The Wedding Company raises $1 million to digitise wedding services

BENGALURU: Wedding planning startup The Wedding Company has raised $1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by LVX (formerly LetsVenture) and Tremis Capital, with participation from Wakefit cofounder Chaitanya Ramalingegowda, Delhivery COO Ajith Pai and Dropbox cofounder Arash Ferdowsi.Founded in 2023 by Pawan Gupta and Rahul Namdev, the co-founders of Y Combinator-backed matrimony platform Betterhalf.ai, The Wedding Company operates a full-stack platform for booking and managing wedding services across categories such as venues, décor, photography, catering and logistics. The company reported Rs 60 crore worth of service orders on its platform, managing more than 1,000 weddings across eight cities so far.According to the founders, monthly service bookings have grown 100 times in two years, now exceeding Rs 10 crore, with net monthly revenue crossing Rs 1 crore.The funding will be used to expand into new cities, invest in product and technology, and build a broader network of vendor partners. The company is targeting India’s highly fragmented $130 billion wedding services market, aiming to bring structure and reliability to what it describes as an unorganised and operationally complex industry.

“Weddings in India are large, emotional, and logistically complex,” said Pawan Gupta, cofounder of The Wedding Company. “While the market is massive, there is no trusted brand managing fulfillment at scale.”Investor Ramalingegowda said the company was addressing a high-friction, high-value use case in a large consumer category, adding that the team’s “execution velocity and market insight” were key differentiators.