When Alanna Panday tied the knot with the photographer and director Ivor McCray this week, everyone knew to anticipate nothing lower than an array of stirring aesthetics. To bring her dream marriage wardrobe to life, the bridegroom-to-be enlisted the help of celebrity hairstylist Ami Patel and make-up artist Shradha Luthra for all of her matrimonial beauty moments. Not long after the couple got engaged in November 2021 the mama of the bridegroom, Deanne Panday, began planning their marriage.
- Custom Rahul Mishra look for the mehendi (House On The Clouds)
The three- day long festivities demurred off on Tuesday with the mehendi in Pali Hill at Sohail Khan’s home, who’s a close friend of the family. ‘Tropical Oasis ’ was the theme, for which the couple chose couturier Rahul Mishra. The idea was to give the couple a sportful wardrobe that reflects their youth and personalities with intricately exaggerated work but icing the outfits were light as air. Alanna loved the botanicals when we transferred her the original belt in October and everything was planned around that.
Keeping the accessories to a minimum to take down from the outfit, Panday wore a maang tikka and earrings by Shri Paramani Jewels with flowers in her hair; while McCray wore a mint green kurta pajama set, with an exaggerated Bundi jacket and matching shoes. The entire family was dressed in Rahul Mishra, nominated by Vogue India’s former fashion director and hair stylist Anaita Shroff Adajania. The blouse was the same peach as Chikki’s look, while Ahaan’s pink kurta rounded Deanne’s skirt. They truly breathe life into our garments,” says Mishra.
The coming day, the matrimonial party moved camp to the family hearthstone for the haldi form. The scenery was designed to image an Italian growers’ request – with a celebratory brunch for close musketeers and family, followed by the ritual. For the brunch, the couple wore custom pop Don’t Sermonize sweetmeats. “Whenever I see Alanna, I incontinently suppose an Indian naiad,” says Shubhika Sharma, author of the cult marker, who aptly dressed the audacious bridegroom in a naiad- cut On the moodboard? The trip-loving couple’s Italian lams and all the colours of the foliage and fauna set up there, supposed tones of soft turquoise waters, bougainvillea like the Campanian summer sky.
- The Haldi Ceremony Look (georgette sharara set by Payal Singhal)
To personalize the look, Sharma designed a choli with scalloped shoulder sleeve details inspired by seashells that the trip and life influencer loves collecting on their recesses. There were ombre lattice drapes attached to the shoulder that fell majestically behind the bridegroom as she descended the stairs of her Mumbai home. The lehenga, which was exaggerated in Swarovski chargers, gold metallic tassels, glass-cut globules, and 3D flowers, featured 7-inch cutouts on the midriff for a peek-a-boo moment. The bachelor was dressed in a cropped ice-blue velvet jacket exaggerated with tableware essence coins, globules, and fine strips of PVC
When it was time to partake in the haldi, the couple snappily changed into more relaxed and less formal outfits by Payal Singhal. The bridegroom wore an ecru georgette sharara with a posterior choli featuring velvet appliqué and zardozi work with a handcrafted maang tikka and handballs from Amama, while the bachelor wore a chanderi lurex bomber kurta with joggers. On the autumn of Thursday, March 16, the youthful couple took their pheras in the chamber of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. The theme for the fests was ‘entranced timber ’, for which the brace said yes to bespoke Manish Malhotra for their vesture.
- The Matrimonial Look (Manish Malhotra’s Mijwan couture collection)
“Deanne, who’s been a dear friend for a long time, called me and said that she’s always wanted her son to be a Manish Malhotra bridegroom,” reveals designer Manish Malhotra. Inspired by the exquisite chikankari work of the Mijwan collection, Panday and her hairstylist Patel met with Malhotra months before the big day and zeroed in on creating a 2024 interpretation of the Mijwan matrimonial lehenga. The couturier also drew up an ethereal lattice outfit in out-white that was hand-exaggerated with intricate floral motifs with borders in delicate threadwork, chargers, plums, and sequins. The look was completed with a scallop-edged translucent robe and fine jewellery by Manish Malhotra. “Alanna is a girl of the moment who looks at effects in a fresh manner and she loves our white matrimonial look. She saw our exaggerated running white lehenga with our romantic robe and decided that this was what she wanted as her matrimonial look.”
Come night, Alanna Panday changed into her final outfit, a glowing Falguni Shane Peacock mermaid cut lehenga, designed with a ham-high tear and a sheer robe in the tinge of a tableware swan in line with the entranced timber theme. The running skirt was paired with a bralette-style top with tassels – all adorned with delicate Swarovski monuments, chargers, sequins, and globules. McCray rounded the bridegroom in a differing black tuxedo stretched with Swarovski chargers and pelleting. The reception concluded the day of events with a regale and dancing to celebrate the happy couple.
