The Best Apps to Use When Planning Your Wedding

Planning a wedding can be extremely overwhelming, especially for a working bride.

In these times of COVID-19, with many brides WFH, those visits to venues, flower stores, cake tastings, and bridal shops are even more difficult to fulfill. If you’re working with a tight budget, hiring a wedding planner might not be an option for you or is an expense you can save on to put more money into another aspect of your wedding. This is where wedding planning apps come in handy. If you’re unable to have the help of a wedding planner or are simply unable to leave your house right now, you can use apps to maintain your wedding planning progress. In Wedding Wire’s 2020 Newlywed Report, it was discovered that 88% percent of planning is done online anyway, with 64% of couples using apps to get their planning done. With the number of online resources that are available to us these days, there is an app out there for every type of bride, whether you’re constantly on the go or have no clue where to start with your planning. If you’re in the middle of a planning crisis and are looking for some guidance, we’ve listed five of the best apps that can help you work out your wedding plans!

Bride-On-The-Go: Wedding Planner by The Knot

If you’re the type of bride who is constantly on the go or has a million things to do every day, Wedding Planner by The Knot is the app for you! Between work obligations, self-care, and household chores, it can be difficult to find the time to focus on your wedding plans. This app can help you refine your wedding vision through its quiz feature and has more than 250,000 wedding vendors you can filter through on the app. You can save your favorite vendors and the app will generate recommended vendors based on your wedding vision. This is a perfect way to browse wedding vendors before contacting them without actually having to pop around town to visit multiple locations.

Don’t Know Where to Start: Wedding Wire

Planning a wedding is already stressful, but even more so when you have no idea where to start. Whom do you hire first? What should you be looking for in a venue? Acting as a one-stop-shop, the Wedding Wire app gives you the ability to manage your vendors and ask advice from the app community. Plus, if you’re having trouble finding wedding inspiration, this app has a “Real Wedding” component that features photo galleries of couples on their wedding day. Not only could you pull inspiration from looking through other couples’ weddings, but the app also offers tips and ideas from their band of experts.

Budget-Conscious Bride: Wedding Happy

If you’ve ever been to the grocery store when you’re hungry and on a budget, then you can only imagine how hard it is to keep a budget when shopping for your wedding. When it comes to weddings, you have to know when to splurge and when to save, but if your budget has little to no wiggle room, the Wedding Happy app can be extremely helpful. It has a payment tracker that will tell you how much you’ve paid and to which vendor, as well as calculate your remaining budget. This makes it so much easier to keep track of when and where you’re spending money and make sure you don’t go over budget.

Organized Bride: Table Planner

Maintaining organization is a big part of successfully planning a wedding, but that can be difficult when there are so many aspects to oversee. Arranging guests can be one of the most stressful parts of putting together a reception, whether you want to avoid sitting your cousins together who don’t get along or making sure all your close friends sit at the same table. Of course, it’s impossible to make everyone happy, but the Table Planner app can take care of all the hard work for you. After adding in all of your guests’ names, you can choose to add restrictions, then let the app automatically place your guests. But, if you’re looking to plan the table arrangements yourself, you can easily move people around on the screen.

Tech Savvy Bride: Zola

If you’re the type of bride who has been thinking about her wedding hashtag since you got engaged, then Zola is the ideal app! In today’s environment, having an online presence for your wedding can be very important for a bride and useful as well. Not only does a wedding website provide the ability to update all of your guests in one place, but you can add a feature for an online RSVP. This app allows you to create a wedding website for free, where you can use a template and customize it to fit your needs. Plus, you may be a long way off from the dating app days, but this app has a feature called Blender that presents a Tinder-like approach to choosing wedding registry items.

If you know a bride who is in the middle of planning her wedding, share this post with her, and if that’s you, try out one of these apps while planning your wedding! Still searching for a wedding gown? Browse our collection of gowns that are made to your exact measurements.

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