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The Top 20 Wedding Planning Websites and Apps

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Hey Boss Bride! If you’re on a journey to plan your own wedding, you’re in for a treat today. I’m bringing you the Top 20 Wedding Planning Websites and Apps to help you save time, energy and money as on your journey down the aisle.

There are a lot of blogs, websites and Apps out there claiming to help you plan your wedding more efficiently or even in auto-pilot. But where on earth should you start? Check out these wedding planning websites resources to give you an idea of all of the tools and resources at your disposal to make wedding planning less of a hassle.

Top 20 Wedding Planning Websites and Apps

  1. Wedding Wire – Online support community, tracker and resource for finding vendors and venues.
  2. The Knot – now combined with Wedding Wire, offers wedding planning inspo, websites, community and one-stop shop for locating vendors- a great wedding planning website
  3. Minted – Custom paper goods, and coordinating personalized websites
  4. Brides – Library of articles filled with advice and inspo for over 85yrs
  5. Zola – Wedding Planning and Registry made easy, equipped with wedding websites as well
  6. Pinterest – The juggernaut of wedding insp pictures. You visually can categorize every aspect of your wedding here.
  7. Instagram – Using the hashtag feature you can find great inspiration posted by local vendors themselves. Try #weddingphotography #weddingplanning #weddingdresses and see what comes up!
  8. Etsy – THE place to go for custom gifts for your wedding party, paper goods and even guest favors
  9. The Offbeat Bride – Popular Blog for Alternative, Unique Wedding Inspo
  10. Junebug Weddings – The Essential Guide to a Stylish Wedding
  11. Grace Ormonde Wedding Style – One of my favorites for inspo. For the bride with high-end style desiring a romantic, lavish affair
  12. All Seated – Neat place to organize your guests by table and create efficient room layouts
  13. RSVPify – An App for organizing your guestlists and managing events
  14. Doodle – Help communicate availability across multiple vendors in one App without all of the back and forth
  15. Appy Couple – Create your own wedding website (for a fee) and communicate with guests seamlessly
  16. Joy – App for sharing your inspo and details for your wedding
  17. LadyMary – Plan your wedding on the go with daily reminders and checklists- another great wedding planning website
  18. Pantone Studio – Begin flushing out your wedding colors and eliminating choices that don’t work for you. Think the opposite ends of the color wheel
  19. The Guest – Collect pictures from your guests in one place
  20. The Weather Chanel – Get ahead of the weather raining on your parade with this App
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So there you have it, my top 20 wedding planning websites and apps to checkout and a few apps to download as well to get started planning. You might be thinking…why would a wedding planner provide all of this goodness?

It’s my job.

For starters, it’s my job to know where to look and keep you informed, but also think about this: I just gave you 20 places to go to plan your wedding…and that is just the TIP of the iceberg! If you’re a BOSS Bride, ask yourself: do you REALLY have time to research/download 20-100 different places to plan your wedding?

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As a planner it’s my job to understand you, your needs and your wedding vision and then zero in on exactly how to give you the wedding you desire without all of the fluff and added layers. And THAT is why you need a wedding planner on your side, regardless of how many free resources are out there to help you plan your big day.

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