Wedding Venue: Velinga Temple

Venue of The Wedding: 6th April, 2012 

Traditionally weddings would take place in temples in the olden times. As the trend started changing, people started hosting the weddings in hotels, or as the latest trend goes with destination weddings. And so the culture and beauty of temple weddings has got hidden behind the glamour.
We are bringing back the traditional culture by tying the knot at one of Goa's most beautiful temple situated in Ponda area in Central Goa. The beautiful grand structure is called The Shri Lakshmi Naracinha Temple and it happens to be Pallavi's family deity temple. 

Crouched on the side of a steep, densely wooded hill, the secluded Shri Lakshmi Narcinha mandir at Velinga, 3km southwest of Mardol. Based in the Velinga village, the path to the temple starts at the top of the grassy square, in the centre of which stands a modern concrete shrine. The Lakshmi-Narcinha devta is housed inside this temple, a conventional eighteenth-century structure surrounded by neat lawns and pilgrims' hostels, is Vishnu in his fourth incarnation as the man-lion Naracinha, aka Narayan. However, his shrine and the brightly painted assembly hall leading to it (lined with images of Vishnu's avatars) are of less interest than the beautiful water tank at the far end of the courtyard. Fed by an eternal spring, this is fringed by a lush curtain of coconut palms. Its stepped sides, used by locals as communal bathing- and dhobirghats, are ornamented with rows of Islamic-arched niches. The squat tower behind is a musicians' gallery. 

There are certain restrictions at the temple that we would like to highlight: 

1) No footwear inside the temple complex (we will arrange to store the footwear before entering the temple) 

2) No food and drinks in the water tank area of the temple. 

3) General respectfulness towards the temple complex is expected.

4) There will be transport arrangements from Zuri White Sands Hotel to the temple. The distance between Zuri Hotel to temple is 45mins. 

5) No Alcohol, Garlic and onions in the temple complex. The food served will be vegetarian. 

6) Baraat will reach the temple by 4:30PM on 6th April, 2012
7) See the map for direction.