Planning.Wedding

Planning.Wedding is a shared workspace for coordinating guests, schedules, budgets, and a couple’s wedding website. It suits couples who want family and friends to help without account setup; its broad free toolkit is appealing, but project deletion deadlines make it a poor long-term archive.

Overview

The platform connects website RSVPs to its guest list, where couples can track attendance, plus-ones, VIP events, and reminders. That link helps keep guest responses alongside the rest of the planning, while tools for budgets, timelines, vendors, seating, stationery, notes, and photos cover much of the event workflow in one place. It is meant to support professional planners, not replace them.

Partners, relatives, and friends can make real-time updates without creating accounts. Projects are stored in the cloud and sync as group members contribute. The important trade-off is retention: active projects and their content are removed one year after the last update, and archived projects after five years. Couples who need lasting records should keep copies elsewhere.

Key features

Planning and collaboration

The toolkit combines guest lists, RSVPs, a checklist, budget calculator, itinerary, timeline, vendor directory, seating charts, stationery, notes, and a guest photo album. This breadth is most useful when several people are coordinating logistics; it is less compelling for couples who only need a simple invitation page. Account-free collaboration makes it easier to involve occasional helpers, though the service still positions itself as a planning aid rather than a substitute for a professional.

Website and guest management

The website builder has customizable templates, drag-and-drop sections, password protection, RSVP forms, and widgets for event details, travel, accommodation, FAQs, and registries. Each couple gets a free custom URL and QR code in one of three formats, with an option to connect a custom domain. RSVP responses feed into guest management, including plus-ones, VIP events, and reminders, so this is more than a standalone website builder. Cloudflare acts as a proxy to issue the SSL certificate for a connected custom domain.

Photos and support

The free Basic plan includes 30 post-wedding photos, while Premium raises guest photo storage to 1,000. Questions can be directed to a contact form or the Telegram community group.

Pricing

Planning.Wedding uses a freemium model. Basic costs nothing and includes guest lists, RSVPs, a wedding website, checklist, budget, event itinerary, vendors and venues, notes, files, 30 post-wedding photos, custom vendors, and multi-language support. It is a substantial starting point for couples who want core planning and a site without paying; the clear photo cap is the main stated limit.

Premium costs $29, paid once, billed per project. It adds unlimited PDF and Excel exports, high-resolution seating charts and supplies, 5 AI credits, advanced website features, and storage for up to 1,000 guest photos. It makes sense for couples who need exportable records or greater photo capacity, but the one-time project charge is not a recurring monthly membership.

Business profile costs $19 a month, billed monthly, and includes Business profile membership plus a 30-day free trial. It is aimed at wedding businesses seeking a profile rather than couples buying extra planning capacity. White-Label Integration costs $120 a month, billed monthly, with custom subdomain and branding, Premium features in every project, and a 14-day free trial. That higher recurring price is suited to organizations that need branded projects across clients, not an individual couple.

There is also a custom-domain option, but no separate price is given for it. Whatever plan they choose, couples should account for the one-year inactivity deletion rule for active projects and the five-year limit for archived projects.

Platforms

Planning.Wedding is available on web, Android phones and tablets, and iPhone and iPad. Projects are shared across devices, which helps people coordinate from different screens without splitting planning work between separate project copies.

Who it's for

This is a strong fit for couples who want a website and RSVP management tied to a fuller planning toolkit, especially when family and friends will contribute. Planners and venues may find the business profile or white-label option more relevant. Couples who need a permanent archive, or who only want a minimal wedding page, should consider alternatives.

Pros and cons

• Pros: The free Basic plan combines guest management, a wedding website, budgeting, schedules, vendor tools, and other planning features, making it useful before a paid upgrade is necessary.
• Pros: Helpers can collaborate in real time without accounts, reducing setup friction for family and friends.
• Pros: RSVP forms connect to guest records, including plus-ones, VIP events, and reminders, keeping responses within the planning workflow.
• Cons: Active projects are removed after a year without updates, and archived projects after five years; it should not be treated as a permanent records store.
• Cons: Basic photo capacity is capped at 30 post-wedding photos, so couples expecting a larger shared album need Premium or another storage plan.
• Cons: White-label integration is a recurring $120 a month commitment, a poor fit for couples seeking only personal planning tools.

Alternatives

Wedding Website Builders is the broader category directory for comparing other wedding-site options.

Wedence is worth considering for couples who want a free option with an animated invite, two designs, unlimited guest lists, per-event RSVPs, and a guestbook.

Joy (WithJoy) may suit couples who want a free wedding website alongside a registry, mobile app, online RSVPs, and digital invitations.

The Knot Wedding Websites is another free choice for core website features, customizable templates, RSVP collection, registry links, and guest messaging.

Vowesta is a free alternative.

Duva is a web-based free platform for websites, RSVPs, guest lists, checklists, budgets, and vendor tracking, with messaging available for a one-time charge.

Git Hitched is a free alternative for readers considering a self-hosted or web-based option.

Kleap may fit someone building a broader site: its free plan includes publishing on a Kleap address, hosting, SSL, and 5 AI credits per day up to 30 per month.

RSVP Hub is a free alternative for readers focused on event RSVPs, QR tickets, and check-in across unlimited events.

Verdict

Choose Planning.Wedding if you want guest management, event planning, and a customizable wedding website in one shared workspace, particularly with account-free collaboration for helpers. Its free Basic plan covers a lot of core work, while Premium adds meaningful export and photo capacity. Look elsewhere if you need a dependable long-term archive: the project-retention deadlines are the platform’s most consequential drawback.