A wedding mandap ! mandap is a temporarily built up for the purpose of a hindu wedding. The main wedding ceremonies take place under the mandap.
It is traditionally made of wood although now modern decorative materials are used. It often comes as a set that includes pillars supporting a frame royal chairs for the bride and the groom side chairs for parents and a pedestal for the sacred fire.
One of the important custom of ‘kanyadan’ and ‘saat fere’ take place under this mandap.
Use of a mandap is an ancient custom and is described in hindu religious books like ‘Ramcharitmanas’ and various Sanskrit texts.
The bride is often escorted to the mandap by her maternal uncle and her peers.
Decorations
Traditionally the wedding mandap is decorated using kalashas garlands of mango leaves, coconuts, banana leaves, etc.
Modern Mandaps use fabrics lights crystals flowers Wrought Iron unique shapes and other materials insuring all religious aspects of a mandap which include the four pillars and havan kund is now completely modernized by design.