A Detailed Guide to Plan Your Destination Wedding in Goa
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Destination wedding is the latest wrinkle in the wedding rundown, not just for us desis but across international borders. Goa is the hubspot for innumerable weddings every year.
No wonder Goa has been declared the best wedding destination!
Goa is a great place to start walking the aisle with your better half, the endless sea and the sky being witness to your union.
Here is your entire guide to Goa wedding. From approximate budget to celebrities weddings in Goa, this post will ease your planning, hopefully!
Why Goa?
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The place itself that Goa is
Amid unbounded sea and the dazzling skyline, Goa makes a perfect place to a feel and express that infinite love and start your nuptial life with grandeur and splendour.
The emotions come out alive
For those bubbly couples out there : The spirit of Goa blends like Vodka and Lime! Laughter, fun, fairy-tale ambience and romance are the verbiage describing the mood of the place.
Variety of venues
From five star resorts to shacks, Goa offers a plethora of venues to decide upon fitting your budget! It’s a place that raises a toast to your individuality with a range of customized commemoration to complement your taste. From seaside hotels to something that can accommodate a good number of people, there are a number of venues to decide upon!
The AmbienceGoa is suitable for any wedding- be it catholic, hindu or a sikh! The place has an aura and architecture to die for. Churches built during the portuguese rule make this place one of it’s kind. Temples, monuments and their breathtaking history, the beauty and the culture carry a whole lot of different energy that you can find nowhere else!
The add-onsThe picturesque setting and the amazing ambience turns Goa into an avant-garde choice. Get a wedding album you would never tired of seeing. The photography is taken onto a whole new level. Also, being the hap place, it offers a great number of adventure activities that you and your guests can indulge in during those free hours in between!
The Theme
Themed weddings are no longer a western trend. Goa makes it possible for you to have any theme suit your tale of love and life.From a hippy setting to a typical indian wedding, from playing live jazz to having that traditional shehnai, from flowered theme to drapes, from being barefoot to being casual; Goa makes all of that happen and much more..
Suitable time for a Goan beach wedding
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The best weatherFor the best weather and those beautiful sunsets, anything between October and April are suitable. The lush greenery, lovely coconut trees and palms, clear blue sky, yellow icing sunlight, infinite sea and wide open landscapes are the primary reasons people opt for Goa to be their wedding destination.
The monsoon weddingMonsoon wedding is another new fad people gush over. For such weddings, June to september are the most feasible months. Though, it’s almost clumsy to have a wedding under the rain but there are also available options to set up a waterproof shed in some lawn and celebrate while the earth is busy getting wet!
Those on a slender budgetFor couples and families who are on a slightly lean budget, the off-season is great for them. Also, choosing a hotel that’s not on the sea-shore but somewhere around one could work things out real fine.
Now having a hotel away from the shore does not necessarily mean that you cannot have that beach wedding that you dreamt of. Of course, you can! Having a mandap and seating set up at a beach is not difficult.
And if you have a planner by your side, consider it done!
Lets get to some mathematics and numbers
Hypothetical setting and Itinerary
Assuming a 2-day stay at a mid- range hotel where everything, from breakfast to dinner and booze is all on you, understated is the detailed maths:
Average gathering : 80-120
Housing arrangements :
A 3-4 star modest, decorous hotel, charges in peak season range anything from 13,000 INR to 20,000 INR with complimentary breakfast in most hotels.
Rough Estimate for two days accommodation
15,000 * say 20 rooms * 2 days
Makes a total of 6,00,000 INR
**The venue :**Having already mentioned about the variety of venues to select from according to your preference, taste and budget; it’s possible to get a venue for anything between 30,000 INR ( a decent hall) to 2,50,000 INR ( a sea-side lawn/ setting)
Venue for 2-days comes to : 1,50,000 * 4 (assuming 4 typical events : sangeet , Haldi/mehendi , wedding, reception)
Making a total of 6,00,000 INR
**Food and meal rate composition:**Lunch : 2000 – 4000 INR per head
Dinner : 3000- 5000 INR per head
Tiny meal (tea and other snacks) : 800-1200 INR
Making a total of : Lunch – 3,00,000*2
Tiny meal – 1,00,000*2
Dinner – 4,00,000 * 2 (Day 1 and Day 2)
The Booze and beverage – 3,00,000
Total : 19,00,000 INR
The venue decoration:
This one can be outsourced by a wedding planner or a local florist in Goa. This typically includes mandap setting, flower arrangements, floral welcome gates set-up, decorations, lighting, table setting, props and the never ending list goes on.
Since this one is dependent on your preferences, taste and budget, it gets little tricky to provide a tentative budget. Flowers used, using a planner or a local florist, if there’s a theme altogether etc are the parameters that decide the evolution of budget of decoration.
This can typically cost you anything like 2,50,000 INR – 6,00,000 INR on the wedding day while for pre and post wedding events, the range typically starts from 3,00,000 INR.
This makes a total of 6,50,000 INR on an average. However, it advisable to take an assumption of around 10,00,000 INR for this part.
Miscellaneous cost :
Indian weddings just don’t feel complete without the horse/ elephant baraat, the mehendi artists, the beauticians, cake, firecrackers, magic lamps, choreographers and return favours. This one is totally dependent on you. However there are plenty of crazy ideas out there that you can incorporate in your wedding and make it SUPERGRAND.
However, for this component, we suggest to keep aside some 2,50,000 INR at least.
**Transportation, Entertainment, Photography:**Photography can be of 2 types here : Traditional and Candid.
Candid photographers, unlike traditional ones, convey the love story and catch those moments touching emotions and hearts.
They make your movie look like a big-screen drama trying to capture every moment of the wedding. While traditional ones are available from 20,000 INR owards, candid are high on budget but the difference in deliverable is like that of earth and sky! Candid photographers cost you anything between 2,00,000 INR to 12,00,000 INR.
Approximate photography budget : 6,00,000 INR ( assuming you go for candid)
Entertainment, again, offers you a lot of options. From live jazz to a Dj or dancers and live rap artists. The list sure is endless. Consider an amount of 1,00,000 INR for entertainment and you are good to go.
For transportation of guests from airport/ railway to hotel/resort; hiring taxi and cars for a day or two is the most feasible option. Assuming a budget of 50,000 INR for this one is a wise enough thing to do.
Terse rundown:
6,00,000 (Accommodation) + 6,00,000 (Venue) + 19,00,000 (Meals) + 10,00,000 (Decor and decorations) + 7,50,000 INR (photography, entertainment and transportation) + 2,50,000 ( Miscellaneous)
Making a Grand total of 50,50,000 INR
Yeah, We know what’s that word on your mind – Goa is Big on budget! Right indeed.
This is, obviously, an average budget. There are low and high-level settings available.
For a wedding in Leela or Taj or Hyatt, prices may rise up to 20 – 35 % of mentioned here.
