Questions, answered

Shadi Planner AI is a web app for planning a Pakistani wedding: it keeps your budget in PKR, your vendor bookings, your guest list, your events and your task checklist in one place, and adds a bilingual Urdu/English AI assistant that answers planning questions. It is built around how Pakistani weddings are actually planned — mehndi, baraat and walima, family by family, vendor by vendor, rupee by rupee.

Yes. Shadi Planner AI is a free web app built by CodeHubb — open it in your browser and start planning. There are no prices hidden in the planner: the figures you will see in the sample wedding are fictional example data, and the assistant's market ranges are estimates for guidance, not charges.

You can open the planner and explore it straight away. Creating an account lets your own budget, vendors, guests and tasks sync privately to you: signed-in data is stored under your own user account and protected by the planner's security rules, so no other user can see your wedding. Your theme preference (light or dark) is kept only in your own browser.

Each event gets its own budget and its own countdown: mehndi (مہندی), baraat (بارات) and walima (ولیمہ) are built in, and you can add custom events of your own — a dholki, a nikkah lunch, a family dinner. Event budgets roll up into one wedding total, and each event's date generates its own preparation checklist.

Yes — that is what the member roles are for. The couple owns the wedding; a family admin can help run the plan; a professional planner can be given working access; and relatives who only need to look can be view-only guests. The roles are enforced by the planner's security rules, so a view-only guest cannot change anything.

Yes. When you use the planner without an account, it runs on the sample data bundled with the app. When you sign in, your planner data is stored in your own private account space (under your user ID in the database) and the security rules keep it visible only to you and the members you add. The site carries no advertising trackers, and your password is handled by the Firebase sign-in system — it is never seen or stored by the planner itself.

First — about six months before the wedding. The planner's booking timeline (the same one the AI assistant uses) runs: venue at 6 months out; total budget and guest-list draft at 5 months; photographer and videographer at 4 months; caterer, decorator, makeup artist and the bridal dress order at 3 months; invitations and menu tasting at 2 months; and the final headcount, seating plan and vendor confirmations in the last month.

The assistant's knowledge base puts a wedding hall or marquee for one event at roughly Rs 300,000 – Rs 600,000 in a big city: a marquee costs more than a hall, and December-season prices run about 15–20% higher. Treat this as an estimate for setting your budget, not a quote — confirm the real price, and what it includes, with the venue itself.

The planner's estimate range is Rs 1,800 – Rs 3,500 per head; add desserts and live counters and the per-head figure can go above Rs 3,000. This is exactly why the guest list manager estimates your catering bill automatically as the list grows — every addition to the list shows its cost immediately. Figures are estimates, not quotes.

From the assistant's ranges: photography and videography together run about Rs 80,000 – Rs 250,000 (cinematic video is usually charged separately — always view the portfolio first), and bridal makeup about Rs 30,000 – Rs 80,000 (book the salon 2–3 months ahead, and do a trial first). Both are estimates for budgeting; every vendor's real price is confirmed with the vendor.

For a home or small mehndi, the planner's knowledge base estimates Rs 50,000 – Rs 150,000 — holding the mehndi at home saves the venue cost entirely. Stage and hall décor, when you need it, is estimated separately at roughly Rs 150,000 – Rs 400,000, with fresh flowers at the expensive end and artificial flowers as the budget-friendly option. As always: estimates, not quotes.

The built-in etiquette notes are simple and practical: tell guests the baraat time clearly and keep to it; order food to the real headcount so nothing is wasted; keep a comfortable, separate seating arrangement for elders; give the photographer the family group-photo list in advance so no time is lost on the day; and mind the noise limits at mehndi and wedding events — the neighbours have rights too.