Chennai: Brides and grooms are on the point of say ‘I do’ within the wild, on seashores and hillsides, as vacation spot weddings are again with a bang in Tamil Nadu.
Fashionable marriage ceremony locations alongside East Coast Street (ECR), Kodaikanal and Yercaud have been offered out until November 2022. With visitor restrictions gone, premium resort properties are seeing a rush. These getting decked up on ECR embody ITC Kences Palm Seaside, Taj Fisherman’s Cove, GRT property Radisson Blu Temple Bay, InterContinental and Chariot Seaside. Different scorching marriage ceremony locations embody Dunnottar Bunglow on the lakeside in Kodaikanal and a few areas within the Shevaroy Ranges.
Says Zubin Songadwala, GM of ITC Grand Chola and space supervisor, ITC Accommodations-south: “We (Kences Palm Seaside) are booked for nearly all marriage ceremony dates till March, and extra are on the way in which.” Shubhangi N, GM gross sales and advertising and marketing, GRT Accommodations & Resorts, provides that marriage ceremony bells are again at Radisson Blu resort Temple Bay. We’ve bookings as much as November 2022, and that’s greater than pre-Covid 2019.” GRT’s yet-to-open property in Puducherry is getting inquiries for weddings subsequent 12 months, whereas Dune Resort is doing occasions with 100 visitors or much less for ‘excessive profile shoppers’.
Vidya Gajapathi Raju Singh of Sumyog Marriage ceremony Planners says after the bigger properties are taken, smaller seashore properties are wanted. The price of a marriage at a seashore resort can price Rs50 lakh to Rs1 crore, relying on the bells and whistles. Equally pleased is Matrimony.com CMD Murugavel Janakiraman. “We’ve made an excellent comeback of weddings this 12 months, and this consists of demand for seashore weddings,” he says.
Tamil Nadu’s marriage ceremony planners are additionally taking a look at mountains and lake-view locations.
“Kodaikanal has emerged as an amazing vacation spot for weddings. The Tamara is the most recent property, whereas the Carlton by the lake has been in style,” says Vidya Singh. “Not like the ceremonies of south Indian Hindu weddings, which begin early within the morning, these from the northern states have late night or night time marriage ceremony ceremonies. Many {couples} from Kolkata and Delhi need a seashore because the backdrop,” she says.
As a consequence of journey restrictions a number of households have chosen to conduct the weddings in a driveway location to provide a way of exclusivity and expertise,” says GRT’s Shubhangi. Other than the placement benefit, resort weddings are additionally extra in style now due to the hygiene and the delicacies on provide. Says ITC’s Songadwala: “Our location, delicacies, and well being and hygiene initiatives are large attracts.”
And homestays are getting their share of enterprise. “Dunnottar in Kodaikanal is a good looking homestay bungalow that has sufficient rooms to accommodate a big household gathering, and is about on a lake with giant grounds so excellent for a small marriage ceremony,” says Singh. GRT is getting requires its Nice Trails Resorts in Yercaud and Kodaikanal, apart from its Mamallapuram property.
The resorts provide a marriage specialist or marriage ceremony planners tie up with a property to coordinate the occasion. A hillside marriage ceremony can price Rs 25 lakh upward for an evening, which incorporates meals, mehendi, music and primary reception décor.