How to get your wedding decorated in Bengaluru

What moves the price is how much of the hall is covered in flowers, and whether they're fresh. A frame with a drape and a few bunches of flowers is the cheap end. A wall of flowers, an entrance to match and lights to show it all off is where the lakhs go (question 3).

At ₹50,000, plan for one function done in flowers, or two done simply. That money is one mandap or one stage at a small decorator, or the start of one decor firm's simple package. A haldi backdrop at home costs far less (question 6).

Some halls do the decor themselves. One Gandhi Bazaar hall folds its entrance and stage decor into a whole-wedding package from ₹2,50,000, with rooms, food, photos and the nadaswaram, so you can't see what the decor alone costs. If you take a package like that, ask the hall for its decor list in writing (question 5).

Ask the hall these four, in writing:

• Can we bring an outside decorator, yes or no?
• Is there a fee to let one in, and how much?
• How much is the damage deposit, and what do you keep it for?
• When can the decorator get in, and when must it all be out?

One Bengaluru planner puts that fee at ₹10,000 to ₹50,000, and the refundable damage deposit at the same.

The hours matter as much as the fee. One Bengaluru decorator's pages ask for three to six hours at the venue to set up a mandap or a reception stage, and two more to take it down. For an early muhurtham that can mean the night before. Ask the hall when the function before yours ends.

If the hall's package already covers decor, you can still bring someone for one piece, like the couple's entry. Ask for the hall's decor list in writing, as you would any decorator's (question 5).

What differs in the lists is the backdrop. At one Bengaluru decorator, the ₹55,000 stage has a wall of flowers with side panels and two vases of flowers, where its ₹35,000 stages have cloth with flowers along the top or a flower ring. The sofa, focus lights, light stands, flowers along the front, welcome board and free transport are on both. Nothing else in the lists explains the gap, and even in artificial flowers the wall is ₹40,000 against ₹25,000 to ₹30,000. Its bigger flower-wall stage, 12 by 18 ft with flowers hanging from the ceiling and chandeliers, is ₹65,000.

Who on mytribe works each way. Mirakle Events builds both kinds, as his photos below show. His own price is for a whole wedding's decor, from ₹1,70,000, transport extra, so ask him what a reception stage alone costs. Mahinava Events builds reception stages too; ask her what one costs.

Cloth and flowers

A stage of the simpler kind, by Mirakle Events

Wall of flowers

A bigger stage than the drawing, by Mirakle Events, with a draped ceiling too

At a full-service firm, the flowers alone cost more than a small decorator's whole stage. One Bengaluru planner prices the flowers for a basic mandap, local flowers with no ceiling work, at ₹1.5 lakh to ₹3 lakh. It builds the mandap with its own team and keeps spare flowers for the day, and imported roses cost 3 to 5 times local ones.

On the same design, fresh costs ₹5,000 to ₹15,000 more. One Bengaluru decorator prices each of its 25 reception stages both ways on its own site (read 29 October 2026). The most common is ₹35,000 in fresh flowers against ₹25,000 or ₹30,000 in artificial. Its flower walls are ₹55,000 against ₹40,000, and ₹65,000 against ₹50,000. It gives no reason. Fresh flowers are bought for the day and cost more at festival time: jasmine strings cost ₹200 to ₹800 a metre in Bengaluru.

Fresh flowers cost more around festivals and big wedding dates. In Dasara week this year, jasmine in Bengaluru's markets roughly doubled, and one florist's rate card puts loose flowers 40% to 100% higher on auspicious dates. Ask whether your quote holds for your date.

Transport, the stage platform and carpet, GST and clearing up are the lines most often left off. Some decorators put travel and taking it down inside the price and some charge for them, so ask for each on the list.

A price on a photo is a guide. That decorator's pages promise the setup about 80% like the picture, and say the flowers depend on the season. So write down the flowers you want by name, the backdrop's width and height, and the colours, and ask to see his own photo of a setup like it.

The mandap and the reception stage

A simple haldi backdrop

Behind the two of you in nearly every photo

Marigold strings on a cloth drape, a chair in front

Where guests line up to greet you at the reception

Done by Mahinava Events, who does haldi setups like this

Flowers, a sofa, lighting and the stage dressing, all on the list (question 5)

What you save here can go into the stage

Families who wrote to us split it this way too. One asked for the mandap, the haldi and the entrance on ₹80,000. Another wanted just a frame about 7 feet high for the photos, on both days, for ₹40,000.

If you buy the flowers yourself, count everything else too. For a mandap, the flowers alone come to about ₹10,500 to ₹45,500 by our sum, before a frame, a ladder, lights, hands and taking it down. One small decorator's whole mandap decoration starts at ₹45,000, and on a muhurtham date loose flowers can cost 40% to 100% more.

Fog, cold pyro and flames are the part to clear with the hall. A planner here says to use a cryo fog machine and avoid haze, which can set off the fire alarm, to keep fabric near the path fire-retardant and real candles 30 cm from the walkway, and to check cold-fire sparks with the venue first. Karnataka has banned ordinary firecrackers at weddings since October 2023, green crackers allowed. For fog and cold pyro the hall's rule is the one that counts, so ask for it in writing.

Many decorators price an entry inside the decor quote. On mytribe, Mahinava Events arranges cold pyro and low fog for a reception entry. If an entry matters to you, name it when you first ask, so it's in the price from the start.

On ₹1 lakh of decor, that's ₹50,000 before anything goes up. Pay by UPI and keep the WhatsApp thread, so there's a record of what you paid and what was promised. If you book through us, the booking comes with an agreement on what's included and what it costs, and if something isn't going to plan, a person here sorts it out.

The season runs October to February, and flower prices rise in it. A few weeks out is still enough time for a small decorator: one Bengaluru decorator takes bookings up to 90 days ahead and as late as five days before. In season, it's harder to find one who's free on your date.