The Small Personal Indian Wedding
With roots in Kerala, Bali based The Hue Story has been around South Asia putting together exotic and elegant weddings. From loveletters to macarons, here is how these wedding planners will make your day extra special
Text: FWD Media Photos: The Hue Story
The wedding is about the couple! Seems obvious, right? Believe it or not, you can count your lucky stars if this is true about your wedding. More often than not, all the time and energy of everyone concerned is expended on the decor, the photographer, the food, the venue, the attire and all kinds of complications. At the end of the day, the wedding ends up being about everything else but the couple.
So how do you avoid this? It’s simple. Have fun at your own wedding! First of all, be prepared. Be ready to laugh at everything that is sort of going different from what you planned. The best weddings are full of great moments, so make sure you ensure yours is full of them too. A wedding must be unique to the couple and celebrate their personalities. This is where The Hue Story expertise lies. The monograms, messages for the bride and groom, the photo display of the couple, handmade decor – there are umpteen ways to personalize an event! With years of experience around South Asia and an eye for detail, they ensure that you have a wedding to remember.
Little Better
The Hue Story recommends small weddings ,which are intimate and charming, to make it extra special. Everyone gets personal attention, and every invitee is there because they actually care about the people getting married. The bride and the groom get to spend, on their special day, a few minutes with the people that they love. And from an organizational perspective, small weddings are easier to execute in superb quality at a reasonable cost.
In the Indian context, the sweet spot in size would be somewhere between a 100 to 300 people; big enough to generate the festive energy and variety, and yet small enough. “We often do events ranging from 50 to 1500 people, and I have to confess that I love it when the numbers are on the smaller side, (though my accountant, as you can imagine, prefers the bigger ones)” says Roshni Kurup, the founder of The Hue Story. “And from an organizational perspective, small weddings are easier to execute in superb quality at a reasonable cost. In the Indian context, the sweet spot in size would be somewhere between a 100 to 300 people; big enough to generate the festive energy and variety, and yet small enough.”
Destined Destinations
At big weddings, it sometimes feel like a bunch of smaller parties – it is just tough to attend to all the guests and hold them together in the same spirit. These planners are often asked about techniques to reduce the number of guests without it getting too awkward. And one way to do this is to opt for a destination wedding! A destination wedding doesn’t necessarily mean a different country; it could just be nice a place, a few hours from your hometown. You could consider making it an overnight celebration. “You can actually have a dream destination wedding without breaking the bank. A 150 people destination wedding can easily fit into the budget of a 1000 people big wedding!” Small weddings also give a lot more options to make the event more sophisticated and to give more attention to detail, to create more lasting memories. Lighting and layout, linens and drapes, food and wine – the size of the event has a bearing on everything. You would even consider having mini Moet and macarons for favors – how super classy would that be!
The Hue Story will organize everything from a stylist who appreciates the beauty of the venue and knows to enhance it, fun games for the guests to favours with pretty packaging and a perfect setting that promises a few Pinterest worthy pictures! They also have a few tricks up their sleeve on how to surprise your better half, which FWD will be revealing in our wedding special. These planners also cater to the pre and post wedding functions including the bachelor and bachelorette party, cocktail dinners, tours and any other function you wish to host. And if you are planning a destination wedding, wipe away the headache of having to deal with visas and other paperwork. The Hue Story will get it all sorted. So go ahead, choose small. Choose to have a relaxed, warm, tastefully done, incredibly beautiful affair that is every photographer’s’ delight, that promises more lasting memories!
