Wedding planning is a big process, one that takes lots of organization and attention to detail. Many couples find using apps helpful when planning their wedding to keep their budget on track, organize guest lists, find inspiration, and even connect with vendors. We have rounded up the best wedding planning apps available, so whip out your phone, start downloading, and get planning!
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why do you need a wedding planning app?
All areas of our lives seem to have the help of technology so why not have that technology help you plan your wedding? Thanks to all of the amazing wedding apps available it is now easier than ever to find the best wedding app to create your perfect wedding day. Before you start downloading tons of new wedding apps on your phone you should take a moment to decide which ones are the best for you and what areas of the wedding planning process you need the most help with.
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Wedding Planning Apps
Planning a wedding is a large task and to help you get control of the planning process you have a wide variety of planning apps available. Each wedding planning app is slightly different and finding the one that works for you comes down to what you are hoping to achieve and how you would like to use the app. Here are 5 wedding planning apps that you might want to check out.
Wedding Planner By TheKnot
- Good For: The bride who wants to have everything in one place and be able to track everything from budgets to the registry and even find a wedding style and color theme all that click of a button.
- Main Features: Planning your wedding from start to finish and even helping you find your theme, style, and local vendors. Wedding Planner By TheKnot allows you to stay organized and track your budget and even explore 250,000 local wedding vendors.
- Free/Paid: Free
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Zola Wedding
- Good For: The couple who is looking to plan all areas of their wedding using the Zola suite of tools. Zola is “reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience” which combines great customer service with modern tools and technology.
- Main Features: Zola is a one-stop-shop for all things weddings. Using the Zola app allows you to do everything needed to keep your wedding planning on track including creating a website, exploring ignites and paper along with your guest list and checklist, and of course their famous registry.
- Free/Paid: Free
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WeddingHappy
- Good For: The couple who would like to take some of the guesswork out of planning. WeddingHappy was created for busy, savvy people who can’t dedicate 100% of their time to planning.
- Main Features: With WeddingHappy you provide your wedding date and WeddingHappy takes it from there. This app gets you organized and builds a customized schedule with a to-do checklist and suggested due dates to help get you and keep you on track.
- Free/Paid: Free with in-app purchases
Google Drive
- Good For: The bride or couple who wants to have everything about wedding planning at their fingertips. WeddingWire has made the planning process easy with all of its features and tools in its full-service wedding planning app.
- Main Features: WeddingWire’s Wedding Planner comes with a complete list of wedding planning features to accomplish planning tasks, research, and even inspiration. Connecting with vendors, 360-degree venue tours, wedding countdown tools, and organizational options makes this an all in one planning app worth checking out.
- Free/Paid: Free
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Spiral – Address Book
- Good For: The bride who wants to have a functional and organized wedding guest list that can still be useful even years after the big day.
- Main Features: Spiral allows you to collaborate on your wedding guest list with your soon-to-be spouse, parents, wedding planner, or anyone who needs to be in-the-know, and collects important information like dietary restrictions. Spiral makes it easy to export your guest list to sites like Zola or Minted, making sending your invitations and thank-you notes a breeze. With Spiral, your wedding guest list becomes your forever family address book. It helps you keep information updated so you have it when you need to print envelops or address labels for holiday cards, birth announcements, and other important events.
- Free/Paid: Free, with Paid Premium Offerings
Wedding Invitation Card Maker Apps
Of course, when planning a wedding you need to invite people to events, say thank you and well just stay in touch. There are a wide variety of options available for apps that can help you create and send invitations and cards.
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Postable
- Good For: Couples who are looking for great paper designs but who are also looking for the option to design their own looks and styles.
- Main Features: From save the dates to invitations and thank you cards, Postable offers easy to create invitations, cards, and paper products that you can design, write, and mail all from one location.
- Free/Paid: Averages between $1.00-$4.00 per card
Minted
- Good For: The couple who wants to have all of their wedding paper and stationery needs met in one location. Minted offers couples everything they could need or want for their wedding paper created by a professional community of designers.
- Main Features: A one-stop location for the best of wedding stationery including details like escort cards, table numbers, and menus.
- Free/Paid: Wide range of prices
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Canva
- Good For: The couple who want to take more control over their wedding paper look and feel Canva allows you to create cards, invitations, paper and more using their templates that can all be customized.
- Main Features: Canva is great for creating your paper products however they don’t offer printing or shipping so once you create your items you will need to outsource the printing if you want.
- Free/Paid: Free with upgrades
Invitation Maker By Greetings Island
- Good For: The couple who wants to send out online invitations or download their invitations.
- Main Features: Invitation Maker by Greetings Island allows you to design beautiful invitations to download, print, or send online. Once you send your invitation through their site you even can track the RSVP’s which makes the organization easy.
- Free/Paid: Free or upgrade to $2.95 per month
Paperless Post
- Good For: A couple who wants an upscale and luxurious type of online invitation. Paperless Post is one of the premiere online wedding invitation companies that paved the way for others to follow.
- Main Features: Couples will love the wide variety of designs and options available for the wedding category. From wedding day invitations to rehearsal dinner invitations to a bridal shower and bachelorette parties Paperless Post has everything you could need when opting for online invitations.
- Free/Paid: Variety of pricing options
Inspiration Apps
Everyone needs a little inspiration when it comes to planning a wedding. Thanks to some beautiful apps you can find the perfect wedding inspiration and ideas to help you design your one-of-a-kind day.
My Pantone
- Good For: The color-obsessed couple who wants to create a stunning wedding day with the help of striking color themes.
- Main Features: This app allows you to access a variety of Pantone color libraries and allows you to see colors, build palettes, and share them.
- Free/Paid: Free
- Good For: All couples who are looking for wedding inspiration and ideas and to discover wedding vendors.
- Main Features: Instagram is the premier online photo and video sharing platform. Instagram allows users to discover images that can help you plan your wedding and connect with vendors who can help your day come to life.
- Best hashtags: #weddingplanning #weddingstyle #bridestyle #weddinggoals #weddingdecorations #weddingwednesday
- Good For: The couple who wants to have a million or should we say a billion different wedding ideas and images available to them in one app.
- Main Features: This app works with its website to share billions of images from wedding planning to house decor and everything in between. This app is great for helping you plan since you can be inspired and “save” images to share with your vendors.
- Free/Paid: Free
Palette Cam
- Good For: The couple who wants to build a wedding theme around a specific inspiration either a venue, location, or style. This is great for the starting phase of wedding planning since you can craft your color and theme based on an image and palette.
- Main Features: Palette is a beautiful tool used to create unique color palettes from the inspiration all around you. This app allows you to create a palette from images so you have the perfect color theme ready to share.
- Free/Paid: Free
Budget Tracking Apps
Mint
- Good For: Couples who want to keep insights on where their wedding budget and money is being spent. Keeping your money organized is a big task especially when wedding planning so anyone looking to stay on budget should consider Mint.
- Main Features: Mint is a free app that brings together everything from balance and budgets to help you set goals and take control of your finances.
- Free/Paid: Free
Wedding Budget Planner by The Knot
- Good For: Couples who like using The Knot’s planning tools and want to keep their budget on track and see where they are spending their wedding funds.
- Main Features: You can set your wedding expenses and Wedding Budget Planner by The Knot will add them up and break down your estimates and total spent. This budget planner also works effortlessly with all of the other Knot planning tools.
- Free/Paid: Free
Pocketbook
- Good For: Perfect for couples who are working together on wedding expenses and want to track their spending and monthly budgets. This app is a quick and easy way to see where your money is going.
- Main Features: Organize all your bank accounts and transactions with PocketBook Budgeting. You can define your monthly expenses and create goals for future expenses like wedding planning!
- Free/Paid: Free
Fudget: Budget Planner Tracker
- Good For: Couples who are looking to keep track of their funds beyond wedding planning. Fudget has been praised for having a simple interface yet still accurate and detailed.
- Main Features: A super simple interface allows users to budget and track spending for projects like a vacation, weddings, and holidays. Fudget allows you to keep track of balances and offers one-tap adding and editing making it fun and easy to use.
- Free/Paid: Free with in-app purchases
Wedding Planner Countdown
- Good For: Creating excitement and sharing your wedding countdown with family and friends.
- Main Features: Create a countdown for your wedding or any of your wedding celebrations. This app allows you to create filters, use your own photos or the stock images provided, and even personalize the countdown with your favorite song.
- Free/Paid: Free with in-app purchases
Dress Store Apps
The dress is a big part of the big day so why don’t you find some apps that can help you create your perfect wedding day look? These apps offer everything from dress silhouettes to fit and style guides.
Azazie
- Good For: Brides who are busy and have their bridesmaids all over the place – this app will help them select styles and share ideas with the group.
- Main Features: Shop for bridesmaid and wedding dresses right at your fingertips. This is the only fashion app that lets you customize a dress to your specifications and try it on. You can select from 70 color choices and over 250 styles. One fun feature of this app is the ability to share and vote on your favorite styles.
- Free/Paid: Free
LightInTheBox
- Good For: Anyone looking to shop on their phone for outfits, dresses and accessories.
- Main Features: This app takes you on a shopping journey that allows you to find many styles and items not just in the wedding market. Making it easy to shop on the go this app is perfect for anyone who wants to shop anytime and anywhere.
- Free/Paid: Free
Zeekit App
- Good For: Shopping for the perfect outfit for all of the events that go along with your wedding experience.
- Main Features: This app offers an easy shopping experience and allows shoppers to discover, try on, and purchase items from thousands of online stores all in one place. This awesome app even has a virtual dressing room which is fun!
- Free/Paid: Free
Wedding Registry Apps
Creating a registry is an important part of the wedding planning process since your guests will want to shower you with gifts. With these apps, you have the ability to create, update, and keep track of your registry items from anywhere in the world.
Zola
- Good for: Zola is a registry that offers you everything you need in one place and promises to make everything easy. Their registry works with their other overall planning tools that include wedding websites, invitations, and more. You can get started in minutes and take the stress out of registering.
- Main features: Register for gifts from over 1000 top brands plus gift cards and honeymoon funds. They offer free shipping and assists with returns and exchanges.
- Free/paid: Free
My Registry
- Good for: They claim to be the company that invented the universal gift registry. Their tools can help make creating a registry easy and stress-free. With My Registry, you can add gifts from literally any store in the world, from small local shops to national chains. You can also register for a cash gift fund to help with honeymoon or wedding needs.
- Main features: Easy to add items to your registry. Sync your existing store registries into one easy-to-manage gift list. Add gifts from any store. Use your iPhone as a barcode scanner and automatically add items to your registry. Concierge customer service seven days a week.
- Free/paid: Free
Target Registry
- Good for: Target registry is made exclusively for adding items from their stores and online shopping site. In stores, they offer a barcode scanner that makes it easy to add items as you shop.
- Main features: Easy to use. Also, mark items “most wanted” to inspire your gift-givers. Share registry with family and friends. Add multiple items at a time. Offers a checklist to help in building your registry.
- Free/paid: Free
Bed Bath & Beyond Registry
- Good for: A large selection of popular furniture and decor brands plus all your household essentials like bedding, bath, cookware, and more. The registry is easy to update by using your mobile phone to scan barcodes of in-store items.
- Main features: 24/7 access to their extensive inventory. Name brands in all home categories including everything from home basics to decorating and furniture. Online shopping offers additional items not available in stores.
- Free/paid: Free
Crate and Barrel
- Good for: Choose gifts from their unique selection of housewares, quality furniture, small kitchen appliances, and seasonal decor items. They offer expert information on furniture and home design, product videos, and a ‘view in your room” feature.
- Main features: Distinctive products. Create and edit registry easily. Scan barcodes in stores to add items. Create lists of favorites to review later. View care information and browse other items in the collection. See purchases made from your registry in real-time.
- Free/paid: Free
Wedding Apps For Guests
Yes, the wedding might be about you and your partner but your guests are a big part of the celebration. The apps make the guest experience an easier one from checking the weather to RSVPing.
RSVPIFY
- Good For: Everyone! This app is really perfect for anyone hosting an event since you will need to keep track of who is coming.
- Main Features: This guest list tracker allows you to keep your RSVP list together in one app and allows you to know who is coming, who has not RSVP’ed yet, and what meal choices might be.
- Free/Paid: Free
Uber Events
- Good For: Couples who are hosting their event in a location where transportation might be hard to come by for the guests.
- Main Features: Transportation is a big piece of the wedding planning puzzle and now Uber Events makes it a little easier to coordinate and pay for your guests’ transportation. This App allows you to create personalized invites and ride passes to share with your guests to make their life easy when going and coming from your event.
- Free/Paid: Prices vary
The Guest
- Good For: Couples who want to make sure they capture all of the images from their big day.
- Main Features: This all-in-one app allows you to automatically get all of the photos and video guests take. Without having to upload or tag or use separate camera apps this is a fun photo-sharing platform.
- Free/Paid: Free
Weather Underground
- Good For: Everyone who is attending or planning an event so they can stay up to date with the weather and weather forecast.
- Main Features: This app delivered real-time and hyper-local forecasts that will warn you about upcoming weather and weather events. With interactive maps and customizable features, you won’t ever be caught in the rain again.
- Free/Paid: Free an in-app purchases
Wedding Streaming Apps
Now more than ever streaming apps are important for weddings since we saw so many weddings and events get disrupted during the Covid- 19 pandemic. Couples may need to get creative to have guests be able to “attend” their wedding even if they can’t be there in person. If you are thinking about having to stream parts of your celebration you may want to check out one of these apps.
Skype
- Good For: Couples who want to celebrate with a group of family and friends who need to be able to attend digitally.
- Main Features: Skype is a free way to have a video or voice call with 1 or 24 of your friends. This app allows you to chat and send messages along with the video call and liven up the call with emotions, Giphys, or images.
- Free/Paid: Free
WebWed
- Good For: Couples who want to tie the knot without having a large traditional event and want to share their wedding day or celebration virtually…think city hall type of wedding without leaving your home.
- Main Features: This app actually not only streams your event but it actually allows you to get married legally by going through the proper paperwork and then having the wedding officiated all virtually. This is the city hall type of wedding for the future. There are lots of different packages available and prices and options do vary depending on what type of service and how quickly you want to be able to legally tie the knot.
- Free/Paid: Free app but services range from $1 to $899
Zoom
- Good For: Couples who want to host a virtual wedding or celebration with lots of guests.
- Main Features: Zoom has become very popular in recent years in the business world but it seems now more than ever people are using it to connect with family and friends. Zoom is a very easy app to navigate and allows you to have up to 100 people participate in a meeting. Features like screen sharing, virtually backdrops, and chat features make this platform perhaps the most interactive.
- Free/Paid: Free
EventLive
- Good For: Couples who might be planning a destination wedding or know they will have guests who will be unable to attend and want a very clear HD live stream.
- Main Features: EventLive is unlike other social media platforms and you get to create a private live stream to share your event. This app allows you to create an invitation link that then you can share with family and friends and they don’t need to create an account or even have the app to watch. One major cool factor about this app is that it saves your live stream video for up to 1 year so you can share the video with anyone who could not make it to the stream in real-time.
- Free/Paid: Free with in-app purchases
FaceTime
- Good For: Couples who want to connect using their iPhone and other Mac products and keep the number of participants somewhat low.
- Main Features: You can connect with contacts using their phone or apple ID and make both video or audio calls. You can host a group FaceTime with up to 32 people at once making this perfect for bachelorette nights, bridal showers, or small engagement parties.
- Free/Paid: Free
Honeymoon Planning Apps
Your wedding day might be over but the honeymoon part of the wedding experience is just starting. Making sure you have a fun honeymoon planned is not as easy as just booking a regular trip so use these apps to ensure you have a once-in-a-lifetime honeymoon.
HoneyFund
- Good for: Set up a registry for friends and family to contribute to your honeymoon fund. Register for cash plus gift cards from almost 200 travel, experience, and dining brands.
- Main Features: Powerful design tools. Highly flexible cash gift registry. Use it as your wedding page or link to a wedding website. Named TIME 50 Best Website and Shark Tank winner.
- Free/paid: Combination of Free and Paid
Hopper
- Good for: Hopper predicts if prices on hotels and flights will go up or down. It can predict prices for up to a year in advance. This is a great help when planning a honeymoon months in advance of your travel time. They also watch for price changes and will send notifications when it’s the best time to buy.
- Main Features: Buy, watch, or wait feature. Includes major domestic and international airlines. Over a million flights, hotels and rental cars. Color-coded travel calendar shows the cheapest days to travel.
- Free/paid: Free
Hotel Planner
- Good for: Find real-time hotel rates and availability. Make ‘day of” reservations or plan future bookings. Call center available for bookings or travel issues.
- Features: 70,000 hotels worldwide. Map of hotels near your location helps you choose the best option. Hotel photos and reviews. Call center support 24×7. Special rates and discounts.
- Free/paid: Free
Oyster
- Good for: Oyster says they are the only hotel site that sends special investigators to visit, photograph, review, and rate each hotel. They provide extensive planning tools to help make your honeymoon special.
- Main Features: Hundreds of destinations. Extensive articles and stories to help you in the planning process. Honest reviews and undoctored photos so you know exactly what you’re getting. Special wedding and honeymoon information.
- Free/paid: Free
Trip Advisor
- Good for: Plan your honeymoon with the help of millions of recommendations and reviews on hotels, experiences, dining recommendations. As a travel planner, it does everything from booking dinner reservations to comparing hotel and flight prices. Planning tools help you organize your honeymoon ideas for hotels, restaurants, tours, and attractions.
- Main Features: Book award-winning hotels and restaurants. Access to over 830 million reviews of hotels, flights, experiences and restaurants. Compare airfares and find deals on flights. Tripadvisor forums offer answers to your specific questions from other travelers.
- Free/paid: Free
Our lives are busy and with a task like wedding planning, it is only fitting that we would want to streamline the process as much as possible. Thanks to the invention of the many wedding apps available it seems now might be the best and easiest time to plan, track, and organize your wedding.
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