Every November a groom arrives with six weeks to his baraat. It is a schedule. Here it is.
Twelve weeks out — the decision. Not the fitting; the decision. Which garments, for which functions. A wedding is rarely one garment: a sherwani for the pheras, a bandhgala for the reception, perhaps a tuxedo if the cocktail evening demands it. Each is its own commission.
Ten weeks out — the first sitting. Measurements taken once and written down for life. The cloth chosen from the books while there is still choice — in season, the good lengths go first. If the family is coming in from abroad, this is the sitting to schedule around the flight; everything after it can flex.
Six to four weeks out — the forward fittings. The garment in skeleton form, corrected on your body. Two sittings usually; three if the figure or the design asks for it. Tell your tailor about the gym resolution at the first sitting, not the last.
One week out — the finish, deliberately early. The week before a wedding is chaos, and the garment should be the one thing already done.
Come anyway, and come today. An urgent commission is possible — the house takes these on selectively, and at a premium, because other work is set aside for yours. The Commission Planner will give you a straight answer for your date before you ever message us. Anyone who promises six weeks of work in peak season at no cost to the making is planning to fuse what should be sewn.
A large share of the house’s wedding work is for families flying into Mumbai. The pattern that makes bespoke slow also makes it travel well: once your first sitting is done and the pattern drafted, later fittings compress into a single trip, and the finished garment is collected days before the functions. If you are planning a wedding trip to India, write before you book the tickets — the sittings are built around your itinerary.
The sherwani is ceremony: the pheras, the grandest hour. The bandhgala is command: receptions, sangeets, and every formal Indian evening for the rest of your life. The sherwani is worn thrice; a good bandhgala is worn for twenty years.
Bring them to the same first sitting. Group commissions share the calendar and the cloth books, and the wedding photographs are better for it. Matching the bride’s outfit — or deliberately not matching it — is a design decision made at the cloth stage, not the final fitting. Bring the swatch, or have the designer send it.
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