Plan 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.

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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

Can ChatGPT plan our wedding?

What Miri takes on

Four things that usually cost you sleep.

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 checklist

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 calculator

Every 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 list

A 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 plan

Honestly

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.

Planner, DIY or tool: which one fits you?

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. The details are in our privacy policy (German).

Common questions

Questions about AI wedding planning

01What is AI wedding planning and how does it work?

AI wedding planning means: Miri automatically generates a personalised timeline and to-do list from your wedding date, distributes your budget based on guest count and region, and suggests the right questions for each vendor category. You decide, Miri handles the routine.

02Is Miri an AI?

Yes. Miri is powered by modern AI that has learned from many wedding experiences. We give her a warm personality because planning is an emotional topic. But her recommendations are based on real data, not gut feeling.

03What makes Miri different from a chatbot?

Miri isn’t a simple chatbot. She suggests proactively, reminds you of deadlines, builds budgets and remembers your style and decisions. Other tools have checklists. Miri has a plan.

04What can Miri do that ChatGPT can’t?

ChatGPT is a great general-purpose AI, for brainstorming, first drafts, ideas. But every session starts from scratch, it doesn’t remember your earlier decisions, doesn’t run a budget and doesn’t track deadlines. Miri is specialised on weddings: she knows your guest list, your budget, your timeline and your style, and keeps it all together, even if you don’t check in for two weeks.

05Can AI replace a human wedding planner?

For creative curation, venue visits and day-of coordination, a human planner is wonderful and typically comes with a four-figure price tag. Miri handles the structural orchestration before that: running the numbers on your budget, keeping deadlines in view, asking the right questions of vendors. Many professional planners use tools like HeyBride alongside, as an assistant, not 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. Details are in our privacy notice.

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