Indian Wedding Ceremonies
Every Ceremony. Every Tradition. Flawlessly Performed.
A South Asian wedding is not one event — it's a multi-day, multi-ceremony celebration of culture, family, and tradition. DJ Sohbash has performed every Indian wedding ceremony over 3,000+ weddings across 25+ years, bringing deep musical knowledge and live crowd intuition to each event in your wedding weekend in Drake Hotel Chicago.
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Mehndi Ceremony
Henna application is slow, intimate, and hours long — which makes the Mehndi music selection deeply important. DJ Sohbash curates a flowing, joyful set that drifts from soft melodic Bollywood through Sufi ballads and romantic classics into energetic group dance numbers as the mood shifts. The Mehndi playlist becomes a journey in itself.
Bollywood · Sufi · Romantic Classics · Garba
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Haldi Ceremony
The Haldi pulls every generation of the family into one room — turmeric on cheeks, laughter on every face. DJ Sohbash's Haldi music selection is built to ride that energy: playful, high-impact tracks rooted in folk and regional classics, with the right songs queued to get grandmothers and cousins dancing side by side.
Punjabi Folk · Bollywood · Bhangra · Regional Classics
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Garba & Dandiya Night
When the wedding weekend has a Garba/Dandiya Night — and for Gujarati and many multicultural Indian families it absolutely does — that night usually becomes the most-talked-about evening of the entire celebration. DJ Sohbash's Garba expertise covers traditional raas, modern fusion Garba, and the precise blending of devotional and celebratory tracks that keeps the floor turning for 3-5 straight hours. 3,000+ Indian weddings worth of pattern recognition built that skill.
Traditional Garba · Dandiya Raas · Fusion Garba · Navratri Classics
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Sangeet Night
Sangeet is the wedding weekend's biggest dance night — and DJ Sohbash's Sangeet sets are what families end up talking about for years afterward. Once family performances and skits wrap, DJ Sohbash hits the floor with a set engineered for this specific family, this specific crowd, this specific moment. Bollywood hits from every era, Bhangra for the Punjabi uncles, fusion EDM drops that pull the younger generation in — every generation dancing past midnight.
Bollywood · Bhangra · EDM Fusion · Hip-Hop Mashups · Regional Hits
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Baraat Procession
The Baraat is the groom's grand entrance — and DJ Sohbash has orchestrated over 3,000+ of them. Whether it's a horse-led Baraat through the streets of Drake Hotel Chicago, a dhol-driven procession through a luxury hotel lobby, or an arrival choreographed to a specific Bollywood anthem, DJ Sohbash coordinates every beat, every transition, and every crowd moment to make the groom's arrival the most unforgettable five minutes of the weekend. The Baraat is DJ Sohbash's signature — and every single one is different.
Bollywood Anthems · Bhangra · Dhol Fusion · Custom Groom Entrance
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Wedding Reception
The Reception is where the entire wedding weekend resolves — and DJ Sohbash treats it that way. Guests routinely describe his closing performances as transcendent. The arc is deliberate: cocktail hour ambiance, first dance coordination, parent dances, then the main reception set moving from family classics through floor-filling Bollywood into a Bhangra finale that empties every chair. After 3,000+ Indian wedding Receptions, every one ends the same — standing ovation, full floor, nobody wanting to leave.
Bollywood · Bhangra · Garba · Western Hits · EDM · Closing Anthems