What Is Events in Minutes? How the One-Cart Event Marketplace Works (2026)

By Dr. Hojr George Pisheh, CEO and Co-Founder, Events in Minutes · Updated July 2026

Events in Minutes (EIM) is an online marketplace that connects people planning events with reviewed, bookable vendors across the United States. Instead of requesting quotes on one directory and renting a venue on another, you add a venue, caterer, DJ, photographer, or activity to a single cart, check out once, and each vendor approves their own part of the booking. The rest of this page covers how that works in practice, what it costs, and, just as usefully, where the marketplace is still thin.

What Is Events in Minutes?

Events in Minutes is a nationwide event-planning marketplace that lets hosts discover, compare, and book vetted vendors and full event packages in one place, with transparent, upfront pricing. It covers corporate events, weddings, birthdays, private parties, and team building, and it treats an event as one project: several vendors, one cart, one checkout. Every vendor is reviewed before their listings go live, and every booking is confirmed by the vendor who will deliver it.

The company was founded in 2023 and incorporated in 2024 by Dr. Hojr George Pisheh, a former Google product manager who serves as CEO, and Kevin Edraki, a software engineer with more than 16 years of experience who serves as CTO. Headquarters are at 999 Baker Way, San Mateo, California, and the marketplace grew out of the San Francisco Bay Area before expanding to vendors and hosts across the United States.

It helps to be precise about what the platform is not. It is not a lead-generation site, so you never post a job and wait for strangers to bid on it. It is not a directory that hands you a phone number and wishes you luck. Every listing carries a price, a calendar, photos, and a book button, and if you would rather talk than browse, Emma can take the details on a call and point you at listings that fit.

The problem it targets is fragmentation. A typical event still means one website for the venue, another for catering, a lead-gen form for the DJ, and a spreadsheet holding it together. The global events industry was worth $994.7 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach $2,046.7 billion by 2032, yet most of it is still booked through quote requests and phone tag. Events in Minutes is a bet that event services can be booked the way rides and stays already are.

How Does Booking on Events in Minutes Work?

Booking on Events in Minutes follows one flow: explore categories, filter by date and group size, add vendors to a cart, check out once, and wait for each vendor to approve their booking. There is no bidding stage and no waiting for quotes, because the price is already on the listing. You can go from first search to a submitted booking in a single session, and everything after checkout happens in one dashboard.

1. Explore categories. Start from a category page such as venues, catering, or experiences, or describe the event to Emma over a call and get matched to fitting listings.
2. Filter by date, group size, and event type. Listings show availability, capacity, verified reviews, and real photos side by side.
3. Add to cart. Combine multiple vendors for the same event date and location, for example a venue, a grazing table, and a DJ.
4. Check out once. One payment through Stripe covers the whole cart, with the service fee shown before you pay.
5. Each vendor approves. Every vendor reviews and confirms their own booking, then coordinates details with you through in-platform chat.

Filters do real work here because inventory is structured, not free-text. A search for a 40-person team offsite on a specific Thursday only surfaces vendors who can take 40 people on that Thursday, which is the difference between browsing and planning. Listings also show verified reviews next to pricing and availability, so you compare vendors on the same information instead of on whoever wrote the best ad.

Step five matters more than it sounds. Because the vendor who shows up is the one who accepted the job, availability is real rather than aspirational, and there is no dispatcher reselling your booking to whoever answers first. The How It Works page walks through the same flow with screenshots.

After checkout, the event lives in one dashboard. Vendor chat, booking status, and event details sit in the same place, so a menu change for the caterer and a set-list question for the DJ do not become two separate email chains. If a vendor cannot take the date, you choose an alternative from the same category rather than starting the whole plan over.

What Can You Book on Events in Minutes?

As of July 2026 the marketplace carries 2,091 live listings across more than 20 service categories. Venues are the largest category at 579 listings, followed by 322 experiences and team-building activities, 135 entertainers, 129 photographers, and 126 DJs. The counts below come from the live site map, not a brochure, so they change as vendors join.

Breadth is easier to judge from real listings than from a table. The six below are live right now and span six different categories, from California to Pennsylvania; each links to its listing page, where the same price shown here appears next to the calendar.

#1 San Francisco, CA

Mirrored Dance Studio Event Venue

1-24 hoursUp to 20 standing$25/hour

A mirrored studio in San Francisco that rents by the hour, which makes it a low-commitment way to see how venue booking works on the platform. It suits rehearsals, workshops, and small classes, and the listing shows the hourly rate, standing capacity, and house rules before you commit to anything.

See the studio →

#2 Travels to you, nationwide

Private Rug Tufting Trailer Workshop

1-3 hours25-200 peopleFrom $3,000

The vendor drives a fully equipped tufting trailer to your address anywhere in the United States, and guests leave with rugs they made themselves. Group pricing scales by headcount tier rather than a flat per-person rate, and the listing calendar shows which dates are still open before you book.

See the workshop →

#3 Berkeley, CA

Grazing Table Catering with Artisan Boards

4 hoursBuilt on site$29/person

An artisan grazing table assembled on site in the East Bay, quoted per person, so budgeting for 40 guests is simple arithmetic. This is the kind of service that used to take three emails just to learn a starting price; here the number sits on the listing page next to the photos.

See the grazing table →

#4 Los Angeles, CA

DJ Services: Corporate, Festival, Wedding

1-7 hoursCorporate to weddings$500/hour

A Los Angeles DJ who covers corporate parties, festivals, and weddings and quotes by the hour. Set length, equipment questions, and song requests all happen in the platform chat after you book, so nothing important lives in a lost email thread between you and the vendor.

See the DJ →

#5 South San Francisco, CA

Wedding Photography Package, 6-Hour Coverage

6 hoursOnline gallery$4,495 fixed

Six hours of wedding coverage with an online gallery, sold as one flat package. Flat-rate listings like this are common in photography and videography, where the deliverable rather than the guest count drives the price, and the fixed number makes vendor-to-vendor comparison honest.

See the package →

#6 Pittsburgh, PA

Matt Hill and the Classics

Up to 3 hoursLive band$1,000 fixed

A live band on the opposite side of the country from the marketplace's Bay Area roots, which says something about where the platform is heading. The set price covers a performance of up to three hours; you request the date and the band confirms the booking directly.

See the band →

Coverage is national on both sides of the marketplace: vendors can list and hosts can book anywhere in the United States. The six listings above alone span San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles, South San Francisco, and Pittsburgh, plus one workshop that drives to any address in the country, and the inventory includes listings as far afield as a Washington, DC treasure hunt on the National Mall.

Geography still shapes depth, though. The deepest inventory is in Northern California, where you can browse team-building experiences in San Francisco, compare DJs in San Francisco, or book event photographers in San Francisco from dedicated landing pages, while listings like the Pittsburgh band above show the national side filling in.

Who Uses Events in Minutes?

Two groups use Events in Minutes: hosts who need an event handled, and vendors who need bookings without running a marketing operation. On the host side the heaviest users are the people for whom events are a recurring job: executive assistants, chiefs of staff, HR and People teams, and office managers booking team building, offsites, and holiday parties. The same flow serves personal hosts planning weddings, birthdays, and dinners, and the two audiences quietly subsidize each other: corporate demand keeps vendors busy on weekdays, personal events fill their weekends.

The personal-event side is enormous on its own. Americans hold about 2,011,044 weddings a year, a $66.2 billion market where the average couple spends $32,899, and nearly all of it is still assembled vendor by vendor. Corporate demand is just as structural: corporate events and seminars account for more than 25% of the global events industry, and they recur every quarter rather than once in a lifetime.

On the supply side, most event vendors are small operators: florists, DJs, caterers, and photographers drawn from the 36.2 million US small businesses that employ roughly 46% of the private-sector workforce. Listing is free, vendors keep their own pricing and calendars, approve or decline each request, and are paid through Stripe after the event. Details and sign-up are on the vendor registration page.

Discovery habits are also shifting under vendors' feet. Pew Research found that 58% of Google users encountered at least one AI-generated summary in March 2025, and that users clicked a traditional result on only 8% of pages with an AI summary versus 15% without one. For a solo vendor, being a structured, bookable listing inside a marketplace is increasingly safer than depending on a website ranking alone.

How Does Pricing Work on Events in Minutes?

Vendors on Events in Minutes set their own prices, and every listing shows its price before you book. How the number is quoted depends on the service: experiences and catering are typically per person, venues are typically per hour, and photographers, videographers, DJs, and planners usually sell flat packages. Experiences and team building generally run $30–$200 per person, with median platform spend around $65 per person.

The six listings above show all three models in the wild: a studio venue at $25 per hour, grazing-table catering at $29 per person, a DJ at $500 per hour, and a six-hour photography package at $4,495 flat. Browsing is free, and there is no fee to create an account. A service fee is shown at checkout before you pay, and nothing is added after that, which is the whole point: the number you compare on is the number you pay against.

Vendor payouts run on the same rails. A vendor is paid through Stripe after the event completes, which keeps the incentive structure clean: the marketplace only earns its commission when an event actually happens, and hosts never wire deposits to a stranger's bank account based on an email thread. For anyone who has planned an event through a chain of invoices and Zelle requests, that alone explains a lot of the model.

One practical note: per-person quotes make group math honest in a way lead-gen quotes rarely are. When a grazing table is $29 per person, a 40-guest budget is a two-second calculation, and comparing it against a second caterer takes exactly one more.

How Is Events in Minutes Different From a Directory or Lead-Gen Site?

The short answer: directories and lead-gen sites sell introductions, while Events in Minutes sells completed bookings. On Thumbtack, GigSalad, or The Bash you describe a job, vendors respond with quotes, and the transaction usually finishes elsewhere. Peerspace is a true bookable marketplace with hourly rates shown upfront, but it covers venues and production spaces only. Events in Minutes combines the bookable model with multi-category coverage, so one cart can hold the venue, the caterer, and the band.

Each of those platforms is good at what it is built for; Thumbtack's request flow fits open-ended home projects, and Peerspace's hourly model suits shoots and pop-ups. The difference is what happens after you find someone. On a lead-gen site the price conversation starts when the responses arrive; on Events in Minutes it ended before you searched, because the vendor already published it. No quote round-trips, no callbacks. The quickest way to feel the difference is to open venues in San Francisco, set a date and a headcount, and notice that every result already has a price on it.

Where Events in Minutes still falls short

Some things are worth saying plainly. Inventory depth varies sharply by metro: the Bay Area is the deepest market, and coverage in other US cities is real but still filling in. Several categories remain thin, with only 10 AV and tech listings, 2 staffing listings, and 1 decoration listing live today. And as a platform founded in 2023, it has a shorter public track record and a smaller review base than directories that have operated since the 2000s. If your event is in a metro the marketplace has not reached yet, check the category page for your city before planning around it; the counts on this page will tell you honestly what is there.

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Sources

Every statistic in this guide traces to one of the sources below, each verified reachable on July 20, 2026. Marketplace figures are Events in Minutes' own live data, labeled self-attested, and worth re-checking against the live category pages, which update as vendors join.

Last updated: July 2026 · Company facts per About Us and the live llms.txt