Plan every ceremony, not just the wedding

Anvaya treats each ceremony as a first-class event with its own date, start time, duration, venue, dress code, and colour palette — not a row buried under a single wedding date. Drop in the mehndi at the courtyard pavilion on Thursday night, the sangeet at the ballroom on Friday, the haldi at the bride's family home Saturday morning, the ceremony under the mandap, and the reception on Sunday evening. Each event carries its own guest set, its own tasks, its own vendor roster, and its own seating canvas.

The events hub shows the whole wedding week in one editorial agenda — dates, venues, dress codes, and the sunrise and sunset computed for each venue. Open any ceremony and the workspace narrows to that one event: its guests, its tasks, its vendors. No more mentally filtering one giant spreadsheet to find what the haldi still needs.

Anvaya ships the six ceremonies a diaspora wedding actually runs — mehndi, sangeet, haldi, the wedding ceremony, the reception, and a welcome party — and lets you add or rename events for the rituals that template doesn't cover: the baraat, the pheras, a garba, a walima, a Tamil muhurtham. Pick the events your family runs and name them in your own vocabulary.

Most desi weddings hire ten to fifteen vendors, and each one covers a different slice of the weekend. Your photographer is at every ceremony. Your mehndi artist works the mehndi only. Panditji handles the haldi and the pheras. The DJ runs the sangeet and the reception. The mehndi caterer is a different outfit from the reception caterer. In Anvaya every vendor carries the events they cover, so the flat list finally has an answer for who is on what.

Each vendor card holds the ceremonies they serve, their quote, a payment schedule with deposits and final balances and due dates, and the contact who runs them on the day. Open one ceremony and you see only the vendors on it — the mehndi page shows the mehndi artist, the photographer, the dholki, and the caterer that covers the courtyard, not the reception caterer or the pheras pandit.

Forward a vendor's quote to your wedding's private email address and Anvaya reads the PDF or photo and pre-fills the name, category, contact, location, and price — you assign it to the right ceremony and accept. Comparing two photographers? Put them side by side and weigh quote, event, and contact in one view before you sign.

Every desi wedding runs the same long checklist, and every couple rebuilds it from scratch on a fresh Notion page at midnight. Anvaya seeds six starter tasks the moment you create your wedding, and a seed dialog lets you pull from twenty-three templates in all — staged by how far out they fall, so you book the venue and photographer early, finalise attire and catering in the middle, and confirm the officiant and transport in the final stretch. From there you assign each task to the ceremony it serves, give it a due date, and hand it to a co-planner.

Open a ceremony and its tasks come with it. Assign "book the mehndi artist" to the mehndi and "confirm the baraat horse" to the baraat, and each one lives with its event instead of in one undifferentiated pile. Set a due date six weeks before the sangeet rather than against a single wedding day, and the work paces itself across the whole week.

The task board flags what's overdue against every due date, so a glance tells you which work has slipped. Alongside it, a separate readiness view scores how complete the wedding is on the things that sink a desi weekend — missing event times and venues, ceremonies with no guests yet, RSVPs still pending, overlapping or far-apart events — so you can see what still needs attention without opening seven tabs.