Lumière vs Zola Wedding Planner

Lumière is a web-based wedding planning service for couples and wedding professionals, combining planning tools, a vendor directory and planning guides. Couples can organize a date-based timeline, budget, guests and RSVPs, vendors, seating plans and a day-of schedule. Timeline calculations cover beauty preparation, first-look and portrait timing, sunset, and travel between locations. A day-of timeline can be shared through a revocable link, with access limited to a vendor category. Jane, Lumière’s AI assistant, can suggest plan edits for approval before saving them. Professional options include planner plans for different wedding volumes, a venue-branded timeline builder and vendor calendar support and connectors. The Free plan costs nothing and allows up to 20 tasks, 5 vendors, 50 guests and 5 AI planner messages a month, with a limited budget tracker. Day-Of costs $15 a month; Premium costs $129 a year. Paid plans have a 7-day trial. Lumière says it uses access controls and encryption in transit where supported; Paddle handles checkout.

Zola Wedding Planner combines tools for venues, vendors, wedding websites, registries, invitations, guest lists, and budgets. Its marketplace helps couples discover, contact, and book vendors, with recommendations personalized to the wedding. Guest management tracks RSVPs, meal selections, and plus ones, and accepts spreadsheet imports. A seating chart supports drag-and-drop assignments plus customizable table names and seat counts. Registry features include gifts, experiences, zero-fee cash funds, group gifting, and virtual exchanges for credit before shipping. The iOS app manages a website, checklist, invitations, registry, gift notifications, and Gift Tracker; Zola says the free wedding app is currently iOS-only, while planning tools are listed for web and iOS. Couples can password-protect their wedding website, but registries cannot currently be password-protected. Zola says uploaded planning-tool information is not encrypted or otherwise secured. Its free plan is free for personal, non-commercial use with a registered account. Paid offerings are listed from 17.99 USD. Team-Z advisors provide chat or email support.