Assalamu alaikum · 2026 wedding season
Planning a Muslim wedding
A Muslim wedding is two events with two guest lists — the nikah, which is family and close, and the walima, which is the town. They are frequently on different days, sometimes hosted by different sides, and the person managing them is usually running two headcounts in one notebook. Several families also observe some separation of men and women, which changes the seating, the service and who may photograph whom.
- vendor briefs
- 6 vendor briefs
- checkable requirements
- 19 checkable requirements
- functions named
- 5 functions named
- vendors confirmed so far
- 0 vendors confirmed so far
The functions, in order
If a vendor cannot name these without being told, they have not worked this wedding before. That is not a disqualification — it is a thing to know before you sign.
- 1 Mangni
- 2 Mehndi
- 3 Nikah
- 4 Rukhsati
- 5 Walima
Guests are greeted with السلام علیکم (Assalamu alaikum) , and addressed with sahab / begum. The celebration itself is a shaadi.
What each vendor has to get right
- Wedding caterers Halal meat with a verifiable supplier — ask which supplier, not whether 4 requirements · 3 questions to ask →
- Wedding photographers Offer a female photographer for the women’s section — this is a hard requirement for many families and a nice-to-have for none of them 3 requirements · 2 questions to ask →
- Wedding planners and event managers Run the nikah and the walima as two events with two headcounts, never one 3 requirements · 2 questions to ask →
- Wedding venues and party plots Willing to run fully dry — no bar, no corkage workaround 3 requirements · 2 questions to ask →
- Wedding decorators and tent houses Geometric and floral ornament — jaali, star patterns, arabesque 3 requirements · 2 questions to ask →
- Wedding invitation and card makers Opens with the Bismillah, set correctly and not as clip art 3 requirements · 2 questions to ask →
And then the guest list
Two functions, two lists, and heavy overlap between them — but not complete overlap. Anyone counting "the guests" as one number will over-order for the nikah and under-order for the walima.
That is the part AI Shaadi does. Launching for the 2026 wedding season — no wedding has run for a paying customer yet, and we would rather say so here than let you find out later.
We may have some of this wrong
Practice varies by region, by sect and by family, and these briefs were written from general knowledge rather than from inside the community. If something here is wrong for how your family does it, tell us and we will fix the page — that correction is worth more to us than the page as it stands.