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Shalimar Marquee
Raiwind Road, Lahore
Covered marquee with parking for 300 cars
Up to 800
Rs 3.5 lakh
starting per function
Venues & marquees
Compare wedding halls, marquees, lawns and farmhouses across Lahore. Share your date, guest count and budget, and venues that have your date free send you offers within 24 hours. No more driving from hall to hall to ask the same questions.
2 vendors across Lahore · from Rs 2.2 lakh
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Raiwind Road, Lahore
Covered marquee with parking for 300 cars
Rs 3.5 lakh
starting per function
Gulberg, Lahore
Open-air lawn for mehndi and dholki
Rs 2.2 lakh
starting per function
Buying guide
The venue sets your date, your guest limit and often your caterer, so it is usually the first booking a Lahore family makes. This guide explains the main venue types, how venue quotes are structured and what to check before you commit.
The short version
What comes with a booking varies a lot between a hall, a marquee and a farmhouse. A typical booking covers some or all of these:
Venues in Lahore quote in one of two ways. Some charge rent for the space and slot, and you bring your own food. Many halls and marquees quote per head with their in-house menu included, so venue and catering become one booking. Every offer on Bandobast says which model it uses, so you can compare like with like.
Date and day matter most. Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings in wedding season cost more than a weekday lunch in summer. Slot length matters too: most halls give a fixed number of hours and charge for overtime, so ask what counts as overtime and how it is billed.
Look for extras outside the main price: generator fuel, extra heaters or cooling, valet staff, upgraded stage or entrance decor, a security deposit, and any charge for bringing an outside caterer or decorator.
Book the venue before anything else. It fixes your date and capacity, and in many halls it also decides the caterer. For a wedding in the main season, roughly November to February, popular venues are booked months ahead and the most wanted dates go first.
If your date is flexible, say so in your request. A venue may have a free weekday or lunch slot it can offer at a better price. For smaller functions such as a nikkah or aqiqa, a few weeks' notice is often enough.
Mehndi suits open spaces: lawns, farmhouses and marquees with room for a dance floor, a dhol and family seating close to the stage. Check how late music can run, since most halls have timing rules.
The baraat needs a formal setting with a proper stage, an entrance for the groom's party and seating for everyone at once. Seated capacity and parking matter most here.
The walima is often the biggest guest count of the three. Look at seated capacity first, then at the buffet layout and how quickly guests can be served.
A nikkah, engagement, aqiqa or birthday may not need a full hall. Smaller banquet rooms, private areas in restaurants, farmhouses and community halls can work, as can a home with a marquee on the lawn or in the street.
For office dinners, launches and conferences, ask about sound, projectors, internet, a stage for speakers and proper invoicing.
On Bandobast, venues that have your date free send offers within 24 hours, so you only compare real availability. Line offers up by pricing model first (rent only, or per head with food), then by capacity, slot length and extras.
Ask for a visit before you accept, and use chat to get answers to the questions above in writing. You can accept or counter, and when you pay, the money goes to Bandobast and is held until your event is done.
It depends on the venue, the date and your guest count, and on whether food is included. Venues on Bandobast list a starting price, and you can name your own budget in a request to see which ones accept.
A hall is a permanent indoor building, while a marquee is a large decorated tent structure, often on a lawn. Marquees usually feel more open; halls are easier in bad weather. Both are listed on Bandobast.
Some venues allow it and some only work with their in-house teams. Ask in your request or in chat, and the venue will confirm before you book.
Book the venue first, as early as you can. The venue fixes your date, and the rest of your bandobast follows from it.
Yes. Ask the venue for a visit once they send an offer, and only accept once you're happy with what you saw.
Ask these before you accept an offer: What is the seated capacity, and how will tables be arranged for our number? Is food included, and can we see and taste the menu? Can we bring our own caterer or decorator, and is there a charge for it? Get the answers in chat on Bandobast so they are in writing.
You pay Bandobast by bank transfer, not the vendor directly. We hold the money until your event is done and only then pay the vendor, so if something goes wrong before the day, your money hasn't left.
