Solo-Founded Startup
About The Big Bang Events
One founder. One mission. Smarter event planning for the GTA.
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The Story
The Big Bang Events started with a frustration that every event planner knows: planning an event means juggling dozens of vendors, spreadsheets, timelines, and budgets, often with no real tools to help. I saw an opportunity to change that with AI.
As a solo founder based in Vaughan, Ontario, I built this platform from the ground up. Today, planners can browse a growing set of GTA marketplace listings and use the GTA Event Budget Calculator at no cost. More planning tools are in development. The platform is in controlled beta as I work with early users and vendors across the Greater Toronto Area.
Planning tools
Planning tools are in development, with limited preview where available. Marketplace browsing of GTA listings is supported today.
GTA Community
Connecting event planners with local vendors across the Greater Toronto Area.
Built from Scratch
Every line of code, every feature, every design, built with care by a solo founder.
Meet the Founder
Shivam Tripathi
Vaughan, Ontario
From Mumbai productions to Toronto's wedding scene
Before The Big Bang Events, Shivam built and ran SEM, an event production company in Mumbai, one of the most demanding event markets in the world. As founder and event manager, he spent three years producing large-scale celebrations: outdoor productions with full stage rigs and LED walls, cultural programs with traditional dance troupes, and seated events for up to 400 guests.
That experience taught him two things that now define The Big Bang Events. First, that big South Asian celebrations aren't "a wedding with more people", they're multi-day productions that live or die on vendor coordination. And second, that couples deserve to know what things cost before they walk into a negotiation.
When he moved to the Greater Toronto Area, he saw the same celebrations, Anand Karaj ceremonies, nikahs, sangeets, large multicultural receptions, but no marketplace built around them. The Big Bang Events is that marketplace: a growing set of GTA listings, editorial cost context, and the GTA Event Budget Calculator, always confirm pricing and fit directly with the vendor. Mumbai taught us production. Toronto is home.
Where We Are
Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
Serving event professionals and vendors throughout the Greater Toronto Area. Our marketplace features vendors from Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, and surrounding areas.
Current Status: Controlled Beta
The Big Bang Events is in controlled beta. Planners can browse marketplace listings and use the GTA Event Budget Calculator at no cost. Not every feature is available yet. If you are a vendor in the GTA, you can request to join and help shape what we ship next.
No account needed to start: our free GTA event budget calculator estimates what a wedding, shower or corporate event costs here, per guest, by city and by event type.