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Raghu Lakshminaarayanan, Founder
Haritham Events is the culmination of Raghu Lakshminaarayanan's passion for combining tradition with aesthetics — and his conviction that South Indian weddings deserve a refreshingly different approach.
He came to wedding planning through years as an internationally recognised wedding photographer — a vantage point that gave him something most planners don't have. He had watched, up close, what made a wedding feel right and what made it fall apart. That instinct became the foundation of Haritham.
Founded in 2014, the company now carries 12+ years of experience and 1000+ weddings across its history — Tamil Brahmin, Iyer, Iyengar, Telugu, cross-cultural, NRI homecomings and destination weddings across Chennai, Bangalore and beyond.
Raghu's depth in Vedas and Sampradayas is not incidental. It is the reason families trust Haritham with weddings where tradition is non-negotiable. His governing principle — Atithi Devo Bhava, the guest is God — sets the standard every member of the Haritham team is held to. No compromise on quality. No exception.
As one of Chennai's most trusted South Indian wedding planners, Raghu brings the eye of a photographer and the rigour of a director to every celebration he takes on.
A wedding is one of the most emotionally loaded experiences a family will ever go through. Meera Balachandar's role at Haritham is to make sure that emotion is joy — not anxiety.
As Co-founder and Event Director, Meera is the primary point of contact for every family that works with Haritham. Her instinct for listening carefully and translating what a family actually wants — beyond what they say they want — is what shapes each wedding into something personal rather than formulaic.
Over 12 years and 1000+ weddings, she has built a reputation for a quality that is harder to find than any logistical skill: genuine calm. In the middle of a three-day Tamil Brahmin wedding with 800 guests, two venues and a muhurtham that cannot slip by a minute, Meera is the person families look to. Her composure is not performance. It is the product of having navigated every imaginable situation and knowing that each one has a solution.
Meera's client-first approach is the reason Haritham's reviews read the way they do — not as endorsements of a vendor, but as gratitude from families who felt genuinely cared for.
Meera Balachandar,
Co-founder & Event Director
If Haritham's weddings run to clockwork precision, Shamala Raghu is the reason why.
As Event Director, Shamala owns the on-ground execution of every wedding Haritham takes on — the coordination of vendors, the sequencing of rituals, the movement of people and resources across what are often multi-venue, multi-day celebrations. Her standard is simple: nothing should surprise the family on their wedding day.
Every contingency is anticipated. Every timeline is protected.
What sets Shamala apart is the combination of relentless energy and sharp situational thinking. When something unplanned happens — and in a South Indian wedding with 500 guests, something always does — she resolves it before the family knows it was ever an issue. That quiet efficiency is a form of care that the families she works with feel deeply, even if they never see the half of what she has managed on their behalf.
In over a decade working alongside Raghu and Meera, Shamala has become the operational backbone of Haritham — the reason the team's promise of single-point accountability is one they can actually keep.