The Hottest Wedding Apps

Tech savvy brides and grooms rejoice

By Sara Doerrier

September 30, 2011

Some of the coolest accessories today include wielding around an iPad or an iPhone. So, naturally tech-savvy brides and grooms will find support in some of the latest wedding apps to aid wedding planning. Wedding apps can help with planning, managing, or just finding inspiration. Long gone are the days of ripped page notebooks, post-its with countless of vendors number scribbled on them, or even excel spreadsheets. Who needs a wedding planner when you have amazingly cool apps to do all the legwork.

Here are some of best wedding apps that can help plan your perfect wedding.

iWedding Deluxe – Wedding Planner

This will be the $9.99 you will ever spend when you’re planning your wedding. This comprehensive app will serve as your home base in wedding planning. All the major categories are covered like budget, venue, contracts, and to do lists but it also includes extras like tools for finding nearby vendors, links to wedding favors, photo storage for items that serve as inspiration, guest list details, and even a category to detail who will eat what. And as the date draws near there is a countdown clock that will dispense helpful advice on the things you should do to get ready for the big day.

Cost: $9.99

Plan Your Wedding with Mindy Weiss

Want your wedding to emulate that of Gwen Stefani? Heidi Klum? Ellen Degeneres? Wedding planner to A-listers, Mindy Weiss, dispenses excellent wedding advise and expertise through video clips, creative ideas, current wedding trends and up-to-date access to collections from the hottest designers. This is for those who are into celeb culture and helps you to achieve the glitz and glamour of one.

Cost: $7.99

Wedding Budget

Easy to use, straightforward and a godsend to you. This app allows you to keep track of the long list of costs, deposits, final payments, and how much money you have left. It breaks down all of your costs into categories such as ceremony, flowers, photography, music, wedding gown, etc. Keeps track of all the money from your original budget, how much you spent, have left and when payments are due.

Cost: Free

WeddingScan

Let’s be honest, aside from spending the rest of your life with the man of your dreams – creating your registry is one of the best parts of wedding planning. Walking around your favorite homing store with a barcode scanner – scanning any item of your choosing can be incredible fun. With WeddingScan, it doesn’t limit you to only one store, it let’s you scan any barcode from any store into your phone or iPad that then creates a centralized registry.

Cost: $2.99

Fun Wedding

When you are at a loss for songs to play at your wedding, this app provides you songs from categories like bride & groom, bride & father, groom & mother, and includes the top 200 most requested wedding songs and breakout hits from decades past to present day.

Cost: $0.99

Wedding Row

During your research for wedding ideas – you may come across many things that catch your eye. This app will keep the potential ideas and photos you collected for your what they call “inspiration boards”. These boards that you create will help you narrow down your choices to create the wedding of your dreams.

Cost: $1.99