Ask HN: Tools for Planning a Wedding I'm planning a wedding and need recommendations for project management tools I can use. At the moment I have set up a Google Sheets with a budget calculations, contacts, Q&A, nextcloud for file storage (contracts, offers etc) and kanban board for task tracking. It would be good to have something more powerful and integrated. |
Because such people have familiarity with resources and relationships with vendors, they have experience.
Good luck.
It was enough effort to learn that I tried to set up a wedding planning company after my wedding, only to find that everyone does that and it's not too profitable.
Come to think of it, it would make a good app. There's all kinds of baby shower and gift apps, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a good cheap wedding planner service.
To a first approximation all the major elements of a wedding have to be in Des Moines. Whatever exceptions there are the church is not among them.
Weddings are local. Apps don’t scale down to that granularity because busy wedding photographers, florists, and caterers don’t need to sign up for an app to get referrals.
Doing everything for a wedding is already hard enough. You don't want to fight your tech at the same time. At least I didn't.
"Apps don’t scale down to that granularity because busy wedding photographers, florists, and caterers don’t need to sign up for an app to get referrals."
This argument can apply to everything else people sign up on apps for. Localized is fine for food delivery, and busy restaurants sign up for them.
Part of the appeal is finding the non-busy ones. During wedding season, caterers and photographers are often fully booked, and one needs to make a lot of phone calls just to find one that isn't. And of course the new service providers want some way to do marketing. There is a successful app out here for finding wedding photographers but I'm not aware of one here to plan a whole wedding.