's live paintings are done by a painter from its team. Ask for a recent family or company you can call.
What should a live performer's quote include?
Ask whether the price is per performer, for how many hours, and how many minutes of that they actually perform. Then ask what's in it: travel, costume, sound, a painting's frame and GST. Get in writing what happens to the advance if it rains or the venue says no. No Bengaluru performer's page we read states those terms.
Before you pay, settle these eight
- The act, and its slot in the evening
- The venue's yes in writing: fire, rigging, a dark room, an outside artist
- Who exactly comes, with a clip of them at a real event
- Per performer or for the act, and minutes actually performing
- For a painting: the canvas size, hours on site, and when it's finished
- What's in the price: travel, costume, sound, frame, GST
- The advance, and what happens if it rains or the venue says no
- A room to change, a meal, and someone to cue the music
What people in Bengaluru asked us for
Requests to mytribe, in our words. Most who ask us for one of these acts want a caricature artist, usually for a child's birthday.
Want us to find one?
Tell us the occasion, the venue and which part of the evening, and we come back with painters and performers who fit, each priced for your event. Every tribe-approved provider is checked before they get in: we look at their real work and call their past clients. It's free for you.
Decide these before you ask
Each one changes the act, the price or who fits.
The painters and performers in this guide
All 4 are on mytribe and tribe approved. Sumana M's ₹40,000 is her own figure. The others haven't given us a price yet, so ask them.
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By the mytribe curation team
Updated 21 October 2026
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