WedMeGood Report 2025 Shows Rise in Wedding Spends and Shift Towards Local Destination Weddings

Insights from WedMeGood’s 5^th Annual Wedding Report

WedMeGood, India’s wedding planning platform, has released its 5th Annual Wedding Report 2025. The survey covers more than 2,000 couples with weddings scheduled between April 2025 and March 2026, supported by insights from over 500 wedding professionals across the planning, photography, beauty, and venue categories. The findings offer an overview of spending patterns, preferences and trends within India’s ₹6.5 lakh crore wedding market.

Speaking about the latest edition, Mehak Shahani, Co-Founder of WedMeGood, said, “Our Annual 2025 Report reflects how deeply Indian weddings are transforming, not in scale alone, but in meaning. They are becoming personal, experiential, culturally rooted, and tech-enabled; all at once. As the ecosystem grows, WedMeGood remains committed to helping couples make better decisions and helping vendors run stronger, more future-ready businesses.”

The Report also incorporates analytics from the WedMeGood platform, covering search behaviour, budgeting inputs, vendor interactions and service demand patterns. Respondents represented diverse income groups, age groups and gender identities, with a natural urban skew aligned to the platform’s metro-centric user base.

Key Findings

How couples met

The Report indicates that 76 per cent of couples met offline through work, college, or mutual connections, while 24 per cent met through matrimonial platforms, dating apps, or social media. Love marriages accounted for sixty-two per cent of weddings, with arranged marriages at thirty-eight per cent. Additionally, 28.74 per cent of couples were in a live-in relationship before marriage. The average age at marriage stood at 28.6 in Delhi, 30 in Mumbai, and 29.5 in Bangalore and Hyderabad.

Wedding budgets and spends

Wedding spending recorded an eight per cent year-on-year rise in 2025. The average wedding budget was INR 39.5 lakh, while the average destination wedding budget was INR 58 lakh. Jaipur recorded the highest state-wise average wedding budget at INR 73 lakh, followed by Delhi at INR 38 lakh, Mumbai at INR 35 lakh and Bangalore and Hyderabad at INR 37 lakh.

Wedding financing

The average wedding loan size stood at INR 15.5 lakh, with loans used for venues, jewellery, décor and catering. While 78.65 per cent of couples financed their weddings through savings, 15.2 per cent used loans—bank loans at 8.85 per cent and loans from friends and family at 6.25 per cent. A further 6.25 per cent financed weddings by liquidating assets.

Digital payments

Although cash remained dominant, 38 per cent of respondents made most of their payments digitally. Factors influencing digital adoption included the convenience of UPI and QR codes, GST-compliant transactions, and cash limitations for higher-value payments.

Destination weddings

One in four weddings were destination weddings, with nearly ninety per cent hosted within India. Average guest size was 420 for local weddings and 280 for destination weddings. Popular domestic destinations included Dehradun, Mussoorie, Rishikesh, Shimla, Corbett, Udaipur, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur and Goa. Bali, Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand topped the international list.

Venues and preferences

Couples increasingly preferred experiential venues. Palace and heritage venues remained popular, while villa-style weddings accounted for four per cent and temple weddings for 4.13 per cent—additionally, sixty-nine per cent selected venues within either ten kilometres or a thirty to forty-minute drive. Availability of Saya Dates drove 37.91 per cent of venue-related concerns, followed by pricing at 33.8 per cent and vendor panel restrictions at 14.6 per cent.

Pre-wedding and honeymoon travel

Pre-wedding trip spends, and honeymoon spends averaged INR 3.41 lakh. Goa, Jaipur, Mumbai and Eastern India were popular for pre-wedding trips, while Europe, Dubai, Bali and Thailand emerged as leading post-wedding destinations.

Beauty and pre-wedding preparation

Sixty-five per cent of brides and grooms underwent clinical skin treatments before the wedding, with 17 per cent opting for dermal fillers.

Vendor booking behaviour

One in three couples checked online reviews before finalising a vendor. WedMeGood continued to lead in genuine customer reviews for wedding professionals.

AI adoption

AI usage is on the rise, with nearly twenty-four per cent of vendors adopting tools for photo and video editing, design, moodboards, content drafting and automated replies. WedMeGood has also launched an AI-powered chatbot named Wedika to support couples with planning.