We will kick off the wedding events by performing traditional ceremonies, including the Pithi, where you can help us get radiant for our big day!

The Pithi ceremony is one of the major auspicious occasions of Hindu marriage ceremonies. It is a celebration of love and happiness for the bride and groom. This ceremony entails rubbing a turmeric paste on the bride and groom’s face, hands and legs. Turmeric is excellent for the skin, brightening and evening out the skin tone. Loved ones have fun getting the bride and groom completely covered in the paste so they can glow for their wedding!

This colorful evening of mehndi, dancing, and music is the perfect way to get the party started!

Men: Semi-formal- Indian or dress shirt/slacks (Bright & bold colors)
Ladies: Semi-formal- Indian or cocktail dress (Bright & bold colors)

Mehndi (henna) is yet another traditional yet exciting pre-wedding ceremony. Mehndi is one of the sixteen adornments of the bride and her beauty is incomplete without it. It is also one of the oldest forms of body art conceived by man. The Mehndi Ceremony generally takes place the day before the wedding. Women relatives and friends of the bride also get Mehndi applied to their hands, although the designs are not as elaborate as the bridal Mehndi.

Sangeet is an opportunity to relish in the happiness and joy surrounding the couple. Relatives and friends of the Bride and Groom choreograph dance numbers to perform for the couple adding to the jubilation of the event. The song and dance portion of the Sangeet is a social bond connecting the two families to each other and to the bride and groom. When in Mexico, a fiesta theme is only right!

Please join us on the beach as we tie the knot with a symbolic Hindu wedding ceremony.

Men: Semi-formal- Indian or dress shirt/slacks (Pastel or light colors)
Ladies: Semi-formal- Indian or cocktail dress (Pastel or light colors)

Please keep in mind the wedding is on the beach. Dress comfortably. Sandals recommended. 

The groom first arrives at the ceremony and guests dance around him to the beat of a dhol, an Indian drum. After that, the bride's family greets the groom.

Rather than a traditional ‘walk down the aisle’, Hindu Brides are escorted down the aisle on a small carriage, or Doli. The male relatives on the Bride’s side usually carry the Doli down the aisle. The bride’s brothers or male cousins hold a white cloth in front of the groom as he is not allowed to see the bride until she enters the stage.

For the ceremony, the priest, groom, bride, and their parents sit beneath a mandap, or a canopy. The ceremony starts off with the kanya daan, in which the bride's parents give her away. Then the couple joins hands and circles four times around a small, enclosed fire (the agni) in a ritual called the mangal phera. Each completed circle represents the four goals of life:

1) Dharma: moral sense to lead a good life
2) Artha: prosperity
3) Kama: energy and passion
4) Moksha: liberation through self-realization

Finally, the groom will apply a red powder, Vermilion or sindoor, to the center of the bride's forehead and tie a black beaded necklace, mangalsutra, around her neck, symbolizing she's now a married woman.

Time to enjoy some unique and delicious appetizers + cocktails under the palm trees!

An epic party to start our next chapter as a newlywed couple!

Men: Formal (Dark & elegant colors)
Ladies: Formal (Dark & elegant colors)