Getting the trousseau trays done in Bengaluru
What should a tray cost when you pay someone to do it? Four gift businesses we work with told us their prices and terms, a plate decorator told our team hers, and we read the requests Bengaluru families sent us for decorated trays and plates. None of them has a set price for a trousseau tray yet, so the tray prices here come from Bengaluru packers' and gift shops' own pages. Here's what a tray costs, what the price leaves out, and which trays are easy to do at home.

How much does trousseau packing cost per tray in Bengaluru?
A tray already dressed in fabric costs ₹750 to ₹1,100 at Bengaluru shops, sold in sets of two or five. For a packed set, one Bengaluru designer charges ₹15,000 for five themed trays with wrapping and personal notes, which works out to ₹3,000 a tray across the set. The shops' pages list the tray and its trimmings only, so ask what else is in. Dressing plates you already own costs much less (question 4).
₹750 to ₹1,100 a tray
A tray already dressed in fabric, from a shop
Sold in sets of two or five. One shop's set lists a golden wrapper, satin base and pink flowers, as a base for your saree
₹990 a tray
A ready thamboolam tray, filled
Dry fruit, chocolates and betel leaves in net, in a gift shop's set of five
About ₹1,200 to ₹1,500 a plate
Thamboolam plates styled and set out at your ceremony
Decor Your Dreams, with dry fruit, a coconut and traditional items, as part of decorating the ceremony. Confirmed to our team
₹15,000 for five
A set of five themed trays, packed for you
One designer's set: bridal essentials, personal care, jewellery, home and living, mementos, with wrapping and personal notes. Works out to ₹3,000 a tray. Its page doesn't say who buys what goes on them
₹20,000 for three trays, up to ₹50,000 for six
A packed set with the fruit, dry fruit and sweets
Three trays with a fruit basket, a bouquet and 3 kg of dry fruit, ₹20,000. With 3 kg of sweets added, ₹30,000 for three trays or ₹50,000 for six. Same designer
₹10,000 a trunk
A packed trousseau trunk, rented
The designer packs it, within Bengaluru only; its page lists clothing, jewellery, personal care and sweets as what goes in. Plus a deposit it doesn't print, and it doesn't say for how long. ₹18,500 for a pair
Ready-made or styled thamboolam plates: what does the extra money buy?
A gift shop's ready thamboolam tray is ₹990: a dry-fruit potli, a potli of chocolates and betel leaves in net, delivered in a set of five. Decor Your Dreams' plates are about ₹1,200 to ₹1,500 each, confirmed to our team, with dry fruit, a coconut and traditional items, styled for your ceremony and set out at the venue by her. The extra pays for those contents, her styling and her time at the hall. She does plates as part of decorating the ceremony.

A gift shop's ready set
₹990 a tray
Decor Your Dreams
About ₹1,200 to ₹1,500 a plate, confirmed to our team
Dry-fruit and chocolate potlis, betel leaves
Dry fruit, a coconut and traditional items
Wrapped in net with flowers
Styled for your ceremony
Sold in a set of five, ₹4,950
Part of her ceremony decoration
Delivered; you set them out
She sets them out at the venue
Does a trousseau packer's price include the tray, and what costs extra?
A gift shop's price is for the tray itself. A packer's price is for the packing: the saree, jewellery, fruit and sweets are yours to buy unless the quote lists them. Before you compare two quotes, ask three things: is the tray in, are the flowers fresh or artificial, and is delivery in.
Can we do the trousseau trays at home ourselves?
Yes. You save the most by dressing plates you already own: flowers, cloth, ribbon and pins come to about ₹165 to ₹315 a tray, by our sum, before the saree and gifts that go on it. New wooden trays dressed at home cost about what a shop charges for a ready dressed one. Do the fruit, sweet and coconut trays yourselves. The saree tray is the one worth paying for, since the silk has to sit right without pins in it.
How many trousseau trays do we need, and what goes on each?
There's no fixed number. Write down with the elders what has to be given, and the tray count follows from that list. You don't have to match the number the other side brings. Packers sell sets of two to six trays, and the 8 families who wrote to us asked for anything from 9 plates to 51 trays.
Is it safe to give a packer my silk saree and gold for the trousseau trays?
Keep the gold with you and put it on the tray yourself on the day, in a box the packer leaves ready. Tell them no pins or tape on the silk, and ask how they'll hold the saree in place. Write a list of what goes on which tray, and check it at handover.
How early should I book a trousseau packer, and when do the fresh flowers go on?
Book two to three weeks ahead for custom trays in a busy season, and a month or more if anything carries your names. The saree and gift trays can be packed a few days before. The fruit and fresh flowers go on the evening before or that morning. The four providers here who told us their terms ask for 40% to 100% upfront.
Who delivers the trousseau trays to the hall, and do we get them back?
Ask who brings the trays, and what it costs, before you pay: one packer we work with books a cab and charges the fare, a decorator sets her plates out at the venue, and a gift shop delivers to your door. Otherwise someone in the family drives them. Ask the other family whether the trays stay with the gifts. If they do, plain trays or your own plates make more sense.
Before you pay a packer, settle these six
- The tray list: what goes on each tray, and who buys it
- Whether the tray, the flowers, delivery and GST are in the price
- Fresh or artificial flowers, and who puts the fresh ones on
- No pins or tape through the silk, and a look at the design first
- The advance, and what happens if the date moves
- Who brings the trays to the hall, and who keeps them after
What Bengaluru families asked us for
Requests to mytribe, in our words.
Want us to find one?
Two quotes for "a tray" are rarely for the same thing: one is the tray alone, another packs your saree into it. Send us your tray list, your date and what you're giving the packer, and we come back with packers who fit, each priced for your trays, with the tray, the flowers and the delivery spelt out. We've seen their real work and called their past clients. It's free for you.
Decide these before you ask
Each one changes the price or who fits.
- Which function
- How many traysQ5
- What you're supplyingQ3
- FlowersQ7
- Getting them to the hallQ8
The packers and decorators in this guide
All five are on mytribe and tribe approved.
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By the mytribe curation team
Updated 20 October 2026
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