We have dressed a lot of weddings. The families that enjoy the process all do the same thing: they work backwards from the date, and they start earlier than they think they need to.
Twelve weeks out
Decide the palette for the main functions before anyone buys anything. Not the outfits, the colours. Once the bride's family has fixed theirs, the groom's side has a frame to work inside and you stop buying pieces that fight each other in photographs.
Eight weeks out
Buy the groom's main piece. A sherwani or a suit that needs real tailoring wants time, and in season the tailoring counters are full. This is also the point to buy for the parents, because their alterations are usually the fiddly ones.
Six weeks out
First fitting. Bring the shoes you will actually wear. Trouser and sherwani length is set from the shoe, and a change of two centimetres at the hem is the difference between sharp and borrowed.
Four weeks out
Kids. Boys grow, so buying earlier than this is a gamble. Buy with a little room in the sleeve and hem and let the counter take it in near the date.
Two weeks out
Final fitting for everyone, and collect. Steam and hang everything, do not leave it folded in the bag. Keep the whole set together in one place with the accessories, so nothing goes missing the morning of.
The week of
Nothing. That is the point of the timeline.
What we can do from a distance
Plenty of our wedding customers live outside Kerala and come home for the function. Send measurements on WhatsApp, we will hold pieces, and you do the fitting when you land. Tell us the date at the start and we will plan the tailoring around your travel rather than around ours.