For thinking that you shouldn't impose your celebrations on the entire street?

It's an excellent idea.

So by heritage I am Indian. Yes it is true that our weddings do go on over a number of days, but there has to be some reasonableness here. There is no need for massive noise late at night (after say10.30) and the need for consideration for neighbours does not go away just because there is a wedding. It does sound like these neighbours are difficult anyway? I would text to ask them to please keep the noise down and if this does not work I would contact the council. In reality though it can take a long time to get any action.

100 %. The behaviour is selfish and anti- social. I would call the police.

It is a police matter in Scotland. I've called police on a couple of occasions and been, on a couple of occasions in a house where police attended. You used to get one warning- if the police came back they removed sound equipment.

Get a payg sim and text them to be quiet don't put a name to it and take it out of your phone afterwards

It's different if the noise is between 11pm & 7am. Have a word today if it carries on ask the council what they used to record the noise, download it & record.
One night is different to that length of time!

Well, that's an easy throwaway comment to make when you're not the one being impacted 🙄

You would in your high hole!

There's an awful lot of virtue signalling that goes on because it's a global majority wedding.

Oh the wonderful smells, and the costumes and dancing, how fantastic. Join in!

I'd hazard a guess they'd be very unhappy if it was a working class UK wedding going on for a week with music blaring and nowhere to park. Posters would be suggesting calling the Police, not knock on OP, ask if you can join in! Stop being a fun sponge.

I would be asking for an invite 😂, if you don't want to contact them there is not much you are able to do i'm afraid - personally I would contact them and ask them to turn it down at a certain time pointing out that you have to be up for work, make it nice, congratulate them etc.

OP has already updated that she has spoken the the council, they have advised to keep a diary, and they don’t have an out of hours number. Many councils can’t afford to provide this kind of service any more.

If I'd seen that I would have called the police

1. Contact them, from your hose when you can hear the noise, by phone and tell them to turn it down
2. If they don't, call the police, and the local council environmental protection department (they will have a 24-hpur number on their website)

This is a good idea.

To be fair though, most wedding receptions don't take place at home, they take place at venues that reduce or stop the noise after a certain time so that it doesn't impact their neighbours...

It's also not a "one off" evening (which I'd tolerate as long as it didn't go too far into the early hours), it'll be a whole week, seeing as they've said 14-21 April! A whole week of noise like that is too much for a residential area. Warning the neighbours still doesn't make it right, when it'll be such a prolonged period of disruption into the evening/early hours.

It's possible to celebrate a marriage properly with family and friends without playing loud music after 10/11 pm...

You're right. Beyond ridiculous.

You can't do that when you have children to care for. You need to hear them, especially at night.

I would call the police, don’t say it’s loud music, tell them there’s a massive disturbance with lots of cars and you don’t know what is going on at number 33 but they need to come and take a look as you are worried

Honestly, they’ve reached out with that letter and opened lines of communication - I would drop a note through the door. Ask if the noise can be kept down after 8 or 9pm as you have young children who need to sleep. State you have no issues over the increased cars/guests given it is just for a week, and that you are really happy for them (a wedding is always something to be celebrated), but you just have concerns over being able to WFH on calls with their music/etc intruding (even if this is not true) and your children’s sleep routine… or something to that effect.

I hate antisocial assholes who don't care about anyone but themselves.

Reasonable people don't want to disturb others.

They’re bang out of order but they have provided everyone with a number to ring if there’s any concerns, so ring it! I wouldn’t be listening to your wet DH because he’s getting some sleep on the sofa (all be it not very comfortable).
Just say it’s severely impacting you all and could they keep it down after 10pm.
Is there any chance you can talk to the rest of the cul de sac and approach it together?

I am sympathetic to a point. They have given you a number to call if it’s to noisy but instead of calling /texting it you are googling council and police? Anyone reasonable would call the number first before escalating it further .

I'd see what it's like tomorrow night before complaining. Surely they're not going to party every night for a week! One night is acceptable given it's a wedding and they've warned you in advance

This will prompt a pile on, but, honestly, given these people are hostile and unreasonable and prone to retaliation, I’d rather phone in a suspicion of drug dealing.

I understand that a week long wedding celebration is the norm in some cultures. Absolutely fine, nothing wrong with that. However, they aren't celebrating in a large country estate in the middle of no where! They are celebrating in a residential cul-de-sac, with houses in very close proximity. Therefore, it's not reasonable to have music barring out, that's so loud, the entire street can't sleep at night. I would politely ask them to make sure the music is turned down to an acceptable level from 9 or 10 pm at night. Explain that you have a husband who needs to go to work and function and a child that needs to sleep. You can't be the only ones on the street that can't sleep!