Wedding Planning: There's an app for that!

Getting married?  Why not make the process a little easier and more cost effective through technology.  Weddings and their planning are becoming more and more incorporated into social media. I’m not talking about getting married online.  I’m talking about apps and websites that aid in your planning and communication with guests.  I told my fiance when we got engaged that I would not be the absentee guy and that I would help as much as I can with the planning process.  Being a bit of a nerd, I wanted to be able to incorporate technology as much as possible.  There are a plethora of applications and websites out there that couples can depend on.   For sake of saving time and space, I’m going to talk about the couple that we are currently using.

The first application that we latched on to is a free download called The Knot.  While The Knot is primarily used for weddings, it can be used for couples moving in together or having a child. The Knot sets out a timeline for your planning.  It bases the timeline off of what you put in for your wedding date and plans backwards.  The application provides you with a list of types of vendors that you need and gives you results based upon your approximate location.  This is how the company generates income, similar to Google’s AdWords, the application provides context and location based advertisements.  Each vendor that is listed includes user submitted satisfaction and price ratings.  As you go through your planning process, you can utilize a Knot tool called the LookBook look through and ‘favorite’ items similar to using Pinterest.  There are also tools included to help you keep track of your budget, guest list, registries, etc.  There are many applications similar to The Knot including: Ultimate Wedding Planner, OneWed, and a whole slew of others.  Most of these will be available for both Android and Apple through your app store.

One other very cool application that I came across by accident is called WedPics.  If you’re anything like me, you've gone to a lot of weddings, taken a lot of pictures on your smartphone, and deleted them a few weeks later knowing that you’ll never use or share them.  WedPics offers a couple of different functions, but is primarily a tool used to gather pictures from your wedding guests.  This is also a free download through your app store on either Android or Apple.  Once you download the application and set up your profile, you share your profile via many different channels including email or Facebook.  Once guests have access, they can share any of those pictures with the couple through the application.  This is a big time and effort saver in getting photos from your friends.   Outside of picture sharing, guests can access your wedding registries, hotel accommodations that you've saved blocks for, and even order prints straight from your WedPics albums.

So, if you’re planning a wedding, don’t forget the power and capability of technology.

Links:

http://www.theknot.com/

https://wedpics.com/?q=fbtab

http://www.onewed.com/

Posted by Eric Sitzmann