Free wedding planning checklist and budget tracker

A wedding planning checklist that builds itself

Most wedding to-do lists are generic templates you have to prune down to your actual wedding. Duva works the other way around: it reads the ceremonies, guest count, and details you already entered and generates a checklist tailored to your celebration — organized into categories, with sensible due dates and a progress bar that fills as you go.

It is tradition-aware, so a multi-day celebration with a mehndi, sangeet, and reception gets the tasks each of those events actually needs — not a one-size-fits-all list written for a single Saturday ceremony. Check items off, and the progress bar shows exactly how much runway you have left.

• Generated from your details. The list is built from the ceremonies and guests you entered — not a blank template to fill in.
• Due dates & categories. Tasks arrive sorted into categories with timing, so you always know what is next.
• Progress at a glance. A progress bar tracks how much of the plan is done across the whole wedding.

A wedding budget tracker with a family-side split

Set a total and Duva’s budget tracker lays out estimated versus actual spend across every category, so you can see where the money is going before it is gone. As you book vendors and log real costs, estimated numbers turn into actuals and the running total updates itself.

Because so many weddings are funded from more than one household, the tracker can split costs by side of the family — a first-class feature, not an afterthought — so each family sees its share clearly. And the total is editable and scale-to-fit: change the top-line number and Duva rebalances the plan around it, instead of forcing you to redo every line.

• Estimated vs. actual. Track what you planned to spend against what you actually spent, category by category.
• Split by family side. Divide costs between families so each side sees its own share.
• Scale-to-fit total. Edit the top-line budget and the plan rebalances around the new number.

Track every wedding vendor in one place

Photographer, caterer, florist, DJ, decorator, mehndi artist — a wedding runs on a dozen vendors, each with its own quote, deposit, and contact. Duva’s vendor tracker keeps them all in one list so nothing lives in a stray email thread or a note on your phone.

The tracker is wired into the rest of the toolkit: when you book a vendor, that single tap updates your checklist (the related task gets checked off) and your budget (the cost lands in the right category) at the same time. One action, three tools in sync — no double entry.

• Every vendor, one list. Quotes, deposits, and contacts for each vendor in a single place.
• Booking syncs everything. Marking a vendor booked updates your checklist and budget in one tap.
• No double entry. Log a decision once and every tool reflects it — nothing to reconcile later.

Built for multi-event weddings

The toolkit understands that your wedding might be five events, not one. Because the checklist, budget, and vendors all draw from the ceremonies you set up, each event carries its own tasks and costs — the sangeet has its own line items, the reception has its own, and the totals roll up across the whole celebration.

That makes Duva a natural fit for Indian, South Asian, and other multi-day weddings, where a single generic checklist falls apart fast. Everything is also available in English, Hindi, and Gujarati.

• Per-event tasks. Each ceremony gets the checklist items and budget lines it actually needs.
• Costs roll up. Per-event spending totals up into one clear picture of the whole wedding.
• Multilingual. Plan in English, Hindi, or Gujarati.

Works alongside your guest list and RSVPs

The planning toolkit is not a standalone app you have to keep in sync by hand — it lives in the same account as your wedding website, guest list, RSVP collection, and messaging. The guests and ceremonies you enter feed the checklist and budget, and later they feed your invitations and seating.

That shared foundation is why booking a vendor can update your budget, and why RSVP replies can seed a seating chart. Plan the wedding and run the wedding from one place instead of stitching together a spreadsheet, a website builder, and a to-do app.

• One guest list. The guests behind your RSVPs are the same guests your plan is built around.
• Same account as your site. Website, RSVP, messaging, and planning tools share one dashboard.
• Plan and run in one place. Move from planning tasks to inviting guests without switching tools.

Planner Pro: seating charts, an AI assistant, and a daily digest

Planner Pro is a one-time $49 upgrade for couples who want more automation in the home stretch. It adds a seating chart that auto-seeds from the guests who RSVP’d yes, so you start arranging tables from a real, confirmed headcount instead of a blank grid.

It also adds an AI assistant that suggests your next steps and drafts thank-you notes for you, plus a once-a-day email digest of the tasks coming due — a gentle nudge so nothing sneaks up on you. It is a single purchase, not a subscription.

• Seating charts. Auto-seeded from the guests who RSVP’d yes, so you arrange tables from a real headcount.
• AI assistant. Suggests next steps and drafts thank-you notes to save you the blank page.
• Daily task digest. A once-a-day email of what is coming due keeps deadlines from slipping.

How the wedding planning app works

There is no lengthy setup and nothing to import from a template — the toolkit assembles itself from what you tell Duva about your wedding.

• Describe your wedding. Add your ceremonies, dates, and guest count when you set up your account.
• Get your checklist. Duva generates a tradition-aware to-do list with categories and due dates.
• Set your budget. Enter a total and split it by family; log costs as you book.
• Book and track. Add vendors and mark them booked — your checklist and budget update themselves.

A planning app, not a human planner

To be clear about what this is: Duva is a self-serve planning app, not a hired wedding planner or a day-of coordinator. There is no person managing your wedding for you — instead, you get software that does the organizing legwork a planner would otherwise chase, from building the checklist to keeping the budget honest to tracking who is booked.

It is a great fit whether you are planning entirely on your own or working with a professional planner who wants a shared, always-current view of the checklist, budget, and vendors. Either way, the toolkit is free on every account.

What it costs

The full planning toolkit — the tradition-aware checklist, the budget tracker with family-side split, and the vendor tracker — is free on every Duva account, alongside your free wedding website, guest list, and RSVP collection. There is no subscription and no per-guest fee. The only optional add-on is Planner Pro, a one-time $49 upgrade that unlocks seating charts, the AI assistant, and the daily task digest. Everything else in the planner costs nothing.