After consulting the astrologer, the two families meet for the first ceremony called : where the groom's father goes to the bride's house and receives food from them. On the next day, the occurs, where the groom's family presents new clothes and jewels to the bride's family. Placing a simhasana on a kambli and taking a kalasha, puja is done to this setup and the bride-to-be is smeared with saffron and presented with fruits and flowers. Marriage letters, called lagnapatrikas, are then exchanged between the families. On the first day, mooladarshina is done where the kuladevata is worshipped and the bride and bridgroom are smeared with arshna. The Pandal is raised next with "atti" or "nerale" wood, unless either's "bedagu" is one of the aforementioned woods. In the ceremony called "elevara", another twig of "nerale" wood is tied to the main post. The bride's party arrives in the evening, and women of both families worship a pot filled with 9 types of grain in "karaga puja". In some families, the bridegroom goes to an intersection of three paths and offers cooked food to a human figure then leaves silently without looking back. This "biragudi" is meant to appease evil spirits.