The wedding AI that actually does the work

A gold-ringed chat button sits in the corner of your dashboard. Tap it and the assistant slides open already tuned to the page you came from. Open the guest list and ask “who hasn't RSVP'd to the sangeet?” — the answer comes back with names, last-contact dates, and a button to draft a reminder. Open the budget and ask “where am I over plan?” — the categories that overshot come back highlighted, with the variance against your envelope.

It is not a separate app. The chat reads from the same wedding the rest of Anvaya does, so the numbers always match the dashboard. And it knows where you are: the guest page leads with pending RSVPs and headcount, the budget page with over- and under-spend, the vendor page with who's researched, contacted, and booked. You don't have to learn what to ask — the page already shapes the answer.

Your threads stick around across devices and reloads, so you can scroll back through last week's decisions and pick up where you left off. Long answers come back as tidy tables and cards, not paragraphs of prose — confirmed/regrets/pending donuts, budget breakdowns, vendor side-by-sides. Nothing scrolls off into a chat-shaped wall.

If you already pay for Claude or ChatGPT — or you live in Cursor for work and don't want to switch tabs — Anvaya plugs right in. Open the connector menu, search for Anvaya, sign in once, and the same wedding tools show up inside that chat. Now you can ask Claude “compare my three photographers” or tell ChatGPT “draft a haldi reminder for the bride's side” and the answer comes straight from your real wedding — not a generic template.

You don't pick favourites. Couples on Claude get Claude. Couples on ChatGPT get ChatGPT. Couples in Cursor or Claude Code get those. It's the same wedding, the same tools, and the same fifty-odd planning actions either way — the assistant is just whichever one you already trust. Answers come back as the same visual cards the in-app chat uses: best-value vendor ribbons in gold, RSVP donuts split by event, over-budget lines flagged.

Connecting takes about a minute. You stay signed in as you, the assistant reaches your wedding only, and nothing about you is shared with anything you don't connect.

A generic AI will happily plan your “Indian wedding ceremony” as one event on a Saturday. Anvaya AI starts from the truth: a desi wedding is three to five days and a handful of distinct ceremonies, with overlapping guest cohorts who go to different events. Mehndi, sangeet, haldi, welcome party, the ceremony, the reception — each is a first-class event in your workspace, with its own date, venue, dress code, guest list, and RSVP. Add a baraat or a walima as your own event and it slots in beside them.

The cultural fluency runs through the data, not just the chat prompt. Vendors carry South-Asian categories — officiant, mehndi artists, live performers, procession, decor — so “book the dhol players” lands in the right place. The assistant recognises the vocabulary too: ask for the mama's tasks, the bride's-side reminders, or a starter checklist and it knows a mehndi is a henna night and a haldi is a morning turmeric rite, not interchangeable words.

It draws on a deep reference for Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, Jain, and Christian South Asian traditions across North and South India, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, and diaspora communities — and it's honest about its limits. When a ritual varies by region, sect, or family, it says so and points you to your priest, imam, granthi, or minister rather than inventing a ruling.

The hardest part of any AI tool is knowing what to ask. Anvaya AI is built around concrete, planning-shaped questions you would already put to a planner — each one producing a specific answer or a draft action you approve in a tap. Every prompt below works today, and works the same in the Anvaya dashboard, in Claude, or in ChatGPT without changing a word.