Now use technology to plan a wedding!!

Shaadi-e-Khas announced the launch of its powerful and improved version, just ahead of the wedding season. The new version builds on the strengths of the previous, by making available new features like a budget calculator, SMS server for global message sending and a notepad manager for discussions.

Shaadi-e-Khas is a comprehensive online wedding planning tool that promises to make the organizing of a wedding, effortless, efficient, stress-free and importantly, can help you stay within budget. The various modules of the tool - such as event manager, guest manager, vendor manager, and task manager can help to manage the guest list, send invites, track RSVP's, create checklist and schedules, find vendors from a verified database, manage vendors and associated expenses, assign tasks to friends and family, print reports, get organized and much more. The functionalities of these modules handle all the important functions of a wedding simultaneously.

With the addition of new features, the tool is even more robust and intuitive to use. The Budget Calculator along with the Book Keeping feature can help to keep a check on the wedding budget and ensure that calculations and budget information go hand in hand. The SMS Server for Global Message Sending will allow users to SMS text messages from their computer, website and application to mobile phones worldwide. The Notepad Manager is a digital assistant, which helps users keep notes of discussion with various vendors, data points for events and important lists to share; in-short it works as a data-centre for the wedding.

A popular feature of Shaadi-E-Khas tool has been its wedding website or ‘wedsite' which is primarily a URL that helps couples share their entire wedding event in a private manner with all their friends and family worldwide. Couples can share pictures, videos, event details etc. via the wedsite. The new tool version now makes the wedsite interactive with features like - ability to upload and share the wedding invitation card, Facebook Login, Bless Book for wishes, password protection for security, image import from Facebook/Picasa and content editing. The new feature enables security and privacy by making the wedsite password protected. This ensures that only invitees can view the wedsite.

"Shaadi-e-Khas was launched in 2011 after I organized my brother's wedding and was determined to develop a simpler, organized and connected tool to manage the entire event," says Bharat Kanodia of its genesis. "We have had a ring-side view of this grand Indian affair and our tool is a testimony to our understanding of what goes into planning a perfect wedding. Our new version offers new features, greater simplicity and ease of use. Its value is evident in its usage. Shaadi-e-Khas has already helped in planning over 10,000 weddings worldwide and we expect to be a part of nearly 1,00,000 weddings by end of 2013."

Shaadi-e-Khas also unveiled the latest plan and pricing for its tool. The product has been priced to ensure that users can pick and choose the functionalities and pricing.