Panigrahana plans Kerala weddings on a flat fee of ₹5–25 lakh+ with no vendor commissions: ₹40–60 lakh is the typical all-in for a 150–200-guest resort wedding, ₹10–20 lakh for a hall or tharavadu wedding — backwater ceremonies, clifftop hotels and the ritual done properly.
Panigrahana Weddings is a Bangalore-headquartered, architect-founded wedding planning studio that plans weddings across Kerala (Kumarakom, Kovalam, Bekal, Kochi, Wayanad), is rated 4.8/5 across 94 Google reviews, is ranked #1 wedding planner in Kerala on WedMeGood (4.9★), and charges a flat planning fee of ₹5–25 lakh+ with zero vendor markup. Venue, decor, florals, mandap and coordination sit with one studio and an in-house design team rather than local subcontractors. Founded 2016, 500+ weddings, 12 countries.
Architect-founded design studio500+ weddings designed4.8★ Google (94 reviews)30-person in-house teamEvery mandap original — nothing rented
2026 numbers, from our own produced weddings
What a Kerala wedding costs in 2026
A Kerala wedding planned by Panigrahana Weddings costs ₹10–20 lakh for a hall or tharavadu wedding, ₹30–60 lakh for a 150–200-guest mid-range resort wedding, and ₹60 lakh–1.3 crore for a 150-guest two-day wedding at a flagship 5-star such as Taj Bekal, The Leela Kovalam or Kumarakom Lake Resort. The bands below come from our Kerala wedding cost breakdown 2026; catering is the swing line, because a full sadya on banana leaf runs ₹1,200–2,000 a head against ₹3,500–5,000 for a multi-cuisine buffet.
From our produced Kerala weddings and venue rate cards, Q3 2026.
Kerala wedding tier (2026)
All-in total
Planning fee inside it
Hall or tharavadu wedding, local guests, sadya on banana leaf
150 guests, 2 days, flagship 5-star (Taj Bekal, The Leela Kovalam, Kumarakom Lake Resort)
₹60 lakh–1.3 crore
Design-and-build ₹15–25 lakh+
Planner fees in Kerala
Wedding planner fees in Kerala in 2026 run from ₹75,000 for day-of coordination to ₹25 lakh+ for luxury full-service design studios, which works out to roughly 8–15% of total wedding spend across the market. Panigrahana Weddings charges a flat planning fee of ₹5–25 lakh+ fixed by scope, never a percentage of your budget, and takes zero vendor markup because decor is designed and built by our own 30-person team rather than resold. The market tiers, with ours disclosed in the same table, are in best wedding planners in Kerala 2026.
Service tier
Kerala fee band 2026
What it covers
Day-of / month-of coordination
₹75,000–2 lakh
Timeline, vendor wrangling, running the day
Partial planning
₹2–4 lakh
Vendor sourcing and coordination; you keep design decisions
Full-service, local Kerala wedding
₹3–8 lakh
Venue to send-off: budget, vendors, timeline, execution
Kerala wedding packages: what “all-inclusive” covers and our flat-fee equivalent
An all-inclusive Kerala wedding package normally bundles venue F&B or buyout, guest rooms, catering, decor, photography, entertainment, guest transport and the planner into one figure. Panigrahana Weddings prices the same scope as a flat planning fee of ₹5–25 lakh+ plus every vendor billed at cost, so the three worked totals below are what the package figure looks like when each line is visible.
Line items from our Kerala cost breakdown and the Kumarakom Lake Resort rate card; outfits and contingency on top.
Worked Kerala wedding total (2026)
Venue and rooms
Catering
Decor
Photo, film, entertainment, logistics
All-in
100 guests, 2 days, mid-range backwater or heritage resort
Rooms ₹15,000–60,000 per night at Kumarakom Lake Resort
₹5,000–9,500 per plate
₹10–35 lakh design-dependent
By scope
₹60 lakh–1.3 crore
Why Panigrahana
Why couples choose Panigrahana
Panigrahana Weddings is an architect-founded wedding planning and decor studio working in Kerala. Panigrahana has planned 500+ weddings since 2016 across 12 countries, about 300 of them for couples living abroad, and is rated 4.8/5 across 94 Google reviews. Panigrahana runs its own proprietary couple and vendor portal, keeps a dedicated hospitality and logistics team for guest movement, room blocks and transfers, and designs and fabricates every mandap and stage in-house with a 30-person team, nothing rented. The planning fee is a flat ₹5–25 lakh+ with zero vendor commissions; clients pay vendors directly. 3 of the last 100 weddings went over budget, by an average of 12%.
Portal
Couples approve designs and budgets remotely inside Panigrahana's own couple and vendor portal, the Wedding OS the studio built for itself. Vendors are coordinated inside the same system, so decisions and payments sit in one place.
Hospitality & logistics
A dedicated hospitality and logistics team runs guest movement: room blocks, transfers, flight manifests and an on-ground desk that answers questions so the family's phones don't.
Architect-designers
Panigrahana was founded by architects and the designers are architects. Every mandap and stage is drawn for one couple, not picked from a catalogue.
In-house fabrication
A 30-person in-house team fabricates what the architects draw. Nothing is rented.
Flat fee
A flat fee of ₹5–25 lakh+, set by scope. Zero vendor commissions; clients pay vendors directly. 3 of the last 100 weddings went over budget, by an average of 12%.
“As a couple living abroad we needed someone who understood both worlds — the ceremony's sacredness and the international scale we dreamed of. Delivered both, flawlessly.”
Before you commit · Kerala
A design you love. A plan for your venue.
Bring together your date, guests, design reference and the details still to confirm. Keep the brief, or send it to the studio when you are ready.
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“They handled everything — family expectations, vendor negotiations, 300 guests from 4 countries — with absolute grace. We just showed up and got married.”
Panigrahana plans luxury Kerala weddings at the state's finest properties — Taj Bekal, The Leela Kovalam, and Kumarakom Lake Resort — where a celebration at a top resort typically runs ₹40 lakhs to ₹1.5 crores. There is no landscape in India quite like Kerala for a wedding. The southern backwaters at Kumarakom — still water the colour of green silk, coconut palms leaning into the sky, a houseboat drifting silently past your mandap. The clifftop hotels at Kovalam and Varkala, where the Arabian Sea lies 60 metres below and the ceremony happens at the edge of the world. The ancient Bekal Fort in the north, rising from the sea on a headland while the Taj property stretches behind it in perfect quiet luxury.
Kerala offers something that no other Indian state does: the combination of extraordinary natural landscape and a deeply rich Hindu cultural tradition. The state is the home of traditional Nair and Namboothiri wedding customs — elaborate flower carpets (pookalam), the chenda melam drummers, the Kasavu sarees in cream and gold, and the sadya feast on banana leaves. A Kerala wedding, even at the most international resort, can be profoundly rooted in Indian tradition.
For couples from Kerala or with Kerala roots, a destination wedding here is deeply personal. For non-Keralite couples, Kerala offers something exotic, cinematic, and utterly unlike any other destination. Both types of weddings — the culturally immersive and the aesthetically spectacular — are equally compelling. Panigrahana has planned both.
The state's year-round humidity means the monsoon (June–September) brings heavy rain, but also some of the most lush, dramatically green landscapes imaginable. Couples who embrace the monsoon — with appropriate tenting and venue selection — find that the rains create an atmosphere of extraordinary romantic intensity. The dry season (October–May) is conventionally preferred.
Kerala At a Glance
Best Season
October — May
Wedding Styles
Backwater ceremonies, clifftop resorts, fort settings, jungle retreats, houseboat florals
The north of Kerala centres on Bekal — and specifically the extraordinary Taj Bekal Resort & Spa, which sits between the ancient Bekal Fort and the backwaters of the Kappil Lake. This is Kerala at its most dramatic: history, water, sea, and jungle all within a few hundred metres.
Taj Bekal — the definitive venue
Ancient Bekal Fort as ceremony backdrop
Backwater ceremonies on private jetties
Less crowded, more authentic feel
Fly into Calicut or Mangalore
South Kerala
Kovalam, Varkala & Kumarakom
The south offers Kerala's most spectacular clifftop hotels — The Leela Kovalam on a dramatic headland, Niraamaya Surya Samudra with its ancient temple architecture. Kumarakom brings the backwaters in their most accessible, iconic form — Taj Kumarakom and Kumarakom Lake Resort on Vembanad Lake.
Clifftop ceremony with Arabian Sea below
Backwater ceremonies on Vembanad Lake
The Leela Kovalam — largest and grandest
Fly into Thiruvananthapuram
Combined Kerala itinerary possible
Cultural Richness
Traditional Kerala Wedding Customs
A traditional Kerala Hindu wedding — whether Nair, Namboothiri, or Ezhava — is one of India's most visually and ritually rich celebrations. Even when planned at an international luxury resort, these customs can be woven into the fabric of the day to create something deeply meaningful.
Pookalam: The elaborate flower carpet laid at the entrance to the wedding venue — traditionally made with marigold, roses, and wild flowers in concentric geometric patterns. Our decor team creates pookalam installations of extraordinary scale and intricacy.
Chenda Melam: The percussive ensemble of traditional Kerala drumming — an extraordinarily powerful ceremonial sound that announces the arrival of the bride and groom. We coordinate chenda ensembles from established performers.
Kasavu Sarees: The cream-and-gold Kasavu mundum neriyathum of Kerala is one of India's most elegant traditional costumes. The aesthetic of the wedding — florals, decor, linen — can be built around this colour palette for a deeply coherent visual story.
Sadya: The traditional Kerala feast served on banana leaves — an essential part of any Kerala wedding lunch. We coordinate with the finest sadya caterers to ensure authenticity and quality at scale.
"Kerala is the only place in India where the landscape itself becomes part of your ceremony."
What Kerala Weddings Include
—Backwater or clifftop ceremony settings
—Pookalam floral installations
—Chenda melam percussion ensembles
—Traditional sadya lunch on banana leaves
—Ayurvedic spa experiences for guests
—Houseboat excursions for guest groups
FAQ
The Coordination Challenges Specific to Kerala — What Good Planning Solves
Kerala destination weddings introduce operational challenges that planners without on-ground experience routinely underestimate. Guest transportation is the most consistent one. The key Kerala venues — Taj Bekal, Niraamaya, Kumarakom Lake Resort — are not easily accessible from the nearest airport, and some require water transport for the final leg. Coordinating the arrival of 120 guests from Calicut or Trivandrum Airport, managing the houseboat transfers, and ensuring the elderly relatives in the family reach the ceremony location without a logistics crisis requires very specific local knowledge.
The second challenge is ceremony timing. Kerala's natural light window — when the backwaters and the coastal setting produce the photography that couples are imagining when they book these venues — is typically a two-to-three hour period between 4pm and 7pm. A ceremony that starts late loses that window permanently. Our production timelines for Kerala weddings build in 45-minute buffers at every stage specifically because the geography does not forgive over-optimistic scheduling.
Kerala Wedding Questions Answered
What is the best time of year for a Kerala wedding?
October through May offers the most reliable weather for outdoor ceremonies in Kerala. December through February is peak season — the most popular months with the best light and temperatures. November and March are excellent shoulder months with slightly better venue availability and pricing.
What is the best Kerala venue for a backwater wedding?
Taj Bekal Resort & Spa and Kumarakom Lake Resort are our top recommendations for backwater wedding settings. Taj Kumarakom also provides an exceptional lakeside setting. Each offers different character — Taj Bekal combines fort views and backwaters, while Kumarakom Lake Resort is the most authentically immersed in the backwater landscape.
Can international guests easily reach Kerala for a wedding?
Yes. Kerala has two major international airports — Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) in the south and Cochin (Kochi) in the centre — with direct flights from Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, and several UK cities. Calicut international airport serves the north. Panigrahana coordinates all guest travel logistics as part of our service.
Is Kerala suitable for families abroad or destination weddings?
Absolutely. Kerala is one of our most requested destinations for couples living abroad, particularly those with Kerala roots who want their wedding in the landscape of their family heritage. The combination of luxury international resorts with deep cultural tradition makes it uniquely compelling. We have coordinated Kerala weddings for families abroad from the UK, UAE, USA, and Singapore.
Is ₹40 lakh enough for a Kerala wedding?
Yes. ₹40–60 lakh is the typical band for a 150–200 guest two-day celebration at a top Kerala resort — venue catering at ₹3,500–₹8,000 per plate is the largest line, with decor, photography and event management on top. A more intimate guest list at a premium auditorium or 4-star property lands meaningfully lower, and Kerala consistently comes in below Rajasthan palace budgets for the same standard. At the flagship properties (Taj Bekal, Kumarakom Lake Resort, The Leela Kovalam), full-scale multi-day celebrations run up to ₹1.5 crore.
How does a Kerala wedding cost compare to Goa?
Kerala and Goa are broadly comparable in cost — 5-star venue catering runs ₹3,500–₹8,000 per plate at the top properties. Kerala's top venues (Taj Bekal, The Leela Kovalam) are slightly more exclusive and often better value than equivalent Goa properties. The overall wedding budget at a top Kerala resort runs ₹40 lakhs–₹1.5 crores depending on scale.
What makes Panigrahana different from other wedding planners in Kerala?
Panigrahana is architect-founded: the designers are architects, and every mandap and stage is drawn for one couple and fabricated in-house by a 30-person team, nothing rented. The studio runs its own proprietary couple and vendor portal, keeps a dedicated hospitality and logistics team, and charges a flat fee of ₹5–25 lakh+ with zero vendor commissions; clients pay vendors directly. Panigrahana has planned 500+ weddings since 2016 across 12 countries, about 300 of them for couples living abroad, and is rated 4.8/5 across 94 Google reviews. 3 of the last 100 weddings went over budget, by an average of 12%.
Does Panigrahana handle guest hospitality and logistics?
Yes. A dedicated hospitality and logistics team handles guest movement in Kerala: room blocks and allocation, airport and venue transfers, flight manifests, welcome hampers and an on-ground hospitality desk that answers guests’ questions so the family’s phones don’t. Guest hospitality is designed with the same care as the decor, not handed to the venue.
What is the Panigrahana couple portal?
The couple portal is Panigrahana’s own proprietary platform, the Wedding OS the studio built for itself. Couples approve designs and budgets remotely, with design presentations, feedback and approvals, meeting minutes, structured decisions and payments in one place; vendors are coordinated inside the same system. Couples in Kerala and couples planning from abroad use the same portal alongside scheduled video calls.
Real wedding film
What a Kerala Destination Wedding We Planned Actually Looks Like
The film from a destination wedding we planned and produced at Taj Bekal Resort & Spa, Kerala. More weddings and couple reviews on our reviews page.
Begin Here
Plan Your Kerala Wedding With Us
Tell us where in Kerala calls to you — backwaters, clifftops, or something else entirely. We'll build your wedding from there.
Budgets come back the way Kerala actually prices — sadya per leaf, auditorium or resort, decor — each on its own line, in writing.
“We engaged Panigrahana for our daughter’s marriage — supervision of four events over two days at Samaya in Bangalore. It was just amazing. The whole team were always punctual and quite professional. We have no hesitation in recommending them.”
Judith P.
Verified review · WedMeGood
★★★★★
“At 1 a.m. on the morning of our wedding it started pouring and our entire outdoor venue was destroyed. What followed felt nothing short of magic — our decorators worked through the night, rebuilding the mandap in a few hours. By sunrise it stood exactly as we had dreamed, if not more beautiful.”
Anvi
Verified review · WedMeGood
★★★★★
“Their transparency with budgeting and documentation was impressive — no hidden costs, just clarity and integrity. If you want your wedding to be more than just an event, Panigrahana are the professionals to trust.”
Anway Bhattacharyya
Verified review · WedMeGood
★★★★★
“We worked with Panigrahana for our family’s Jain wedding. The professionalism, attention to detail, and their deep understanding and respect for Jain traditions were outstanding. We highly recommend them for anyone planning a Jain wedding.”
Bhavit
Verified review · WedMeGood
★★★★★
“We had a big Indian wedding at Amita Rasa. I didn’t want any event to seem the same despite re-using spaces — the team understood completely and made each event feel so different. All of our guests were stunned with the decor.”
Shubham Mehra
Verified review · WedMeGood
★★★★★
“From the very first meeting their team was warm, professional and genuinely passionate. Every detail — décor, coordination, timing and hospitality — was handled with such care and precision. Highly recommend them to any couple who wants a stress-free, beautiful celebration!”
Every mandap, every stage — designed and built in-house
Panigrahana is an architect-founded wedding design studio. Your wedding is drawn from scratch for you and fabricated by our 30-person in-house team — never picked from a rental catalogue or repeated from another couple’s event.
A Panigrahana wedding — designed
Original concept, drawn by architects for your wedding
Built in-house by a 30-person team
No two weddings alike — nothing reused
One studio owns design → build → execution
Transparent, itemised investment
A typical planner / decorator — rented
Picked from a catalogue or repeated setups
Outsourced to vendors and rented props
The same pieces seen at other weddings
Design, decor and logistics split across third parties
“Base + actuals” cost surprises
Plan with real numbers
Kerala wedding guides — costs, venues & honest comparisons
Panigrahana Weddings is rated among the best wedding planners for Kerala destination weddings — rated 4.8/5 across 94 Google reviews, with an 8.5/10 post-wedding satisfaction score, across 500+ weddings in 12 countries since 2016. The studio specialises in backwater ceremonies, clifftop hotels like The Leela Kovalam, and traditional Kerala ritual design elevated by an in-house, architect-led decor team. Compare Kerala's leading planners in our unranked 2026 guide.
Can a couple living abroad plan a Kerala wedding entirely from abroad?
Living in the US or UK? Our wedding planners for couples living abroad Kerala guide lays out the nine-month timeline and the single 14-day India trip. Yes — Kerala is one of Panigrahana's signature overseas destinations. Kerala suits couples living abroad who want intimacy, cultural depth and dramatic backwater or clifftop settings over scale — and it lands well below Rajasthan palace budgets (industry average roughly ₹40–60 lakh for a 150–200 guest two-day celebration). Panigrahana has planned 300 weddings for families living abroad across 12 countries, the largest groups in the US, UK, UAE, Canada, Australia and Singapore. Around half of these couples never set foot in India until the wedding week — everything is decided remotely; the rest make a single focused trip of about 7 days for the food tasting, outfit fittings and a makeup patch-test so there are no surprises on the day. Every shortlisted venue gets a live video walkthrough — our team physically visits and walks you through every corner on the call. We take calls in early-morning and late-evening IST so they land in your daytime, in California or London. Panigrahana is rated 4.8/5 across 94 Google reviews.
How many India trips does a Kerala wedding need?
Around half of these couples make no trip before the wedding week; the rest make one focused trip of about 7 days for the food tasting, outfit fittings and a makeup patch-test. Everything else is finalised remotely.
How do payments and currency work from abroad?
You pay in three milestones to Wedvitez Planners (our invoicing entity): 30% to confirm the date, 50% two months before, and the final 20% on the wedding week when you arrive. Quotes are given in INR with a live USD / GBP / AED equivalent, and we contract in INR so you carry no exchange-rate risk on the agreed amount — and you make milestone payments to us while we disburse to every vendor, so there is no juggling a dozen separate wire transfers.
How do couples living abroad register the marriage in Kerala?
If you register in India under the Special Marriage Act, the 30-day notice period cannot be shortened for families abroad and you will need proof of Indian residence, so plan the registration window ahead; many couples instead marry legally in their home country and hold the ceremony in India. Panigrahana has handled both routes.
How do you plan a Kerala wedding from abroad as an overseas?
Entirely over video and WhatsApp. We build your design, budget and vendor plan remotely, quote in your home currency, and share drawings and material samples digitally so you approve every detail before flying in. Panigrahana travels on-ground for every wedding, so our 30-person team runs the setup and ceremony while your family simply arrives. families abroad from the UK, UAE, USA and Singapore plan this way.
What questions should I ask before hiring a Kerala wedding planner?
Ask five things: do you design and fabricate decor in-house or rent it; how are vendors paid and are there kickbacks; will your team travel on-ground for our wedding; can you handle authentic regional rituals; and what does your fee cover. Panigrahana answers with a transparent flat management fee, direct-to-vendor payment, no tied vendors, original in-house design, and a 4.8 rating across 94 Google reviews.
Backwaters vs beach vs hill — which Kerala location is right for me?
Choose by the feeling you want. Backwaters (Kumarakom, Alleppey) give still water, kettuvallam romance and deep cultural immersion. Beach settings (Kovalam, Bekal) bring open sea, sunset ceremonies and dramatic scale. Hill stations (Munnar, Wayanad) offer cool weather, tea-estate greenery and intimacy. We match the location to your guest count, season and rituals, then design the entire celebration around it.
How far in advance should I book a Kerala wedding?
Book 9–12 months ahead for a Kerala destination wedding, and 12–18 months for peak December–February dates or flagship resorts like Taj Bekal and Kumarakom Lake Resort. Early booking locks venue availability, secures better vendor rates, and gives our team time to design and fabricate your original decor. For families abroad coordinating flights and visas, earlier is always better.
We're budgeting the sadhya by the leaf — how does Kerala wedding catering pricing actually work?
Two different systems, and mixing them up is how estimates go wrong. Traditional caterers price the sadhya per ila — per banana leaf served — and the rate moves with the district, the number of payasams and the depth of the menu. Resorts price per plate instead: Kerala resort wedding catering runs ₹4,000–7,500 per plate, with service, infrastructure and licences folded in. Neither is "correct"; they are different products. If you go the auditorium-and-caterer route, read the package line by line — cleaning, food-waste disposal and generator hours are the items families most often discover as extras on the final bill. Whatever is promised verbally, get it in writing.
Most of our guests are local — 400 to 700 people at an auditorium or church hall. Does that change the plan?
That is the classic Kerala wedding, and the maths behaves differently from a destination event: the cost driver is the leaf count, not the venue. The honest way to make a large local wedding feel designed without a designed-wedding budget is to concentrate decor where every eye and every photograph lands — the stage or mandapam and the entrance — rather than thinning the budget across the whole hall. Our Essential decor tier (₹3–5 lakh) is built for exactly this format, and because guests remember the food years after they have forgotten the drapes, we would always protect the sadhya before adding a third decor zone.
Recent builds, in-house
Recent decor, built in-house
A brunch lounge set right on the water's edge.Printed linen and cane under old trees — the garden does half the decor.A hand-styled couple's stage in blue and white porcelain prints.A prop painted by hand to match the wedding's porcelain theme.A full brunch build — canopy, linen, florals and seating as one palette.Real porcelain, real flowers — details guests photograph.
Deciding as a family?
We made a page that answers the questions parents ask — the registered company behind Panigrahana, how milestone payments protect your money, and how to verify every claim independently. Show your parents this page, or forward it on WhatsApp — parents can also just call us: +91 77669 40021.
Your wedding, wherever you are
Follow the plan. Across time zones.
Your private Panigrahana portal keeps the planning timeline, decor presentation, meeting notes, vendor progress and payment schedule together. Review the latest updates on your own time, then bring focused questions to your next planning call.
Your named planning team remains part of the process. Open the portal on your phone or laptop between calls.
Your wedding plans in one place, shown with sample wedding data. Watch the full portal walkthrough ↗See the planning screenPlanning milestones and task status. Portal interface preview using sample wedding data.
Make the next decision with the details in front of you.
How can we assess a wedding planner before paying?
Ask who will deliver your wedding, what the planning fee covers, who receives supplier payments and whether recommendations involve commissions or other commercial relationships. Compare written scopes and ask for relevant completed work, with permission to speak to a past couple where possible.
Separate the venue's responsibilities from the planner's and each supplier's. Ask who resolves a missed handoff, who can approve additional spending, and how you will be told about delays. A portfolio shows completed work; use a scope, a named delivery lead and an example progress record to understand how your own wedding would be managed. Record the agreed terms before payment.
Check the exact event space and a seated layout for your guest count, including the stage, aisles, dining and circulation. Confirm overnight accommodation separately. Published capacity does not establish room availability, accessible routes or a rain arrangement for your wedding.
Ask to follow the guest journey from drop-off through the ceremony, dining, toilets and rooms. Check steps, surfaces, shelter and walking distances for your guests. Obtain the sound timings, supplier restrictions, power provision, setup access and booked spaces in writing. A rain alternative must be available to you and work for the proposed seated layout.
One focused planning visit can cover selected venue inspections and prearranged meetings when the shortlist, budget and appointments are ready before travel. Leave time for tastings, trials and fittings that matter to you. The wedding trip is separate, and some appointments may need additional visits or remote follow-up.
Before flying, obtain comparable proposals, agree the decision-makers and confirm access to the rooms and spaces you need to inspect. During the visit, record approvals and unresolved questions. Afterward, assign each open item an owner and date. A suggested itinerary is not an appointment confirmation or a guarantee that everything can be finalised in one trip.
