Indian wedding website builder

Why a generic wedding website builder breaks for an Indian wedding

Almost every mainstream wedding website builder was designed around one Western-style event: a single ceremony followed by a reception, one guest list, one "will you attend?" question. Indian weddings do not fit that mold. A typical celebration runs across two to four days and includes a haldi, a mehndi, a sangeet, the baraat, the wedding ceremony itself, and a reception — sometimes with a welcome dinner and a next-morning brunch on top of that.

The functions are not interchangeable, either. Close family might be invited to all of them; work colleagues might only come to the reception; the mehndi may be women and immediate family only. Cram all of that into a single-event template and guests get confused about where to be, when, and what to wear — and you get RSVP numbers that mean nothing to your caterer. Duva starts from the assumption that your wedding is many events, not one.

• Every function is its own event. Haldi, mehndi, sangeet, baraat, ceremony, and reception each get their own time, venue, and details — not one lumped-together date.
• Different guests per event. Invite everyone to the reception but keep the mehndi to close family. Each event has its own guest list.
• A dress code for each. White for haldi, colorful for mehndi, formal for the reception — every ceremony shows its own attire note.

A schedule that builds itself, one ceremony at a time

You enter the details of each function once — the name of the ceremony, the date and start time, the venue and address, the dress code, and a short description. Duva turns that into a clean schedule page that lists every event in order, so guests can see the full flow of your celebration at a glance.

Each ceremony entry can carry its own add-to-calendar button and its own map link, so a relative flying in from out of town can drop the baraat and the reception straight into their phone and get directions to two different venues. Because the schedule is generated from your data rather than hand-built, updating a start time or a venue updates it everywhere the ceremony appears — the schedule page, the RSVP flow, and any reminder you send.

• Per-ceremony times. Haldi at 10am, sangeet at 7pm the next evening — each function shows its own start time and date.
• Per-ceremony venues. Different halls, gurdwara, banquet, hotel ballroom — each event links to its own map and address.
• Add to calendar. Every ceremony has a one-tap add-to-calendar so out-of-town family never miss a function.

Built for the traditions you actually follow

Duva uses the real names of your ceremonies rather than forcing everything into "rehearsal dinner" and "reception." Whether your family celebrates a Hindu wedding with the pheras under the mandap, a Sikh Anand Karaj in the gurdwara, a Nikah, a Jain ceremony, or an interfaith fusion of two traditions, you name each function what your family actually calls it and the site respects that.

That accuracy matters for guests, too. When a relative sees "Anand Karaj — 9:00am, head covering required" or "Mehndi — women and close family," they know exactly what they are attending and how to show up prepared. You are not translating your own wedding into someone else’s template.

• Hindu. Haldi, mehndi, sangeet, baraat, and the wedding ceremony with the pheras, each named and scheduled as its own event.
• Sikh. An Anand Karaj at the gurdwara, with the day-before functions guests need to plan around.
• Muslim, Jain & fusion. Nikah, walima, Jain rites, or an interfaith blend — use the ceremony names your family uses.

Travel and logistics for family flying in from everywhere

At an Indian wedding, a big share of the guest list is traveling — cousins from another city, aunts and uncles from India or the UK, college friends coming in for the weekend. A dedicated Travel page lets you publish hotel room blocks, the nearest airport, shuttle details, and directions to each venue in one place, so you stop answering the same logistics questions in twenty separate group chats.

The website is multi-page by design — Home, Schedule, Travel, Gallery, Registry, FAQ, and Our Story — so there is a natural home for everything guests need. Add an FAQ entry about parking at the reception or whether kids are welcome at the ceremony, and it is answered once, for everyone.

• Travel page. Hotels, airports, shuttles, and venue directions collected in one place for out-of-town guests.
• Custom address. Share one clean link — your own withduva.com address — across every invitation and save-the-date.
• Gallery, registry & story. Multi-page site with room for your photos, a registry, an FAQ, and how you two met.

In English, Hindi, or Gujarati

Not every guest reads English comfortably — grandparents and relatives abroad often prefer their own language. Duva can present the entire public website in English, Hindi, or Gujarati, so the whole page translates, not just a few labels. Elder family members get the schedule, the travel details, and the RSVP in a language they read easily, which means fewer confused phone calls and more guests who actually respond.

• Whole-page translation. The entire public site — schedule, travel, RSVP — renders in English, Hindi, or Gujarati.
• Reaches every generation. Elders read the details in their own language instead of squinting at English or calling to ask.

Guests RSVP to each event, and you keep a real headcount

The website is only half the job — you still need to know who is coming to what. Duva collects RSVPs per ceremony, so a guest can accept the sangeet and the reception while declining the early-morning haldi, and your dashboard tracks a separate attending count for every function. That is the number your caterer, your venue, and your sangeet coordinator actually need.

Guests can respond right on the website by looking up their name, or over SMS and WhatsApp if you send invitations by text — no app to download and no account to create. Households RSVP for their whole party in one go, so a family of five is one clean response, not five loose ones. And optional password protection keeps the whole site private if you would rather it not be public.

• Per-event headcounts. Separate attending / pending / declined counts for haldi, mehndi, sangeet, ceremony, and reception.
• Name-lookup RSVP. Guests find themselves by name on the site and respond — for their whole household at once.
• Optional password. Keep the site private with a passcode you share only with invited guests.