Panigrahana charges one transparent planning and design fee, passes every external vendor's cost through to you at cost with the vendor's actual invoice, and takes no hidden commission or kickback from any vendor it recommends, a pledge in effect since 24 June 2026.
A transparent planning fee. Every vendor invoice shown to you at cost. No hidden commissions, no kickbacks, nothing sitting silently between you and what your wedding actually costs.
Radical Transparency — Our Pricing Pledge
Policy statement · 24 June 2026
It varies by planner, so ask in writing: Panigrahana takes no vendor commission and couples pay every vendor directly, company policy confirmed on 11 September 2026, while our own fee covers the planning and the decor we design and build.
On our weddings the couple pays the rooms, food, bar, transport, licences and every vendor directly; we shortlist, screen and negotiate with those vendors, and we are paid for two things, the planning and the decor. To check any planner, ask who invoices each vendor and whether any vendor pays the planner for the introduction, and get both answers on paper.
Zero vendor commission does not mean our in-house decor is supplied without margin; it is quoted separately, from ₹5 lakh plus GST.
Sources: Panigrahana company policy: zero vendor commission, confirmed ; Panigrahana founding team, confirmed ; Panigrahana company policy: decor from ₹5 lakh plus GST, confirmed .
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Our Policy
This is a stated, dated policy of how Panigrahana Weddings (legal entity Wedvitez Planners Private Limited) prices and bills every wedding we plan. It is not a marketing line. It is how we operate.
The short answer: A "zero vendor commissions" planner charges one transparent planning and design fee and passes every vendor's invoice through to you at cost, taking no hidden commission or kickback — so nothing sits silently between you and what your wedding actually costs. Ask any planner in writing how they are paid. At Panigrahana you see each real invoice, our in-house decor is quoted plainly as our own work, and our fee stands on its own.
Panigrahana charges a transparent planning and design fee for our work. We pass every external vendor cost through to you at cost. You see each vendor's actual invoice. We take no hidden commissions and no kickbacks from any vendor we recommend.
Stated by Panigrahana Weddings · Wedvitez Planners Private Limited · Bangalore · Goa · Kerala
We make this pledge in plain language so you can hold us to it. We believe a family investing in a once-in-a-lifetime event is owed something simple: the truth about where every rupee goes.
What to Ask
Described factually, without judgement of any individual planner. Knowing how a commission works is the first step to asking about it.
A planner can earn a commission or referral fee from the vendors they recommend. We have found no reliable published figure for how large these run, so we do not quote one here. Ask each planner in writing whether they take one, on which vendors, and how it shows on your bill.
There are two common mechanics. In the first, the vendor's quote includes a referral fee that is paid back to the planner. In the second, the planner negotiates a lower price and presents a higher one, and keeps the spread. In both, you pay for something the bill does not show.
The simplest check is the invoice. One bundled number, such as "₹18 lakh for decor", with no underlying invoice gives you nothing to compare against. Ask for each vendor's own invoice, and ask who pays whom.
The second question is incentive. A referral fee gives a planner a reason to favour the vendor who pays it, so ask how each recommendation was chosen. None of this is illegal, and many fine planners are open about how they are paid. Our own model is set out below.
| Cost line | Where a markup can sit | At Panigrahana |
|---|---|---|
| Decor, floral & mandap | A bundled lump-sum quote with no underlying invoice | Built in-house and quoted plainly as our own studio's work — no third-party margin |
| Catering | Inflated per-plate quote funds a referral fee back to the planner | The caterer's actual invoice, shown to you, at cost |
| Venue & rooms | Hotel referral or "preferred planner" rebate, not disclosed to the couple | The resort or hotel's actual invoice, passed through at cost |
| Lighting, sound & production | Supplier inflates the quote; the planner keeps the spread | Supplier invoice passed through at cost |
| Photography & entertainment | A package price with no vendor invoice behind it | Each vendor's actual invoice, shown to you |
| Planning fee | Folded into vendor totals so it can look "free" | Stated separately and up front — the only way we are paid |
How We Are Different
Panigrahana separates its own fee from vendor costs completely. There is no margin hidden inside anyone else's invoice.
One transparent planning and design fee. You pay Panigrahana directly and clearly for our work — strategy, design direction, vendor sourcing and negotiation, logistics, guest coordination, and on-ground production. That fee is stated up front and stands on its own. It is how we are paid, and it is the only way we are paid.
Every external vendor, passed through at cost. The caterer, the hotel, the lighting and sound supplier, transport, makeup, entertainment — each is paid at their actual invoiced price, and you see those invoices. We negotiate hard on your behalf, and the savings we win are yours, not ours.
No commissions. No kickbacks. We do not accept referral fees from any vendor we recommend. We earn exactly the same whichever caterer, hotel, or decorator you choose — so our recommendation is driven by what is right for your wedding, nothing else.
Our in-house work is quoted as ours — honestly. A large part of a Panigrahana wedding is built in-house: mandap, stage, floral, and lighting designed and produced by our own in-house team, founded and led by architect Chaithanya Ganesha. Anything we hire is itemised in your proposal. When we charge for design and production, it is plainly our own studio's work — never a third-party charge with our margin smuggled inside it.
This is the same studio behind 500+ weddings, including 300 for families across 12 countries, with a 4.8/5 rating across 98 Google reviews (checked 4 November 2026). Transparency is not a discount brand — it is how we believe a studio at this level earns the trust of families making one of the largest discretionary investments of their lives.
One note on scope: Panigrahana contracts in Indian rupees (INR). Any USD, GBP, or AED figures we share are approximate and move with the exchange rate — useful for planning, never the contracted amount.
No: zero vendor commission covers the suppliers you pay directly, while Panigrahana's own decor, from ₹5 lakh plus GST as of 4 October 2026, is priced by the studio and itemised in the decor proposal, with anything hired listed as its own line.
The two are different things, and it helps to keep them apart. Your caterer, photographer and venue invoice you themselves, and we take nothing from those bills. The decor is our own work, designed and built by our team, so its price includes the studio's labour and margin, as any maker's price does. What you can check is the bill of materials: each structure, floral and lighting line set out as its own item, so you can compare it with another decorator's quote line by line.
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Full Visibility
Transparency only means something if it is verifiable. Here is exactly what is open to you on a Panigrahana wedding.
Illustrative Example
The figures below are an illustrative example only, shown to demonstrate how a transparent budget reads — not a quote, and not the cost of any real wedding. Your actual budget depends entirely on guest count, venue, season, and design. (For real, current ranges, see our Goa pricing guide and Bangalore pricing guide.)
Illustrative figures, rounded, for explanation only — GST (18%) and your specific scope are not modelled here. The point of the example is the last line: at Panigrahana the commission line is zero, every other line is the vendor's real invoice, and our fee sits on its own where you can see it.
You pay us for planning and decor only. Venue, rooms, food, artists, guest transport and licences you pay directly to each vendor.
| Line | Who quotes it | Who you pay | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planning and coordination | Panigrahana | Panigrahana | From ₹2 lakh per day for two events, plus GST |
| Decor design and build | Panigrahana | Panigrahana | From ₹5 lakh, plus GST; itemised in the decor proposal |
| Venue hire | The venue | The venue | We shortlist and negotiate |
| Guest rooms | The hotel or resort | The hotel or resort | Room blocks confirmed in writing |
| Food and bar | Caterer or venue | Caterer or venue | Tastings can be arranged; some caterers charge for them |
| Photo and video | The studio | The studio | Deliverables agreed in writing |
| Makeup, mehendi, DJ, MC, band, choreography | Each artist | Each artist | Travel, stay and meals are often extra |
| Guest transport | Transport vendor | Transport vendor | Taxi union rules apply in Goa |
| Licences (sound, music, beach) | Licence agent or authority | The agent or authority | Broken down per event |
| Hospitality desk, shadows, runners | Panigrahana or vendor | As quoted | Add-ons, agreed in writing |
| Team travel in Bangalore, Goa, Kerala | None | None | No team travel charge in these three markets |
Zero vendor commission. Your portal records every payment above, by vendor, with due and paid dates. For the small lines couples miss, see what usually costs extra.
FAQ
Some do, and the arrangement is not always disclosed. We have found no reliable published figure for how large these commissions run, so we do not quote one. Ask each planner in writing whether they take one, on which vendors, and how it shows on your bill. Panigrahana does not work this way: we charge a transparent planning fee, pass every vendor cost through at cost, and take no hidden commissions or kickbacks.
Vendor markup is the difference between what a vendor actually charges and what the couple is told the vendor charges. A planner may negotiate a decorator's price down to a certain figure, then present a higher figure to the couple and keep the difference; or the vendor inflates their quote to fund the planner's referral commission. Either way, the markup is money the couple pays that does not buy them anything — it is hidden margin sitting between them and the vendor. At Panigrahana there is no vendor markup: you see the vendor's actual invoice and pay it at cost.
Panigrahana separates its fee from vendor costs completely. You pay one clearly stated planning and design fee for our work — strategy, design, vendor sourcing, negotiation, logistics and on-ground production. Every external vendor (caterer, hotel, lighting, transport, and so on) is paid at their actual invoiced cost, and you see those invoices. Our own in-house design and production — mandap, stage, floral, lighting, built by our in-house team — is quoted directly as our work, not dressed up as a third-party charge. There is nothing hidden between you and any cost on the wedding.
Ask three direct questions: Do you take any commission or referral fee from vendors you recommend? Will I see the original vendor invoices, at the price the vendor charges you? Is your fee for planning stated separately from vendor costs? An honest, transparent planner answers yes, yes and yes without hesitation. If a planner cannot show you vendor invoices, or insists on quoting vendor work as a single bundled figure with no breakdown, that is usually where markup hides.
Because a referral fee gives a planner a reason to favour the vendor who pays it, whatever the couple needs. By refusing commissions and charging a transparent fee instead, Panigrahana keeps that incentive clean: we recommend a vendor only because they are right for your wedding, and we are paid the same regardless of which vendor you choose. Transparency is also simply how we believe a 500-wedding studio earns trust with overseas and Indian families investing in once-in-a-lifetime events.
It can be, but compare the whole bill. A commission built into a vendor's quote is part of what you pay, even when it is not shown. A zero-markup planner like Panigrahana charges a clear planning fee instead and passes every vendor invoice through at cost, so no markup sits inside those quotes. Whether the final total is lower depends on the fee, but you always see exactly where every rupee goes.
We have found no reliable published figure, so we do not print one. A commission built into a vendor's price is paid by the couple without appearing on the bill, so the way to size it is to ask for each vendor's own invoice and compare it with what you are being charged.
No. A large part of a Panigrahana wedding — mandap, stage, floral and lighting — is designed and built by our own in-house team, and we quote that plainly as our studio's work. Any hired items are itemised in the proposal, so there is no third-party invoice with a margin hidden inside it. Our in-house production and our separate planning fee are the only ways we are paid; we take no commission on any external vendor.
It varies by planner, so ask in writing: Panigrahana takes no vendor commission and couples pay every vendor directly, company policy confirmed on 11 September 2026, while our own fee covers the planning and the decor we design and build.
No: zero vendor commission covers the suppliers you pay directly, while Panigrahana's own decor, from ₹5 lakh plus GST as of 4 October 2026, is priced by the studio and itemised in the decor proposal, with anything hired listed as its own line.
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