A budget that knows whose money is paying for the sangeet.

The conversation that defines a South Asian wedding budget is who is paying for what. Your parents commit a number. His parents commit another. An uncle wires money for the sangeet. The couple covers the rest. None of this fits a single "total budget" bar with a percent-spent meter on top — and that is exactly what every Western wedding-budget tool ships. Anvaya treats funding sources as first-class.

Each contributor is its own funding source: a name, a type (bride's family, groom's family, the couple, or other), a pledged amount, and a notes field for the strings attached. Link any budget line to the source covering it, and the dashboard rolls up the family commitment against what you have allocated — so the gap, if there is one, is a number you can see instead of a feeling at the kitchen table. Adding or editing a pledge takes a contributor role; removing a funding source takes an admin — and every pledge, edit, and removal is written to the activity log: who committed what, and when, settled in the record rather than in memory.

A photographer emails a quote. A caterer responds with a per-head price after the tasting. In a normal flow, that becomes a daily inbox excavation followed by manual entry two weeks later. Anvaya replaces the loop: forward the email to vendors-{your-subdomain}@anvaya.love and Anvaya AI reads the thread and extracts the structured data — vendor name, business name, email, phone, website, category, quote amount, and a short summary of the notes.

You see it as a draft, never a silent write. Accept, edit, or dismiss in one click; accepting creates the vendor record and the budget line, tied back to the email you forwarded so the audit trail is intact. Dismissing leaves nothing behind. The same extractor runs on PDF contracts and image quotes — drop the file into the workspace and it parses the same fields. And when two photographers quote the same slot, stash both as alternatives on the line, then let each scenario pick the one it assumes. Every line that lands in the budget was approved by a human first.

A budget that does not match the bank statement is a fiction. In Anvaya every payment ties to a vendor, and you link it to the budget line it pays — with an amount, a due date, a paid date, a type (deposit, installment, final balance, or full payment), and notes. The 30% to hold the photographer's date, the 50% the decorator wants on signing, the balance the week of: each shows with its own status, so a partial payment never quietly looks like full coverage. And Anvaya watches the schedule for you — flagging payments that are overdue or due in the next 30 days, a ceremony whose per-guest cost is running hot, and any category that has slipped over what you allocated.

Because every line also carries its ceremony, the dashboard rolls up two ways — by category (total photography across all events) and by event (everything the sangeet costs you, regardless of category). The reception, which eats nearly half of most South Asian budgets, stops hiding inside a single wedding-day number. Allocated, actual, and paid sit side by side per category and per ceremony — so the report you hand your parents is itemized and ceremony-tagged, not a wall of generic ledger entries.