iPhone Wedding Apps Rated and Slated

Plan a wedding, learn to waltz and stay out of the dog house. That’s a tall order for any man, but with a little help from your iPhone and the tunnel of wonders/crapitude that is the App Store, you can amaze everyone with how on top of things you are.

If you want to get your hands on any of these go to the App Store on your iPhone or purchase through iTunes.

Purity Pledge

It may be a little late for a commitment to stay chaste until marriage, but for 59p you can take the purity pledge and display a silver ring on your phone to prove your chastity.

In the lead up to the wedding, not having sex may well increase the excitement and anticipation of the first night in the marital bed but frankly, we can’t even begin to imagine what your mates would say about it if they found this app on your phone (actually, we know exactly what your mates would say about it) so perhaps it’s best not to tell them and keep it between you and the Mrs, eh?

My Wedding

Lists make you feel more organised, even if there is certain chaos ahead. While 166 to do items might seem a little excessive (it’s not), you can customise the list to help you keep on top of things such as guest numbers, attire, music, and catering.

For your £2.39 the app also gives you an idea of timescale when you need to organise things, such as meeting with the DJ six weeks before the wedding to discuss music and prevent the HRT dancefloor meltdown that is the ABBA megamix.

The application loses points because you can’t keep track of spending against budget. But knowing what needs to be done – and how much it is going cost – might put you over the edge. Probably best just to keep a list.

Wedding List

This is another list app, but specifically for keeping tabs on your wedding guests who you will have no control over on your wedding day, especially after the bucks fizz flows. This app helps you keep track of who has been invited, rsvps, and whether they have sent a gift and received a thank you.

The seating plan feature allows you to arrange your guests on up to 40 tables. You can also export the list and send as an email. Unruly family, friends and contentious couplings can make creating guestlists a nightmare, so £1.75 is arguably not a bad outlay to help keep them in order.

Days To Wedding

At first glance this looks just like the other countdown to your wedding day applications, but less exciting. In other apps you can enter the bride and groom’s names, and it offers its heartfelt congratulations on the day. But where this application lacks in functionality, the app says it offers you increased togetherness with your loved one: “whip out your iPhone and surprise your sweetie with your love; impress your fiancé with your desire to be mindful of your wedding day, warm your honey’s heart at will with romantic imagery anticipating your union; stay out of hot water, keep out of the dog house, and don’t screw up!” All this, for free? Gee! Thanks Mister!

Waltz Your Wedding Dance

Knowing how to lead a lady around a dance floor is an impressive skill to have, particularly at a wedding where there is no escaping the dance floor. Whether you are the groom, the best man or the father of the bride, let’s face it, you’re probably going to need all the help you can get. With this free app, you can watch world champions, and practice the steps.  Dancing around with your iPhone in one hand and an imaginary girl in the other might be a difficult one to explain to your fiancé if she walks in the room. But it could be much worse. Not too bad.

iWedding

At £4.99 this recently upgraded wedding planner is an extensive and complicated app by their own admission, to the extent there is a FAQ page on how to use it at www.iweddingapp.com It offers to help have everything under control with powerful features for to-do lists, guest lists and budgets rolled into one app. You can export data to an online account. They have also included ‘inspiration’ in the way of businesses demonstrating their dresses, venues, cakes, favors and other services. Pricey but if you’re going to have one planning app this is probably the one.

Wedding Envi

For £1.19 Wedding envi organises web-based wedding images, such as tuxedos, rings and shoes, ‘helping you chose while bringing added wedding excitement to your phone.’ Billed as a visual display of inspiration and ideas, it could be a good place for you to start when you are throwing ideas around about what kind of wedding you want. If you see something you like, you can pull up the website it comes from for more information. Visit Flickr and save your money.

Dinners For Two

Forget about the stress of planning a wedding and remind your fiance why she wanted to marry you in the first place by preparing a romantic dinner.  For £1.19, this app has 40 recipes for dinner and dessert and all those episodes of Master Chef will finally come into play. With a menu including love fruit champagne, melt my heart shrimp cocktail and true love chocolate soufflé, you cannot go wrong. It’s unclear what the apricot ticklers are, but it could make it interesting.

Wedding Dash

If you have secretly harboured a desire to be a wedding planner, this game is your chance to help wedding planner Quinn make wedding bells ring. This is up there with the most useless wedding iPhone apps. Described as a fun action puzzle game, with crazy guests and potential party disasters to contend with it might just help prepare you for any eventuality on the day. Although why you’d want to stress yourself out is anyone’s guess. Play Lemmings instead.

Brownie Points

1. It’s a well known fact that women are rubbish with mobiles. So if you personalise her phone by adding pictures into her address book she’ll think you’re a genius and love you forever.
2. Make her a ringtone of a favourite song, or a song that’s special for you both (easy on most phones but a right bastard on iPhones – here’s how)
3. Make a wedding group list of contact numbers on your phone that includes all the wedding party’s numbers, numbers for the venue, the vicar and any other essential numbers you might need.

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