Planning.Wedding vs Vowesta

Planning.Wedding is an online wedding planning platform for couples, families, and professional planners. Its tools include guest lists, RSVPs, a website, checklist, budget calculator, itinerary, timeline, vendor directory, seating charts, stationery, notes, and a guest photo album. Partners, family, and friends can work on a project in real time without accounts, with project updates stored in the cloud and synced. The website builder offers customizable templates, drag-and-drop sections, RSVP forms, password protection, and widgets for event details, travel, accommodation, FAQs, and registries. Couples can use a free custom URL and QR code in one of three domain formats, or connect a custom domain. RSVP responses connect to the guest list for managing attendance, plus-ones, VIP events, and reminders. Android and iOS apps share projects across devices. Basic is free; Premium costs $29, paid once, billed per project. The terms say active projects and their content are removed one year after the last update, and archived projects after five years.

Vowesta is a wedding planning platform for building a wedding website and coordinating guests, invitations, seating, and registry contributions. It runs on Android, iOS, and the web, and includes an AI planner that uses wedding details to create timelines, suggest vendors, flag budget risks, and propose seating arrangements. Couples can manage unlimited guests, households, plus-ones, RSVPs, meal choices, and seating charts. Email invitations and QR-code save-the-dates are available.

The universal registry supports items from any store and cash funds, with card contributions handled through Stripe. Vowesta charges 2.5% on cash gifts, registry contributions, and raffle tickets; card processing is also deducted before payout. The free plan includes the planning tools, unlimited guests and RSVPs, custom domain connection, and a Kept camera for the first five guests. Optional extras cost separately: expanding the camera is a one-time charge whose price depends on guest count, and a new domain through Vowesta costs $19.99 a year.