Built on your own paperwork, from the first contract to the last thank-you

Your wedding, read carefully and run well—without cutting what matters.

Answer a few short questions, then send the contracts and invoices you already have. We read what you send and give you back what nobody has put in one place: what we found you have committed across your vendors, the deadlines we found still open, your wedding day as your vendors contracted for it, and what you do not have to spend. Then the plan stays with you to the day and past it: the checklist, the budget, the guests, the seating, the words, the music, the album, the keepsake.

5 short steps · No card · No vendor contact

The analysis is free. Your plan is $79. What we find never changes what you pay. You see a summary of what we found, the totals behind it, and a complete list of what your plan contains, before you decide. See our published rules.

  • We do not contact your vendors
  • Every figure traced to a document line
  • The price shown before you pay

When the numbers stop making sense, random cuts are the worst place to start.

  • Your total can be scattered across the documents and inboxes it arrived in, and a budget spreadsheet can drift as plans change.
  • Contracts can carry dates that are easy to file and forget — and a date that passes is a day your options get smaller.
  • Mandatory fees appear late, after the decision already feels made.
  • Two vendors have contracted for hours that do not fit together, and neither of them is wrong.
  • You worry that cutting anything will make the day feel disappointing.

The goal is not the cheapest possible wedding. It is protecting what matters while removing what does not.

How it works

  1. Answer a few short questions

    Where your wedding stands, what is signed, what is still open. Five short steps, most of it optional — no card, no account, no documents yet.

  2. Send your paperwork

    Contracts, quotes, invoices, and your budget as a spreadsheet, a CSV or a screenshot. PDFs, Word documents, Excel workbooks, screenshots and phone photos of paper all work — though a photograph can only ever be checked against our own reading of it, so anything resting on one is shown to you and kept out of the figure your paperwork proves. Software reads them at our own cost, usually within 48 hours, names anything it could not read rather than skipping it quietly, and recalculates every figure from the line it came from before anyone sees it.

  3. See what is in it, then decide

    What we found, split into what your paperwork proves, what a vendor has to agree to, and what is simply your choice — three figures, never added together. Plus what your plan holds: what we found you have committed across your vendors, the deadlines we found in the order they close, and your wedding day as your vendors have contracted for it. Then you decide.

Free to upload, free to read. You see a summary of what we found before you decide, and the price is fixed before you press anything.

What every plan is, before we find anything

A billing error is not the thing to expect. What a plan gives you either way is what we found you have actually committed, across your vendors, added up once — from the documents rather than a spreadsheet.

Illustrative example — not a customer result
VendorStatusCommittedPaidWhere the figure comes from
The Grand Oak EstateSigned$44,308.40$14,000.00From the total printed on the document
Marchetti Floral StudioSigned$7,400.00$2,200.00From the total printed on the document
Northlight FilmsSigned$6,650.00$1,550.00Added from the priced lines, because no total was printed
Willow & Vine RentalsQuoted$6,150.00$0.00From the total printed on the document

Across 4 vendors: $58,358.40 signed and $6,150.00 quoted but not accepted. You have paid $17,750.00, leaving $40,608.40 still to pay on what you have signed.

The venue’s invoice prints $38,848.00 of charges, a $5,460.40 service charge and a $44,308.40 total over them. Adding the charges to the total would report this venue at $83,156.40 — plausible, wrong by exactly 100%, and uncheckable without redoing the work. Northlight prints no total at all, so its figure is the sum of every priced line in the agreement, the engagement session included. Each vendor is counted once.

The Grand Oak Estate — Rental Addendum ASigned
  • Cocktail tables — 8$240.00
  • Bar back-line$180.00
  • Ceremony seating — 120 white garden chairsIncluded
Willow & Vine Rentals — Quote WV-4417Pending — not signed
  • Ceremony chairs — 120 @ $4.75$570.00
  • Farm tables, 8ft — 16 @ $85.00$1,360.00
  • Delivery and collection$310.00
Future cost you can still avoid

Possible duplicate — before you sign

Illustrative example — not a customer result

Your venue package already includes 120 ceremony chairs. The rental quote you have not signed yet also includes 120 ceremony chairs.

  1. The Grand Oak Estate — Rental Addendum Athe quoted termsCeremony seating — 120 white garden chairs, included in the package price.
  2. Willow & Vine Rentals — Quote WV-4417 (unsigned)the quoted termsCeremony chairs — 120 @ $4.75 … $570.00

$570.00What the pending quote lists for that line

How the figure is reached120 chairs × $4.75 = $570.00

What to doAsk both vendors to confirm what each is providing before you sign the quote.

They may be different chairs, or the venue’s may not be available at the ceremony site. Two documents cannot tell you which — only the two vendors can, and it costs one email each to find out.

Before you sign

And when something IS wrong, this is what it looks like.

Treat a billing error as the exception rather than the promise. When there is one, we show you the line that produced the figure.

And a Concierge that reads it with you.

The plan is long, and the questions come at eleven at night when there is nobody to ask. Your Concierge is on your plan around the clock — it is given your plan and the evidence cited in it, and it answers in plain words.

  • Ask what a finding actually means, and which document line it came from
  • Ask which one to raise first, and what to say when you do
  • Ask why one finding is money your own paperwork proves and another needs a vendor to say yes
  • Ask what happens if a vendor says no, or pushes back on the wording
  • Ask it anything at 11pm, the week of, without waiting on an inbox

Like the rest of the analysis, the Concierge is automated — it says so itself, and it will never claim to be a person. It is built to give you only numbers that are already in your own plan, with the document line each came from — and when you ask it something it cannot stand behind, it says so instead of guessing.

We sort what we find into groups and never add them together. Three of them are things your own paperwork proves: corrections it already contradicts, changes your signed terms already allow, and costs you have not committed to yet. Anything that needs a vendor to say yes gets its own figure and its own label — that answer is not ours to promise, so it is never folded into the one that is.

Plan for free. Add the part that reads the fine print.

A wedding planner that reads your contracts, paid for by you and not by vendors. Start with a free account, and add the plan when there is paperwork to read.

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An email address. No card, no documents.

  • An overview with a “This week” list of what needs doing now
  • Your priorities, and the next steps that protect them
  • A checklist dated from your wedding day, compressed to fit if you start late, that carries on past the day
  • A budget for the costs you enter, with the subtraction done for you and a month-by-month view of what falls due
  • A guest list of up to 50 invitations
  • Your partner, invited to plan it with you

Free tools, guides and a contract glossary, with no account needed.

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The $79 plan

$79

One time; nothing renews. Reading your documents is free, and you see a summary of what we found before you decide, with quotes for the same kind of vendor side by side.

The free account, and:

  • Your contract plan, read from the documents you send: what you have committed, the payments and deadlines we found, and what your vendors need from you
  • Billing problems we find, traced to the lines they came from, with the words to send
  • A private address to forward vendor email to, and what changed when a vendor sends a new version
  • Reminders before payments and deadlines, emailed to you and your partner and sent to your phone, and a calendar link
  • A wedding page where guests reply, updates for guests who ask for them, a count sheet for your caterer, and seating
  • Who pays what: money by month, and a private page for the people paying for part of it
  • The run sheet for the day, a handoff to print, a day-of link for whoever runs it, and envelopes for tips and final payments
  • Steps you give to helpers, a Concierge on your plan, and the album, gifts, letters and keepsake

The full list of what the plan holds

What you get, once you have seen everything.

Wedding Budget Recovery Plan

$79What we find never changes what you pay.

Your whole wedding, finally in one place

  • What we found you have committed, across your vendors, added up once — what you owe, what you have paid, and what is left
  • The dated deadlines we found in your contracts, in the order they close, with the one that closes next at the top
  • The payments we found in your documents, in the order they fall — so you can see the months where several land at once
  • Your wedding day as your vendors have contracted for it, side by side — and anywhere two of them do not fit together

Everything that can still change

  • Each finding as its own line item, with the arithmetic that produced it and the quoted evidence from your own documents
  • Costs that have not left your account yet — quotes unsigned, upgrades unaccepted, quantities nobody has checked against your floor plan
  • Your own wedding itemised, each line scored for how visible it would be to a guest, so you can stop wherever it stops feeling worth it
  • Anything that needs vendor approval, marked apart from what your terms already allow
  • Guest-visibility and emotional-priority ranking, so you choose what to protect

What your contracts oblige, in both directions

  • What your contracts say happens IF something changes: cancellation, a moved date, a night that runs long — each quoted from the clause that permits it
  • What your vendors need FROM you — the insurance certificate, the meal, the final confirmation — the clause nobody reads until a band cannot plug in
  • The things that carry no dollar figure and still matter: a cancellation window about to close, a number in your budget your contracts disagree with

And what to do with all of it

  • Copy-ready wording for each message — you send them, we never contact a vendor
  • A Concierge on your plan around the clock — ask it anything about your own findings and the documents behind them, in your own words; when the model behind it is unavailable, it answers from your plan and our guides and says so
  • A downloadable copy of the whole plan, yours to keep
  • The honest limits: every document we could not read, and every category you told us about that no paperwork reached us for — named, not quietly left out

Until the wedding, and after

  • Add a document as things change, right up to the wedding — we read it with the rest, store a new version of your plan, and email you what changed
  • Reminders before the dated deadlines and payments in your plan, emailed to you and your partner — mark one paid or handled and its reminders stop
  • A private calendar link your phones subscribe to, with your contract dates, checklist windows and the wedding day, and alerts before them
  • A printable sheet per vendor, the questions to ask before you sign a quote, and a page for the final invoices after the wedding
  • Share the plan with a partner, a parent or a planner — a private link of their own, and you can remove anyone at any time
  • Mark each vendor message sent, replied or settled; when a reply is slow, we email you the follow-up wording
  • A "what if" that multiplies the per-hour and per-guest figures your own contracts print by a count you choose

And the planning itself

  • A planning checklist dated off your wedding date and compressed to fit if you start late, with the booking steps your contracts already cover marked as covered — and steps you can give to your partner or a helper, who is emailed
  • A “This week” list on your overview and in a Monday email: what closes and what is due, replies waiting for you, and gifts still to thank
  • Your budget against what your contracts commit, per vendor and per category, with quotes kept apart until you mark them contracted and the subtraction done for you
  • A vendor directory built from the vendors in your plan, with the category, contact and notes you keep on each
  • A day-of run sheet: the windows your vendors are contracted for beside the moments you add, ready to print for whoever runs the day — and a day-of link for them that shows no money and stops working after the wedding
  • A guest list with replies and meals, summed against the number you are planning for, with a spreadsheet export — and a count sheet for your caterer, set against the final-count dates in your contracts, to print
  • Wording for the ordinary vendor messages beyond the findings — confirming a time, asking for the insurance certificate, giving the final count, requesting the itemised invoice — with the blanks filled from your plan, ready to open in your email

And the day itself, and what comes after

  • A page for your guests with its own link — the date, the place, the moments you choose to share, the practical details — and a reply form whose answers wait in an inbox that suggests which guest sent them, for you to accept into your guest list
  • Seating: tables with seats, parties placed from your guest list, and the escort list and place cards to print
  • Sunset and the golden hour at your venue on your date, set beside the hours your photographer is contracted for
  • A place to write vows and toasts, with a shape to write to and the time each takes to say; the people giving toasts get a draft of their own
  • The playlist — must-play, do-not-play, a song per moment — added up against the hours of music you booked, as a sheet for the DJ or band
  • Letters to your future selves sealed until the first anniversary, and notes from guests read the morning after; an album your guests fill from your guest page; gifts and thank-yous tracked; a delivery watch for the gallery and the film; and a keepsake of the whole day, to print or download

You see a summary of what we found, the totals behind it, and a complete list of what your plan contains, before you decide. How we count what we find

  • We keep what you send us, what we build from it and what you add to your workspace, with no scheduled deletion, whether or not you become a customer.
  • We may sell, license or share the data we hold — including your documents, what we extract from them and what you add to your workspace — with other businesses, for their own purposes.
  • We do not contact your vendors: every message in your plan is one you send yourself. Card details go only to our payment processor; we never see or store a card number.
  • Names, addresses, signatures and account numbers inside your documents are handled as sensitive data.

Questions people actually ask

How can the analysis be free?

Because we would rather carry the cost of reading your documents than ask you to pay for something you have not seen. You upload, we read, and we show you a summary of what we found, the totals behind it, and a complete list of what your plan contains. The plan is $79 — one price, whatever we find — and you decide after seeing that. There is no money-back guarantee, and no purchase you could make without first seeing the summary and the list.

Your vendors pay us nothing. We take no commission, no referral fee and no kickback from anyone in the wedding industry, and no vendor can pay to appear in — or stay out of — your plan. What you pay for the plan is the only money we make, and it comes from you, after you have seen what we found.

Can I compare quotes before I book?

Yes, free. Send two to four quotes for the same kind of vendor — venues, say, or caterers — and the free read puts them side by side: the price as listed, service charges and the bases they are charged on, tax, minimums, and what the quotes include and leave open, with the line behind a figure shown when you open it. Choose a guest count and you see a comparable total worked out from a quote’s own lines, with the arithmetic shown. It does not tell you which to book.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. A free account needs an email address and nothing else: no card and no documents. It holds an overview with a “This week” list, your priorities and next steps, a checklist dated from your wedding day that compresses to fit if you start late, a budget for the costs you enter, and a guest list of up to 50 invitations, and you can invite your partner to plan it with you. The free tools, guides and contract glossary need no account.

The $79 plan is the part that reads your contracts. Send your documents when you are ready: reading them is free, you see a summary of what we found before you decide, and if you buy, the plan and the rest of the workspace open on the same account, with what you have already entered kept.

What does the $79 unlock?

You have already seen the total and the categories. The plan is the work behind them: each opportunity as its own line item with the arithmetic that produced it, the quoted evidence from your documents with the page it sits on, and copy-ready wording for every message you send — sorted by what it is worth and how visible it would be to guests.

It also opens the rest of your workspace on the same account: reminders before the payments and deadlines in your plan, emailed to you and your partner, which stop when you mark one paid or handled; a “This week” email every Monday; a private calendar link for your phones; your budget built from what you have signed, with quotes kept apart; your vendors and ready-to-send messages; a private address you can forward vendor email to, and what changed when a vendor sends a new version; money by month, with a private page for the people paying for part of it; a wedding page where guests reply, updates for guests who ask for them, a count sheet for your caterer, and seating; the run sheet for your day, with a day-of link for whoever runs it and envelopes for tips and final payments; reminders on your phone, and the run sheet readable without signal; steps you can give to your partner or helpers; letters, gifts and thank-yous, a photo album and a keepsake; and a Concierge that answers from your plan.

One time. Nothing recurring. What we find never changes what you pay. A bigger finding does not mean a bigger bill, and you see the figure before you press anything.

Which findings are the ones my own paperwork proves?

Every counted amount has to be linked to a line in a document you sent us, and the same dollars are never counted twice. The low end of any range is what counts. Payment-timing changes never count, because moving when you pay is not paying less. Money already paid and non-refundable does not count simply because you regret it.

Does vendor approval count?

No. Anything that depends on a vendor voluntarily agreeing gets its own figure with its own label, and is never folded into the one your own documents prove. Three different claims about who has to do what, and one number cannot carry three.

It still appears in your plan, in its own subtotal, labelled "Possible — requires vendor approval" — these can be the largest opportunities on the table. We simply will not count one toward our own bar when the decision belongs to someone else.

What if everything is already signed, or already paid?

Signed contracts are still worth reading: billing errors, invoices that do not match the quote, fees applied to the wrong base, credits promised but never applied, and deadlines — final headcount is the usual one — still open and still worth money.

Money already out the door is a different matter — it is rarely adjustable, so a wedding that is largely paid for has less money left to find. The rest of the plan does not depend on that: what we found you have committed across your vendors, the deadlines we found still open in your contracts, and your wedding day as your vendors have contracted for it are all there either way, and are worth having whatever the figures come to.

What if you do not find anything?

Then nothing is owed until you say so. The reading is free either way, and the choice comes after it: we show you a summary of what we found and a complete list of what your plan would contain, and only then do you decide whether it is worth having. Say no and you have spent nothing — there is no card to enter to find out and nothing to cancel.

It is worth saying plainly that a billing error is not the thing to expect. Finding one is the best outcome, not the thing to plan on. What a plan assembles is the part nobody has put in one place: what we found you have committed across your vendors added up once, the deadlines we found still open in the order they close, the payments your documents show as due, what your contracts charge if something changes, and what your vendors are waiting on from you. We do not claim to find everything — we publish what we measured ourselves finding, and it is a minority of what is there.

If having those in one place is not worth it to you, you close the page having spent nothing.

How is my private information handled?

We keep what you send us, what we build from it and what you add to your workspace, with no scheduled deletion, whether or not you become a customer. We may sell, license or share the data we hold — including your documents, what we extract from them and what you add to your workspace — with other businesses, for their own purposes.

We do not contact your vendors: every message in your plan is one you send yourself. Card details go only to our payment processor; we never see or store a card number. You can ask for a copy of what we hold or ask us to correct it. A request made under a privacy law that applies to you is handled as that law requires.

Find out what can still change. Looking costs you nothing.

Free to upload, free to read. You see a summary of what we found before you decide, and the price is fixed before you press anything.

Wedding Remedy — your wedding, read carefully and run well.

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