New York wedding planner
Tara is a New York wedding planning and design studio founded by Pawan Sukhdeo. We create intentional celebrations that feel welcoming, beautifully composed, and deeply personal.
Today, the studio plans and designs weddings that balance thoughtful hospitality with refined design and an appreciation for nature. Every celebration is approached with intention, creating experiences that feel welcoming, personal, and beautifully considered.
Prelude
Before the day itself, we build a world around it.
This phase focuses on visual language, digital presence, and emotional build-up. Together with our partners, we design and curate every touchpoint leading up to the wedding. A custom wedding website becomes a quiet, editorial space. Digital invitations and postcards are sent intentionally, not as announcements but as moments. Engagement or pre-wedding shoots are curated to establish tone and imagery, while mood boards, references, and visual direction quietly guide everything that follows.
The goal is clarity and calm. When the wedding arrives, everything already feels aligned.
The Gathering
Every decision is intentional. Fewer elements, carefully chosen. The experience feels considered from beginning to end.
For couples who want a trusted partner to oversee every aspect of their celebration.
The wedding is seen as a curated experience. The full creative and wedding planning process is overseen, bringing together a tightly selected circle of venues, designers, florists, furniture, musicians, photographers, and makers who share the same sensibility. From sourcing nature-forward or understated architectural settings to shaping spatial design and atmosphere, each element is carefully selected. Partners are coordinated, timelines and logistics are held, and the day itself is guided with a calm, grounded presence.
Tara manages everything, allowing you to be fully present throughout your wedding.
The Afterglow
After the celebration, the story continues.
Honeymoon shoots are curated through a trusted partner portfolio and approached as documentary moments rather than staged sessions. Time in a new place is observed quietly, allowing presence, movement, and atmosphere to lead. Locations are chosen for feeling rather than spectacle, and the visual language remains editorial, film-inspired, and restrained.
Weddings are often carefully documented, while the days that follow are rarely given the same attention. Yet this time between two people is intimate, personal, and full of small moments that tend to pass unrecorded. It is one of the most meaningful chapters of the journey, and one worth remembering with the same care
Venues and partners
Tara works with a growing circle of vision-led collaborators whose work aligns with the studio’s ethos. These partnerships form the foundation of each celebration, shaping everything from atmosphere to materials to the emotional tone of the day. Venues, florists, creative studios, chefs, designers, ceramicists and textile artists are chosen not only for their craft, but for the way their work speaks to nature, and speaks the same language as our couples’ visions.
VENUES
The spaces we work with are quiet by nature.
Often set within landscapes or understated architecture, our venues allow the experience to unfold naturally rather than performatively. Some are established locations. Others are unexpected places that have never hosted a wedding before.
We work closely with space owners to respect the land, adapt thoughtfully to each environment, and create celebrations that feel true to your unique story.
ARTISANS
Every Tara event is shaped by hands.
We work with musicians, florists, textile artists, ceramists, furniture makers, lighting designers, scent curators, and sound practitioners whose work carries intention and restraint. These are not interchangeable roles. Each artisan brings a point of view, a rhythm, and a way of working that quietly defines the atmosphere of the day.
Artisans are not added at the end of the process. They are involved from the beginning.
Their work informs the way a wedding feels, not how it looks. Each collaboration is built on trust, mutual respect, and a shared belief that celebration can be both elevated and grounded at the same time.