Five years and more than 50 weddings.. meet wedding planner, Jamshedpur-born Ashwina Bhatia, who has taken the event management sector by storm. Within a span of a few years she has revolutionised events by adding her own unique blend of quirk and creativity by starting her own event management and design company called the Wedding Era. A student of St Mary’s English Medium School, she is now playing a key role in making dream weddings in and around places in Rajasthan but mainly Jaipur come true. In the midst of these colourful events, one can see Ashwina busily ensuring that the decor is all updated, the bride’s ‘dupatta’ doesn’t trail and the photographer gets all the needed shots.
“There is an unfathomable amount of emotion involved in a wedding. Even if everything is arranged perfectly, there are toothpicks missing for the starters, people tend to talk only about the latter,” says Ashwina.
Sharing her journey so far, the young and charming wedding planner said, “After my schooling in Jamshedpur I was sent to Nagpur for my college to pursue my graduation but then it wasn’t something I was enjoying , so one of my cousins who happened to be in Pune suggested me about event management and since he knew me from childhood my interest towards Crochia Macrame , origami was always there as I saw my aunts and grandmothers making beautiful bags of Phulkari or to say they weaved bed sheets, with different forms of hand work embroideries and even made beautiful tassels as keychains. I grew up in a typical Punjabi household with art around me everywhere. So when I was suggested about a field through which I could pursue my lucrative interests I couldn’t think of a better way to channel it out. So I enrolled for the diploma course of event management for a year and went ahead with it,”.
Ashwina, who is currently based in Jaipur further added: “ I also interned with various companies specialising in destination weddings , and with every wedding I understood the nitty gritties of what it means to be an event manager. In simplest words it means micro-managing every task with sheer perfection. Talking about her wedding events she said: “ All our weddings are custom made, tailored to suit the needs and ideas of our clients. We ensure that there is no monotony in our work in order to be fresh and unique.
The core ingredients for a fun wedding would be something like having a celebrity Dj with a bombastic sound console for a sangeet night, a moulin rouge set up with windmills and a sultry decor in red and going all shimmer with lots of gold and creating an all fresco island bar setups or floral bar for a phoolon ki holi for haldi , or a South Indian themed haldi or mehendi , applying rangabati a kind of white vermillion as the guests enter in a South Indian dress code “.
