Wedding venues in India

Taj Mahal Palace Hotel

Jamsetji Tata’s 1903 palace on the Mumbai waterfront, facing the Gateway of India and the Arabian Sea.

Umaid Bhawan Palace

Umaid Bhawan Palace was begun in 1928 as famine relief for Jodhpur and took 15 years and 347 rooms to finish; the Maharaja still lives in one wing.

64 rooms

The Imperial New Delhi

Opened by the Viceroy in 1936 on what was then Queensway, with 24 king palms on the drive and the Daniells' aquatints along its corridors.

235 rooms

The Oberoi Udaivilas

Built in 2002 on the Mewar maharanas' hunting grounds, The Oberoi Udaivilas rises from Lake Pichola in domes that look older than the City Palace opposite.

87 rooms

The Oberoi Amarvilas

Every one of the 102 rooms at The Oberoi Amarvilas looks at the Taj Mahal, 600 metres away across the gardens.

102 rooms

Taj Falaknuma Palace

The dining table at Taj Falaknuma Palace seats 101, the longest in any palace in India, under a ceiling the Nizams dined beneath.

60 rooms

The Oberoi, Mumbai

Rebuilt floor by floor after the attack of November 2008, The Oberoi, Mumbai reopened in 2010 on Nariman Point with every room facing the Arabian Sea.

287 rooms

The Oberoi, New Delhi

Delhi's first modern luxury hotel, opened in 1965 between the golf course and Humayun's Tomb, rebuilt inside in 2018 with 220 rooms.

220 rooms

The Oberoi Rajvilas

The first of the Oberoi Vilas resorts, opened in 1997, spreads over 32 acres east of Jaipur around an eighteenth-century Shiva temple.

The Leela Palace Udaipur

The Leela Palace Udaipur has its own jetty on Lake Pichola, and guests dine at Sheesh Mahal with the Lake Palace lit on the water.

80 rooms

The Leela Palace New Delhi

Domes and arcades in the diplomatic enclave since 2011, with branches of New York's Le Cirque and Megu and 254 rooms served by butlers.

254 rooms

Samode Palace

Painted Durbar Hall and mirror rooms of a sixteenth-century Rajput palace, still owned by the family that built it, 40 km from Jaipur.

43 rooms

Wildflower Hall, An Oberoi Resort

Lord Kitchener's summer residence at 2,515 metres, rebuilt by Oberoi after a 1993 fire and reopened in 2001 among cedar forest.

85 rooms

Amanbagh

Ed Tuttle's pink sandstone palace in the Maharaja of Alwar's old hunting garden, with 24 haveli suites and 16 pool pavilions.

40 rooms

Suján Jawai

Canvas tents pitched among granite outcrops in Pali district, where leopards sit out on the rocks in daylight and Rabari herders graze their flocks.

Six Senses Fort Barwara

A fourteenth-century Rajput fort restored over a decade, opened in October 2021 with 48 suites and a celebrity wedding two months later.

48 rooms

Lalitha Mahal Palace

A palace built in 1921 by the Maharaja of Mysore to lodge the Viceroy, with a dome modelled on St Paul's Cathedral, a hotel since 1974.

54 rooms

The LaLiT Great Eastern Kolkata

India's oldest operating hotel, opened in 1840 as the Auckland Hotel and reopened in 2013 after an eight-year restoration.

215 rooms

ITC Grand Chola

A 600-key hotel in Chennai built in the carved-granite manner of Chola temples, with LEED Platinum certification and space for 3,000 guests.

522 rooms · Up to 3,000 guests