For NRI couples · Weddings in India · Escrow-protected
Wedding Day is a planning studio for couples in the US, Canada, the Gulf and the UK marrying in India. One planning team. Verified vendors. Your money held in escrow until the work is done.
Lake Pichola, Udaipur · Illustrative image — real photography to follow
We are not a vendor marketplace. We are the planning team for couples who are planning the biggest event of their lives from another time zone — and want it done properly.
How we work
Remote-first · India on the ground
Weekly calls in your time zone. Escrow on every payment. Video from the venue as it comes together.
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Ten days of leave, two hundred guests, and a wedding you cannot be on the ground for. We run the other three hundred and fifty-five days — and hand you a finished wedding when you land.
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Two families, two time zones, one wedding that has to belong to both. We hold the middle — the rituals, the guest lists, the budgets — so no one spends the year arguing over WhatsApp.
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You have never planned anything in India. Your parents have never planned anything anywhere else. We translate between the two, and your wedding keeps both worlds.
You are moving a great deal of money to people you have not met, in a country you are not in. So one planning team answers to you, and no vendor is paid until their work is delivered.
Read the escrow & verification standard →You speak to a planner, not a sales team. Dates, destination, guests, budget, the rituals that matter and the people who matter more.
Everything you tell us is written into a wedding brief — the document every vendor quote is measured against, so nothing is decided twice.
We draw from a vetted circle of venues, photographers, designers and caterers we have worked with — you choose from three good options, not three hundred listings.
Every payment sits in a secure escrow account and is released to a vendor only after their milestone is delivered to your satisfaction. Never on a promise.
Through the build, your planner sends photos and a short video from the venue. You watch your wedding come together from wherever you are.
Guests from twenty cities, four days of events, one plan. You arrive for the final week to a wedding that is already running — not a list of things to decide.
Illustrative images — real photography to follow.
Choose the scale of the wedding, then how much of it you would like us to carry. Fees are agreed privately, before we begin, and are never published.
Three to five days at a palace, heritage property or private estate, up to 500 guests, guests arriving from several countries.
3 months
For families who want to decide with a Director before committing to the full wedding.
6 months
For families who want the wedding designed, contracted and ready — and will run the days themselves or with their own team.
Recommended for families abroad
From the first call to the final settlement
The complete engagement. One Director answers to you for the entire wedding, on the ground and after it.
Wedding scale is the family's budget for the wedding itself, not our fee. Vendor costs are paid through escrow and shown to you line by line. Estate engagements are accepted by application only.
“We wired a year's salary to people we had never met. The only reason we slept that year was that Ananya sent a video every single evening.”
Priya is a paediatric resident in Newark. Arjun works in fintech in Manhattan. They got engaged in 2024 and knew they wanted to marry in Udaipur, where Priya's grandmother lives, but they could only take ten days off for the wedding itself.
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Mumbai · US, Canada
I have planned weddings for couples in Edison, Mississauga and the Bay Area for nine years. I am the person your mother calls and the person you call. I keep your money in escrow and your vendors on schedule.
Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi
Response: I reply within 12 hours, in your time zone.
Time zone: I work US and Canada hours during your planning season, so you are never waiting overnight for an answer.
Jaipur · UAE, KSA, Qatar, Other-GCC
I am based in Jaipur and have run weddings in Udaipur, Jodhpur and Goa for couples in Dubai, Doha and Riyadh. I send a short video from the ground every evening of the build, so you see the venue come together before you land.
Languages: English, Hindi, Rajasthani
Response: I reply within 8 hours, Gulf time.
Time zone: I overlap the GCC working day and the India ground day, so your family in India and you in the Gulf are never out of sync with me.
Every vendor is verified in person before they join the circle — registrations, past weddings, references.
Your money sits in escrow and is released only when a milestone is delivered and you approve it.
One planning team answers to you — not a rotating cast of vendor coordinators.
Weekly photos and video from the ground, so distance never means guesswork.
Venue · Udaipur
A restored lakefront haveli with 40 keys, a rooftop mandap and a private ghat for the baraat.
₹1.5–3Cr venue + stay
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Photographer · Jaipur
Documentary wedding photography; quiet, unposed, film and digital.
₹6–12L per event
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BridalWear · Mumbai
Bespoke bridal lehengas; remote fittings with shipped muslins.
₹2.5–18L per outfit
View →Sample letter — to be replaced with the founder's own words
We started Wedding Day for one reason. A couple we know married from New Jersey into a wedding in Udaipur, and for a year nobody slept. They were wiring money to people they had never met, in a country they were not in, for a wedding they could not be on the ground for.
It should not be that way. A wedding is the most personal thing a family does. Distance should not turn it into a wire transfer into the dark, and planning from abroad should not mean being sold to.
So we built the studio we wished existed: one planning team, named, that answers to you. A small circle of vendors we have met. Money held in escrow and released only as each milestone is delivered. And a short video from the ground every week, so you watch your wedding come together from your home in Edison or Mississauga or Dubai.
No marketplace noise. No rotating coordinators. Just the wedding, done properly.
Raj Varma
— Raj Varma, Founder, Wedding Day
Within 24 hours, in your time zone. No deposit, no obligation.
