Wedding Planning for the Bride on the Go

iPhone applications amaze me. I’ve now discovered a great new one for wedding planning – who knew?

iWedding is a wedding planner to help you arrange one of the most important days of your life. Keeping track of the many tasks and all that information used to lead to stacks of paper, but not anymore. iWedding uses many of the powerful features built into your iPod Touch or iPhone to help with the organisation of the big day and keeps all the vital information at your fingertips.

Check out the features:

(v1.51)

Home Screen

• Countdown to your Wedding Day
• Top 5 of the To-do List
• Quick Notes
• Photo Browser

My Wedding

• Guest List Planning – All day and Just the Evening, including Invitations, RSVP and Meal Choice.
• Integration with Contacts/Address Book – Giving direct access to Telephone, Email and Address information.
• Guests / businesses can be added without needing a new contact – i.e. as just a name.
• Guests can be added in multiples.
• Recording of extensive information including times, dates, deposits, total costs for many categories including: venues, flowers, transport, catering, favors, honeymoon and even add photo and images of
• a To-do List (a guide which can be expanded with custom To-dos and the pre-installed to-dos can also be deleted).
• Seating Arrangements (up to 40 tables).
• Summaries of most sections available On Screen, as a customized Email or by Export to Web.
• Export your summary data to an iWedding Online account – viewable in any web browser. This allows you to share the summary info with your fiancee. – iWedding Online for iPhone and iPod Touch.
• Only use the Menu categories in Wedding, Reception and Honeymoon (delete the sections you dont want)

Budget

• Spending Summary – Automagically calculated from each sections details (but can be expanded with custom expenditure if necessary).
• Budget Assistant (showing percentage of budget spent compared against a budget guide).

Inspiration and Ideas

• Businesses can demonstrate their Dresses, Venues, Cakes and any other services with direct link to their website.
• Gift Registry and Wedding Music Ideas.

News

• RSS News Reader for iWedding News and we have included suggestions from our favorite wedding news feeds.

Plus:

• Same sex couples now supported.
• Colour of title and toolbars is customizable.
• Uses many Apple features such as ‘Swipe to Delete’ to remove guests / businesses, delete todo items and remove sections.

4/5 for the details.

Download the app using iTunes or go to http://www.iweddingapp.com/ for more information!

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Review: Bride Wars

Disaster Strikes!

I spent my Saturday evening at the cinema, after eagerly anticipating the release of this wedding flick. Starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, the two best friends have dreamed of Plaza Hotel weddings since young girls and suddenly find themselves getting engaged within a few days of eachother. Eager to book thier dates, a mix up means that they have to have both weddings on the same day. Being eachothers bridesmaids, this immediatley poses a problem however neither will budge. The war begins as both bridezillas try to ruin eachothers wedding plans, however it is never quite explained why they couldn’t have a joint wedding, after all they are best friends?

I am a complete chick flick addict but I’m affraid this one didnt quite give me the buzz I needed. Unlike marmite, I neither loved it nor hated it. It’s catfight comedy was in places very amusing with two of the best moments happen weeks before the wedding (blue hair and orange skin).

By the end of the film I wanted it to be finished however for anyone who is thinking of being a wedding planner, it’s a must see; you start to get an idea of how much of a nightmare some brides can really be! The Vera Wang wedding dress is stunning and, in my opinion, the star of the entire film. According to other sources, costume designer Karen Patch worked closely with Vera Wang to design two Vera Wang custom wedding gowns for Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway. (That sentence makes me swoon…)

When looking at the 2009 collection, you can quickly see the similarities of Kate’s  gown (see right).  Anne Hathaway’s dress was supposedly passed down from her mother, so the costume designer had to add in a touch of nostalgia to the design. Speculation across the web states that Anne’s dress was based on a gown from Vera Wang’s fall 2005 collection.

Anyway back to the film; overall I would give it 3/5, a watchable. If you want to see it, don’t waste the expensive cinema prices and rent instead.

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