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Planning tools built for more than one ceremony
Most wedding apps plan one day. Yours has four, maybe five, and a guest list that changes shape for each one.
Nodus organises your wedding by ceremony, because a South Asian wedding is a series of events, each with its own date, venue, guests and vendors. Ceremonies work in the app today in an early form. Most of the planning tools below are coming, and we label each one.
The problem
Why generic planners don't fit
A standard wedding planner gives you one date, one venue and one guest list. A Punjabi Sikh family might have a jaggo, an anand karaj at the gurdwara and an evening reception. A Pakistani Muslim family might have a dholki at home, a mehndi, the nikkah and baraat, then a walima. Each event has different guests and a different caterer, and each draws on the budget in its own way. Squeezing that into one "big day" template leaves families running the real plan in spreadsheets.
What's in it
The planning hub
A card for every ceremony
Each ceremony gets its own card with the date, the place, a budget and the vendor categories it needs, showing booked against still to find. Open one and you see its checklist, linked to the enquiries and bookings behind it. Status: early version today, being completed.
Budget tracker
Task manager
Guest list and RSVP
Shortlist
Family collaborators
Moodboard
Honest status
What's live and what's coming
| Tool | Status |
|---|---|
| Ceremonies with their own date and details | Live, early version |
| Ceremony cards with budget and booked-vs-outstanding progress | Coming |
| Budget tracker | Coming |
| Task manager with a South Asian wedding template | Coming |
| Guest list and RSVP per ceremony | Coming |
| Shortlist grouped by category and ceremony | Coming |
| Read-only access for family collaborators | Coming |
| Moodboard | Coming |
One plan
How the pieces fit together
The tools share the same ceremonies. When you accept a caterer's quote for the walima, it counts against the walima budget. When your RSVPs for the mehndi come in, that number is ready for the mehndi caterer. When a task says "book the dhol player for the baraat", the enquiry you send sits under the baraat too. Your parents can open the plan and see where things stand without asking you for the fifth time that week.
That is the aim. Today, the ceremonies and the vendor side of it (messaging, and quotes in an early form) work. The rest arrives piece by piece, and each piece will show up inside the plan you have already started.
Free tools
Try the free versions now
While the full tools are being built, the website has free, limited versions you can use today without an account.
Questions
Nodus is one. It organises planning by ceremony, so the mehndi, nikkah or anand karaj, baraat, walima and reception each have their own date, venue, budget and vendors. Ceremonies work in an early form today and most planning tools are coming.
It is coming. It will show your total budget, confirmed spend, outstanding quotes and what is left. Until then, our free wedding budget planner gives you a one-off estimate split across ceremonies and categories.
That is the plan. The guest list and RSVP manager, marked as coming, tracks each guest's reply per ceremony, so the mehndi and the walima can have different numbers.
Shared planning access is coming. You will be able to invite family as viewers of the planning hub, ceremonies, budget and guest list.
Yes. Nodus is free for couples, forever, and that includes every planning tool as it arrives.
Start your plan
Create your free account and add your ceremonies today. The rest of the tools arrive in the same place as they're built. Not ready yet? Join the waitlist and we'll keep you posted.
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Where next
- Free toolSouth Asian wedding budget plannerSplit your wedding budget across the mehndi, nikkah, anand karaj, baraat, walima and reception, and across catering, venues and decor. Free, no sign-up.
- ExploreFree tools for South Asian weddingsFree tools for couples and wedding vendors: budget planner, checklist, guest count planner, catering calculator, earnings calculator and profile check.
- For couplesYour South Asian wedding, finally in one place.Find vendors, send enquiries, manage bookings and pay vendors directly through Stripe. The South Asian wedding platform built for the UK. Sign up free.
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