We don’t need to tell you that wedding planning can feel overwhelming. You have to find a bridesmaid dress to flatter five totally different figures, choose the perfect filling for the cake and decide where to seat your fiancée’s great aunt Gladys, all while staying right on budget. These apps for your smart phone, as suggested by Verizon Wireless, will help you do it all without breaking a sweat.
- Appy Couple helps you create an interactive website for your wedding guests, including your "How We Met" story, favorite photos, bios of the wedding party, maps, directions and even a weather forecast. Guests can share photos and leave comments too. We love the wide range of elegant themes available to keep your wedding website stylish. One time set-up fee of $28 at appycouple.com.
- WedPics turns your guests into your personal paparazzi! They can instantly upload their smart phone and digital photos from your wedding day into an interactive virtual album. Now you’ve got all those snapshots in one place, including the crazy moves your cousin busted out on the dance floor when the professional photographer was already long gone. Free at wedpics.com
- Wedding Scan lets you add any item from any shop to your wedding registry. Simply scan the barcode with your iPhone, and guests can easily see the price, description and where to find it. No barcodes at your favorite antique shop? No problem, just snap a photo and add a description. Old-fashioned one-size-fits-all registries are officially a thing of the past. Available on iPhone for $2.99 at weddingscan.com.
- SeatingPlanner+ transforms the nightmare of seating charts into a dream by importing contacts from your phone, email and Facebook account. You can create multiple arrangements until you come up with the perfect mix at each table, then download the final product as a PDF or text document to share with your planner, caterer and curious mother in-law. Available on iPhone for $4.99 at gobeelabs.com.