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Numbers and planning · 2026 wedding season

Why one guest list is the wrong shape

Five functions, five lists, and they overlap without matching.

Three overlapping circles labelled Mehndi, Sangeet and Reception, each holding a different number of guest figures — the Reception circle far the largest — Why one guest list is the wrong shape
Illustration — generated, not a photograph of a real wedding

What it actually is

The mehndi list, the sangeet list and the reception list are different, and the difference is usually 30–50%. Running one list produces over-catering at the small functions and under-catering at the big one.

We have not published a price here because we could not ground one honestly. Ask three vendors — an invented number would be worse than none.

When it works

  • Any wedding with more than two functions
  • Where different sides host different functions
  • Before any caterer or venue quote is accepted

The part nobody else prints

How this goes wrong

Asking "are you coming to the wedding?" instead of "which functions are you coming to?". The first question cannot produce the numbers anybody actually needs.

Every idea here is easier than telling three hundred people about it.

You can book all of this and still spend the month chasing headcounts. That part is what we do — the invitations, the replies, the rooms, the arrivals, on WhatsApp, with a person making the first call and a person checking every count.

Launching for the 2026 wedding season. No wedding has run for a paying customer yet.