Question 1

What's the best wedding planning app for Indian weddings?

Accepted Answer

Anvaya is built for the multi-event reality of Indian and South Asian weddings — mehndi, sangeet, haldi, baraat, ceremony, and reception each get their own logistics, guest list, and budget. General US tools support wedding websites, RSVPs, and guest lists, but they are not designed around South Asian ceremony structure by default. Anvaya handles one RSVP per guest per ceremony, joint-family funding, WhatsApp-first messaging, and Anvaya AI working from the real workspace.

Question 2

How is Anvaya different from The Knot, Zola, or Joy?

Accepted Answer

Three differences that matter. First, multi-event is native: a guest can RSVP yes to the sangeet, no to the haldi, plus-one to the reception, in one submission. Second, joint-family budgets: parents on both sides can contribute, and Anvaya tracks funding sources beside expenses with named contributions, dates, and side-of-family. Third, Anvaya AI: your guest list, budget, and vendors are tools inside ChatGPT and Claude, not a chatbot bolted to the side of the app. The broader wedding suites do a lot well; Anvaya is narrower on purpose, built around South Asian planning instead of registry-first workflows.

Question 3

Can I plan multiple events (mehndi, sangeet, haldi, reception) in one tool?

Accepted Answer

Yes. That is the core of how Anvaya is built. Each event has its own date, venue, schedule, guest list, vendor assignments, seating chart, and budget category. You see them rolled up on a single dashboard or one at a time. Tasks are ceremony-tagged: "confirm panditji" lives under the ceremony, "book mehndi artist" under the mehndi, "rent dhol for baraat" under the baraat. When you push a date, the timeline reshuffles automatically and dependent reminders re-time themselves. No spreadsheets, no separate tabs per day, no copy-pasting names between five different guest lists.

Question 4

Is Anvaya free to use?

Accepted Answer

Anvaya is free during early access. That includes the wedding website, RSVP, guest list, budget tracker, vendor tracker, starter task templates, seating, and Anvaya AI. We expect paid plans later for premium add-ons such as custom domains, higher messaging allowances, premium themes, and larger AI usage. No credit card is required to request early access.

Question 5

Does it support guest lists where people are invited to some events but not others?

Accepted Answer

Yes. This is where Anvaya is deliberately opinionated. Every guest has a per-event invite status. Your dad's coworker comes to the reception only. Your maid of honor comes to everything. Aunty comes to the mehndi and the reception but not the haldi. Each guest sees only the events they're invited to on their RSVP form, and your dashboard shows attendance counts per ceremony so the caterer gets the right numbers for each meal. Plus-ones, dietary preferences, and accessibility notes are tracked per event too — because a vegetarian at the mehndi still drinks at the reception.

Question 6

Can family members contribute to the budget?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Anvaya tracks funding sources alongside expenses. Your parents put in $50K, his put in $40K, your sister buys the mehndi favors. Each contribution is named, dated, and tagged to a side of the family, and the budget dashboard shows how much each side has committed and spent in real time. Family members can be invited as collaborators with role-limited access — Family Admin or Family Contributor — so your mom can update vendors and tasks without seeing the rest of your guest list. The activity log makes it clear who paid what, when, so the in-laws conversation has clean numbers and not a passive-aggressive group chat.

Question 7

Does the AI planner actually do work, or just suggest tasks?

Accepted Answer

Anvaya AI can act on structured wedding data through the Anvaya MCP server. Depending on the permission you grant, an assistant can read guests, budget, tasks, vendors, events, RSVPs, and seating data, then draft or prepare changes for approval. A vendor comparison can use real quote fields. A reminder draft can start from guests who have not answered a specific event. Every tool call follows the same role model as the dashboard and is recorded in the activity log.

Question 8

Does it work for South Asian weddings in the UK and Canada?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Anvaya is multi-currency and timezone-aware. Guests in the UK see dates in their local time; you pick GBP or CAD for the budget; vendor quotes parse in whichever currency the vendor sent them. Messaging uses normalized international phone numbers and Twilio delivery states, so guest communication can stay tied to the same record across markets. The website templates are designed for diaspora aesthetics — not the Indian wedding-industry template look — and the wedding day vocabulary stays consistent whether you are hosting in Surrey, Mississauga, or Edison.

Question 9

Can I import my existing guest list spreadsheet?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drop a CSV or Excel file and Anvaya's AI import maps your columns automatically — names, phones, sides of the family, family groups, dietary, plus-ones, addresses. It handles the spreadsheet your mom has been editing for six months without forcing a strict format. You preview the parse before committing, fix any column mappings, and import. The same flow handles vendor quotes from PDFs, gift registries, and ceremony schedules. If you already had a draft list in Google Sheets, Notion, or even a screenshot of a handwritten list, the AI can usually read it. You don't have to clean the data first.

Question 10

How does it handle Pakistani, Punjabi, Sikh, Tamil, or Telugu weddings?

Accepted Answer

Anvaya is template-driven, not tradition-locked. You name your events — Anand Karaj, nikah, muhurat, pithi, garba, sangeet, mehndi — and assign tasks, vendors, guests, and budget lines to them. The starter checklist gives you a base to edit; you can copy, rename, and add whatever your community needs. We do not pretend to know your panditji's preferences or your imam's schedule. We give you the structure to plan around them.

Question 11

Can multiple family members collaborate?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Anvaya has role-based collaboration with four levels: Couple Primary (you), Family Admin (parents and siblings who run things), Family Contributor (the friend handling decor), and Guest (read-only access to the public site). Each role sees the right slice — your mom can update vendors and tasks but not see the guest list. The activity log shows who changed what and when, so the running family group chat about "did anyone follow up with the caterer" can stop. Invites go by email or shareable link, and you can revoke any collaborator at any time. The data is yours, not theirs.

Question 12

Is my wedding data private?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Your wedding workspace is private by default. The public wedding website at yourname.anvaya.love only shows what you publish. Guest RSVP links are tokenized — no login required for guests, but each link only works for the one guest it was sent to and expires after the event. We don't sell data, we don't show ads, and you can export everything as CSV or JSON at any time. We're South Asian engineers building the tool we wished we'd had when we were planning our own weddings. If you delete your account, your data is removed within thirty days.

The South Asian wedding planning app for every ceremony.

Four things every other planner gets wrong.

Per-event guest invites

Joint-family contributions

WhatsApp-first messaging

Per-ceremony line items

Every ceremony, on the same calendar.

Budget

Checklist

Multi-Event

One website. One RSVP. Every ceremony.

Wedding Website

RSVP & Guests

Save the Date

When the weekend arrives, nothing is missing.

Seating

Vendors

Messaging

Anvaya AI works inside ChatGPT and Claude.

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