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Because free is rarely free. Zola charges $14.99 for the seating chart, takes 2.5% on the registry, and sells stationery. The Knot resells your info to vendors. Joy locks custom domains behind an upcharge. Riley & Grey is $39 a month. We charge $250 once, then we stop selling you. The seating canvas, every template (including Ketubah), four languages, the religion-aware checklist, the personal link per guest: all included, forever.

$250, one-time per wedding. No subscription. No registry tax. No vendor spam. No paywalled seating.

A wedding is a one-time event. You pay once, keep your site and your data as long as you want.

Yes. Build everything free, and publish your site live free for 14 days — guests can RSVP and find their seat right away. After 14 days, $250 once keeps it live permanently. No subscription, valid forever.

All sales are final — but there's nothing to lose: you can build everything free and publish live free for 14 days before you pay, so you know exactly what you're getting. $250 is one-time, no subscription.

When you publish, your wedding site goes live free for 14 days — guests can RSVP and find their seat immediately. After 14 days it reverts to a save-the-date preview unless you pay $250 once to keep it live forever. The clock starts when you publish; no subscription.

Payment is in USD for now; your card handles conversion. The internal budget supports any currency you set.

No. We seed planning for Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, secular, and 'other' weddings. The Ketubah template is the most visible because it ships first, but every tradition gets a tailored starter checklist on day one. Specialty templates for other traditions are next on the roadmap.

Yes, seeded from the kind of wedding you pick at signup (Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, secular, or other). A Jewish wedding gets ketubah and houppa tasks; a Muslim wedding gets nikah, mahr, and walima tasks; everyone gets the universal venue, photographer, and vows arc.

Yes. Each task has an 'assigned to' field with quick-pick chips (you, your partner, both, mom, dad, planner) or free text. The list can be filtered by who's assigned so each of you has a view of just your slice.

Three views, toggleable: list (grouped by months out from the wedding), kanban board (To do, In progress, Done), and a month-grid calendar.

Two ways. A weekly Sunday digest with what's overdue, what's due in the next 7 days, and what you closed last week. And a 'nudge' bell on any assigned task: tap it and the other person gets a polite email about that one task, max once per 24 hours.

Yes. Re-seed from settings any time, including if you change your tradition.

As many as you want. No cap, no upgrade tier.

Upload a CSV or paste from your notes app. We help you map the columns.

Yes. Bundle a family, the head of family gets the shared link, and you can hand off the lead anytime.

No. They tap their link and see their invitation. No password, no app to install.

No. Each guest only sees the events for their group (VIP, ceremony only, kids, etc.).

Four hand-built templates today: Laurel, Green Garden, Lake Como, and Ketubah. More are on the roadmap, including specialty designs for additional religious traditions. All included in the $250.

Yes, with more coming. The Ketubah template (for Jewish weddings) ships today, with a curved Hebrew arc, Houppa section, Shabbat Hatan section, Hebrew and civil date side by side, and a tradition picker for Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi, or mixed. We're building specialty templates for other traditions next.

Yes, for Jewish weddings today. Two tiers: a red 'please pick another date' warning for Shabbat or Yom Tov, and a softer 'are you sure?' warning for Chol HaMoed, the Three Weeks, and Sefirat HaOmer (Lag B'Omer and Yom Yerushalayim are quietly excluded). Conflict checks for other traditions are on the roadmap.

Yes. Your photos and copy stay; the visual changes.

Yes: nine switchable palettes and a dozen font pairings (English and Hebrew pairings both included).

Yes. 'Preview as a guest' in the Studio, by group or family, to verify who sees what. You can also preview in another language.

Yes, built mobile-first. Most guests open invitations on their phone.

Yes — there's a native iOS app for couples to plan on the go: dashboard, budget, guest list, RSVP tracking, tasks and timeline, plus a push when a guest RSVPs. Editing your wedding website and the one-time $250 purchase are done on the web.

Each guest answers yes or no for each event they're invited to, lists dietary needs (from the ones you offer), and can leave you a note.

Yes. Manual override when a guest tells you in person, by text, or on the phone.

Six built-in presets you can toggle on or off: vegetarian, vegan, kosher, halal, gluten free, and nut allergy. 'No preference' and 'Other (please specify)' are always shown, and you can add any custom option you want.

Yes. Ask anything: song requests, transport from the hotel, kids menu. Pick the answer type (short text, long text, single-select, multi-select), whether it's required, and which invitation groups see the question.

Yes. Their previous answers are still there, including answers to your custom questions.

Yes. Pick the event (reception, brunch, etc.), toggle between list view and a 2D canvas, add round, rectangle, square, long banquet, U-shape, sweetheart, or head tables, and drag guests onto them.

Yes. Every table shows numbered seats around its perimeter. Drag a guest right onto seat 5 of table 3, or onto the table body and the next open seat fills in.

Yes. Capacity meter (over-booked tables glow amber), a 'family split' pill when a family is across multiple tables, a red ring on guests who declined after being seated.

Four exports: a PDF floor plan, an alphabetical list (PDF or CSV), per-table kitchen counts with dietary breakdown (CSV), and 4-up A4 place cards to cut.

Yes, once you publish. A 'Find my seat' page appears on their invitation: table name, seat number, your note, and the names of their tablemates.

Everything that happens hour by hour on the wedding day: hair and makeup, first look, cake cutting, last dance. Not the big event blocks (you already have those), but the small moments between.

Each item is tagged: wedding party, vendors, or private. You get a filtered link per audience to drop into the wedding party group chat or send to your planner.

No. The link is read-only but live. You edit on your dashboard, your wedding party sees the update next time they open it.

Yes. Invite them from settings, they get a magic link, and from that moment they have identical access to everything: dashboard, studio, RSVPs, seating, budget, the danger zone. Both names show up on every audit row.

No. Festela assumes two people are planning the wedding together. Either of you can do anything. If you need read-only access for a parent or planner, that's on the roadmap.

Yes. Revoke a pending invite, or remove an active partner from settings if plans change.

English, French, Spanish, and Hebrew across the marketing site, the dashboard, and every guest invitation.

Yes. Switch to Hebrew and the whole experience reads right to left, end to end.

Yes. The invitation has a small language switcher, and the choice sticks the next time they come back.

Yes, on the Ketubah template. Hebrew names for both of you render right-to-left in the hero, and parents' Hebrew names per side sit in two columns on the invitation, the way Jewish wedding invitations are traditionally laid out.

No. We don't resell anything, we don't share with anyone. No ads, on your dashboard or on the guest site.

Yes, anytime, from settings.

Yes, as long as you want. You keep access, guests keep their link.

Yes. The budget exports to a spreadsheet. The rest is available on request.