Built for the way South Asian celebration budgets actually work
The average UK South Asian wedding costs between £40,000 and £120,000, climbing past £200,000 once you factor in outfits, jewellery, and a destination element — but a big anniversary, a 60th, or a lavish engagement can easily run £10,000 to £40,000 of its own. That money flows in unpredictable ways: a deposit to the venue months out, a first-instalment payment to the photographer, a final payment to the caterer the week before, and dozens of smaller payments to mehndi artists, decorators, dhol players, and boutiques along the way. Generic budget tools assume one person paying for everything in one currency — which is almost never how a South Asian celebration gets paid for. Jubily's budget tracker assumes the opposite: multiple contributors, multiple categories, multiple payment dates, and currencies that match where the money is actually moving.
Categories that match the way you're actually spending
When you create a celebration on Jubily, your budget is pre-seeded with categories that match the occasion. A wedding gets venue and catering, photography and video, decor and florals, outfits and jewellery (both sides), mehndi and beauty, music and entertainment, transport, cards and invitations, mithai and favours, honeymoon, and contingency. A pooja or griha pravesh gets pandit dakshina, samagri, catering and decor. A birthday gets venue, catering, cake, entertainment and party favours. You can rename any category, add new ones, and move sub-items between them. Each category shows planned spend versus actual spend, so you can see at a glance where you're over and where you have room to flex.
Track payments, not just totals
Most budget tools let you record one number per vendor — what they cost. That's not how vendor payments work. A typical UK photographer might take a £500 deposit at booking, a 50% interim payment part-way through, and the balance one month before the day. A caterer might invoice quarterly. A decorator might want full payment two weeks before. Jubily lets you split each line item into payments, mark each payment as scheduled, paid, or overdue, and roll everything up into a monthly cashflow view that tells you what's coming out of your account when. This is the single feature that families tell us removed the most stress from their planning.
Multi-currency, multi-contributor
A British-Indian celebration might have outfits paid for in INR from Delhi, jewellery paid for in AED from Dubai, and the venue paid for in GBP from London. Jubily handles all three. Every line item can be priced in its native currency, and the budget rolls up into your home currency using a current exchange rate. You can also assign each category or line item to a contributor — the bride's family, the groom's family, the couple themselves, the siblings splitting a parent's 60th, a grandparent — so you can see at any moment who has paid for what.
Honest, ongoing visibility
The biggest budget mistake on most celebrations is the same one: thinking the total is the total. It almost never is. Decor scope creeps. Guest counts grow. The bride's outfit gets a custom blouse. The family adds a Mehndi night, or the birthday dinner turns into a birthday weekend. Jubily's budget tracker is designed to make this drift visible the moment it happens, not three months later when the deposits are non-refundable. Every change updates the totals in real time. Every overspend triggers a gentle warning. The category overview is always one tap away. You won't end up in a difficult conversation about money two weeks before the day — because the numbers will have been honest with you the whole way through.
What's inside
Built to handle the full job.
Pre-seeded categories
Spend categories matched to your occasion — wedding, pooja, birthday and more — ready to customise.
Payment scheduling
Track deposits, interim payments, and final balances per vendor.
Multi-currency
Price line items in INR, AED, USD, GBP, and more — auto-converted to your home currency.
Multi-contributor
Assign categories to the bride's family, the groom's family, the couple, siblings, or others.
Cashflow view
See what's due in the next 30, 60, and 90 days at a glance.
Realtime variance
Planned vs actual spend per category, with overspend warnings.
In real weddings
How couples are using it.
A £85,000 wedding with three sets of contributors
The bride's parents are funding the venue and catering, the groom's parents are funding photography and decor, and the couple is paying for outfits and the honeymoon. Each contributor sees their own categories and totals; the couple sees the master roll-up — and nobody is left guessing what the others are spending.
Outfits sourced across Delhi, Dubai, and London
The bridal lehenga is being made in Delhi (₹3.2 lakh), the kundan jewellery is bought in Dubai (AED 18,000), and the groom's sherwani is from a Wembley boutique (£2,400). Jubily tracks each in its native currency and rolls them all into the GBP master total without you doing any maths.
A parent's 60th split three ways between siblings
Three siblings are throwing a Sashti Poorthi and dinner for their father, splitting the £18,000 cost equally. Each sibling is assigned a third of the categories, the venue is paid in three instalments, and the master view rolls it all up so nobody is left wondering who has paid what.
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