I Want to Make Candles for Indian Weddings — Which Wax, Fragrance and Container Formats Are Practical for Producing Hundreds of Identical Pieces?
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Which wax suits wedding votives and tealights? A container soy such as CSI 464, since the glass or cup holds the shape. Sculptural pieces in your own moulds need a harder wax such as CSI Soy Pillar Wax.
Should wedding candles be strongly scented? Table and décor candles in a crowded hall are often better lightly scented or unscented. Favours that guests take home can carry the fragrance.
How do I keep 300 candles identical? One wax purchase, one oil purchase, every pour weighed, one pouring temperature checked with a thermometer, wicks fixed with holders and a retained sample from each batch.
What a wedding order really demands
Wedding work in India often means hundreds of pieces for one event: favours on every seat, votives along the tables, tealights in a mandap or walkway, perhaps a few statement pieces for the stage. The brief is unusual in one way. Uniformity matters more than individuality. A slightly lighter colour, a lower fill line or a wick that leans is invisible on a shelf of mixed candles and obvious in a row of identical ones.
So the raw-material question is not only which wax and which oil, but which combination you can repeat three hundred times without drift. That favours simple container formats, a single fixed formula and buying that keeps every input from one purchase.
Formats that work at wedding volume
| Format | CSI container and unit price | Wax | Practical notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tealights | Aluminium cups: 100 for ₹649.00 = ₹6.49 each; 500 for ₹3,009.00 = ₹6.018 each | Container soy | Fastest to pour. No dedicated tealight wick is listed; test small wicks yourself. |
| Big tealights | Empty cups: 100 for ₹1,180.00 = ₹11.80 each | Container soy | Its listing title says about 9 hours of burn; treat that as the listing's figure and test your own. |
| Glass votives | 70 g votive: 10 for ₹318.60 = ₹31.86 each | Container soy | Good favour size, glass gives a finished look. |
| 200 ml jar | Clear salsa with lug cap: ₹29.50 each at 50 or 100 | Container soy | Larger gift; lid helps transport to the venue. |
| 120 g shiny jar | With lid: 5 for ₹236.00 = ₹47.20 each | Container soy | Coloured glass options; 6 cm diameter on its page. |
| Sculptural or bubble pieces | Your own mould; CSI lists no bubble mould | Soy Pillar Wax or a harder blend you test | Slowest; every demould is a chance for a flaw. Keep to small numbers. |
For volume, tealights and votives win. They need no demoulding, the container hides small surface differences, and the fill line is set by the vessel. Sculptural pieces look spectacular but are slow and each one carries its own risk of a broken edge or a mark from the mould. If the couple wants bubble candles, quote them as a small feature run in your own moulds rather than as the main order.
Whichever container you choose, weigh your own fill before quoting. The votive jar is listed as 70 gram, but CSI publishes no fill weight for its tealight cups, so pour a few, let them set and weigh them. Your quantities, your costs and the burn behaviour all depend on that one measured figure, and at three hundred pieces a few grams per piece becomes several kilograms of wax.
Wax and fragrance for a room full of candles
Wax. In glass and aluminium cups, the container holds the shape, so a container soy is the natural choice. CSI 464 is single-pour, has a stated load of up to 10% and costs the same per kg at every pack. Freestanding pieces need a wax made for moulds, such as CSI Soy Pillar Wax, or your own tested blend.
Fragrance level. Dozens of scented candles burning in one hall can overwhelm guests and compete with food and flowers. As a suggested approach, keep table and décor candles lightly scented or unscented and let the favours, which guests take home and burn one at a time, carry a fuller fragrance. A suggested starting load for a 70 g favour is 6%, tested against 8%.
Which oils. Wedding briefs lean towards florals. British Rose and Jasmine both state 0% vanillin, which keeps light wax light, and up to 10% in soy. Gardenia, listed as Gardenia Tuberose, states 8 to 10% for luxury jars but has a flashpoint of 98°C, and its page says to add it below 98°C. Neroli's published flashpoint is 85°C. With low-flashpoint oils, temperature control matters on every one of three hundred pours. If the brief is warmer, Woody Oud and Dark Vanilla Oud suit evening functions, but test any vanillin-containing oil for colour.
Worked order: 300 rose votive favours
A 70 g votive at a suggested 6% is 65.8 g of wax and 4.2 g of oil. The pilot is six votives, three each of British Rose and Jasmine, all with Eco C1, the thinner of the two Eco options. Three hundred favours then need 300 × 65.8 g = 19,740 g of wax and 300 × 4.2 g = 1,260 g of oil. The pilot adds 6 × 65.8 g = 394.8 g of wax.
Wax. 19,740 + 394.8 = 20,134.8 g. Two 10 kg packs and a 1 kg pack of CSI 464 at ₹10,148.00 + ₹507.40 = ₹10,655.40 give 21 kg and leave 865.2 g, about 13 spare votives for breakage or a late request.
Oil. The pilot uses 12.6 g from a 100 g Rose bottle, leaving 87.4 g. The order needs 1,260 g, so buy at least 1,172.6 g more. A 1 kg bottle plus two 100 g bottles, at ₹3,068.00 + 2 × ₹342.20 = ₹3,752.40, gives 1,287.4 g in all and leaves 27.4 g. A 1 kg plus a 500 g bottle would cost ₹4,661.00 and leave over 300 g unused, so the smaller combination is better here.
Jars. 306 votives including the pilot means 31 packs of 10 at 31 × ₹318.60 = ₹9,876.60, giving 310 jars and four spares.
Wicks and fixing. A 20-pack of Eco C1 at ₹118.00 covers the pilot and leaves 14. The remaining 286 can be bought as 100 + 100 + 50 + 20 + 20 = 290 for ₹590.00 + ₹590.00 + ₹295.00 + ₹118.00 + ₹118.00 = ₹1,711.00, because Eco C1 costs ₹5.90 each in every pack. Wick stickers for 306 wicks need eight sheets at 8 × ₹100.00 = ₹800.00, and bamboo wick holders at ₹118.00 per set of five keep each wick centred while it sets.
| Line | Working | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Wax | 65.8 g × ₹0.5074 | ₹33.39 |
| Oil | 4.2 g × ₹3.068 (1 kg rate) | ₹12.89 |
| Votive jar | ₹318.60 ÷ 10 | ₹31.86 |
| Wick | Eco C1 | ₹5.90 |
| Materials total | ₹84.04 |
Ribbons, tags, boxes, labour, delivery to the venue and GST are all extra and are your own figures.
Keeping three hundred pieces identical
Buy this to test: CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40, 100 g each of British Rose ₹342.20 and Jasmine ₹430.00, one pack of ten votives ₹318.60 and 20 Eco C1 ₹118.00. Buy this once the pilot passes: the remaining wax, oil, jars and wicks above, in one order, with packaging from your own suppliers. Never leave burning pilots unattended, and stop any that smoke or flare.
Where this page fits
CSI already has guides that cover parts of this question. This page turns the product above into a raw-material list; these go deeper on the rest:
Three things to buy for this job
| Option | Price | Status on the October 2026 pull |
|---|---|---|
| Pack of 5 | ₹159.30 | In stock |
| Pack of 10 | ₹318.60 | In stock |
| Option | Price | Status on the October 2026 pull |
|---|---|---|
| 15 g | ₹94.40 | In stock |
| 50 g | ₹212.40 | In stock |
| 100 g | ₹342.20 | In stock |
| 500 g | ₹1,593.00 | In stock |
| 1 kg | ₹3,068.00 | In stock |
| Option | Price | Status on the October 2026 pull |
|---|---|---|
| Pack of 10 | ₹94.40 | In stock |
| Pack of 50 | ₹330.40 | In stock |
| Pack of 100 | ₹649.00 | In stock |
| Pack of 500 | ₹3,009.00 | In stock |
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Product facts (October 2026, CSI live store): Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram: Pack of 5 ₹159.30, Pack of 10 ₹318.60 — 70 g votive and sampler jar. British Rose Fragrance Oil: 15 g ₹94.40, 50 g ₹212.40, 100 g ₹342.20, 500 g ₹1,593.00, 1 kg ₹3,068.00 — flashpoint 192°C · 0% vanillin · up to 10% soy, up to 6% paraffin · cure 48–72 h. Tea Lights Aluminium (empty cups): Pack of 10 ₹94.40, Pack of 50 ₹330.40, Pack of 100 ₹649.00, Pack of 500 ₹3,009.00 — empty aluminium tealight cups.
Assumptions: Fragrance load is a percentage of total candle weight (200 g = 184 g wax + 16 g oil at 8%); CSI wax pages phrase their ceilings as a share of wax weight. Material cost per candle covers wax, oil, vessel, wick and dye only — it excludes packaging, labels, labour, shipping and GST. CSI publishes no wick sizing chart, burn times or wax survival temperatures, so every wick named is a candidate to test. Retail prices, budgets, margins and packaging costs are the reader's own figures. Test counts and loads are suggested starting points. Prices re-checked 1 October 2026; product pages are authoritative.