Your day, planned your way.

Open the app and the day is there: how long you have, how many have replied, what the budget is doing, and which suppliers are still owed. Everything on it is a real number from your plan rather than a target you set once and stopped believing.

What needs attention comes to the top on its own. An overdue task and a balance that was due last week both surface here, so the thing you have forgotten is the thing you see first.

Invite people to the whole day or just the evening, track who has replied, and keep plus-ones attached to the person who brought them. Headcounts update themselves as replies come in, so the number you give the caterer is the number you actually have.

Dietary requirements and access needs sit on the guest, not in a note somewhere else. When you hand the venue a list, everything they need to know is already on it.

Lay the room out with the tables you actually have: round, long, a top table, a cake table, a dance floor. Then drag guests into seats. The app counts who is still standing, so you know when you are finished rather than hoping.

It also tells you what you would rather not find out on the day. A seat held by somebody who has since declined, or a couple sat at opposite ends of the room, are both flagged while there is still time to move them. Print the plan or send it as a PDF when the venue asks, and again on the morning when something changes.

Set what you expect to spend by category, and the app fills in what you have actually committed from the suppliers you have booked. The gap between the two is the whole point, so it is never more than a glance away.

Categories cannot quietly out-promise the budget, and going over is reported rather than rewritten. If the flowers have taken the money you meant for the band, the app says so instead of moving the line.

Hair at eight, photographer at ten, cars at half past one. Build the running order for the day itself, and separate ones for the rehearsal and the morning after, each with its own times and its own people.

The gaps are shown between the entries, because the free forty-five minutes matters as much as the things either side of it. Hand it to the venue, the photographer and whoever is keeping everyone moving.

The venue, the florist, the photographer, the band and the hog roast: contacts, quotes, what is agreed and what is still owed. Each one is filed under a budget category, so booking a supplier updates the budget without you telling it twice.

Deposits and balances carry dates, so the money due next month is visible this month, and the payment that has slipped past its date is marked rather than merely late.

A new plan comes with a wedding checklist in it: the things everybody has to do, roughly when they are usually done. Take what you want and ignore the rest, or add your own from the start.

Anything overdue is marked and surfaces on the overview, and tasks can be shared out between you rather than living in one person’s head.

A wall you pin things to: photographs, links to the venue you liked, a sketch of the table layout, a voice note from the florist, a checklist of what to ask them. Keep several boards, one per thing you have not decided yet.

It is deliberately loose. Everything else in the app has a shape and a total; this is the part that does not, because the early half of planning a wedding rarely does.

Three widgets, in every size from the smallest square to the one that fills an iPad’s Home Screen. Countdown is the days until the day, with what still needs doing before it. At a glance shows the numbers you choose from guests, to-dos, budget and suppliers. Up next puts anything overdue first, then what is coming.

Up next is not just a display: tick a task off from the Home Screen and it is done in the app. The countdown also goes on the Lock Screen, as a circle, a line of text or a rectangle beside the clock.

There are Control Centre buttons too, for the to-do list and the running order, so you can put one on the Lock Screen or bind it to the Action button.

Plan on the iPad at the kitchen table, then check a supplier’s number on your phone at the venue. With a subscription your wedding syncs through your own iCloud account, so every device you own is showing the same guest list, the same seating plan and the same balance owing.

Then share it. Send the wedding to the person you are marrying, or to whoever is helping you plan it. They open it on their own Apple Account, on their own iPhone or iPad, and they are not looking at a copy or a screenshot: they are in the same wedding. They tick a task off and it is ticked for you. They do not need a subscription of their own.

All of it goes through Apple. The wedding sits in your iCloud, under your Apple ID, and we hold no copy of it. There is no account to create with us and nothing of ours in between.

A new plan asks for partner one and partner two, because that is the version that fits everybody. If it isn’t what you call yourselves, set it to bride and groom, bride and bride, or groom and groom, and the app uses your words from then on: on the overview, in the to-do list, and wherever it refers to the two of you.

Nothing puts one of you ahead of the other, and nothing has to be corrected before you start. Planning somebody else’s wedding, the app can speak about the couple in the third person instead of addressing them directly.

Everything lives on your device, and with a subscription in your own iCloud as well. There is no account to create with us, no copy of your guest list on a server we control, and nothing that leaves your Apple ID. We can’t read your plan, and neither can anyone else you have not shared it with.

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Plain answers to the questions couples ask most, useful whether or not you use the app.

• How to make a wedding seating plan
• How to split a wedding budget
• A wedding planning checklist, by months to go

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