The short answer. Panigrahana Weddings, the architect-founded studio behind 500+ weddings since 2016, gives every couple a private web portal covering twenty areas of their wedding — including a show flow that runs to 50 timed segments across three days, a payment schedule itemised by vendor with every due date and paid date, and the decor deck itself. Five named people are attached to each wedding: a first call, a planner, a production lead, a head of operations and a finance contact. The portal is included in the flat planning fee of ₹5–25 lakh+ and there is nothing extra to buy.
See it. This is the real interface.
Below is the portal itself, running with a sample couple's data rather than a real one. Click through the sections the way a couple would. Everything you see — the layout, the section list, the way a show flow is written — is what a Panigrahana couple actually logs into.
Show flow
50 segments across 3 days
| 07:00 | Reporting time for the team and dholLotus entrance | |
| 08:00 | Both families arrive at the venueMain portico | |
| 08:45 | Bridal make-up for pooja and haldi beginsBridal room | 2 hrs |
| 09:45 | Couple portraitsBanyan lawn | 45 mins |
| 10:30 | PoojaTemple | |
| 11:00 | Haldi ceremonyHaldi area by the pool | 90 mins |
| 12:30 | LunchNext to bamboo lawn | till 15:30 |
| 13:00 | Rain danceBehind haldi area | 30 mins |
| 16:00 | Sangeet rehearsal — both sidesBallroom | 1 hr |
Every segment carries a time, a place and an owner. This is the document the production team runs the day from — and the couple can read it a month early.
What it took
The true scale of the day, in the numbers we kept while making it.
One tap saves this as an image sized for a story. It is the couple’s to post, send to the family group, or keep.
Payment schedule
Every payment is recorded the moment we receive it.
| Panigrahana client | ||
| Onboarding feeDue 26 Mar · paid 26 Mar | ₹51,000 | Received |
| InstallmentDue 15 Jun · paid 10 Jun | ₹2,36,000 | Received |
| InstallmentDue 25 Jun | ₹2,36,000 | Due |
| Florals vendor | ||
| AdvanceDue 11 Jul · paid 27 May | ₹3,00,000 | Received |
| Sound & DJ vendor | ||
| Full settlementDue 10 Feb | ₹24,000 | Due |
Itemised per vendor, not a single lump sum. The couple sees what was quoted, what was due, what was paid and on which date — including money that goes to vendors rather than to us.
Five named people, with you at every step
Not a shared inbox. Each role is a person the couple can reach.
The ceremony, in order, in plain language
Written so a guest who has never attended one can follow it.
| 1 | MehendiHenna applied to the bride’s hands and feet. Music, no formality. |
| 2 | HaldiTurmeric paste applied by family. Wear something you do not mind staining. |
| 3 | BaraatThe groom’s procession arrives. Guests dance in; it takes as long as it takes. |
| 4 | JaimalaThe couple exchange garlands. |
| 5 | SaptapadiSeven steps taken together. This is the moment the marriage is made. |
Regional and community practice differs a great deal — a Nair wedding has no sacred fire at all. The portal carries the version that matches the couple’s own tradition. The full ritual glossary is here.
Sample portal. The couple, the date and every figure above are invented for this demonstration — no real client’s wedding, guest list or payment data appears anywhere on this page.
What lives inside it — all twenty sections
A wedding is not one project. It is a design project, a logistics project, a guest-relations project and a finance project running at once, and they normally live in different places — which is why couples end up as the messenger between their own vendors. The portal puts all four in one URL.
Why we built this — the honest version
Two problems, and neither is glamorous.
The first is that couples were being asked to hold the plan in their heads. A wedding involves a dozen vendors and hundreds of decisions, and in the normal arrangement the couple is the only person who has seen all of it. They become the router: forwarding the florist’s question to the venue, remembering what was agreed on a call in April, discovering in June that two vendors assumed different things. That is not a service, it is unpaid project management, and it is why people describe planning a wedding as exhausting rather than exciting.
The second is money. About 300 of our 500+ weddings have been for couples living abroad, which means the person paying is frequently 8,000 miles from the person spending. “How do I know the planner will not disappear with my deposit” is one of the most common questions we are asked, and it deserves a better answer than reassurance. The payment section is that answer: every instalment, every vendor, every due date and every paid date, visible without asking anyone.
How this compares, plainly
| What a couple usually gets | What the portal gives |
|---|---|
| A WhatsApp group per vendor | One thread, and a written record of what was decided |
| A decor deck emailed once, then lost | The live deck, in the portal, updated as it changes |
| A lump-sum invoice | A per-vendor ledger with due and paid dates |
| A timeline shared the night before | A 50-segment show flow readable a month early |
| “Let me check and get back to you” | Five named people, each owning a defined part |
We are describing our own product here, not grading anyone else’s. Plenty of planners run beautiful weddings on WhatsApp and a spreadsheet.