1 In 4 Now Destination Weddings, Jaipur Leads India’s Wedding Budget Spend At ₹73 Lakh & More

If the 2025 wedding season has made one thing clear, it’s this: Indian couples are rewriting the rulebook with these wedding trends in 2025. The latest WedMeGood survey, which spans 2,000 couples marrying between April 2025 and March 2026, along with insights from over 500 industry professionals, captures a landscape that is expanding in ambition and tightening in execution. 

Indian Wedding Budgets Hit ₹39.5 Lakh: Wedding Trends 2025

Spending is up by 8% year-on-year, and the average wedding budget has reached ₹39.5 lakh, with destination celebrations climbing to ₹58 lakh. But the geography of celebration tells its own story. Jaipur, buoyed by luxury venues and the destination-wedding boom, sits at the top with an average spend of ₹73 lakh, while Delhi (₹38 lakh), Mumbai (₹35 lakh), and Bengaluru and Hyderabad (₹37 lakh) cluster just below.

And the destination wedding is no longer a niche; one in four weddings now falls into this bracket, with more than 60% of weddings above ₹1 crore opting to travel for the big day. Yet nearly all of these journeys, close to 90%, stay within India’s borders, a sign that domestic destinations have mastered the art of grandeur without the friction of international logistics.

Couples are also extending their celebrations beyond the mandap. Between pre-wedding escapes and honeymoon itineraries, travel-related expenses now average ₹3.41 lakh. Financing patterns remain traditional, as 79% rely on savings, 15% take loans, and the average loan size stands at ₹15.5 lakh. Payments, however, are inching toward modernity, as 38% report that most of their transactions were digital, a figure that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.

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Shrinking Guest Lists, Expanding Expectations & More

CoTrav’s on-ground experience with 60 luxury weddings this year offers a close-up of the top tier. A high-budget or five-star destination wedding now carries a price tag of ₹3-4 crore, with Jaipur, Udaipur, Goa, Mussoorie, Kerala, Dubai, Bali, and Phuket emerging as the preferred circuit. Budgets in this bracket follow a clear architecture: 20-25% toward premium venues; 10-15% for guest and family travel; 10% for performers, DJs, technicians, artists, and crew logistics; and 50-60% toward décor, food, planning, and the celebrations themselves.

The guest list, interestingly, is shrinking, from 100 to 400 people, but expectations are expanding. Families are curating multi-city and even multi-country wedding journeys. Entertainment now demands the precision of event engineering. And guest movement, once a secondary call, has become a defining marker of competence.

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The result? A wedding industry that is louder, sleeker, more choreographed, and unmistakably rooted in the idea that hospitality is no longer a detail. It is the product.

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