{"slug": "how-im-building-an-ai-powered-event-wedding-planning-platform", "title": "How I’m Building an AI-Powered Event & Wedding Planning Platform", "summary": "A developer is building PlanToday, an AI-powered event and wedding planning platform that converts natural-language requirements — such as a wedding in Delhi for 300 guests on a ₹15 lakh budget — into structured data for recommendations, checklists, budget planning and vendor discovery. The project pairs this AI planning layer with a two-sided vendor marketplace, where the developer says the hardest problem is delivering value to both users and vendors rather than the technology itself.", "body_md": "Planning a wedding or event looks simple from the outside.\n\nBut once you start planning, you quickly realize how many things need to be managed:\n\nToday, people often manage all of this through Google searches, Instagram, WhatsApp, phone calls, spreadsheets, and personal recommendations.\n\nI wanted to explore whether we could bring these pieces together into one platform.\n\nThat's how PlanToday started.\n\n👉 \n\nThe idea\n\nThe basic idea is simple:\n\n«Tell us what you're planning, where you're planning it, your guest count and your approximate budget — and the platform should help you organize the rest.»\n\nFor example:\n\n\"I am planning a wedding in Delhi\n\nfor 300 guests with a budget of ₹15 lakh.\"\n\nInstead of starting with dozens of searches, the platform can turn this requirement into a structured event plan.\n\nWedding\n\n│\n\n├── Venue\n\n├── Photography\n\n├── Catering\n\n├── Decoration\n\n├── Makeup\n\n├── DJ & Music\n\n├── Invitations\n\n└── Guest Management\n\nWhere AI comes in\n\nOne of the interesting parts I'm exploring is using AI to understand natural-language event requirements.\n\n{\n\n  \"eventType\": \"wedding\",\n\n  \"location\": \"Delhi\",\n\n  \"guestCount\": 300,\n\n  \"budget\": 1500000\n\n}\n\nOnce we have structured information, the application can use it for recommendations, checklists, budget planning and vendor discovery.\n\nThe goal isn't just to add a chatbot.\n\nThe goal is to make AI part of the actual planning workflow.\n\nVendor marketplace\n\nThe other side of the platform is the vendor ecosystem.\n\nA user might need:\n\nWedding\n\n ├── Photographer\n\n ├── Caterer\n\n ├── Decorator\n\n ├── Makeup Artist\n\n ├── DJ\n\n └── Venue\n\nEach vendor can have a profile containing services, portfolio, location, pricing information, reviews and enquiry options.\n\nThis creates two sides of the ecosystem:\n\n```\n         PlanToday\n             │\n    ┌────────┴────────┐\n    │                 │\n  Users             Vendors\n    │                 │\n Discover          Get Leads\n    │                 │\n    └────────┬────────┘\n             │\n          Enquiries\n```\n\nThe engineering challenge\n\nBuilding a marketplace isn't just about creating CRUD APIs.\n\nThere are several interesting technical problems:\n\nSearch\n\nUsers need to find relevant vendors based on:\n\nSEO\n\nEvent planning is highly location-driven.\n\nWedding photographers in Delhi\n\nWedding decorators in Noida\n\nBirthday venues in Gurgaon\n\nCatering services in Dehradun\n\nThe challenge is creating useful, unique pages instead of simply generating thousands of similar SEO pages.\n\nAI\n\nThe AI layer needs to transform unstructured requirements into structured data that the rest of the application can actually use.\n\nMarketplace\n\nThe platform has to provide value to both sides:\n\nUsers → discover and plan their events.\n\nVendors → receive relevant enquiries and grow their business.\n\nThe bigger vision\n\nI don't want PlanToday to become just another vendor directory.\n\nThe larger vision is an event-planning ecosystem:\n\nUser\n\n ↓\n\nChoose Event\n\n ↓\n\nSet Location & Budget\n\n ↓\n\nAI Planning\n\n ↓\n\nDiscover Vendors\n\n ↓\n\nCompare Options\n\n ↓\n\nSend Enquiries\n\n ↓\n\nBook Vendors\n\n ↓\n\nManage Event\n\nEventually, AI can assist throughout this entire journey.\n\nWhat's next?\n\nThere are many interesting areas I'm continuing to explore:\n\nBuilding this has been a good reminder that the hardest part of a marketplace isn't building the technology.\n\nIt's creating a system where both sides of the marketplace get real value.\n\nI'm building this journey with PlanToday.\n\nIf you're working on marketplaces, AI applications, recommendation systems, or event-tech products, I'd love to hear what you're building and what challenges you're facing.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-im-building-an-ai-powered-event-wedding-planning-platform", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/deepak_kumar_44eb8741f4b2/how-im-building-an-ai-powered-event-wedding-planning-platform-2b32", "published_at": "2026-10-01 16:08:37+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-01 16:14:21.472137+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["PlanToday"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-im-building-an-ai-powered-event-wedding-planning-platform", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-im-building-an-ai-powered-event-wedding-planning-platform.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-im-building-an-ai-powered-event-wedding-planning-platform.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-im-building-an-ai-powered-event-wedding-planning-platform.jsonld"}}