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Four things no free planner does.

Tradition-aware planning. A real seating canvas, not a $14.99 add-on. A personal link per guest. The whole app in four languages including Hebrew RTL. Then everything else a wedding needs.

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The four pillars

Tradition-aware planning
Pro seating canvas, included
Personal link per guest
Four languages including Hebrew RTL

The four pillars

Four things no free planner does

Pillar 1: Tradition-aware planning

Built for your tradition, from day one

Pick your tradition at signup and the whole app reshapes itself. A Jewish wedding starts with ketubah and houppa tasks, the Ketubah template loads with a Hebrew arc and Houppa section, and the date picker warns you on Shabbat, Yom Tov, Chol HaMoed, and Sefirat HaOmer. A Muslim wedding starts with nikah, mahr, and walima. A Hindu wedding gets its own arc. Everyone gets the universal venue and vows tasks. The Knot, Zola, Joy do none of this.

Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, secular, or 'other'
Starter checklist seeded from your tradition (re-seedable any time)
Halachic date warnings for Shabbat, Yom Tov, Chol HaMoed, and the omer
Hebrew names for couples and parents, in the two-column invitation layout
Ketubah template ships live, more religion-specific templates on the way

Pillar 2: Seating canvas, included

A real floor plan, not a $14.99 add-on

Zola charges $14.99 for a worse seating chart. Allseated is venue-pro pricing. We give you a 2D canvas: drag tables onto the floor plan, rotate, resize, snap to a 10px grid, zoom from 50% to 175%. Round, rectangle, square, sweetheart, banquet, U-shape, head table. Per-seat numbering so you can drop a guest right onto seat 5 of table 3. Capacity rings glow when over-booked. Family-split detector. Four print exports: floor plan, alphabetical guest list, kitchen counts by dietary, place cards.

2D drag-and-drop canvas with rotate, resize, snap, and zoom
Every table shape: round, rectangle, square, sweetheart, banquet, U, head
Per-seat numbering, capacity meters, dietary tally, family-split alerts
Four printable exports: floor plan, A-Z list, kitchen counts, 4-up place cards
Each guest gets a 'Find my seat' page after publish, no extra fee

Pillar 3: Personal link per guest

An invitation built for every guest, and every family

Each guest gets their own short branded link (yourwedding.festela.app/i/ab12, the kind that fits in a text). They open it and see only the events their group is invited to. Whole families share one link, not five separate ones, headed by whoever you choose. Custom RSVP questions can be scoped per group (rehearsal-dinner guests get a different question than ceremony-only). After you publish seating, 'Find my seat' appears on the same link. Preview as any specific guest before you send anything.

Personal short link per guest and per family
Each guest sees only the events their invitation group is invited to
Custom RSVP questions scoped per group (song requests, transport, kids menu)
'Find my seat' page appears automatically once seating is published
Preview as a guest by group, family, or language, before sending

Pillar 4: Four languages, Hebrew RTL

The whole app in your language. Hebrew flips it right to left.

Joy and Zola translate the guest-facing pages. We translate the entire experience: marketing site, dashboard, public site, RSVP form, and every email. Four languages, EN, FR, ES, HE. Hebrew flips the whole layout right to left. Your guests pick their own on the invitation and the choice sticks for next time. A serif Hebrew font on the public site makes names and blessings look like calligraphy.

Four languages: English, French, Spanish, Hebrew
Translated everywhere: marketing, dashboard, public site, RSVPs, emails
Hebrew RTL flips the entire layout, not just the text direction
Each guest's language preference is remembered
Calligraphy-grade serif Hebrew font on the public site

The essentials

Everything else you need

Wedding website (Studio)

Four starting points, thousands of looks

Pick a template, swap the palette, change the fonts, set per-section backgrounds, drag sections into order. Preview as a specific guest to see exactly what they'll see before you publish.

Four templates: Laurel, Green Garden, Lake Como, Ketubah
Switchable palettes, font pairings, per-section colors and photos
'Preview as a guest' by group, family, or language
One-click publish, edit any time after

Specialty templates

The Ketubah template, live today

Most universal templates ask you to retrofit your wedding into a Western default. The Ketubah template starts from a Jewish wedding's actual flow: a Houppa-centered ceremony layout, an optional Hebrew arc over your names, a Shabbat Hatan card, Hebrew and civil dates side by side, and a tradition picker (Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi, mixed). More religion-specific templates ship as we build them, free.

Ketubah: Hebrew arc, Houppa, Shabbat Hatan, tradition picker
Hebrew names for couples and parents, in the two-column invitation layout
More traditions on the roadmap, free as they ship

Events

Each event, its own card

Ceremony, cocktail hour, reception, brunch, after-party. For each: date, time, address, photos, dress code, free-text description. Drag to reorder the list.

Address with Google Maps and Waze deep links
Multiple photos per event
Dress code and free-text description
Drag-and-drop ordering

RSVP

One response per guest, per event

Yes or no for each event, dietary needs you've chosen to offer, and any custom questions you've added (song requests, transport, kids menu). Live totals on your dashboard.

Yes / no per event
Dietary needs you pick, plus 'Other' for anything
Custom questions, scoped to specific groups
Manual override when a guest tells you in person

Day-of timeline

Everyone knows where to be

The hour-by-hour for the wedding day: hair and makeup, first look, cake cutting, last dance. Tag each item for the wedding party, vendors, or private. Each audience gets a filtered link that updates the moment you change anything.

Wedding party, vendors, or private
One shareable link per audience
Live updates, no need to resend

Budget

The honest scoreboard

Expected total, committed, paid, per-guest average. Track every expense down to each payment (deposit, balance, installments). Contracts and receipts attached.

Total paid vs outstanding at a glance
Multi-payment expenses with due dates
Contributors and per-category targets
Spreadsheet export

Partner co-owner

Two of you, identical access

Invite your partner with a magic link and they get identical access to everything: dashboard, studio, RSVPs, seating, budget. One of you plans the venue, the other plans the honeymoon. Both names show up on every audit row.

Identical access for both of you
Nudge each other on assigned tasks
Revoke or remove later if plans change

More that's included

The smaller details, still here

Accommodations

Hotels and stays you recommend, with per-group visibility so VIPs see the boutique room and everyone else sees the budget option.

Custom labels

Colored tags you invent ('College friends', 'Work', 'Plus one') to filter the guest list however you like.

A native iOS app, plus design on a real screen

The Festela iOS app keeps your dashboard, budget, guest list, RSVP tracking, tasks and timeline in your pocket — with a push the moment a guest RSVPs. Sign in with a magic link or Google. The website studio and seating floor plan open best on a tablet or laptop, so the detail work stays deliberate.

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