I’m Mini. I plan Gujarati and Hindu destination weddings — and I write every guide on this site myself.

The first time I stood in a resort ballroom in Cancún trying to explain what a Gujarati four-day wedding actually looks like, I realized the gap between what families imagine and what a resort contract assumes is enormous. The resort team was kind and professional. They had done hundreds of weddings. But they had not done many where the Mehndi runs past midnight, where the Haldi needs a separate outdoor space because turmeric stains everything, where 150 guests arrive from three different airports across two days, and where the baraat needs a horse, a DJ who knows Garba, and a clear path from the lobby to the mandap that doesn’t trip over the breakfast buffet.

That was our family’s wedding at the Hard Rock Hotel Cancún in 2019. Roughly 150 guests. Four days of events. I was on the family side, not the planner side — but I was the person everyone in our family called when something was unclear. The aunties called me. The resort concierge called me. My son called me. The decorator called me. By the end of that weekend, I had a notebook full of questions I wished I had asked before signing.

The second family wedding was at Generations Riviera Maya in February 2023 — about 130 guests, and a very different set of problems. The resort layout was gorgeous but the rooms were spread across multiple buildings, which made guest logistics harder than the brochure suggested. The third was at a Royalton resort in Mexico in 2024, around 80 guests, smaller and more intimate, but with its own surprises around outside-vendor fees we didn’t catch until the final invoice.

I want to be clear about something important: those three weddings were family celebrations, not CeremonyVerse client projects. I share them honestly as background. They are the reason I built a service that organizes the questions, the approvals, the cost items, and the family-side responsibilities that I had to figure out on the fly. I do not present them as a portfolio. When CeremonyVerse has a real client who agrees to be featured, that case study will be labelled as such with their written permission.