You’re invited to... My Big Fat ‘Fake’ Punjabi Wedding

Imagine dressing up in your best saree, matching pearls, tille-wali jutties. Add to it flawless makeup, and you're ready for a night like no other. Dholwala in place, mehandi on demand, desi songs blaring and at khane ke stall offering ‘sharabi’ golgappas! In this club that shines and shimmers in wedding décor, everybody is dressed to their ethnic best, but, there is a catch. There is no shaadi!Welcome to the Big Fat ‘Fake’ Punjabi Wedding party, the quirky new trend sweeping across India. From Bengaluru to Chandigarh, people are lining up — and shelling out — for a wedding-style bash that’s missing only the bride and the groom. Tickets start at ₹3000 per couple (a little more for stag entries), and clubs are packed with partygoers ready to experience all the shaadi glam without any of the shaadi stress.Blur Hour's debut fake shaadi event on June 20 at Sante 26 in Chandigarh was a blockbuster. Nearly 600 guests showed up, dressed to the nines. One guy even turned up as the dulha! Vipin Mishra, co-founder of event company Blur Hour, breaks down the buzz, “Indian weddings are fun. But fake wedding parties? Even more so!”He lists out the reasons – not necessarily your friends are invited to shaadis that you are invited to. Here, you can go with your friend group. Secondly, not all drink with their parents or families, so here in your chosen group you are free to booze. Thirdly, and probably most significantly, one gets to dress up and click pictures, make reels, the new ‘obsession’.Chitragada got to know about this party through her socials and her group of school friends decided to give it a go to come out pleased.“Shaadi hai… but make it fake. No rishtedaars. No pressure. Just drama, dance, dhol and a whole lotta kaand. From vodka varmala to baraat with no dulha — this is the only wedding where thumke are mandatory, but commitments are not. Dress up, show up, glow up — and be part of the most viral "wedding" of the season,” reads the invite for their next event. “We are getting huge response for it already,” says Vipin.And no — it’s not just the so called ‘commitment-phobic’ Gen Z flocking to these events. “We’ve had families join in too,” says Vipin.Ludhiana too had its one of the fake shaadi party at Luna - The Night Club on July 5 that turned out to be a hit. Yashik Dhamija, from event company Ludhiana’s Very Own, tells us, “Think of it as a destination wedding — all the food, fun, and fashion, but none of the family drama.” Asees Kaur, a BDS student, who attended this party, shares, “It’s like no family, no pressures. Luna’s food was amazing, the DJ great and it was huge fun with friends.”But we still can’t get over, why go to fake wedding when one has too many wedding to attend anyway? Yashik laughs, “Well, this is the latest trend, and everyone wants a taste of it.”Do you?

You’re invited to... My Big Fat ‘Fake’ Punjabi Wedding

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