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10 wedding planning apps to help you design your dream wedding

November 20, 2024

Looking for the best wedding planning apps? You’ve come to the right place! Whether you’ve hired a professional event planner or are handling the logistics on your own, planning your wedding is guaranteed to come with some stress. Unless you work in the industry yourself, it’s likely larger and more complex than any event you’ve ever produced and it’s undeniably a lot more meaningful—which is bound to come with heightened emotions. Then there’s budgeting, competing priorities, decision fatigue, and unsolicited advice from just about everyone you know.

green yellow bridesmaid dresses

Photo by Samantha Dean Photo from this central coast wedding.

Of course, it’s all balanced out by the most excitement, joy, and connection you’ve ever felt, along the journey and on the day itself… But still, you’ll want to take advantage of anything that helps the process go smoothly. Gone are the days when all you have is a big mess of spreadsheets (luckily: Excel always looks good on a resume); now there are apps and websites to help with every aspect of planning—and today we’re sharing the ones worth signing up for.

lovebird wedding website and save the dates

Best wedding planning apps for couples in 2025

The Do-It-All App: Lovebird

Whether it’s through your stationery or wedding website, the way you communicate with your guests throughout your engagement is so important. Not only does it keep everyone in the know, but it allows you to connect with them before the big day. Infusing your style into these elements through your design and messaging gets guests excited to celebrate with you. Lovebird is a hub for all things guest communication—from digital invitations and websites to RVSP management, polls, and messaging, it’s a place for you to manage every touchpoint with guests in one place, beautifully.

They offer customizable design templates for your wedding website with coordinating styles for your save the dates and invitations so that you can do it all with ease and elegance. Here’s a breakdown of all you can do with Lovebird.com:

  • Hundreds of exquisite design suites for every wedding style
  • Polished, premium wedding websites
  • Best-in-class digital save the dates & wedding invitations
  • Simple, intuitive personalization
  • RSVP management & notifications
  • Guest polling & meal selection
  • Gift registry integration
  • Email & SMS announcements for timely updates
  • Flexibility to use only the features you need
  • An elevated RSVP experience for wedding guests

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prismm wedding planning app

For Floor Plans & Seating Charts: Prismm

Prismm is an online event planning software that allows you recreate your venue digitally, so that you can plan details like furniture layouts, seating arrangements, and table settings without being there in-person. Typically used by event management teams for coordinating large-scale events, their immersive 3D event diagramming is the closest you’ll get to seeing your vision play out before the big day.

the venue report wedding planning app

For Wedding Venues & Accommodations: Venue Report

The definitive source for finding venues, honeymoon destinations, and even group travel accommodations, Venue Report lists thousands of places to gather and celebrate locally and abroad. For each venue listed, you’ll find info such as maps, types of venue, types of events they are best for, fees, capacity, features, and just about any other bit of information you might need when planning a wedding. Couples can sign up and bookmark favorite venues, communicate with them, and request tours through their platform.

matchbook wedding planning app

For Choosing The Perfect Vendors: MatchBook

If you’re not familiar, 100 Layer Cake’s own platform, MatchBook is a wedding vendor/client matchmaker that pairs couples with their dream vendors based on their location, budget, style, and preferences. At 100LC, we’ve talked to countless couples over the years and have heard one thing over and over… the process of finding and booking amazing vendors for your wedding and events has been super time-consuming and many times downright frustrating. We created MatchBook to make this aspect of wedding planning easy and inspiring! Our unique platform connects seasoned 100-Layer-Cake-approved Pros with Clients seeking their services through a simple, efficient request model. Find out how it works here, or see for yourself!

textural wedding cake and modern blue and white place settings

Photo by Lauren Nicole Photo from this Texas micro wedding.

The Easiest-For-Guests Registry: Amazon

Considering you can buy just about anything you’d ever want on Amazon, it makes sense that you might register for wedding gifts there too. Even if you register elsewhere (find our top picks here), offering guests a chance to purchase their wedding gifts with their Prime accounts gives them an easy, no-stress option. Amazon is a great place to register for the essentials, and it allows guests to order on their own timeline. You’ll also have the option to allow group gifting, which is a major bonus for those with investment items on their registry. For some, it may be difficult enough to coordinate schedules, outfits, babysitters, or potentially travel—make this an easy step for them go in on group gifts or order last-minute to get you what you want!

memento photo sharing for wedding

For Group Videos + Photo Sharing: Memento

Video streaming platform Memento can be used in many ways to enhance your wedding and the events leading up to it. They specialize in helping you make group videos to celebrate the most important moments in your life. Whether it’s your engagement party, bachelorette trip, or the wedding itself, you can create group videos using clips from guests with their easy-to-use app. You can even create a video wedding guest book. And for those of you in the wedding party, it’s also a great way to surprise the couple with videos of the wedding that they likely won’t have seen before. Get inspired to use Memento for weddings here. You can also manage shared photo albums with their free photo sharing features.

eventlive wedding streaming app

For Live Streaming Your Wedding: Eventlive

While you may not be cutting your guest list down for social distancing like couples were a couple years back, it’s still a thoughtful (and super fun!) idea to live stream your wedding. There are bound to be a few guests who can’t make it—especially if you’ve chosen a faraway destination, so setting up a livestream gives everyone the chance to be involved. Eventlive lets you live stream your wedding straight from your smartphone, and guests can join from any device. You simply schedule your event, share your custom link with guests, tap to go live, and in one click, guests can tune in (without even registering or downloading an app). Easy peasy! It’s an especially sweet gesture for loved ones who can’t physically travel to you, to be part of the celebration.

blessing of the Challah bread

Photo by The Shalom Imaginative from this Jewish LA wedding.

For Staying Organized: Trello

You might be familiar with Trello to help with your daily workflow, but did you know it’s just as effective as a wedding planning app? They have event planning templates that will help you stay organized and easily knock off to-dos. You can even collaborate with wedding vendors and other people supporting you in the planning process. Use Trello to create wedding timelines spanning the entire engagement as well as those detailing the day itself.

pantone studio color palette app for weddings

For Creating Color Palettes: Pantone Studio

The Pantone Studio app lets you build and create palettes to test on 3D-rendered materials and designs, making it easy for you to see how your wedding theme will come to life. Subscribers get access to all PANTONE Colors (more than 10,000 standardized hues across all libraries and disciplines), so this is a fabulous app for early stage design where you can let your imagination run wild. Design lovers beware: this is one addicting app! You’ll want to use it for every celebration leading up to the big day… And beyond.

wedding portrait with bride in colorful dress and ribbon

Photo by Let’s Frolic Together for this colorful children’s museum wedding.

For Saving ALL of Your Ideas: Pinterest

Pinterest was an amazing resource for brides planning their wedding back in 2010, and 15 years later it’s still just as incredible. So if you’ve long abandoned that old wedding board (you know the one), now is the time to revisit and revamp it. Create Pinterest boards to save every idea you have so you can reference it when making decisions later—whether or not you’ve hired a wedding planner or designer to support you. You can also create sections within boards to use as subcategories. From decor to floral design to wedding fashion, save images and links for everything on Pinterest. Need a little inspo to get started? Find ours here!