Wedding Planner by WeddingWire Reviews

by Pelucca1

So I have started discussions on topics that don’t even apply to me anymore, and I honestly do not want the discussion up at this point. I read a reply they wrote saying “we don’t delete forums because it could be valuable information and help for our brides.” Ok, but if I want to delete MY OWN forum discussion, I should be able to do so. I say run. WeddingPlanner is complete garbage and more of a headache than any sort of help.
I tried to find a way to delete it and if there is one, it didn’t show up anywhere on my app. Not only that, but I decided to try and delete it because I just don’t want it anymore, and in my account settings a deactivate option is nowhere to be found. There are other small quirks with WeddingPlanner that I have decided to look past as well, such as how it’s impossibly annoying to even try to get to your own forum discussion, etc. However it’s just getting to the point where I don’t even want the account anymore. Very frustrating that there seems to be no way to delete the account on WeddingPlanner , as if trying to make it more difficult to do so.
And I’ll agree with the other review I read about the rude people on forums, you ask one simple question and these rude females fly way off the handle acting like Dr. Phil. Save your energy and just plan your wedding the old fashioned way, with a beautiful store bought organizer ☺️

by Gagneb08

WeddingPlanner is great. It helped us find our vendors and the timeline is super helpful. The users however are downright mean. Any idea you have or question you ask gets you ridiculed and judged. It’s my wedding and I asked a question about something in the forum. The entire community told me it was tacky and I shouldn’t do it. It was rude and made me feel attached. I reported it and the team told me everyone was entitled to an opinion. But I had users telling me my wedding would be horrible and they wouldn’t go if they were invited. It was non-stop and I didn’t think the support team was helpful. It wasn’t just me, I read other peoples forum questions and they all had people arguing and putting peoples weddings and ideas down. So I’d recommend it for everything, but skip the forum. They are only hurtful.

I’m reading other reviews and they are similar to mine. “Hateful community” “disrespectful” “makes you feel bad about your budget and cultural beliefs” one of the reviews is an example of how the hateful brides are. Something along the lines of “if you expect us to tell you a cash bar is a good idea your wrong. Not everyone is nice WECOME TO THE INTERNET” those are the kind of responses you’ll get.

Don’t waste your breath

by Anything4selenas

WeddingPlanner is annoying to deal with and not helpful at all. Like so many my date has changed multiple times but there is no way to update the to-do timeline making the entire purpose I downloaded WeddingPlanner useless. Couples need help planning what to do by when and there is no way to change the checklists after your first use. They update their systems every so often which has caused me to lose my entire guest list and then entire account, made me register a new account but was unable to do anything with as the email was already in use? I had to deactivate, uninstall, reinstall, and reactivate the account to get everything to work again. All things I trial and errored on my own. There’s just too many issues, it makes planning more stressful and annoying to have to deal with. Theres so many other better options out there.

by Pjn12345

Wedding wire and the knot have a rule that you cant give a venue a review unless you have a contract. What does this mean? It means all of those who had a bad experience with sales staff are unable to write a review. One venue we looked at was not inclusive to other cultures food. This was sad, the sales person said her chef was not interested in trying different cuisine (Indian food). Even said he would just follow a recipe and it may not be good. This shows a lack of skill on the chefs part. This was the Inn at Boltwood in Amherst, Massachusetts. We tried to leave a review and the wedding wire removed it and told us we can’t place honest reviews because we did not have a contract. It did not matter to them that we clearly reached out to the venue because we would have wanted to get married there. Clearly the wedding wire has a lot of “5 star” reviewed venues. That’s because the wedding wire and the know don’t give you honest reviews.

by Cellistbynight

My main use for WeddingPlanner is the checklists and the budget feature. Both can be improved upon. For instance there is no way to delete a pre-existing expense. You can zero it out but not delete it. If would also be nice if the overall category once completed would collapse and give you a category total. Otherwise its very good at keeping track of your budget.
The checklist feature is probably the best user friendly way of keeping a bride organized. If it could integrate with your actual calendar app that would be nice too or to be able to see tasks and deadlines in a calendar form vs listed.
Its a good app to have and with some updates it could be a great app that bride would be foolish not to use. So give it time.

by Srjallad

I really do love wedding wire. They have been such a useful tool for planning my wedding. I love their layout and all the tools they provide. However, the only reason for giving it 3 stars and not 5 is due to the wedding website feature. Unfortunately, they do not make it very easy to navigate. I also feel it does not give the user full capabilities. I accidentally clicked on the “disable function” one time and little to my knowledge that meant deleting the entire website. Support told me they could not re-enable it and that it should have asked me if I was sure I wanted to disable it before making the choice final. It never asked me if I was sure, it automatically did it. It was so sad to learn my hard work and careful planning of over 6 months for my website had gone to waste. I know The Knot gives you a couple of days to reactivate your website if you delete it. If only wedding wire would make it easier to navigate and not as easy to delete your website with the click of one button, then I would have loved to rate it 5 stars. I have heard too many people have issues with their website. My registry on WeddingWire also does not show the correct amount of items I’m registered for. Had I known all this before hand, I would have gone with the Knot for my wedding website specifically. Hope this helps others not make the same mistake as myself!

by Tmbaseman

I like WeddingPlanner !! It is definitely helpful in the planning process. I like the website creating options. I think this site has a thorough vendor list in sooooo many areas (some I had not thought of). I just have some recommendations:
1. When creating list for rehearsal dinner and bridal shower, you should have the ability to make it private. I had someone register online for the ceremony and reception, able to register for all other events. I was not ready for that. I was just in preplanning mode and getting ready for next steps.
2. Not everyone is going to hire someone in all the vender planning categories. It would be nice to edit the list to delete the ones you don’t need from continuously showing up. Like if you are just getting a photographer, the ability to delete the videographer would be awesome. Just seeing the gray box saying you need to fill this is annoying, especially when the anxiety of the whole event is upon you.

by Skitzlow

I LOVE the ‘Kindness Matters’ guidelines 😍 when I started posting questions I expected people to be thoughtful and kind, but felt attacked if my ideas were different from others. I was especially surprised bc I even stated that my wedding would be different due to illness. The ‘Kindness Matters’ guidelines shows that WeddingWire saw a problem and are attempting to solve it. THANK YOU! On a separate note WeddingPlanner could offer more. In the budget section it would be nice to have all the estimated costs added up to see if you will stay under budget. And it would be great if you could drop other sites into the favorites section and to be able to make lists - for example, favorite dresses, flowers, color schemes. Otherwise a great app, especially since it's free!

by Ms Travel Diva

Planning a wedding is fun but stressful. I knew I was gonna need some help but didn’t want to pay or be hounded by wedding planners. So a friend suggested a wedding planning app I’d heard of a few Zola tie the knot and a few others so to WeddingPlanner Store I went to do my research and read reviews. Wedding wire had the most positive feedback and seemed like the perfect app for me. From the moment I downloaded WeddingPlanner I knew it was good for me. Super organized and allowed me to have a starting place. But I loved how it took my days till wedding and organized a checklist to keep me on track. I would suggest tweaking a few things for example booking you venue should be at the top of your list as most place book up to a year in advance. But so far so good and soon I will test out the guest app to see if it will monitor my guest and allow rsvp to occur.

by Alli-C-B

Scott was extra communicative leading up to our wedding day, we must have chatted 5-6 times on the phone! He is an expert in the industry and had great suggestions to help the flow of the event go well. During our event we had many custom requests including needing speaker set up in several different locations. Scott prepped everything perfectly and everything went so well. He was great communicating with a live singer/pianist we had for cocktail hour as well. He has a music portal we filled out (we accidentally added 8 hours of music although our event only had time for 2!). I could tell he understood our interests and carefully selected songs on the night of that fit the energy of the crowd. It was important for us to have a high energy dance floor— we kicked off the dancing portion with a Congo line and people never stopped dancing all night! Thank you Scott!!

by Indicam

Overall I like WeddingPlanner . It’s very helpful in planning and keeping organized. However, they updated WeddingPlanner and it’s not as useful anymore.
-Unable to check off whether guest will be attending or not. It won’t let me click anything
-guest list is one long list. You’re able to organize it by bride and grooms family/friends but before the update you could put the address and add guests accordingly which made invites easier. Now i had to figure who lived together because it wasn’t organized that way with the update. That made invites really time consuming.
-Lost all of my info including addresses which was super frustrating. Contacted support but no one responded back to me.

by Taylor 2022

WeddingPlanner has been so helpful throughout the planning process. I went into this process knowing virtually nothing about wedding planning, and the automated checklist of items helped me see what needed to be done and when to prioritize certain tasks over others. WeddingPlanner is easy to use and navigate, and their process for creating the guest list, wedding website, and registry is easy too. Don’t skip out on viewing weddingwire on their website though either! There are some features available if you’re on your laptop than on your phone, so be sure to play around with both modes and get planning!

by RachaelBaranoski

Wedding wore took away the stress of wedding planning organization! I have everything in one place and it even drafted a budget and timeline to start which can be edited at any time. I’m in the event planning business which helps too but a wedding is so different so having one central location to house everything is amazing

Tracking my spend and what’s left with due date reminders has been really helpful too. Keeps track of invites as well so I’m not going back and forth between spreadsheets I really can’t say enough.

I would recommend to any new couple planning their wedding to start here!!!

by Tmonty64

We used Red Sky to cater our rehearsal dinner, our wedding reception and our post wedding brunch from 20-22 May 2021. Our guests were very pleased with the food - raved about the raw bar we had at the wedding - and commented that they were positive each meal was better than the last. In addition, without exception, the servers, leads and chefs were outstanding - always on and incredibly nice - without fail. Finally - the catering manager, Dena, was incredibly easy to work with - through a year long delay, a couple menu changes and additional services we wanted to ensure we were taking extra care as we begin to come out of the pandemic. Five stars all the way!

by Peyasaurusrex

I’ve used similar apps for wedding planning but this is by far the best. It provides you with a free wedding website, a checklist with due dates, a budget, inspiration and a forum to discuss wedding planning. You even get a virtual assistant who will send out messages to the vendors in your area asking for a quote. It takes the headache out of planning! I’ve put my wedding planning off for so long but I don’t even dread it now. WeddingWire allows you to select your venue, catering service, music, officiant, event rentals, favors, decor, invitations, flowers, your hotel, beauty services, cake, dress, tux, travel, photography and videography and even get a photo booth! You won’t be disappointed if you download WeddingPlanner.

by MsShaun

I had a designation wedding in Negril. I also had 75 guests traveling from all over the US and France to attend my wedding. I wanted to give them each a welcome bag with something from Jamaica to commemorate the event. I had an idea of what I wanted but didn’t know where to get them in Jamaica. I looked at Wedding Wire for suggestions and came across Island Favours. Romae was wonderful to work with! She was very responsive and professional. She made great suggestions for my welcome bags and wedding favors. She was so patient and flexible with me in with my indecisiveness and last minute changes and requests. She even personally delivered the products to my resort! All of my guests love EVERYTHING and I was so happy that I chose Island Favours. They are truly a great company to work with!

by Awilson95

I was recommended wedding wire by my sister who used it when she was planning her wedding. I would’ve been lost! It helped keep my planning on track and within a great time range. I was able to find quality vendors through WeddingPlanner and will be using them for my wedding! And when I did have a terrible issue come up with a vendor I was trying out, the costumer service line immediately took action, stuck up for me and put a stop the horror that was that one vendor. I have 2 weeks left until the wedding and have used wedding wire everyday for a year and continue to use it. I recommend this to everyone and anyone who asks! Thank you wedding wire for making my wedding planning so much easier on me ❤️

by JJones413

My fiancé and I decided to have our wedding 6 months after getting engaged and to top it off it’s across an ocean and most of the US away from where we live. So to save money I’m planning it with the help of friends and family back home (where the wedding is), but let’s be honest people can help but it can only go so far when you are looking at soooo many variables and don’t know where to start. I was overwhelmed to say the least until my friend told me about WeddingPlanner and it has saved my sanity. I found my dream venue (I saw it years ago with my sister but couldn’t remember the name), a photographer I get along with great, ideas, a checklist, budget tool and so much more! It’s helping me stay on track and the forum post give me great tips, tricks, and ideas along with a community of other people planning their big day and all that come with it! I highly recommend WeddingPlanner!

by FitNfancy

Wedding Wire has been the most wonderful app!!! I love it and I tell all of my fellow brides to use it! It makes planning so easy and virtually stress-free! I’d be lost without it! Not only has it been amazing for the planning using the checklist & budget, finding and hiring vendors, interactive forum with fellow brides, but also for creating your personal wedding website. You can easily customize what information to put on your wedding website by adding or removing pages, you can also create your own domain name & add your wedding registry link(s) to one or multiple retail registry links. I’m sure other wedding planning apps/wedding websites are great too, but I am loyal to wedding wire. (I cross reference guidelines/timelines on Pinterest from time to time to make sure I’m not skipping any important steps along the way, but WW pretty much has everything covered!) I am just so grateful to have such an amazing resource that’s easy and fun to use! What a time to be alive! LOL

by 3/11/22 Bride

Savanna and the team at The Legacy were AMAZING from day 1. Savanna was so responsive with all my questions and random emails over the course of the last 9 months. I was an out of town bride trying to plan everything from the Midwest, so she did multiple FT tours, and was so helpful in setting up a tasting and planning meeting when my fiancé and I came about 6 weeks before the wedding. There was a hiccup on our end with some miscommunication about the rehearsal dinner that was also at the Legacy, and Savanna helped us out like it was no issue at all. She really made a huge effort to make our day the best it possibly could be, and I couldn’t recommend the Legacy more for your venue!

by GiantsChick2121

I like WeddingPlanner because it has a budget and a checklist and guestlist in one spot (probably not that different from theknot or other wedding apps). However, weddingwire is in serious need of flexibility and customization updates.
The gueslist is mostly useless in WeddingPlanner because you cannot delete guests or move them to certain sections (for example: they rsvp’d to the shower but not the wedding yet).
The budget app has good intentions but I still dislike that there is no option to add what item/detail was paid for in each subsection (for example: you just bought half of the vases for the flowers and want to track the amount and date paid as well as where you bought them from but it only lets you put the amount paid and date). They should let you remove the “paid by” feature.
There should be more categories in the checklist for wedding shower/bachelorette/ etc. because they could go under “other” but if you’re like me and want to track every to do item it gets messy in there. There should also be a way to filter to-dos by category from WeddingPlanner .

Overall, it’s just got a lot of holes but it’s better than nothing!

by Triple-AAA

It’s a nice app, but it’s too controlled. It’s the 3rd app I’ve downloaded. It gives a lot of info on vendors etc in area, but what I would love is WeddingPlanner to be more tailored for people on a budget- send us dresses from reasonable price stores instead of designers, but stores like David bridal and show when they have sales etc. Also show venues that aren’t over priced. And mainly I would like to get rid of unnecessary categories like having a band- I don’t need one. I mean if you guys can give the option to add categories it should also be made easy to delete categories a person doesn’t need. Or a venue location, my ceremony and reception is going to be in my backyard so again should make categories easy to delete and not force me to search for a venue.

by Melran4

I love WeddingPlanner for all my wedding planning needs. It is so much help. I love that it keeps me on schedule and organized. There are a few downfalls. When I am using WeddingPlanner on my iPad WeddingPlanner does not rotate with the screen. I have a keyboard cover which makes it much easier to type but WeddingPlanner does not rotate as the screen rotates. While I use the iPad I have to type everything sideways which is very annoying and uncomfortable. Hopefully the next update they can fix this issue. My only other issue is I cannot find and add certain venders in my area because they don’t come up on the wedding wires list of vendors. Therefore I don’t get all of the rewards I could be earning if all my venders were available.

by Princess Geston

I’ve been engaged for approximately a week and a half at the time of this review and I have to say I’m loving WeddingPlanner ! I’ve also subscribed to The Knot to compare and see if they had different options, in which they did for some vendors. Overall I’m liking my experience with Wedding Wire better. I think WeddingPlanner is easier to navigate and I’ve received response from majority of the vendors I reached out to (same day response too) as to where I’m still waiting to receive a single response from the vendors contacted via The Knot. That may be a vendor issue but I do think it helps to my positive experience with WeddingPlanner! Stay tuned with further updates!

by Aileen07102

Had a fabulous experience at New York lace from the moment I stepped in the door Dolores was very welcoming and took the time to listen to what i was looking for . Danielle was phenomenal every step of the way and truly made me a happy bride to be answered all my questions and was by my side through all the dresses I tried on!! Started from dress to veil and accessories all in one spot!!!! I would recommend New York Lace to anyone that wants best quality and experience!! And also Dolores husband was very welcoming and helpful The whole New York Lace team was FABULOUS COULDNT HAVE BEEN ANY BETTER!!! Thank you all again !!!! If you want a dress you will LOVE THIS is the right place to start and finish!

by A&K Kent

My Husband and I Hired Jay as our wedding photographer this past February. He is so professional and fun to work with! Working with Jay my husband and I could see how much he loves being a photographer, his work is absolutely beautiful! Our wedding album is one of my most treasured possessions. Every time I look at our album I relive the best day of my life! I have never done a review before and I don’t know if I can even put into words how wonderful Jay is!! My husband and I have so much respect for him!! We were honored that he was there to capture our day. Asher and Kirsten Kent