About a week before the wedding, all the sons-in-law and brothers-in-law from the bride's family, help to erect the marriage 'mandap' (canopy held up with wooden posts where the actual wedding rites will be performed) and elaborately decorate it with flowers and silver or gold paper. The pillars of the mandap are painted in alternate red and white bands.

The "Mandap Aarohan" is integral to a wedding. This ritual begins a week before the wedding and the brides' male relatives join hands to erect a large canopied ornate mandap where the actual wedding rites are performed.