A candlelit wedding aisle in a historic stone hall, hundreds of flames in glass

MEHFIL · महफ़िल · THE HOUSE OF OCCASIONS

०१Est. 2009, Bombay

Some eveningsare builtby hand.

WEDDINGS · PRIVATE CELEBRATIONS · CORPORATE PRODUCTIONS · BY COMMISSION ONLY

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०१The house

We don’t decorate occasions. We produce them, drawn on paper, fabricated at our own works, rigged by our own crews, and lit one flame at a time.

Mehfil is an old word for a gathering with a host at its centre. Since 2009 the house has built four hundred and ten of them: weddings across lake palaces and family courtyards, dinners for twelve, launches for fourteen hundred. Every drawing, every stage, every table leaves the same studio in Lower Parel.

Seventeen years. Thirty-eight builds a year. Fourteen cities, six countries. One client at a time.

The planning studio: swatch books, a hand-drawn floor plan, fabric and flowers
The drawing board, Lower ParelPL. 45

Three of fourhundred evenings.

A sangeet night under magenta drapery and brass lamps
A sangeet, JaipurWORK ०२१
A dusk pavilion reception, one long table under candlelight
A lake wedding, UdaipurWORK ०२७
A midnight ballroom with a champagne tower and mirrored floor
A year-end, BombayWORK ०१५
०२The wings
A clear-top marquee at night, chandeliers under a sapphire sky
WeddingsPL. 26

WING ONE

Weddings

Five evenings, not one. The house designs the arc whole, haldi to reception, and builds it with its own hands. Six hundred guests will remember it as effortless. It is not.

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A black marble dinner table with emerald velvet chairs and dark florals
Private celebrationsPL. 06

WING TWO

Celebrations

The private calendar: engagements, fortieths, anniversaries, a proposal on a rooftop for two. Small is not simple. Twelve chairs deserve the same drawings as six hundred.

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An awards gala ballroom, black linen and beams of light over an empty stage
CorporatePL. 02

WING THREE

Corporate

Launches, keynotes, galas, a Diwali the whole company writes home about. The studio that builds a mandap on Tuesday builds your reveal on Friday. Same drawings, same discipline.

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A wedding is fiveevenings, not one.

०१HALDI
०२MEHNDI
०३SANGEET
०४PHERAS
०५RECEPTION

AND BENEATH ALL FIVE: ROOMS, ROUTES, RSVPS, WEATHER · THE UNDERSTRUCTURE NOBODY SEES

“They never once said no. They said ‘by Thursday.’”
A HOST, BOMBAY · TWELVE OCCASIONS WITH THE HOUSE
०३From the archive
A gold-rimmed place setting on black linen, lit by candle

WORK NO. ०२७ / 027

A Lake Wedding, Udaipur

640 GUESTS · 4 EVENINGS · 11,000 CANDLES · WINTER 2025

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A product reveal stage washed in cobalt light

WORK NO. ०३४ / 034

A Launch in Cobalt, Bombay

1,400 SEATS · 28-METRE WALL · 9 REHEARSALS · 2026

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A concert stage burning orange and magenta in an empty hall

WORK NO. ०२१ / 021

A Sangeet in Magenta, Jaipur

380 GUESTS · 11 ACTS · 3,000 LAMPS · 2025

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WORK NO. ०२९ · A CRICKETER’S WEDDING · SHARED ONLY IN PERSON, AT THE STUDIO

The archive, numbered as built
A long table under criss-crossed string lights at a night build
The build, hour elevenPL. 22
०४The studio

Nothing is rentedoff a shelf.

DESIGN ATELIER
AALIYA MIRZA
PRODUCTION OFFICE
FARHAN DALVI
TABLE & CELLAR
CHEF MEERA PILLAI
GUEST EXPERIENCE
ZOYA THOMAS

Sixty people. A fabrication works at Taloja the size of half a football pitch. Every arch, stage, dance floor and dinner table is drawn, built, trucked and rigged by the house itself, which is why the house can say “by Thursday” and mean it.

How a mehfil is made
An outdoor cinema at dusk, festoon lights and a glowing screen

The light is onat the studio.

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THE HOUSE IS NOW RESERVING WINTER 2027

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