Planning an Indian Wedding in 90 Days: What to Do Each Week

Not every wedding gets a year. A muhurat that falls early, a family that wants it done before a move abroad, a long engagement that suddenly has a date: plenty of Indian weddings are planned in three months. It is completely doable. It just means deciding fast, booking in the right order and not trying to do everything.

Here is a week-by-week plan for 90 days, built around what gets booked out first.

Weeks 1 to 2: Decide the shape

• Fix the date (or two options) and the city.
• Agree the guest count with both families. In a short timeline, this number decides everything: aim for the number you can actually host, not the one you would host with a year.
• Set the budget and split it: venue and food first, then outfits and photography, then decor, then everything else.
• Decide the functions. Three (mehendi, sangeet, wedding) is realistic in 90 days. Five is not, unless two share a day.
• Book the venue. Visit two or three, choose in the same week. Venues go first in wedding season.

Weeks 3 to 4: Lock the big vendors

• Caterer, photographer, decorator and pandit, in that order. Take recommendations from recent weddings, not search results.
• Block hotel rooms for outstation guests.
• Order the bridal outfit. Ready-to-wear with alterations is safer than custom at this timeline; if custom, confirm a delivery date at least three weeks before the wedding.
• Send a digital save-the-date to everyone so travel can be booked.

Weeks 5 to 6: Fill in the middle

• Makeup artist, mehendi artists, DJ or band, and the groom's and families' outfits.
• Finalise the menu for each function.
• Design and order invitations. Digital for most guests; a small printed run for elders if the family wants it.
• Book the honeymoon or at least the first few days off, before the calendar fills.

Weeks 7 to 8: Send and confirm

• Invitations go out, with the RSVP deadline set for week 10.
• Jewellery, footwear and accessories for every outfit.
• Write the run sheet for each function and share it with the vendors.
• Confirm every contract and the payment schedule. Pay what is due.

Weeks 9 to 10: Count and allocate

• Chase RSVPs. Lock the plate count with the caterer.
• Allocate rooms and plan pick-ups for outstation guests.
• Final fittings for every outfit, with jewellery and footwear.
• Brief the photographer and decorator with the run sheet.

Weeks 11 to 12: Hand over

• Name one coordinator per family side. Give them the run sheet, the vendor list and the room list.
• Pack the wedding-day kit and the outfits, labelled by function.
• Make the final payments that are due before the day, and keep cash for the rest.
• Stop planning two days before. Whatever is not done by then will not be missed.

What to skip in 90 days

A custom wedding website, elaborate favours, a pre-wedding shoot in another city, a choreographer for every family performance. None of these are what guests remember.

Run the 90 days from one planner

The Indian Wedding Planner Box has checklists, vendor pages, budget trackers and function timelines that work just as well compressed into 12 weeks as spread across a year. Pair it with the Ultimate Wedding Guestlist spreadsheet for RSVPs, plate counts and rooms, and you have the whole wedding in two places.

Get the Indian Wedding Planner Box for Rs. 4,499 with free delivery across India, or start with the Ultimate Wedding Guestlist for Rs. 599.