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how to plan a wedding · how it worksFrom yes to the last dance,
in this order.

Three celebrations, two families and a spreadsheet called final-final-v9. This is how to plan a wedding with the diary, screen by screen — and every screen is the real product, photographed on an example wedding.

1 · the days

Which days are there, really?

Kına, nikah and düğün — or ceremony, dinner and party; every family counts differently. You set each celebration down on its own: name, date, place. Each gets its own guest list, and the number per day becomes the one the kitchen needs.

A wedding with three celebrations

The days of example wedding Elif & Deniz: henna evening, ceremony and wedding party, each with its date, venue, doors and dress code — and that day’s plan beneath.
Every screen names the example wedding it was photographed on.
Every screen names the example wedding it was photographed on.
The days of example wedding Elif & Deniz: henna evening, ceremony and wedding party, each with its date, venue, doors and dress code — and that day’s plan beneath.

2 · the people around you

Your partner wants in, your mother wants to see, the planner wants to work.

One plan, several doors. Your partner comes in with one link and works in the same diary. A wedding planner gets a door of their own, reads along and proposes — you decide. Your venue and your team will read one link, with no account.

For wedding planners

The first page of Elif & Deniz’s diary: answers, tasks and the team on one screen — what everyone with a door sees.
Every screen names the example wedding it was photographed on.
Every screen names the example wedding it was photographed on.
The first page of Elif & Deniz’s diary: answers, tasks and the team on one screen — what everyone with a door sees.

3 · the invitation

The card everyone will forward.

Write the cover, the welcome and each celebration’s own words, then approve it all, one language at a time — a guest never sees a draft. Once your first language is approved, every guest’s own link opens the approved version in their language (or your first language’s), with only their celebrations on it.

The invitation

Elif & Deniz’s studio: the design and the blocks of the invitation, with the preview beside them.
Their invitation as a guest opens it, at 360 pixels.
Every screen names the example wedding it was photographed on.
Every screen names the example wedding it was photographed on.
Elif & Deniz’s studio: the design and the blocks of the invitation, with the preview beside them.

4 · suppliers and the venue

Who is hired, what was agreed, and what does the venue need to know?

The wedding team: who is hired, what was agreed and paid, and when who arrives. Your venue gets one read-only link with the times and the headcount per day — no names, no amounts. And the budget keeps score: agreed, paid, still to pay.

The wedding team

Lea & Mert’s wedding team: who works the two countries, with what was agreed per day.
What Amira & Youssef’s venue opens: the times and the headcount per day, without names.
Amira & Youssef’s budget: agreed, paid, and the next payment due on top.
Every screen names the example wedding it was photographed on.
Every screen names the example wedding it was photographed on.
Lea & Mert’s wedding team: who works the two countries, with what was agreed per day.

5 · guests and answers

Who is coming to what — and your aunt, who only answers on WhatsApp.

The list from Excel or your contacts, by household, per celebration. Sending happens from that list: the “not sent” filter, one message per guest, ready in your own WhatsApp — you press send. The answers land per celebration, counted in people.

Guests and RSVP

Elif & Deniz’s register: every household’s answers for the kına, the nikah and the düğün.
The sending: the same register on “Not sent”, with a Send button per guest and one button to copy every message.
The same register on your phone, as the answers come in.
Every screen names the example wedding it was photographed on.
Every screen names the example wedding it was photographed on.
Elif & Deniz’s register: every household’s answers for the kına, the nikah and the düğün.

6 · the day

Who has to be where at half past seven?

The day plan in blocks: start and end, the place, who needs to be there, and the travel time you note yourself. When something moves, it moves everywhere it is read — on your venue’s link too.

The day plan

Elif & Deniz’s days board: three celebrations, blocks with times, who needs to be where.
Every screen names the example wedding it was photographed on.
Every screen names the example wedding it was photographed on.
Elif & Deniz’s days board: three celebrations, blocks with times, who needs to be where.

7 · the room

Uncle at which table, and does 320 fit the hall?

Draw the room in metres, put the tables down and walk every household to its table. The advisor says where it pinches; the seating is yours. You choose what a guest sees, and the venue gets the plan on paper.

The seating plan

The room of Elif & Deniz’s düğün: twenty tables of ten, the meter above, the gate beside it.
Every screen names the example wedding it was photographed on.
Every screen names the example wedding it was photographed on.
The room of Elif & Deniz’s düğün: twenty tables of ten, the meter above, the gate beside it.

8 · what is still coming

Two things that are not here yet.

A gift book and a guest album are in build. They appear here once they really exist; until then we do not draw them.

the whole road

Every celebration free. €99, once, for everything.

The free version: every celebration, up to 100 guests in all. Confirm your address and your diary opens straight away. Then this is the road — at your pace, and the plan changes with you.

Newlyweds walking out into a lakeside garden celebration, guests cheering at the edges

The next chapter is yours

Let’s get you
to “I do.”

One page your guests open from WhatsApp, and behind it your list, the answers and the day plan. The free version: every celebration, up to 100 guests in all. Confirm your address and your diary opens straight away.

Confirm your address and your diary opens straight away.

the wedding diary

Your people. Your celebrations. One shared plan.