Australian wedding apps · 2026

The best wedding planning apps in Australia (2026)

Nine apps, what each one costs, and where each one stops.

Most wedding planning apps do the same four things — a guest list, a checklist, a budget and a website with RSVPs — and then diverge on everything that comes after.

For an Australian wedding the differences that matter are practical: prices in Australian dollars rather than a converted figure and a foreign transaction fee, a directory with Australian businesses in it, dates and phone numbers written the way you write them, a clear position on GST, and whether there are real people behind the software when something goes sideways three days out.

The nine apps below are the ones Australian couples come across, with what each one costs, how far the free plan goes, and where each one stops.

How to choose

The questions that actually change the answer

Before you open nine tabs, it helps to know which four or five questions actually change the answer. These are the ones couples come back to us about.

Free, one payment, or a subscription

Some of these are free with no paid tier at all. Some are free to a guest cap and then ask for one payment you never repeat. One charges by the month, and a wedding takes twelve to eighteen months — worth the arithmetic before you start.

The guest cap on the free plan

Free rarely means unlimited, and the cap is usually what decides whether you ever pay. Count your list first, then read the column.

Website and RSVPs together

Nearly all of them build you a wedding website. Fewer bring the RSVPs back into the same guest list, and that is the part that saves you the spreadsheet.

Seating, and whether there is a floor plan behind it

Putting guests on a table is not the same job as laying the tables out in the room. Some do the first, a couple do both, and one or two only publish an article about it.

A day-of runsheet

The document your photographer, celebrant and venue all ask for in the last fortnight. It is the most common gap in this category — several of these write about timelines without giving you a tool to build one.

Printed stationery, and where it comes from

A directory of stationers is a different thing from a product that prints your own guests' names onto the place cards. Both appear below.

Guest photo sharing

A QR code on the table that collects everyone's photos into one album. Newer, and only some of them have it.

American or Australian

An American app still works. It will also price in US dollars, fill its directory with businesses you cannot book, and default to month-first dates. If you are marrying here, that is friction you do not have to accept.

One by one

The apps, and what each is for

Managing Matrimony

We make Managing Matrimony, so treat this section as the interested party talking.

An Australian platform that puts the planning tools, the printed stationery and a coordination team under one roof — planning, design and print, and coordinators, sold by the same company.

The join between the three. The guest list feeds the seating plan, the seating plan exports as a PDF of names and seat numbers for the venue, and the same names print onto the place cards. Paid plans are a single payment rather than a subscription, the vendor directory is Australian, and coordination packages are listed with prices rather than hidden behind a quote form.

Its own pages record seating, floor plan, digital invitations and the runsheet as partial rather than complete, and say nothing about a native phone app — it runs in a browser. It is also the newest name here, which matters if a long trading history is what reassures you.

Price. Managing Matrimony is free up to 50 guests; paid plans run $99 to $399 as one payment.

Good fit for. Couples who want the planning, the printed stationery and, if they want it, a real coordinator from one place.

Easy Weddings

The Australian incumbent: a wedding-planning platform built around a directory of Australian suppliers, with the planning tools free alongside it.

Finding people. More than five thousand Australian venues, services and providers, with reviews and messaging inside the app, and more than twenty-six years of trading behind the listings. The checklist, budget, guest list, seating and a free wedding website with RSVPs all sit in one free account, and there are real iOS and Android apps.

There is no tool for sending digital invitations — their e-invitations page is general advice about other services — and Easy Weddings does not print stationery: that section is a directory of other businesses to contact. No day-of runsheet, and no export described beyond saving the seating plan as a PDF.

Price. Easy Weddings is free, and its pages list no paid plan.

Good fit for. Couples whose first job is shortlisting Australian venues and suppliers.

Easy Weddings alternatives for Australian couples

Bridebook

A free all-in-one planner built in London, with an Australian localisation at the au-en address, covering the checklist, budget, guest list and venue search.

Being free without a catch, and pleasant on a phone. Their pages state every couple gets the core tools at no cost, a partner can be added as a collaborator on the checklist and guest list, and the wedding website is free with a link search engines will not index and an optional password. A separate storefront sells printed save-the-dates and invitations.

No seating tool — their own seating article tells couples to export the guest list and arrange the tables elsewhere — and no floor plan or day-of run sheet. It does not send digital invitations either; their guide points couples to Canva. The company is registered in London, and the Australian pages are a localised edition of the same product.

Price. Bridebook is free, and its pages list no paid plan.

Good fit for. Couples who want a free checklist, budget and guest list they can both edit from their phones.

Bridebook alternatives for Australian couples

Say I do

A free all-in-one planner built around the wedding website — the site, the guest list, online RSVPs, the checklist and digital invitations. Its pages state an Australian base.

The free tier is unusually generous, the paid tiers are a one-time cost rather than a subscription, and RSVPs are offered in thirteen languages, which is worth something if half your family replies in another one. It runs in a browser with nothing to download.

The seating planner and the digital invitations only unlock on a paid package, and no budget or expense tracker appears on any product page. Partners share one account by sharing a sign-in rather than having separate logins. No vendor directory, no runsheet, no printed stationery.

Price. Say I do is free up to 85 guests; paid plans run $69 to $149 as one payment.

Good fit for. Couples who mainly need a wedding website and RSVPs, with a large free guest allowance.

WedSites

A Melbourne-built wedding website builder with planning tools bundled behind it — guest list, RSVP, budget, checklist, seating and timeline in one dashboard.

The website itself. A drag-and-drop builder for couples who want to design the site rather than pick a theme, with households and groups handled for plus-ones and multi-event RSVPs, both partners in it, and one-time payments rather than a subscription.

Almost everything sits behind a tier: the cheapest paid plan has no guest list and no online RSVP, and the budget, checklist, seating chart and day-of timeline are top-plan only. Their own comparison articles record the seating tool as list-based rather than a visual floor plan, and state there is no mobile app. No printed stationery.

Price. WedSites is free; paid plans run $59 to $319 as one payment.

Good fit for. Couples who care most about designing the wedding website themselves.

Centrepiece

An Adelaide product from a signage studio: a free RSVP site, seating and floor plan whose data pre-fills the signage, table numbers and place cards you order from the same company.

The hand-off from screen to paper. Signage and place cards arrive with your names, table count and guest list already in them, because the same in-house team makes the signs. It does seating and a floor plan, and there is an interactive demo loaded with sample data you can open without an account.

There is no directory of wedding businesses to search — the vendor tracker only holds contacts you enter yourself. The run sheet, the digital invitation emails and the full budget ledger are behind the paid Pass, and the Pass is a subscription rather than a one-off payment, which is the odd one out here.

Price. Centrepiece is free up to 150 guests; paid plans run $13 to $109 a month.

Good fit for. Couples ordering signage and place cards who want the seating plan to fill them in.

Ivory Lane

A Melbourne-built free planner pitched as the replacement for the spreadsheet and the six scattered apps — one workspace where the numbers all recalculate together.

Connectedness and local detail. Guest count, budget, vendor payments and seating recalculate from one shared dataset, both partners get full edit access for a single payment, and it localises properly for Australia, including the Notice of Intended Marriage. It has a day-of runsheet, which most of this list does not, and a Wedding Inbox address that files vendor quotes into the plan.

The free wedding website has no RSVP — collecting replies is a Premium feature, as are the seating plan and the table layout. Their vendor marketplace has not launched; their own page says it is due late in 2026. And there is no app to download yet — it is a web app you save to the home screen.

Price. Ivory Lane is free up to 100 guests; paid plans run $99 as one payment.

Good fit for. Couples who want one connected planner with a runsheet, and are finding their suppliers themselves.

The Knot

The American incumbent, and the largest thing in this category anywhere: a free all-in-one planning platform paired with a marketplace of local wedding vendors, which its pages say has helped more than thirty million couples.

Scale, and one dashboard that holds everything — checklist, budget, wedding vision, guest list, registry, vendors and a wedding day timeline. Close to one hundred and seventy-five thousand vendors across twenty categories, backed by four million couple reviews. Their Peace of Mind Program helps you rebook and covers part of the difference if an eligible vendor cancels close to the date.

It is built for the United States, and its own help pages say so in detail. The budget tool works in US dollars only and tells couples on another currency to convert first. The marketplace lists venues by American state and city. Printed paper is not posted outside the States, and cash gifts are taken in US dollars only. The apps are not offered to Australian store accounts. There is no seating chart or floor plan.

Price. The Knot is free. Paid extras — custom domain and printed stationery — are priced in US dollars.

Good fit for. Couples marrying in the United States.

The Knot alternatives for Australian couples

Joy

An American wedding website, registry and planning platform with the most generous free plan here: the website, online RSVPs, unlimited guests, hundreds of digital invitations, the app and a shared photo album, all at no cost.

The free website and the sharing around it. Save the dates, invitations and eCards go out from the guest list by email, text or link with open and response tracking. Guests upload photos to a shared album before, during and after the day, with a real-time slideshow. The site is offered in Australian English.

The paper and the money are American: their shipping policy states delivery only within the contiguous United States, cards to Australia are quoted at nine to twenty-one days, and prices are set in US dollars and converted. It is also not a planner — their free-plan feature list has no seating chart, floor plan, budget tracker or checklist — and a custom domain, text messaging and the premium designs cost extra.

Price. Joy is free. Paid extras — printed cards and custom domain and text messaging — are priced in US dollars.

Good fit for. Couples who want a free wedding website with RSVPs and a shared photo album, and will plan the rest elsewhere.

Joy alternatives for Australian couples

At a glance

Every app, side by side

An em dash means the provider's own pages do not say either way.

AppFree tierFromGuests on freeWebsite + RSVPSeatingRunsheetPrintAustralian

Managing Matrimony

Yes

$99

Up to 50

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Easy Weddings

Yes

Free

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Bridebook

Yes

Free

Yes

Yes

Say I do

Yes

$69

Up to 85

Yes

Limited

Yes

WedSites

Yes

$59

Limited

Limited

Limited

No

Yes

Centrepiece

Yes

$13

Up to 150

Yes

Yes

Limited

Yes

Yes

Ivory Lane

Yes

$99

Up to 100

Limited

Limited

Yes

The Knot

Yes

Free

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Joy

Yes

Free

Unlimited

Yes

Limited

Yes

No

Common questions

What couples ask us about this list

What is the cheapest way to plan an Australian wedding online?

Free, and genuinely so — Managing Matrimony, Easy Weddings, Bridebook, Say I do, WedSites, Centrepiece, Ivory Lane, The Knot and Joy all publish a free plan. What separates them is the guest cap on it and what it leaves out, so read the table above rather than the price.

Do I pay per guest?

None of these charge per head. They cap the free plan at a guest count instead and ask for a payment past it — ours covers up to 50 guests, and the rest are in the table above. Count your list first, because the cap is usually what decides whether you ever pay.

Do these prices include GST?

None of these pricing pages says either way, so we do not either. If it matters — and it does if you are claiming anything back — ask before you buy.

Is an American wedding app a problem for an Australian wedding?

Not fatal, but it is friction: converting prices, a foreign transaction fee, a directory full of businesses you cannot book, month-first dates, and phone numbers losing the zero at the front on import. If all you want is a free wedding website, an American app is fine. For the guest list and the money, an Australian one saves you the translation.

Can I use two of these at once?

Yes, and many couples do — one for finding suppliers, another for the planning. Keep the guest list in a single app, though. It is what the seating chart, the RSVPs, the place cards and the runsheet all read from, and two copies of it is how people end up with a table for eleven.

There is no single right answer here, and you are allowed to use two. Plenty of couples find their suppliers in one place and run the guest list somewhere else. The only rule worth holding to is that the guest list should live in one app, because that is the list every other job reads from.

If you want to see ours

The free plan covers your guest list, a wedding website with RSVPs and the checklist, with no card required.

Details from each provider's website, September 2026.

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