Big Indian Wedding Private Limited which runs wedding planning portal - BigIndianWedding.com has raised VC funding from unsiclosed Indian business family.
The funds raised will utilised to launch its e-commerce offering.
New Delhi based BigIndianWedding was founded by Ashish Abrol. It is wedding planning portal that provides one stop shop for all wedding planning need like finding the venue, caterer or wedding couture.
Currently, it has presence in 11 cities and plans to increase to 15 cities, while it has 6100 vendor listings which it plans to increase to 10,000 in few months. The company has already secured partnership with over 25 suppliers so far and is adding more suppliers every week.
Another portal operating in same space – shadimagic was launched last year which provides online wedding magazine, shopping portal, listing for vendors and agencies.
Similarly, some other portal catering to this segment includes indiaweddingplanner.com, marrymeweddings.in, shaadionline.com, indianweddingsite.com among others.
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