The Wedding Planner Goes Online: Apps For The Perfect Wedding
Getting married? The best advice you may get is to plan ahead. The amount of time spent on planning a wedding, on average, is 120 hours. The average cost, 30,000. The average number of guests, 120. Then there’s the decision-making: who will pay for the wedding, the couple themselves, or their parents? How will the costs be divided? And the budgeting: how much to allow for venue hiring costs, food, clothes and make-up, entertainment, flowers, photography, and the costs of the ceremony itself?
But help is at hand, now that there are a whole range of apps to help you plan the perfect wedding, and a timeline for what-to-do and when. Here’s how to manage the countdown to your wedding and the apps that will help you:
Getting Started
With 12 months to to go, begin planning, budgeting, organizing guest lists, and contacting vendors.
Wedding 911 by the knot
Use this iPhone app to get answers to all your questions about the wedding ceremony, or search the FAQs for answers and comments from other brides and brides-to-be.
Mac, iPhones; free
Wedding budget
This handy app keeps track of costs, provides clear displays to help you visualize your budgeting and expenses, and sends you reminders when payments are due. Warning: insists on balancing the budget!
Mac, free
Appy Couple
Collects guest list, RSVPs, sends reminders; allows you to create your own website for your wedding.
Mac, Android; costs $28
Our wedding planner
Manage your guest list, things-to-do list, budget and vendors
Android, free
Managing Your Health
With eight months to go, its time to begin preparing yourself physically and mentally for the big day. These apps help you plan and maintain fitness and diet routines, create your wedding website, and find time alone as a couple.
Fitocracy
Track your own exercise routines and compete with your friends. Fitness made fun and easy.
Mac, Android; free
Calorie Counter and Diet
Has the largest food calorie counter database among iPad/ Android calorie counters.
Mac, Android; free
www.ewedding.com
Easily create and maintain your wedding website, in under 5 minutes.
Online, free
www.mywedding.com
Wedding website and matching invitations
Online, free
Couple
The best way to stay in touch.
Mac, Android; free
The Wedding Dress
With six months to go, its time to plan your wedding dress.
Wedding Dress Look Book, by the knot
Online shopping for the perfect wedding dress.
Mac, Android; free
www.weddingdresscreator.com
Choose from a range of styles, colors and fabrics to create your own wedding dress. You can save the result as .jpg image and print to show your dressmaker.
Online, free
www.brit.co
DIY site full of creative ideas and tips
Online, free
Planning Seating Arrangements
With four months to go and the guest list finalized, its time to plan seating arrangements.
www.tablerrr.com
Amazingly easy to use website for creating seating arrangements
Online, free
Seat Puzzle – Your optimal seating plan
Easily create seating plans, and update the as the RSVPs roll in
Mac, free
Pictures
With one month to go, get ready to take, store and share pictures from one of the greatest days of your life.
Wedding Party – Getting married?
Easily your guests’ pictures, help them to connect and share memories of all the events. Your wedding seen through your guests’ eyes!
Mac, Android; free
www.wedpics.com
Collect and share all your guest pictures in one album.
Online, free
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