Wedding Vendor Discovery and Booking Platform

Planning an Indian wedding means coordinating half a dozen vendors — photographer, venue, decorator, makeup, catering, planner — usually found through relatives' recommendations and negotiated over phone calls with no written quotes. Couples can't compare prices, reviews are word-of-mouth, and there's no record of what was promised. This project builds the marketplace that fixes it: vendor profiles with verified badges, package-wise transparent pricing, ratings from verified bookings, and an enquiry system where every conversation is tracked. A budget planner splits the total wedding budget across categories using standard industry ratios so couples see where the money goes. The build is a genuine two-sided platform — couple-facing discovery plus vendor-facing enquiry management — scoped to one region's vendor base so the data model stays explainable.

1. Vendors are onboarded with a profile: category, city, description, packages with prices, and portfolio details.
2. A couple searches by need ("wedding photographer in Pune"), filters by category and budget, and browses vendor cards with ratings.
3. Opening a profile shows packages, inclusions, reviews and response-time stats.
4. The couple sends an enquiry with event date, guest count and a message — free, no advance needed.
5. The vendor replies through the tracked thread; the enquiry status moves from sent to viewed to replied.
6. When terms are agreed, the enquiry is marked booked and joins the couple's shortlist.
7. The budget planner keeps total spend visible across categories as decisions accumulate.

Tech stack:

• HTML5 · CSS3 · JavaScript (ES6)
• Node.js · Express
• MySQL · relational schema design
• REST API architecture
• Responsive mobile-first UI
• Full-text search indexing
• Review aggregation logic
• Git · version control

• [Vendor discovery] Search vendors by keyword, filter by category (photography, venue, makeup, decor, catering, planning) and budget band.
• [Verified vendor profiles] Profiles with ratings, review counts, city, service description and a verified badge for checked businesses.
• [Transparent package pricing] Every vendor lists packages with inclusions and prices — no "call for quote" black boxes.
• [Reviews from verified bookings] Star ratings and written reviews tied to actual enquiries, keeping feedback trustworthy.
• [Enquiry management] Couples send enquiries with event date, guest count and message; every enquiry is tracked as sent, viewed, replied or booked.
• [Budget planner] Enter a total budget and watch it split across categories by standard ratios, alongside the shortlisted vendors.
• [Vendor response tracking] Median response-time stats per vendor set honest expectations before the first message.
• [Shortlist dashboard] All enquired vendors in one table with their latest status — the couple's whole wedding in one view.

• Complete source code: couple frontend, vendor dashboard, backend API and database schema
• Database migration scripts with realistic seed data (vendors, packages, reviews, enquiries)
• Setup and deployment guide (local + shared hosting/VPS)
• Vendor onboarding guide
• Project report PDF (problem, design, schema, testing)
• PPT presentation for final review
• Viva Q&A preparation document

• Payments between couples and vendors happen outside the platform; no escrow or payment gateway is included.
• Vendor "verification" in the demo is a badge workflow — real-world GST/document checks are an operational process, not code.
• Reviews are seeded as realistic samples; a production launch would need anti-fake-review moderation.
• Availability calendars are per-enquiry rather than a live shared calendar.
• The budget ratios are standard industry splits, adjustable — not financial advice.
• One region per deployment; multi-city scaling is future scope.