Food as theatre · 2026 wedding season
Live tandoor and sigdi stations
Heat, smoke and the smell doing the marketing for you.
What it actually is
A working clay tandoor and coal sigdi with a cook turning out breads and kebabs to order. The reason it works is not visual — it is that the smell carries across the lawn, and guests arrive at it without being directed.
Indicative cost
₹200–400 per guest
A range for a Gujarat wedding in the 2026 wedding season, not a quote. It moves with guest count, city and how far out you book. Get three.
When it works
- Outdoor or partly covered venues with somewhere for smoke to go
- Winter functions, where standing near heat is a feature
- You want the food area to have a natural gathering point
The part nobody else prints
How this goes wrong
Live coal indoors is refused by most hotels and permitted by most party plots — this is a venue question you settle before signing, and it is the single most common late reversal in the food plan.
Every idea here is easier than telling three hundred people about it.
You can book all of this and still spend the month chasing headcounts. That part is what we do — the invitations, the replies, the rooms, the arrivals, on WhatsApp, with a person making the first call and a person checking every count.
Launching for the 2026 wedding season. No wedding has run for a paying customer yet.