Karwa Chauth 2026 is Thu Oct 29: mehndi booking clips, $2.48

Karwa Chauth 2026 is Thursday, October 29, so a mehndi studio, bangle stall or jewelry shop has 16 days from today to fill its slots. Three 5-second 9:16 clips made from your own photos on Wan 3.0 at 720p, each with a $0.20 caption job for the booking line, cost $2.475 on Sume.

The date comes from Simply Astro's Karwa Chauth 2026 page (read 2026-10-13). It describes the fast as running from sunrise until moonrise, and says moonrise varies by city: about 8:12 PM in Delhi and about 8:56 PM in Mumbai. Your clip should not state a moonrise time for every viewer; point to the local time instead.

What should each of the three clips say?

Space the posts so each one has one job. Mehndi artists book out first, so the earliest clip sells slots; the last one is a same-day reminder.

How are the clips made and what do they cost?

Wan 3.0 on Sume takes a start frame, 9:16, and 480p, 720p or 1080p, with durations that include 5 seconds (Video Router). The repo's Wan 3.0 rate is the provider list price of $0.10 per second at 720p with Sume's 1.25x margin, so a 5-second clip is 5 x $0.125 = $0.625.

For the booking line, use a video caption job with authored cues (text, start, end), which burns overlay text without speech-to-text, so a silent clip works. A caption job is a flat $0.20 for videos up to 60 seconds.

How do I keep the offer accurate?

Burn only facts you control: the slot count, the studio hours and the booking channel. Do not promise a moonrise time in the clip. If a slot count changes after you render, a caption job costs $0.20 to redo, which is cheaper than regenerating the 5 seconds of footage at $0.625.

Start from a real photo of your own work. A start frame keeps the hands, henna and jewelry recognizable, where a text-only prompt would invent a different pattern and your customer would not see your product.

• Render at 480p first if you only want to check the motion: 5 seconds is $0.3125.
• Keep the cue to under about 8 words so it reads in a 5-second clip.
• Post clip 3 early; the fast ends only after moonrise, but bookings close well before.

Where does this fit in the Diwali run?

Karwa Chauth lands 10 days before Diwali on Sunday, November 8, so the same photos can feed the five-day Diwali story series and a rangoli diya-flicker clip. Shops selling gifts in boxes can add the corporate gift reminder clips.