How we compare wedding planning platforms
Every platform is scored on the same six criteria, from its own pages, and every fact on this site links to where it came from so you can check it yourself. No platform is ranked by commission.
The criteria
Features
The tools a couple actually plans with: a wedding website, online RSVPs, a guest list with dietaries, a seating chart, a seat finder for guests, a budget tracker, vendor tools and a gift registry.
How it’s checked: We read each platform's features, pricing and help pages and record what they say it does, and on which plan. A tool its own pages don't mention is marked “not mentioned” or “not listed”, which means we couldn't find it, not that it can't exist.
Connected tools
Whether the tools share one guest list, so an RSVP updates the seating chart and the caterer's dietary list without retyping.
How it’s checked: We record how each platform describes the link between its guest list, RSVPs, seating and budget.
Pricing model
What the couple pays, how (free, subscription or one-time), for how long, and who else pays the platform: registry sales, vendor leads or advertising.
How it’s checked: Prices come from each platform's own pricing page or app store listing, in the currency it showed us. How it makes money comes from its own pricing, vendor or terms pages.
Currency and local relevance
The currency prices are shown in and where the platform is made, which matters for Australian couples paying in AUD and texting Australian mobiles.
How it’s checked: From the currency on each pricing page and each company's own about pages.
Guest experience
What guests see and do: the website, RSVP, texts, finding their seat on the night, sharing photos.
How it’s checked: From each platform's description of its guest-facing tools.
Planner support
Whether a professional planner can run several client weddings from one account, with their own team and pricing.
How it’s checked: From each platform's pages for wedding professionals. A platform whose pages don't mention planners is marked that way.
The rules we keep
- Only what a platform’s own pages, help centre, terms or app store listing say. No guesses, no reviews, no star ratings.
- Prices exactly as shown, in the currency shown, with the date we read them. Where a price depends on where you are, we say so and link to the page.
- Where we couldn’t read a page (theknot.com turns away automated visits), we say so and use what we could read instead.
- Every head-to-head shows both platforms on every criterion, then says who should choose which.
- Products change. Each row says when it was checked; the source links are the place to confirm today’s facts.
Where each platform’s facts come from
WedBuild
Zola
Joy
The Knot
Easy Weddings
Say I Do
WedSites
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Tell us the platform, what changed and where you saw it. We check the source and fix the row.