Activities of organisers for private events except funerals, such as wedding planners and similar organisers.
Use this mapping when organising private events is the paid service. Catering, photography and venue rental should be classified separately if they are separate businesses.
A wedding planning business that organises private events for clients should review NIC 969007 under NIC 2025. The code covers activities of organisers for private events, with wedding planners specifically named alongside organisers of birthday parties, bachelor and bachelorette parties and anniversary celebrations. It is therefore a much more precise match than using a generic consulting, advertising or hospitality description for the planning service itself.
A wedding planner typically coordinates the event rather than owning every supplier involved. The paid service can include concept development, schedules, vendor coordination, guest-flow planning, venue coordination and execution management. The planner's economic role is to organise the private event on behalf of the client, even when photographers, decorators, caterers and venues are independent vendors.
A company can both plan weddings and directly provide catering, photography, decoration, accommodation or transport. Those services have their own economic character. If they are sold as substantial independent lines, they should not automatically be treated as wedding-planning activity simply because they are delivered at the same event.
An event venue that earns mainly from renting space or providing hospitality may need a different classification. The same is true for an advertising agency that promotes events but does not organise private celebrations. NIC 969007 is strongest where the client's purchase is planning and coordination of a private event.
A clear registration phrase is: “Organisation and coordination of weddings and other private events for clients.” It directly reflects the NIC activity. A vague phrase such as “event business” can hide the difference between planning, venue operation, catering, entertainment and marketing.
For a dedicated wedding planner, 969007 is the primary NIC 2025 code to consider. If the enterprise also operates a venue or sells major catering, photography, decoration or other services directly, map those business lines separately so the overall registration reflects how revenue is actually earned.
Some planners receive a planning fee, vendor commission or both. The payment method is less important than the activity actually performed. If the planner selects, coordinates and manages vendors for a private event, the organiser function remains central even when compensation is structured in different ways.
Use for event catering and food supply.
NIC 742001 Photography (Commercial and consumer)Use for commercial and consumer photography.
For a typical wedding planner, the primary NIC 2025 code to investigate is 969007 - Activities of organisers for private events (except funerals), such as wedding planners, organisers of birthday parties, bachelor parties and bachelorrette parties, anniversary celebrations.
Use this page as a shortlist and then verify the final code against the linked official NIC page. NIC describes the economic activity. It does not issue a licence, replace GST/HSN/SAC classification, or guarantee approval in Udyam, MCA or any regulated filing.
Choose the NIC code that matches the principal activity, usually the activity that generates the largest share of revenue or best describes the entity being registered.