Individuals
The two of you are planning the wedding, and there is too much to keep in your heads.
Guest list with replies, things to do with a due date, budget and expenses, tables and seats: one single place, from the first list to the final table plan.
For couples planning their own wedding, with help from whoever they choose and without an agency.
A wedding is not a day: it is a year of things to remember
The guest list changes every week: a cousin goes in, a colleague drops out, and two have still not replied.
What the flowers cost sits in a chat, what the photographer costs in an email, and you add the total up from memory every time.
The tables are settled last, when moving one person means moving four more.
Play the Event brings it all into one space: the wedding is where the guests, the things to do, the money and the tables live.
Five things you no longer have to hold in your head
The wedding template
The problem The blank page is the hardest part: you do not even know where to begin.
What you do You open the wedding template: the sections to fill in are already there, in the order you need them.
The result You know where to start on the day you start.
The list that keeps changing, and the replies
The problem Every version of the list is a new file, and the answers come in conversation.
What you do You keep the list inside the wedding and send the invitation with a reply link.
The result Who said yes, who said no and who has not answered yet are in the same list.
Things to do, each with a due date
The problem Fittings, deposits, paperwork: each one has its own deadline, and the deadlines arrive together.
What you do You write down every thing to do with its date and the person following it.
The result What is due first is what you see first.
Wedding budget and expenses
The problem You set the opening figure once, and then every deposit moves it a little further away.
What you do You put the budget inside the wedding and record the expenses as they happen.
The result What is left is a figure you read, not a feeling.
Tables and seats
The problem The table plan is redone by hand every time one person changes table.
What you do You lay the tables out once and move people from one table to another.
The result The version you are looking at is the latest one: there is no fresher copy on another sheet.
For the couple holding the planning in their own hands
The guest list
Who to invite, who has confirmed, who is missing: a list you can change until the last minute without rewriting it.
The wedding budget
A figure set at the start and the expenses recorded as they happen, so the gap between the two shows up early.
The tables
Who sits with whom, decided in advance and changed when needed, without starting the drawing again.
The people who help you
Nobody plans a wedding with just the two of them: there are the sisters and brothers, the parents, the friend who takes care of the music. Inside the wedding every thing to do carries the name of the person following it and the date it is due.
Wedding -> Guests: invitations, replies, a list that keeps changing · To do: things to do, due dates, who follows them · Money: budget, expenses, cost splitting · Tables: seating plan
Today a wedding is run from a single account: the people helping you receive the invitation and reply, they do not log in to change the list or the money. If the two of you need separate logins, write to info@playtheevent.com: the interviews with organisers decide what we build next.
What we do not do
We are not an agency and we do not pick who will work for you: you plan the wedding, we hold your lists together. The wedding budget calculator and the table planner are among the free tools on the site, with no account needed.
Your wedding, in one place.
Start with the guest list and the budget: they are the two things that change most often, and they are worth pinning down early.
Everything Play the Event does for people planning it themselves
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