The wedding ceremony the following afternoon was Catholic in its architecture and held Kerala in its bones. The couple’s mothers lit a traditional brass lamp to open the proceedings, its flame symbolising wisdom and the removal of darkness. The most sacred exchange was the tying of the minnu, a heart-shaped gold pendant on 21 threads drawn from the manthrakodi, the wedding sari Bhargava had gifted George, fastened around her neck in a ritual that has marked Kerala Syrian Christian marriages for generations.
As the sari was placed over her head, George’s cousin stood behind her representing her family, then Bhargava’s sister stepped in to take her place. Both had written their own vows rather than use the formal Catholic text, leaving guests emotional by the end of it.
George wore a Sabyasachi bridal lehenga in deep jewel tones, the house’s iconic Bengal tiger embroidered at the waistband, a detail that took on new meaning at their wedding at Fort Barwara, held near Ranthambore tiger reserve. Sydney-based designer Jess from J Andreatta created her veil.
For the reception, she changed into a cream silk Sabyasachi sari, butter-soft and luminous, paired with gold Jimmy Choo heels and polki jewellery chosen as future heirlooms that would be passed to her children. Bhargava, meanwhile, wore a Loro Piana cashmere tuxedo made at P Johnson in Paddington, Sydney, that kept the tailoring clean and personal rather than overtly formal.
Flowers were not treated as a decorative afterthought. George’s mother, a Sydney florist behind Portobello Rose, co-led the creative direction alongside Rajasthan-based floral designer Shrey of The Flower Tales, translating her daughter’s vision into arrangements built at a fort three hours from Jaipur. “It made the process feel much more personal,” says George. The brief for the wedding day was green and white, with arrangements that worked with the fort’s existing architecture.
The reception opened with everyone on the dance floor, the couple entering to Dancing in the Moonlight, their first dance coming later to Sam Cooke’s You Send Me, self-taught in their Surry Hills living room and kept deliberately loose until halfway through, when they brought the whole room in. Born and raised in Sydney, proudly and deeply Indian, Priyanka and Uddhav built a wedding that held both truths at once — and made them feel, in a crumbling royal fort under a Rajasthani sky, completely inseparable.
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