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A pandit, or a wedding trade
A wedding is a dozen trades landing on one date. The pandit sets it; the tent, the halwai, the band and the lights have to meet it.
One job, start to finish
- 01A family starts planninga year out
- 02You are askedunder your own name
- 03You quote the jobper wedding
- 04The family pays youdirectly
One way in
A pandit
Publish the season's windows under your own name, and be found by the ceremonies you actually perform.
What you do
A family planning a wedding needs a date before it can book anything else. The app computes the astronomical facts — tithi, nakshatra, sunrise, rahu kaal — and never calls any of them auspicious. That judgement is published by you, with your name on it.
What you get
Listed by the ceremonies you perform and the languages you perform them in
The season's windows published under your own name
A fee for being consulted, before any ceremony is booked
Families who would otherwise have found you only by asking a neighbour
What it costs you
Nothing to join and nothing monthly. A share of the fee for answering a family's question is agreed with you before you are listed. Nothing at all on the ceremony — what a family pays you for the wedding is between you and them, and it does not pass through Metagaon.
What you need
Nothing on paper. Priests have no licensing body, so what is recorded is how your standing was checked and who vouched for it.
One way in
A wedding trade
Tent, halwai, band, lights, flowers, photographs, DJ, mandap, cards. Booked against a date that is already fixed.
What you do
A family planning a wedding writes down the stages and what each one needs — a tent for three hundred, two days; a halwai for the tilak; a band for the baraat. Your trade appears against the line that wants it, with the date already on it. You quote for that job, the family accepts or asks again, and what was agreed is written down beside what was quoted.
What you get
Work that is dated before it is quoted — the muhurat is already fixed
Found by the trade a family searches for, not by who they know
Quoted, agreed and paid kept as three separate figures
A season's bookings in one place instead of a diary and a phone
What it costs you
Nothing to list and nothing monthly. What a family pays you for the work is between you and them — it does not pass through Metagaon and nothing is taken out of it. What is recorded is the quote, what was agreed, and what has actually been paid, so neither side is remembering it differently in March.
What you need
That you actually supply one of these nine: tent and chairs, halwai, band, decoration and flowers, lighting and generator, photography and video, DJ and sound, mandap, or invitation cards. A shop is not needed and neither is a GSTIN — most of this trade has never had either.
How to start
Tell us which ceremonies you perform. The Sahayak for the panchayat comes and meets you, and that is what a family sees.