How AI is transforming wedding planning

AI is enhancing a time-consuming and stressful process, providing couples and planners with event suggestions, budgeting and many other useful tools

- Alix Strauss

By the time Emily Strand and Will Christiansen exchange vows this fall, most of the tasks on their wedding to-do list will have been created, organised and completed thanks to artificial intelligence.

These include everything from a seating chart to a personalised 70-word crossword puzzle for their October 11 wedding at the Rio Secco Golf Club in Henderson, Nevada. Al is helping them manage their budget and found their officiant and cake maker, too.

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 Strand, 31, a public defender for Clark County, Nevada. Within seconds it spit out an Excel document listing 200 suggestions, including ideas from blog posts, Reddit and Google Crowdsource.

"Once it suggested vendors," Strand said, "I had Al 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 Al 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, or AR, which can allow couples to tour venues remotely.