A to-do list that sorts itself
Miri turns your wedding date into a task list that knows what comes when. You only ever see the next few steps, not all 99 at once.
See the wedding checklistPlan your wedding with AI
Your AI wedding planner.
Her name is Miri.
Miri is an AI that specialises in weddings. She builds your to-do list, splits your budget, manages your guests and nudges you when something is due. No subscription, German servers, free to try.
What an AI wedding planner actually does
An AI wedding planner is software that does more than store your wedding planning. It thinks along with you. From a handful of details, your wedding date, a rough guest count, your budget and your style, it produces a complete plan: a task list with deadlines, a budget split across categories, and a sensible order to work through it all.
What sets it apart from an ordinary wedding app is that everything is connected. In a normal app, your guest list, budget and seating plan are separate lists you keep in sync by hand. With AI wedding planning they move together: add 20 guests and the catering budget rises, the seating plan gains a table, and the stationery line grows with it. You change one number, the rest follows.
Other tools give you checklists. Miri gives you a plan, and she builds it with you.
AI wedding planner or ChatGPT?
The question we get most. ChatGPT genuinely can do a lot for wedding planning, and for some things it is the better tool. The difference is not intelligence, it is whether something knows where you stand.
| Task | General AI | AI wedding planner |
|---|---|---|
| Brainstorming a theme | excellent | good |
| Drafting a speech or thank-you note | excellent | good |
| A checklist with your real deadlines | no, it does not retain your date | yes |
| A budget that recalculates when things change | no | yes |
| A reminder that a deposit is due | no | yes |
| Linking guest list, RSVPs and seating | no | yes |
| Current prices for your region | unreliable | benchmark values, maintained in the app |
Put simply: a general AI is an excellent adviser and a poor memory. It answers every single question well, but tomorrow it will not remember that you marry on 12 June, have 74 acceptances and already paid the venue deposit.
So the honest recommendation is not "either or". Use ChatGPT for text and ideas, and a planning tool for everything that has a state. We compared the two in detail: Can ChatGPT plan our wedding?
What AI actually takes off your plate
Not the lovely parts. Those you keep. It takes on what couples consistently name as the most stressful aspects:
- Knowing what comes next. The most common source of stress is not the number of tasks, it is not being sure whether you are missing something important.
- The arithmetic. Guest count times menu price, plus drinks, minus children, divided by tables. Every change drags five follow-up calculations behind it.
- Tracking deadlines. Registry office notice, RSVP cut-off, final headcount to catering. All dates nobody reminds you about.
- Finding information again. Which email said whether corkage applies?
What AI expressly does not take on: the decisions. Miri suggests, sorts and reminds. Whether you pick the barn or the restaurant is yours to decide, for reasons no software knows about.
How Miri works
You talk. She plans.
No forms, no setup wizard. Tell Miri what you have in mind, in plain language, and she gets going.
The difference
Generic AI can do plenty.
But it forgets you.
ChatGPT, Gemini and friends
- Every session starts from zero
- Does not remember your decisions
- Keeps no budget, tracks no deadlines
- Has never seen your guest list
- Great for ideas and first drafts
Miri in HeyBride
- Forgets nothing you have told her
- Your style and your decisions stay put
- Budget, deadlines and tasks all run together
- Knows your guests, tables and meal choices
- Speaks up when something is due
What Miri takes on
Four things that usually cost you sleep.
A budget that adds up
Miri spreads your total budget across 13 categories, weighing guest count, region and your style. You can see straight away whether the numbers work.
Open the budget calculatorEvery guest in one place
Guest list, RSVPs by QR code, meal preferences and allergies. Miri collects the answers, so you never have to chase anyone down by phone.
See the guest listA seating plan without the drama
Add tables, place guests. Miri already knows your guest list, so she also knows who belongs together and who is better off a few tables apart.
See the seating planHonestly
Where AI hits its limits.
We are not selling you magic. AI can take a lot of work off your hands, but there are things it cannot do. These are them.
Taste cannot be calculated
Whether a venue feels right is something you only know once you are standing in it. Miri can hand you the right questions for the visit, but she cannot feel it for you.
Negotiating stays your job
Miri tells you what a photographer typically costs in your region and how to spot a fair offer. The conversation with the vendor is still yours to have.
On the day, people matter
A maid of honour who knows the running order beats any app. Miri makes sure everyone knows what happens when. Holding the day together is your team’s job.
You always have the final say
Miri suggests, she does not decide. Every task, every budget line and every recommendation can be overridden. It stays your wedding.
Your data
AI, yes. Sharing your data, no.
Your wedding data is never used to train AI models, not by us and not by our technology partners. When Miri thinks, she gets only the factual details she needs for the task at hand: guest count, budget range, date, category. Your guests’ names stay anonymous, and whatever you tell Miri in the chat stays inside your account.
HeyBride runs on German servers and is GDPR compliant.
Common questions
Questions about AI wedding planning
01What is AI wedding planning and how does it work?
AI wedding planning means the AI takes the routine work and you keep the decisions. In HeyBride it works like this: from your wedding date Miri builds a timeline of around 99 tasks across 12 categories, scheduled by realistic lead times. From your guest count, region and style she splits your budget across 13 items and holds it against German benchmark figures. For every vendor category she suggests the questions worth asking before you sign. And when something changes, say 20 more guests, she recalculates budget and tasks instead of leaving you to update three lists.
02Is Miri an AI?
Yes, Miri is an AI, but one that lives inside the planning app. She reads your actual state, meaning your wedding date, guest list, budget, open tasks and uploaded documents, and can create tasks, adjust budget items or extend the running order from there. Her recommendations draw on real wedding experience: typical cost shares, realistic lead times and booking deadlines in Germany. The warm personality is intentional, because planning is an emotional business. The decisions always stay with you.
03What makes Miri different from a chatbot?
A chatbot answers; Miri works. She sees the state of your planning and can change it: create tasks with due dates, add budget items, extend the running order, set deadlines, all from inside the conversation. She speaks up on her own when a deposit is due or guest replies are missing, and opens every new session with a summary of what happened since last time. She also remembers your style and your decisions, so you never explain the same thing twice. Other tools have checklists. Miri has a plan.
04What can Miri do that ChatGPT can’t?
ChatGPT is a brilliant general-purpose AI for anything that is text: speeches, invitation wording, idea lists, kind ways to say no. What it lacks is the state of your wedding. Every session starts from zero, it does not know your guest list, does not run a budget, does not track deadlines and cannot create anything for you. Miri sits inside the planning app with permanent access to your data: she knows you marry on 12 June, that you have 74 acceptances and that the venue deposit is already paid. From the chat she creates tasks with deadlines, adds budget items, extends the running order and updates the guest list. She is also purpose-built for weddings, so she knows typical cost shares, realistic lead times and the order in which vendors get booked. And she reaches out on her own, even if you do not open the app for two weeks. In short: ChatGPT is the clever conversation partner, Miri is the planner who takes notes.
05Can AI replace a human wedding planner?
Partly, depending on what you need. For creative curation, walking venues in person, negotiating and coordinating on the day itself, a human is irreplaceable, and that typically costs €2,000 to €8,000 or 10 to 15 percent of your budget. The structural work before that is what Miri takes on: running the numbers on your budget and checking them against benchmarks, watching deposits and deadlines, scheduling the checklist against your date, keeping guest list and replies in order, and framing the right questions for vendors. Many couples combine both and book a planner for the wedding day only. Some professionals even run a tool like HeyBride themselves, as an assistant rather than a replacement.
06Do you train AI on our data?
No. Your wedding data is not used for AI training, neither by us nor by our technology partners. What you write to Miri is used only to produce your answer in the context of your planning, and never flows back into a model. Your data sits on servers in Germany, you can export it as JSON or CSV at any time, and you can delete your account together with everything in it. The details are in our privacy notice.
From the journal
Deeper reading
Hand-picked articles from the journal — for everyone who wants to dive into a single phase.
Planning ChatGPT prompts for wedding planning that actually work
18 tested prompts for speeches, timelines, seating and budget, plus the details you have to supply so the output is worth using.
By Miri 9 min
Planning What AI cannot do for your wedding planning
Seven things no AI takes off your plate, and why that is a good thing. An honest boundary from people who build an AI wedding planner themselves.
By Miri 8 min
Planning ChatGPT as a wedding planner: what it can and cannot do
ChatGPT, Gemini and co. as wedding planners? What generic AI does well, where it falls short, and how to tell when a specialised tool is the better path.
By Miri 9 min
Planning Wedding planner, DIY or tool: which one fits you?
Plan your wedding yourselves, hire a professional wedding planner or use a tool like HeyBride? An honest three-way comparison.
By Miri 10 min
Organisation Wedding wishes: what to write so it does not sound like a card
Ready-made wording by relationship and occasion, what to leave out, and how to turn a generic ChatGPT text into something personal.
By Miri 8 min
Planning Planning a wedding without stress: 10 tips for calm preparation
How to keep wedding planning calm and not let anticipation turn into stress, with concrete strategies.
By Miri 7 min
Come and meet Miri.
Free to try, no card needed. Tell her about your day and see what she makes of it.
Miri can hardly wait
