Posted by Ankur Chandra On November 04, 2016 0 Comment
Wedding is that ceremony where two people unite in a marriage. It is that function which is celebrated as a festival in every country. Wedding’s traditions and customs vary between religion and culture. It is not just the most expensive event but also the most tiring of all. You need days time to make arrangement, need to meet several people and then finalize the deal. What if, all these processes goes online and you can book everything in just few clicks. Well if you have imagined it already then come to reality, it’s not a dream anymore. Here we are with a list of wedding startups that are founded currently and are doing their best in the e-commerce business. 1. WedMeGood
This startups is a Gurgaon based, founded by husband and wife, Anand Shahani and Mehak Shahani who accommodates the couple for their wedding, right from the idea of planning till the stage. The startup provides photographers, makeup artist, jewellery brands, designer wear and caterings as well with detailed information, pricing and reviews. The company app runs on iOS and android platforms, both. WedMeGood is a first wedding online portal that has launched its app too. The website currently lists over 4,000 vendors across 11 cities, for all wedding services including Photographers, Makeup Artists, Decor, Bridal Wear, Grooms Wear, Cinematographers, Invitations, Mehendi Artists, Wedding Planners, Jewellery, Trousseau Packers, Venue Bookings, Jewellery, Catering, Wedding Cakes, DJs, Choreographers and Accessories. Website: www.wedmegood.com
2. Weddingplz
Founded in 2014 by Manas Wadhwa, Weddingplz, helps its users to find the best vendors for every wedding product/services such as catering, flower decoration, wedding jewellery, music services, etc. under one digital roof. Currently, operating in five cities— Delhi (NCR), Mumbai, Chandigarh, Ludhiana and Bengaluru. Weddingplz has more than 45,000 vendors in 43 different categories with 18,00,000 visitors. Apart from vendor listing it also has wedding planning tools like wedding checklist, budget, guest list, e-invites and wedding website where in the user can create and share his/her own personal website without any cost. Website:  www.weddingplz.com
3. Marryinaweek
Marry in a Week is a facebook matrimonial app, designed to cut through the clutter and deliver within a week, guaranteed responses from matches that are most relevant and useful. Marry in a Week showcases a person’s individuality and introduces lifestyle, interests, values, and attitude as important criteria for new age matrimonial matchmaking. Users are encouraged to create their honest profiles and augment it further with the help of multiple photos of self, family, and special moments. Each profile is received individually by it’s relevant match and gets appropriate attention and consideration in the absence of needless clutter. The startup is planning to expand their business in top 10 metro cities for which they even raise their funds. In 2015 they launched their app too for android users. Website: www.marryinaweek.com
4. WeddingZ.in
Launched in January, 2015, this wedding industry provides different vendors at good price. This startup allows partners to find and book the services at affordable price. Previously it was offering service only in Mumbai but now it expanded to 10 cities including Delhi, Bangalore and others. With 2000 wedding venues and 2000 vendors this portal promises to be a largest warehouse of wedding service provider. The company also said to be organize 200 weddings every month. This portal is competing very strongly with others wedding portal like Shaadisaga, WedMeGood and many more. Website:  www.weddingz.in
5. ForMyShaadi
Founded by Sudha Maheshwari, ForMyShaadi is a wedding gift e-registry website for would-be married couples. The platform invites married-to-be couples to create a wish list for themselves. The couple can then share it with their friends and family who can browse through products the couple have selected, make a purchase, leave a greeting for the couple and go to the wedding hassle free. The platform aims at creating an online marketplace of exclusive brands and unique experiences so that couples can get the gifts they want on their big day, be it by wish listing gifts that will help them set up their new home or by listing experiences and personal items that they would enjoy. Website:  http://formyshaadi.com/
6. Shaadisaga
Shaadisaga is founded by Himanshu Kapsime and Manish Garg. It is the one stop wedding planning solution, where people can not only celebrate but can also share and can plan their wedding journey. With their website and e-invites, people can share their beautiful wedding journey with their friends and loved ones. Not only this, it ensures people with great ideas, updates on new trends, cool tips to make your day more special, unique and memorable. So what you all have to do is sit relax, rest of the planning will be done by Shaadisaga. Website:  www.shaadimagic.com
7. PlanningWale
With PlanningWale you can search, compare and book vendors from over 25 categories, and also review and bookmark vendors for future reference. You could start by searching “near-by” vendors and locate them on maps. Being a wedding and event search directory with listing of over 6000 matrimonial vendors like jewellers, venues, caterers, photographers, bandwalas, florist, astrologers, designers, make-up artists, mehendiwalas, invitation cards, decorations, choreographers and many more, PlanningWale was founded in April 2015 by Latika Malhotra, Kanishk Pandey and Sameer. Website:  planningwale.com
8) Indear.in(The wedding brigade)
Founded by Sanna Vohra in November last year, because when sanna’s friend was providing her information regarding wedding during her sister marriage, she had to go through lot of websites, this what gave her idea to start her own venture in this zone. This is a Mumbai based startup that allows user to search for anything from destination wedding to “gotta patti” (a type of Indian embroidery originate in Rajasthan) lehenga. This website collects content from the brands and allows users to contact the source directly.

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Shaadisaga is founded by Himanshu Kapsime and Manish Garg. It is the one stop wedding planning solution, where people can not only celebrate but can also share and can plan their wedding journey. ? Marrily - Aims to Make Partner Search Easier and Better For Singles
Wedding is that ceremony where two people unite in a marriage. It is that function which is celebrated as a festival in every country. Wedding’s traditions and customs vary between religion and culture. Not to be challenging for you, wedding startups are developing year by year. Popular wedding portals Shaadi.com and BharatMatrimony started way back in 1997, when there were not much internet users. Now the users of internet are increasing per hour, to expand wedding startups business currently, is beneficial for the business economy. Here we are with a list of wedding startups that are founded currently and are doing their best in the e-commerce business. 1) WedMeGood
WedMeGood is a first wedding online portal that has launched its app too. This startups is a Gurgaon based, founded by husband and wife, Anand Shahani and Mehak Shahani who accommodates the couple for their wedding, right from the idea of planning till the stage. The startup provides photographers, makeup artist, jewellery brands, designer wear and caterings as well with detailed information, pricing and reviews. The company app runs on iOS and android platforms, both. 2) Weddingplz
Weddingplz is a startup that gives every information of the wedding that a couple has to plan, organize and manage. Startup was started in January 2014, founded by Manish Wadhwa. The startup has been launched in 4 cities, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Ludhiana and Bangalore. The startup features besides planning, wedding checklist, budget, guest list, e-invites and wedding website where it allows user to create and share his own personal website. Not only vendor, they have their own wedding blogs, events, wedding websites, and help the family and friends to make that day special one for the couple. It is planning to expand their business in 12 cities at the end of this year. 3) PlanningWale
This startup was founded by Latika Malhotra, Kanishk Pandey and Sameer in April 2015. It is a wedding website with over 6000 matrimonial vendors’ jewelers, venues, caterers, bakers, photographers, makeup artists, florist, choreographers, car rentals, invitation cards, decorations, fitness, designers, mehendiwalas wedding planners and so on. Users can easily search on this website, vendors from different categories and can call via app. They can rate, review and can bookmark this website for the future too. The website has its app too. 4) Indear.in
Founded by Sanna Vohra in November last year, because when sanna’s friend was providing her information regarding wedding during her sister marriage, she had to go through lot of websites, this what gave her idea to start her own venture in this zone. This is a Mumbai based startup that allows user to search for anything from destination wedding to “gotta patti” (a type of Indian embroidery originate in Rajasthan) lehenga. This website collects content from the brands and allows users to contact the source directly. 5) Marrily
Started by the 3 IIT Kanpur students Sourabh Varma, Ajay Pandey, and Harsh Vardhan. This app is a matchmaking app that believes in connecting before committing. This app allows registration through Facebook and asks for selfie, for the verification to confirm only real people can sign up. It uses an algorithm to suggest matches and learns preference with time. The app has a great popularity among apps. About 20% of the users visit this site every day. Its best part is, it is free for first 20000 users. 6) Marryinaweek
Started in January 2013, Marryinaweek has its 12000 users with 250 users growing each day. Marryinaweek is founded by Bhrahman Rattan and Suraj Dubey. It is the matrimonial site that presents every profile registered in this site, in a weekly rotation. It makes the profile visible to the people for a particular time to generate interest among others. That particular time stays till 7 days and the profile can be accepted and denied before the expiry period of the profile. The startup is planning to expand their business in top 10 metro cities for which they even raise their funds. In 2015 they launched their app too for android users. 7) Shaadimagic.com
It is a complete wedding planner portal that provides you with every basic needs of wedding. From vendor selections to costume of bride and groom in a reasonable budget for every person. This portal provides latest trends in bridal wear, makeup, jewellery collections, decorations and even honeymoon destination for couple. The founder of this portal Manish Grover explains that planning wedding is not an easy task and it requires lot of creativity, options, this portal ensures us of all this. This portal not only plans but also guides how to organize a perfect wedding. 8) Shaadisaga
Shaadisaga is founded by Himanshu Kapsime and Manish Garg. It is the one stop wedding planning solution, where people can not only celebrate but can also share and can plan their wedding journey. With their website and e-invites, people can share their beautiful wedding journey with their friends and loved ones. Not only this, it ensures people with great ideas, updates on new trends, cool tips to make your day more special, unique and memorable. So what you all have to do is sit relax, rest of the planning will be done by Shaadisaga. 9) Wanted Umbrella (Now Inclov)
A very unique matchmaking startup founded by Kalyani khona, from Mumbai. This startup is different from others, as this organization allows matchmaking for differently abled people. This organization redefines the lives of differently abled by providing them to interact with the people of same interest. This startup plans like going out to eat, a holiday, movies, conversations and many efforts. It is a very different startup from the other wedding portals but ensures the same interest. 10) WeddingZ.in
Launched in January, 2015, this wedding industry provides different vendors at good price. This startup allows partners to find and book the services at affordable price. Previously it was offering service only in Mumbai but now it expanded to 10 cities including Delhi, Bangalore and others. With 2000 wedding venues and 2000 vendors this portal promises to be a largest warehouse of wedding service provider. The company also said to be organize 200 weddings every month. This portal is competing very strongly with others wedding portal like Shaadisaga, WedMeGood and many more. Share this article:
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10 Indian Startups Disrupting the Wedding Industry

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The wedding space in India is a multi billion dollar industry. Popular wedding portals Shaadi.com and BharatMatrimony started way back in 1997, this is when the Internet users consisted of under 0.1%  of the total population. And now when the technology, Internet and smartphones have brought so many cultural changes in both rural and urban India, new startups are rising up to match the tastes and demands of the connected generation. Here are 5 such rising businesses trying to bring about a change. Marrily
Marrily uses an algorithm to suggest matches and learns partner preferences with time
Started in August 2015 by 3 alumni from IIT Kanpur – Sourabh Varma, Ajay Pandey, Harsh Vardhan, Mumbai-based Marrily is a matchmaking app that believes in “connecting, then committing”. It is a mobile only startup which uses Facebook for registration and requires a selfie for verification to ensure only real people sign up. “When I was looking to get married, I found the entire process sort of painful and often awkward and frustrating. I’m sure many are facing that” said Sourabh, Founder at Marrily. Marrily uses an algorithm to suggest matches and learns partner preferences with time. It connects mutually interested people over in-app chat for 30 days to discover mutual compatibility. Only when both are sure of taking it ahead, it further helps by notifying family members about the matches. It suggests profiles after carefully considering qualities important in match-finding. One can like or reject profiles without notifying the other person. The app has built a base of 500 users. About 15% users visit the app everyday. The startup is reaching out to investors for raising the funds. Marrily is competing with matrimonial sites like shaadi.com, and bharatmatrimony.com among others. The startup has planned a freemium model, i.e., free for certain functionalities and paid for upgrades. Online matchmaking in India itself is about Rs.1,000 crore. The company believes that the true potential hasn’t been realized because of various issues and the industry is significantly under-monetized. So opportunity pie is multiple times that of current size. The app is available for free on  Android . The iOS app is under development and will be launched soon. WeddingPlz
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WeddingPlz is a wedding vendor search portal that helps people find every wedding product and service such as catering, flower decoration, wedding jewellery, music services, parlour services and so on, all in one place. Started in January 2014 by Manas Wadhwa, the startup has launched in 3 more cities now, Mumbai, Chandigarh and Ludhiana and plan to launch in Bangalore by the end of this year. It lists more than 20,000 vendors specializing in wedding services with their detailed information and reviews. Besides vendor listing, some of the core features include wedding planning tools like wedding checklist, budget, guest list, e-invites and wedding website where in user can create and share his own personal website with out any cost. From vendor details to planning tools, from wedding website to wedding blogs & events, WeddingPlz helps the to-be-wed couples and their family and friends to manage and organize everything for their special day. It lists more than 37,500 vendors across 41 categories. In terms of product expansion the startup plan to launch Weddingplz mobile App by the end of this year and would be coming up with its own wedding directory of wedding vendors. It plans to launch in 12 more cities by the end of 2016. At present, the company has over 3 lakh visits every month, have generated 35000+ leads till date and have 105 paying customers as part of its early revenue stage. WedMeGood
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Gurgaon-based WedMeGood was founded by a husband – wife duo, Anand Shahani and Mehak Shahani, which assists the Indian couples who are planing their wedding, right from idea to execution stage. The startup features a curated guide of wedding professionals – photographers, makeup artists, decor, jewellery brands, designer wear and catering firms- all in one place, with detailed information, pricing and reviews. Apart from this, it boasts of over 70,000 images uploaded by its vendors and users that provide inspiration for recently engaged couples. Around 200,000 unique visitors accessed the portal in the past month, contacting more than 3500 vendors listed across 18 categories related to Indian and International weddings. This month, the company raised Rs.2.7 crores funding in the seed round which is led by Indian Angel Network (IAN) with participation from angels like Rishi Parti, Anupam Mittal, Sachin Bhatia and Kashyap Deorah. The funding will be used majorly to improve the product and scale-up business by increasing the vendors base across major metro cities. The firm is also in the process of launching both the iOS and Android mobile app in the coming couple of months. In this space, the startup is competing with companies like Shaadisaga.com and Indear.in. Image Source
Started in January 2013 by Co-Founders Bhraman Rattan (CEO) and Suraj Dubey (COO), Marryinaweek  is a matrimony portal which features every profile that is listed on the platform for a week in rotation every month. It allows each featured profile to become visible to all their potential matches and cause some of them to express interest. Each interest generated expires in 7 days. Every featured profile which receive interests, must either accept or decline them before expiry. “This way we are able to connect both sides within a week. This is the most efficient match making process that is possible. On an average each featured profile receives about 50 interests every time we feature them,” said Bhraman,
The startup had raised Rs.1.5 crore of seed funding and is in talks to raise more funds to scale up the wedding marketplace app. It needs funds for marketing, to acquire tech, sales, marketing and content talent and to beef up its sales and vendor teams across top 10 metro cities. Its app is available for Android users which was launched in April 2015 and has received 8000 organic downloads so far. The firm is soon going to launch its wedding marketplace app which will be one stop wedding resource for all the wedding related services like venue, caterers, bridal/ groom wear, make up artists, photographers, DJs, Invitation cards, Band baja, Wedding planners,Decor etc. It is targeting to bring 10,000 curated wedding vendors in next 6 months. The startup has recently acquired a wedding services marketplace app from Parikshalabs which will be rolled out soon under its new brand. Image Source
PlanningWale was founded in April 2015 by Latika Malhotra, Kanishk Pandey and Sameer. It is a wedding & event search directory with listing of over 6000 matrimonial vendors like jewellers, venues, caterers and bakers, photographers, bandwalas, florist, astrologers, designers, make-up artists, mehendiwalas, car rentals, invitation cards, decorations, choreographers, fitness, wedding planners and many more. User can search, compare & book vendors from over 25 categories and can directly call via app, rate & review, bookmark for future reference, search “near-by” vendors and also locate the vendor on the go through maps. Its app is available for Android users. “We plan to revolutionize the industry and we know that it won’t happen in one day so we’ve panned out a 5 year plan which we have broken further and are working on quarterly basis. Our plan for next quarter would be to go live Pan India with our services. We have already started the process of gathering Data and are working on the feedback from the Delhi based users,” said Latika. The startup launched its app a few days back only and has close to 500 downloads. The iOS version of the app will launched in next 15 days. The company has also started reaching out the international markets where it plan to launch themselves by the end of the second quarter.

5 Indian Startups Disrupting the Wedding Market in India

by Sujata Sangwan Leave a Reply
The wedding space in India is a multi billion dollar industry. Popular wedding portals Shaadi.com and BharatMatrimony started way back in 1997, this is when the Internet users consisted of under 0.1%  of the total population. And now when the technology, Internet and smartphones have brought so many cultural changes in both rural and urban India, new startups are rising up to match the tastes and demands of the connected generation. Here are 5 such rising businesses trying to bring about a change. Marrily
Marrily uses an algorithm to suggest matches and learns partner preferences with time
Started in August 2015 by 3 alumni from IIT Kanpur – Sourabh Varma, Ajay Pandey, Harsh Vardhan, Mumbai-based Marrily is a matchmaking app that believes in “connecting, then committing”. It is a mobile only startup which uses Facebook for registration and requires a selfie for verification to ensure only real people sign up. “When I was looking to get married, I found the entire process sort of painful and often awkward and frustrating. I’m sure many are facing that” said Sourabh, Founder at Marrily. Marrily uses an algorithm to suggest matches and learns partner preferences with time. It connects mutually interested people over in-app chat for 30 days to discover mutual compatibility. Only when both are sure of taking it ahead, it further helps by notifying family members about the matches. It suggests profiles after carefully considering qualities important in match-finding. One can like or reject profiles without notifying the other person. The app has built a base of 500 users. About 15% users visit the app everyday. The startup is reaching out to investors for raising the funds. Marrily is competing with matrimonial sites like shaadi.com, and bharatmatrimony.com among others. The startup has planned a freemium model, i.e., free for certain functionalities and paid for upgrades. Online matchmaking in India itself is about Rs.1,000 crore. The company believes that the true potential hasn’t been realized because of various issues and the industry is significantly under-monetized. So opportunity pie is multiple times that of current size. The app is available for free on  Android . The iOS app is under development and will be launched soon. WeddingPlz
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WeddingPlz is a wedding vendor search portal that helps people find every wedding product and service such as catering, flower decoration, wedding jewellery, music services, parlour services and so on, all in one place. Started in January 2014 by Manas Wadhwa, the startup has launched in 3 more cities now, Mumbai, Chandigarh and Ludhiana and plan to launch in Bangalore by the end of this year. It lists more than 20,000 vendors specializing in wedding services with their detailed information and reviews. Besides vendor listing, some of the core features include wedding planning tools like wedding checklist, budget, guest list, e-invites and wedding website where in user can create and share his own personal website with out any cost. From vendor details to planning tools, from wedding website to wedding blogs & events, WeddingPlz helps the to-be-wed couples and their family and friends to manage and organize everything for their special day. It lists more than 37,500 vendors across 41 categories. In terms of product expansion the startup plan to launch Weddingplz mobile App by the end of this year and would be coming up with its own wedding directory of wedding vendors. It plans to launch in 12 more cities by the end of 2016. At present, the company has over 3 lakh visits every month, have generated 35000+ leads till date and have 105 paying customers as part of its early revenue stage. Image Source
Gurgaon-based WedMeGood was founded by a husband – wife duo, Anand Shahani and Mehak Shahani, which assists the Indian couples who are planing their wedding, right from idea to execution stage. The startup features a curated guide of wedding professionals – photographers, makeup artists, decor, jewellery brands, designer wear and catering firms- all in one place, with detailed information, pricing and reviews. Apart from this, it boasts of over 70,000 images uploaded by its vendors and users that provide inspiration for recently engaged couples. Around 200,000 unique visitors accessed the portal in the past month, contacting more than 3500 vendors listed across 18 categories related to Indian and International weddings. This month, the company raised Rs.2.7 crores funding in the seed round which is led by Indian Angel Network (IAN) with participation from angels like Rishi Parti, Anupam Mittal, Sachin Bhatia and Kashyap Deorah. The funding will be used majorly to improve the product and scale-up business by increasing the vendors base across major metro cities. The firm is also in the process of launching both the iOS and Android mobile app in the coming couple of months. In this space, the startup is competing with companies like Shaadisaga.com and Indear.in. Image Source
Started in January 2013 by Co-Founders Bhraman Rattan (CEO) and Suraj Dubey (COO), Marryinaweek  is a matrimony portal which features every profile that is listed on the platform for a week in rotation every month. It allows each featured profile to become visible to all their potential matches and cause some of them to express interest. Each interest generated expires in 7 days. Every featured profile which receive interests, must either accept or decline them before expiry. “This way we are able to connect both sides within a week. This is the most efficient match making process that is possible. On an average each featured profile receives about 50 interests every time we feature them,” said Bhraman,
The startup had raised Rs.1.5 crore of seed funding and is in talks to raise more funds to scale up the wedding marketplace app. It needs funds for marketing, to acquire tech, sales, marketing and content talent and to beef up its sales and vendor teams across top 10 metro cities. Its app is available for Android users which was launched in April 2015 and has received 8000 organic downloads so far. The firm is soon going to launch its wedding marketplace app which will be one stop wedding resource for all the wedding related services like venue, caterers, bridal/ groom wear, make up artists, photographers, DJs, Invitation cards, Band baja, Wedding planners,Decor etc. It is targeting to bring 10,000 curated wedding vendors in next 6 months. The startup has recently acquired a wedding services marketplace app from Parikshalabs which will be rolled out soon under its new brand. Image Source
PlanningWale was founded in April 2015 by Latika Malhotra, Kanishk Pandey and Sameer. It is a wedding & event search directory with listing of over 6000 matrimonial vendors like jewellers, venues, caterers and bakers, photographers, bandwalas, florist, astrologers, designers, make-up artists, mehendiwalas, car rentals, invitation cards, decorations, choreographers, fitness, wedding planners and many more. User can search, compare & book vendors from over 25 categories and can directly call via app, rate & review, bookmark for future reference, search “near-by” vendors and also locate the vendor on the go through maps. Its app is available for Android users. “We plan to revolutionize the industry and we know that it won’t happen in one day so we’ve panned out a 5 year plan which we have broken further and are working on quarterly basis. Our plan for next quarter would be to go live Pan India with our services. We have already started the process of gathering Data and are working on the feedback from the Delhi based users,” said Latika. The startup launched its app a few days back only and has close to 500 downloads. The iOS version of the app will launched in next 15 days. The company has also started reaching out the international markets where it plan to launch themselves by the end of the second quarter.

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Marryinaweek is a matrimonial app that uses Facebook data to assist with matchmaking in the matrimonial sector. The app allows users to create profiles that reflect their lifestyle, interests, and attitudes through multiple photos. It serves users seeking matrimonial matches and aims to ensure the authenticity of profiles by integrating marriage-relevant data from Facebook. It is based in India.

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