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Indian wedding planners: what they do and what to ask
An Indian wedding planner manages the vendors, schedule and logistics across every event, so families can enjoy the wedding. Choose between full planning, partial planning and day-of coordination, look for someone who has run multi-day South Asian weddings at venues like yours, and ask exactly what is included and how they are paid.
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What does an Indian wedding planner do?
Depending on the service, a planner helps set the budget, finds and books venues and vendors, negotiates contracts, designs the look of each event, builds the schedule for every day and runs the events on the day, including the baraat, ceremony timing, outfit changes and room turnovers. For a desi wedding they also keep track of rituals, family responsibilities and guests arriving from abroad.
Full planning, partial planning or day-of coordination?
- Full planning: involved from the start, booking and managing every vendor.
- Partial planning: you book some vendors, the planner books the rest and runs the final months.
- Day-of (or month-of) coordination: you plan, and the coordinator takes over the schedule and vendors in the last weeks and runs each event.
Even couples who plan everything themselves often book a coordinator for the wedding days, so the family is not answering vendor calls.
What should we ask a wedding planner?
- How many South Asian weddings have you planned, and can we speak to a couple you worked with?
- Which services are included, and how many of our events will you be at in person?
- How many coordinators will be on site at each event?
- How are you paid: a flat fee, a percentage, or commission from vendors?
- Which vendors do you usually work with, and can we use our own?
- How do you handle ceremony timing, a muhurat, and the baraat?
Frequently asked questions
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See every vendor to book and when in the desi wedding vendor checklist, follow the 12-month planning checklist, or browse all our planning guides.