Weddings

The arrival everyone photographs.

A wedding is a week of arrivals, and each one is watched. The house dresses the car, keeps the time, carries the family between the houses, the parlour and the venue, and gives you one person who holds the run sheet and your number. Nothing on the day is left to a driver who was told at breakfast.

I

The bridal car

Dressed with fresh flowers in your colours the morning of the entry, the cabin cooled, a sarathi who knows the venue gate and the exact minute. Signature, Premium or a Marque car — a Mercedes S-Class, a Range Rover, a Vellfire — written for the day.

II

The baraat

Cars that arrive together and leave together, in order, timed to the band. The groom's car dressed; the family cars matched; a sarathi at the head who keeps the convoy whole through a Mumbai evening.

III

The guest fleet

Relatives from the airport, elders between the houses, friends who need fetching at midnight. One list, one number, and each guest told by name which car is theirs. Innova Crysta and Hycross for the day; Carnival for a family and its luggage.

IV

The days around it

Mehendi, sangeet, the morning after. A car reserved for the wedding days stays with the family, written as one figure, with the sarathi's hours inside it.

Inside every written figure: the car, your sarathi, fuel, every toll, parking at both ends and GST. Nothing is added on the day, and no meter runs.

Written up on their own: the bridal car · the guest cars · events.

How a wedding is written

Send the house the dates, the venues and roughly how many people move between them. A person replies in writing with the cars, the sarathis and one figure for the whole plan. Half holds the cars; the balance is settled seventy-two hours before the first journey. Decoration is inside the figure for the bridal and groom's cars; tell us the colours. On the day, one sarathi is yours on WhatsApp from the first car to the last.

What the house will not do

Send a car on private plates. Promise a Marque car before its papers are seen. Put a sticker where a flower should be. Let a convoy run late because one car was lost. Ask your guests for anything.

Write to the house about a weddingDates, venues and numbers are enough to begin. The figure follows in writing.

Questions guests ask

How far ahead should a wedding be booked?
A month gives the house the pick of cars and chauffeurs in the season; a fortnight is workable; the week of the wedding, the house tells you honestly what is free.
Is decoration included?
For the bridal car and the groom's car, yes — fresh flowers in your colours, done the morning of the journey. Tell the house the palette.
Can you do a Mercedes or a Range Rover for the bride?
Yes, as a Marque car, written for the day once the car's papers are seen. A Rolls-Royce, a Bentley or a Maybach is arranged for the day on thirty days' notice. See the Marque cars.
How many cars can the house run on one day?
As many as the plan needs, through the house's partner cars — each on commercial plates, each with a sarathi or a briefed chauffeur, each named to you the evening before.
What if the timing changes on the day?
It will. Your sarathi on the day holds the run sheet and moves the cars; you make one call, not six.
Do you carry guests from the airport for a wedding?
Yes — met inside arrivals with a board in their name, and driven to the hotel or the house. See the airport page.

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