Indore’s first marriage garden. Twenty-eight years on, three venues the city still books out.
Three named properties, each tuned to a different kind of evening. Tell us the date and the guest count — we will recommend the one that suits.
Indore's first marriage garden — since 1997.
Open lawn + covered shed + AC banquet halls — three settings on one plot at MR-10.
Open-to-sky lawn at MR-10.
Three named properties — Garden, Delite, Harmony — under one family. Sized between eighty and two thousand-plus guests, staffed by the same brigade across all three.
In-house décor studio, lighting and stagecraft, hospitality desk, valet brigade — all on payroll. Catering is arranged by the host through their own caterer.
Founded by Basant Khatod in 1997. Five thousand weddings and a 4.3★ average across 3,082 Justdial reviews later, the office still works on one principle: under-commit, over-deliver.
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A representative sequence — clock hands shift with the muhurat and the menu. These are the beats most evenings hit.
Our captain on site. Décor crew rigs the mandap. Lighting truss tested. The first coffee for the family.
Welcome refreshment table at the gate. Hospitality desk live. Family rooms ready for the bride and groom.
Music procession received at the gate. Garlands and welcome rituals in the courtyard.
Pandit-led ritual under the mandap. AV crew runs the audio. The brigade keeps the courtyard cool.
Stage lit. Guests received. Your caterer plates the first course; our team runs the floor.
Send-off under the gate. Valet on its eleventh cycle, every car returned with the family inside.
Site sealed. Until tomorrow's setup. The evening, by then, has already become a story.
Our captain on site. Décor crew rigs the mandap. Lighting truss tested. The first coffee for the family.
Welcome refreshment table at the gate. Hospitality desk live. Family rooms ready for the bride and groom.
Music procession received at the gate. Garlands and welcome rituals in the courtyard.
Pandit-led ritual under the mandap. AV crew runs the audio. The brigade keeps the courtyard cool.
Stage lit. Guests received. Your caterer plates the first course; our team runs the floor.
Send-off under the gate. Valet on its eleventh cycle, every car returned with the family inside.
Site sealed. Until tomorrow's setup. The evening, by then, has already become a story.
Our captain on site. Décor crew rigs the mandap. Lighting truss tested. The first coffee for the family.
Welcome refreshment table at the gate. Hospitality desk live. Family rooms ready for the bride and groom.
Music procession received at the gate. Garlands and welcome rituals in the courtyard.
Pandit-led ritual under the mandap. AV crew runs the audio. The brigade keeps the courtyard cool.
Stage lit. Guests received. Your caterer plates the first course; our team runs the floor.
Send-off under the gate. Valet on its eleventh cycle, every car returned with the family inside.
Site sealed. Until tomorrow's setup. The evening, by then, has already become a story.
Real bookings across Garden, Delite and Harmony — first name, booking year, event type — every entry tied to a confirmed booking in our register.
“Sangeet ke 4 ghante pehle hamne lighting plan change kar diya tha. Pura reception stage rebuild kar diya, ek extra paisa nahi liya.”
“1,400 guests ka reception, floating dinner. Kisi bhi food station pe 4 minute se zyada wait kisi ne nahi kiya.”
“Sangeet ke liye open-to-sky lawn risk tha — March ka mausam pata nahi kab badle. Lekin raat khil gayi. 2000 guests stars ke neeche.”
Dastoor provides the venue, the in-house décor studio, the lighting truss, the stagecraft, the hospitality desk and the valet brigade — everything that makes the room. Catering is arranged by the host through their own caterer of choice. We are happy to share a short list of trusted partners in Indore on request.
Dastoor was founded by Basant Khatod in 1997 as Indore’s first marriage garden, and has remained family-run ever since. Twenty-eight years of the same hands, the same standard, the same patch of soil — a continuity that, in the events business, is harder to keep than it sounds.
The recurring testimonial in family WhatsApp groups in the days after a Dastoor function reads, in some form or another, the same line: “nobody had to chase a single vendor on the day.”
“We focus on the venue, and we build the platform for the industry to support our dear partners.”
There are no fixed vendors at Dastoor. No empanelled caterers. No royalties from decorators, event planners, artists or any partner the host chooses to bring in. The kitchen, the décor team, the photographer, the DJ, the makeup artist — you bring your own; we hold the venue ready around them.
The principle is simple: we prefer to earn only from areas where we have the expertise and the capacity to invest. That is the venue, the in-house décor studio, the lighting and stagecraft, the hospitality and valet brigade. Everything else, the city of Indore already has the best of — and we’d rather see those craftspeople paid in full than skim a finder’s commission off their work.
The intent is fair play. A young caterer just setting up in Indore competes for your evening on the same terms as the largest banquet house in town. Nothing on our end tilts the field.
Editorial pieces written by the team on the ground — what families ask before booking, what we’ve learned, what the Indore wedding calendar actually looks like up close.
The Indian wedding calendar pivots on muhurat dates and weather. In Indore that translates to roughly 40 high-demand evenings between mid-November and mid-February, then a second peak in April-May before the monsoon arrives. October bookings open eighteen months in advance; April-May still has room four to six weeks out. We share the year ahead on request.
The format Dastoor standardised in 1997 was less about luxury and more about contingency. Indian wedding evenings run six to ten hours; weather, light, sound and guest comfort all shift across that window. A covered banquet handles climate. The open lawn handles scale. The combination handles the actual evening — not the abstract one in the brochure.
Photographers will tell you the wedding-day brief gets repeated thirty times. The estate manager remembers it the first time. The captain knows the bride’s grandmother needs a chair near the mandap. The kitchen team has plated for the same caterer four times this year. None of this lives in a price sheet; all of it is what you’re really paying for.
Written by the team that opened Indore’s first marriage garden in 1997. Read these before signing anywhere.
The evening Dastoor invented in 1997 — open lawn beside a covered shed.
Fifty thousand square feet at Delite, MR-10 Bypass.
Delite's two AC halls (up to 300) + Garden's 30,000 sq ft covered banquet (up to 1,000).
On-site rooms at two of our three properties — 33 at Garden, 70 at Delite. Harmony is a lawn-only property.
Depth, not décor — twenty-eight years of evenings.
An honest 2026 shortlist with capacity and price band.
Each of Garden, Delite and Harmony is held within Dastoor and tuned to a different scale of evening. Garden carries 30,000 sq ft of covered banquet plus an open lawn with thirty-three rooms on site; Delite is the largest property — fifty thousand square feet of open lawn, a twelve thousand square feet covered shed connected to the lawn, two interconnected AC banquet halls (up to 300 guests), seventy rooms on site, and two kitchens for parallel catering — 1,000+ seated on the lawn or 2,000+ standing; Harmony is an open-to-sky lawn at MR-10 carrying a thousand-plus seated and two thousand-plus as a standing reception. We host weddings, receptions, sangeet, engagements, anniversaries, birthdays, baby showers, religious gatherings, corporate evenings, conferences, exhibitions and brand launches across all three. Share the date and headcount on WhatsApp or the form below — we will recommend the venue that suits and host you for a walk-through before anything is confirmed.
Prime dates in the Indore wedding calendar (November through February, with a second peak in April and May) are typically held six to eight months in advance. Off-peak corporate evenings and smaller social functions can sometimes be confirmed inside a month. The honest answer is date-specific — reach out and we will tell you whether your target date is open.
Catering is arranged by the family directly, through your own caterer. Dastoor provides the venue, décor, hospitality and stagecraft — the kitchen is yours to bring. We can recommend a short list of trusted caterers in Indore (pure-vegetarian, Marwari, Jain and Continental specialists) if helpful.
Garden and Delite each have on-site rooms — Garden carries thirty-three, Delite seventy. Harmony is an open-to-sky lawn without on-site accommodation; out-of-town guests stay at Delite or partner hotels within five minutes.
We share a written quotation after a brief conversation about the venue, date, guest count and inclusions. Pricing varies by tier; we do not publish package sheets because every evening is different. Site visits are free of charge and unconditional.
Three options: WhatsApp on +91 88787 89999, an email to info@dastoorgarden.com, or the enquiry form on this page. A member of our team responds within the business day, often within the hour during office hours.
All three venues are within Dastoor near MR-10 road / Indore bypass, accessible from every part of the city and 30 minutes from the airport. Specific addresses: Garden — Scheme No 71, Gumashta Nagar; Delite — Plot 12, Scheme No 159; Harmony — Plot 13, Scheme No 159.
A few practical details from your side; a written response within the business day from ours. Site visits are unconditional and complimentary, seven days a week by appointment.
So our office knows who to call back.
We’ll ask for your mobile on the last step and verify it via SMS before sending the enquiry.
“The search for your dream venue has ended.”
— A line that has lived on the Dastoor homepage for twenty years.
