How AI Is Transforming Wedding Planning

Artificial intelligence is providing couples with useful tools, from virtual styling assistants to algorithms for seating

- Alix Strauss

UNITED STATES — By the time Ms Emily Strand and Mr Will Christiansen exchange vows later in 2025, most of the tasks on their wedding to-do list will have been created, organized and completed thanks to artificial intelligence (AI).

These include everything from a seating chart to a personalized 70-word crossword puzzle for their Oct 11 wedding at the Rio Secco Golf Club in Henderson, Nevada.

AI is helping them manage their budget, and found their officiant and cakemaker too.

Ms Strand's secret for getting it all done? Specificity.

"I asked ChatGPT to list, as a bride, common and uncommon things I needed to do to plan a DIY, 120-person, outdoor ceremony in Las Vegas in October 2025," said the 31-year-old public defender for Clark County, Nevada.

Within seconds, ChatGPT spit out an Excel document listing 200 suggestions, including ideas from blog posts, Reddit and Google Crowdsource.

"Once it suggested vendors," Ms Strand said, "I had AI write my query letters to them." She also asked for advice on improving her wedding website.

What probably would have taken her 250 hours of research overall, she said, was completed by AI in about an hour.

Wedding planning has long been time-consuming and stressful, filled with meticulous details and endless decision-making.

AI is transforming the process by providing couples and event planners with many useful tools.

Among them: real-time cost analyses and budget tracking; virtual styling assistants; algorithms for seating; automated RSVP reminders; and augmented reality, which can allow couples to tour venues remotely.