We are so close to the end of another eventful year and the celebrations have only just begun. Graduating on from our last issue wherein we revelled in all things festive, here we are to gear you up to welcome the wedding season with epic flamboyance. Dressing up to perfection, dancing our hearts out, hogging all that delectable food – what is not to love about weddings? Well, truth be told, as much as we all love being being a part of the big fat Indian weddings, there is one element common to hosts and guests alike that gets them to frown- wedding gifts! Gifts are as essential to Indian weddings as Bollywood is to our sangeet ceremonies. Buying the right wedding favours and gifts is just half the battle won; the other half entails presenting them in a way that attracts both attention and affection. Wipe that sweat, as the city has something for everyone. Please make way for our handpicked list of Delhi’s most wonderful wedding favours, gifts and trousseau packing providers.
THE SWEET BOUTIQUE, Defence Colony
One of the oldest names in Delhi’s couture confectionary circuit, The Sweet Boutique specializes in all kinds of traditional mithais, cupcakes, designer cakes, brownies, and Arabic desserts among others. The bakers at this sweets paradise have been especially trained by a renowned Turkish chef to make authentic Arabic desserts that work really well as wedding favours and return gifts. Vegetarians can choose from a great variety of eggless bakes and mithais.
AESTHETIC OCCASIONS, Sainik Farms
Aesthetic Occasions follows an out-of-the-box approach to providing gifting solutions to their clients. The products and packaging are influenced by the client’s needs, and demands of the event. Their aim is to customize gifts and favours in such a way so as to stray from the insipid options that are floating around the markets. Take a look at their Facebook page and get swarmed by a wide variety of aesthetic, colourful products and wraps that add a personal touch to the gifting ritual.
TRUNKS OF JOY BY RUHANI ARORA
As the name suggests, RuhaniArora and team make beautifully crafted trunks in all colours and sizes. The trunks can be customized to ooze contemporary classiness, elegant vintage appeal, or sober traditional beauty. Owing to the versatility of their designs, these trunks can be used to pack a single precious gift or even the entire wedding trousseau. Small sized trunks can serve to hold innovative wedding favours and win you accolades for creative gifting at the same time.
CONFETTISH.COM, Gurgaon
This website offers a plethora of fun options for wedding gifts, favours, photo booth props, fun t-shirts, personalized badges and lots more. Confettish.com could be your one-stop shop to add that quirky element to the wedding. Choose from special gifts for the bride and/or groom or pick a bunch of fun props for your own wedding. Apart from weddings, they cater to other celebrations too.
ZAARIA WEDDING PACKERS INDIAN D’ART, Model Town
Headed by an immensely creative designer, Zaaria offers unique products to suit their clientele. The brand is a wedding specialist and boasts of endless ideas to meet the needs of every kind of wedding. From sophisticated gift options to uniquely designed furniture, these skilled wedding packers have almost every item you can think of. The cherry on the cake is their trousseau packaging service: Zaaria specializes in providing exquisite packaging ideas for trousseaus and treasured jewellery, customized to suit the demands of different clients and changing trends.
ASEME PACKSNWRAPS, Delhi
Aseme has employed the perfect bunch of gift and trousseau wrapping solutions angels. The brand offers a range of aesthetic and luxurious gift boxes, favour boxes, trays and platters to adorn your precious gifts and wedding treasures. Packaging experts at Aseme take great pride in their intricate packaging techniques that enhance the charm of your gift items.
NIANA, Ghitorni
Fragrant candles are an instant mood-uplifter, which is why they never enter the league of the ‘so last season’ products. Be it weddings, personal celebrations or non-social events, you can never go wrong with picking beautiful, fragrant candles as gifts. Niana’s candles and fragrances are nothing short of sensual works of art. Giving utmost attention to detailing, this eco-friendly venture makes luxurious soy candles that are bound to relax the mind and soul. Along with offering wonderful gifting treasures, Niana also provides body candles that add a ton of relaxation to an ordinary massage.
NUTTY GRITTIES, Okhla
Wish to keep the gifting simple and traditional? Stick to the nuts. Creation of a young entrepreneur who wishes to take his family business to new heights and spread love and good habits, the company has an impressive variety of healthy and delicious nuts that can be bought as it is or customized as per your preferences. Their pretty little jars and colourful packaging add zing to the idea of healthy gifting.
