The Best App to Plan Your Own South Asian Wedding (Couples, 2026)

Per-event RSVPs for a multi-day South Asian wedding: Mehndi, Sangeet, Haldi, and reception, plus WhatsApp and SMS. Planning tools are free.

By Mia · 2026-06-22 · Updated 2026-09-23

A South Asian wedding is several guest lists. Mehndi, Sangeet, Haldi, the Baraat, the ceremony, and the reception do not invite the same people. Cordially Wed keeps a yes or no for each function, then texts guests on WhatsApp or SMS from the same place.

What to judge the app on

You two are doing the planning, with a parent and an aunty in the group chat.

Invite 120 people to the Mehndi, 60 close family to the Haldi, and 300 to the reception. One master yes or no cannot give you those three counts.

Half the family lives on WhatsApp. The rest wants a text. A reply should sit on that guest's record, where you can still find it on Thursday night.

Collect Jain, Halal, Pure Veg, Kosher, and nut allergies on the RSVP. The caterer needs counts, not a chase the week before.

Friday Sangeet, Saturday ceremony and reception, Sunday brunch. The schedule is a weekend.

Budget, seating, the website, and wallet passes read the same names. When the Sangeet venue moves, you update it once.

Test Zola and The Knot on one family

Zola documents event invitation controls, and guests can RSVP to the events they are invited to. Multi-event RSVPs are not unique to Cordially Wed. The Zola household comparison uses their public help docs, checked September 13, 2026.

Run one cousin through the tool: coming to the Sangeet and the reception, not the Haldi. The Haldi count and the reception count have to stay apart after replies start landing.

Then check the work around the RSVP. Can you text the Haldi list on WhatsApp and the reception list by SMS from one screen? Do Jain, Halal, and Pure Veg come back as counts? If the app stores one yes for the whole weekend, the working list ends up in a spreadsheet beside it.

Priya and Raj, about 300 guests

Take Priya and Raj, planning three days for about 300 guests. They add Mehndi, Haldi, Sangeet, Baraat, ceremony, and reception once. Each guest is tagged only to the functions they are invited to.

Raj's college friends are on the Sangeet and the reception. Family flying in is on every function. Sixty close relatives are on the Haldi. The reception reads 280 confirmed. The Haldi reads 58.

Dietary answers come in with the RSVP. The caterer gets Jain, Halal, Pure Veg, Kosher, and allergy counts for that function.

WhatsApp goes to the relatives who live there. SMS goes to everyone else. "Can I bring my brother?" and "Which hall is the Sangeet?" land in one inbox, next to that guest.

What you pay for

The website holds the schedule, so guests have one link. Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes keep the date, venue, and times on the phone. Seating uses the people confirmed for that night. The budget sits next to those counts.

The guest list, per-event RSVPs, timeline, budget, seating, wallet passes, and the website are free. Texting guests by SMS, MMS, or WhatsApp is a one-time payment from $69, sized by unique phone numbers, with unlimited messages and no subscription. Send yourself a free test first. See how wedding guest texting works before you pay. Sharing the website link from your own phone, or by iMessage, costs nothing.

Start with the functions

For a one-day wedding, Zola or The Knot can be the right tool. For a Mehndi, a Sangeet, a Haldi, and a reception, set those lists up before the first invite goes out.

Add the functions and a first batch of guests at cordiallywed.com/invite. Headcounts for each event are covered in RSVPs per person, per event.