A Kashmiri Pandit wedding card in nested boxes
The Chinar Sandook design arrives as a parcel wrapped in a sozni pashmina, with a paper tag that says "For you, with love" and your names. One tap, and the four corners of the shawl fold open on a lacquered papier-mâché box on a walnut table. Through the window: Dal Lake at a winter dusk, snow on the Zabarwan range, a shikara and a chinar branch.
Guests drag the lid up or tap the box. The chapter is painted on the underside of the lid, and a smaller, more ornate box waits inside. Tap it and the view dives in. Every lifted lid goes onto a walnut tray, so guests can tap one to read that chapter again. Chinar leaves drift through the room, and a sent RSVP throws a shower of leaves and petals, like the Posh Puza.
- Nine boxes: Khush Aamdeed, the couple and their families, the rites before the Lagan, the Lagan, the rites after it, photos and a film, notes for guests, your reply, and the ring box.
- A live countdown to the Lagan muhurat.
- Directions and add to calendar for each rite, with its dress code in colour swatches.
- RSVP on WhatsApp to the number you choose.
- No music: only the sounds of the lids, the paper and a soft chime.
The Kashmiri Pandit wedding rites, in order
The sample is Sharika Kaul of Rainawari and Arnav Razdan of Jawahar Nagar, married in Srinagar in February snow. Their boxes hold these:
- Livun (लिवुन): the house is cleaned and its floors and walls washed with fresh clay, while the aunts sing vanvun.
- Devgon (दिवगोन): the havan that begins the wedding rites, and the bride’s dejhoor tied on with the atahoor thread.
- Mehndiraat (मेंज़िरात): henna night, with rouf and vanvun around the kangris.
- Lagan & Posh Puza: the baraat, the seven steps around the fire, then a shawl held over the couple while every guest showers them with flowers, as Shiv and Parvati.
- Satraat (सतरात): the couple’s first visit back to the bride’s home, and an afternoon on the Dal in shikaras.
The notes for guests in the sample cover houseboats, snow on the roads, kangris and pherans at every venue, and a Pandit wazwan with a vegetarian spread.
Kashmiri Pandit card wording to copy
Om Shri Ganeshaya Namah With the blessings of Mata Sharika and of our elders, Smt. Vijaya & Shri Rakesh Kaul request the pleasure of your company at the Lagan of their daughter Sharika with Arnav, son of Smt. Neerja & Shri Ashok Razdan.
॥ ॐ श्री गणेशाय नमः ॥ माता शारिका एवं बड़ों के आशीर्वाद से श्रीमती विजया एवं श्री राकेश कौल अपनी सुपुत्री शारिका के शुभ लगन में आपको सपरिवार सादर आमंत्रित करते हैं।
More Hindi lines and shlokas are in wedding card matter in Hindi, and invitations for the henna night in haldi, mehendi and sangeet messages.
Get it made with your names
The Chinar Sandook design is not in the five-minute builder. Our studio makes it for you: your names, both families, every rite with its venue and dress code, your photos, and the RSVP to the number you choose.
- Open the live Chinar Sandook sample and lift the first lid.
- Message us on WhatsApp with the design name and your wedding dates.
- We build it with your details and send you the link to share.
See the other made-to-order designs in More designs, or read how a wedding invitation website works.