Ahana Raheja did not make a mood board. Instead, she and Yash Patel built their wedding around instinct. “Being different was my only real criterion,” she says. Over four days, that instinct translated into a luminescent floral sangeet, a sun-soaked day party with interactive stations and a ceremony that braided Gujarati, Punjabi and Sindhi traditions together.
Raheja is a content creator and is closely involved in her mother’s label, Beena Raheja Fine Jewellery, while Patel works with an MNC. The couple planned a wedding in Gujarat as a world of its own. With 70EMG supporting the planning, they stayed hands-on throughout, from music programming to decor flow to the structure of rituals. For their wedding in Gujarat, around 300 guests were invited, which they describe as “intimate in spirit, but large enough to hold everyone who truly matters to us.”
The celebrations stretched across five distinct events, beginning with the couple’s haldi, a smaller, more personal setting with friends and family, where water guns and a dunk pool were folded into the rituals. Raheja wore Riddhi Mehra, choosing a pink tissue lehenga instead of traditional yellow, paired with a beaded, draped blouse created specially for her. Patel wore Riddhi Mehra as well.
Raheja describes the sangeet setting as a “luminescent garden” built with orchids and roses, fibre-optic stems woven through the florals and oversized translucent poppy sculptures. Vertical LED panels played animated versions of Van Gogh’s Starry Night, with a cloud installation overhead. Music was curated like a concert line-up. Sukhwinder Singh headlined the evening, with Krish Mulchandani (TBOM) building momentum through the night. For the sangeet, she wore Gaurav Gupta, while Patel wore Falguni Shane Peacock.
Across the remaining events, Harshdeep Kaur performed at the mehendi, followed by DJ Chetas. Mika Singh led the baraat. The ceremony itself featured live vocals by Parthiv Gohil and Bismil. The after-party brought Rodolphe Manoukian before DJ Ganesh took over. One surprise came in the form of a “Taylor Swift” appearance that turned out to be her doppelgänger. “Instagram absolutely lost its mind,” Raheja says. “It was a well-planned prank.”
The following day’s mehendi shifted into a poolside day party atmosphere with lounge seating, striped umbrellas and floating iridescent spheres. Interactive stations included lip gloss blending, fragrance bars, charm-making corners and nostalgic games. “I’m 25, so I didn’t want it to feel overly traditional or stiff. I wanted it to feel young, high-energy and very Gen Z but still elegant,” says Raheja. For her mehendi, she went with Anamika Khanna’s AKOK: “a full silver chain and an embellished blouse with bright blue pants”. Patel wore Manish Malhotra for Raheja’s mehendi, then Abhinav Mishra for the main mehendi.
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