The short version
- The Knot is the biggest: its app inside ChatGPT draws on nearly 200,000 US vendors and more than 14.6 million reviews, reached through the free ChatGPT app.
- Prices for the AI-first apps run from free (ItsaYes planning tools) through $14.99 a month (WedGenie Pro) to $29.99 (Losava) and $39.99 a month (TheWeddingPlanner.ai).
- They do different jobs: vendor discovery at scale, AI-designed stationery, vendor emails sent from your inbox, an all-in-one dashboard, paperwork filed from your inbox, or a planner that cites its sources.
The short answer: there is no single best AI wedding planner, because the seven apps below do different jobs. Pick by the job you need done. If you want the largest pool of reviewed vendors, that is The Knot. If you want AI-designed stationery and moodboards on a free planning workspace, ItsaYes. If you want an assistant that writes and sends vendor emails from your own inbox, Losava. If you want every planning screen in one subscription, TheWeddingPlanner.ai. If you want the paperwork filed for you rather than a conversation, Loverly. If you want a planner that shows where each vendor fact came from, and writes the speeches too, that is ours.
Disclosure, first: we make WedGenie, one of the apps on this page, so read it with that in mind. Everything said about another product comes from that product's own public pages or press releases, read on September 23, 2026 (Loverly on September 23, 2026), with the source named next to it. We have not used the other apps hands-on, so this page compares what each one publishes, not how each one feels. Where a product does not publish something, the table says "not published" instead of guessing.
Best for, at a glance
| App | Best for | What the AI does | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Knot | The biggest reviewed vendor marketplace | Vendor picks in 24 categories (also inside ChatGPT), review summaries | Not published (reached via the free ChatGPT app) |
| WedGenie | Vendor research with sources, plus speeches and vows | Plans in chat, remembers the plan, cites every vendor fact | Free tier; Pro $14.99/month |
| ItsaYes | AI-designed stationery and moodboards | Stationery suites, moodboards, AI chat | Free tools; packs $9 to $39 |
| Losava | Vendor outreach handled for you | Chat-run planning; sends vendor emails from your inbox | $29.99/month |
| TheWeddingPlanner.ai | One subscription with every planning screen | AI assistant, vendor shortlists, AI timeline | $39.99/month |
| Loverly | Free planning tools with the admin filed for you | Reads forwarded proposals and receipts and files them | Free |
| The Bride Bot | Coaching-style answers | Chat built on a wedding mentor's 4-step method | Not published |
The Knot, and its app inside ChatGPT
The Knot Worldwide launched "the wedding industry's first app within ChatGPT" on February 3, 2026. You type "@The Knot" in ChatGPT and it returns personalised vendor recommendations across 24 categories, with imagery, AI-generated summaries of reviews, and a hand-off to TheKnot.com to contact the vendor. The release puts the marketplace behind it at "nearly 200,000 U.S. vendors" and "more than 14.6 million" reviews. In The Knot Wedding Planner app on iOS, a September 2025 release describes "Make it Yours" (pick images you like and the AI recommends local vendors that fit the style), a "Your Wedding Plan" dashboard, a favourites board and a vendor tracker.
Where it wins: scale. No AI-first app, ours included, has a vendor pool or a review base anywhere near that size, and its ChatGPT app needs no paid ChatGPT plan, per the release.
What to know: the releases describe vendor discovery and organising; they do not say whether every AI feature is free, and they do not describe speech writing, invitations or a conversation that plans the whole wedding. Sources: The Knot Worldwide press releases of 2026-02-03 and 2025-09-25, read September 23, 2026. TheKnot.com itself blocks automated reading, so nothing here comes from its product pages.
WedGenie (ours)
WedGenie plans a wedding in one conversation with "the Genie", and keeps what you decide on a Wedding Board: checklist, budget, vendor shortlist. Its rule for vendors is that only researched vendors are shown, each with its source, and a fact it cannot verify is labelled instead of guessed. The same account writes speeches, vows and toasts, designs invitations with real typography, and makes AI couple photos and save-the-date films.
Free tier: 10 messages with no account; a free account adds 20 messages a month, 2 speech drafts a day, 2 photo generations and 1 deep vendor-research report. Paid: $14.99 a month or $99 a year; credit packs from $9.99.
Every one of its free tools runs on the page before you make an account, including a seating chart maker that keeps families together, lets you rearrange tables by hand, and prints a table plan plus an A-to-Z find-your-seat sheet.
Where it loses: there is no registry, no wedding website builder and no guest RSVP collection; it is web only, with no iOS or Android app; and the vendor directory covers US metro areas with a far smaller set than The Knot's. If those are what you need, Zola, Joy or The Knot do them free (see The Knot alternatives).
ItsaYes
ItsaYes calls itself "The #1 AI Wedding Planner" and pairs a free planning workspace (timeline and tasks, budget, guest list, vendor management) with an AI design studio that generates matching stationery suites, moodboards and ceremony visuals. The free plan is "$0 always free" and includes 10 AI credits a month; after that you buy one-time credit packs at $9 (200 credits), $19 (500) or $39 (1,500). A 1K image costs 10 credits, a 2K or 4K image 20, and one AI chat message 1 credit.
Where it wins: the only AI-first app here that publishes a free tier with a number on it (10 AI credits a month), and pay-once pricing with credits that never expire.
What to know: its pages describe design and organisation; they do not mention vendor search with cited sources. Source: itsayes.io and itsayes.io/pricing, read September 23, 2026.
Losava
Losava is a chat-first planner: you tell it something in plain language and it updates the RSVPs, the seating chart and the to-do list together. A style quiz builds a budget, timeline and task list for you. Its standout is vendor outreach: emails are written and sent from your own inbox, with follow-ups. It costs $29.99 a month or $299.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial and a line that says "Start free, upgrade when you hit your AI limit".
Where it wins: it sends the vendor emails for you. WedGenie drafts them; you send them.
What to know: the size of the free AI limit is not published. Source: losava.com and losava.com/pricing, read September 23, 2026.
TheWeddingPlanner.ai
The widest feature list of the group: AI task scheduling, budget tracking with alerts, guest list and RSVPs, a drag-and-drop seating chart, a vendor CRM, a day-of timeline generator, an RSVP website with QR codes, moodboards, a shot list generator, a document vault and room blocks, plus a 24/7 AI assistant and "AI vendor shortlists with pros/cons". One plan: "Complete Wedding Suite: $39.99/month", with a 7-day free trial and no card required.
Where it wins: breadth. Seating chart, RSVP site and document vault in one place.
What to know: it is the most expensive app here, and no free tier is mentioned beyond the trial. Source: theweddingplanner.ai, read September 23, 2026.
Loverly
Loverly calls itself "The Free Online Wedding Planner Website" and claims "20+ Free Planning Tools", "25K+ Vetted Vendors" and "350K+ Couples Planning". The tools are a budget tracker, a checklist, a guest list with RSVPs, a vendor manager with payment tracking, vision boards, a style quiz and wedding websites, alongside a vendor marketplace and a large editorial library.
Its AI is aiSLE Assistant™, and it does something none of the others here do: instead of chatting, it ingests. "Forward it. Clip it. Upload it." — it reads your vendor proposals, receipts and inspiration and files them into your planning tools automatically.
Where it wins: the admin nobody wants to do. Forwarding a caterer's quote and having it land in the budget is a different approach from asking a chatbot to plan.
What to know: it is not a planning conversation, so it will not talk through a decision, write a speech or research a vendor for you. There is no couple-facing pricing page and everything couple-side is presented as free; the money comes from the vendor side, where profiles can "Upgrade to Loverly Preferred Vendor", and from its shop. No seating chart is listed. Source: loverly.com and loverly.com/about-us, read September 23, 2026. loverly.com blocks some automated readers; these came from the page HTML.
The Bride Bot
A chat assistant from The Wedding Mentor, described as "trained on 20+ years of real wedding experience and a proven 4-step wedding planning process". It answers planning questions, helps write vendor emails and follow-ups, and gives level-headed advice on budget, decor and family conflict.
Where it wins: a named human planner's method behind the answers.
What to know: the price is not published on its homepage, and the page does not mention planning tools such as a budget tracker or a guest list. Source: thebridebot.com (redirects to theweddingmentor.co/the-bride-bot), read September 23, 2026.
What about plain ChatGPT?
It is free, it is a good brainstorming partner, and it is a risky source for anything that has to be true on the day. We tested that, with the inputs printed so you can rerun it: can ChatGPT plan my wedding? has the workflow, and the AI vendor hallucination test has the numbers.
Who should pick what
- You mostly need vendors, and lots of them: The Knot. Nothing else has the volume or the reviews.
- You want a registry and a wedding website: none of the AI-first apps. Use Zola or Joy, both free, alongside whichever planner you like.
- You care most about how the paper looks: ItsaYes.
- You dread the vendor emails: Losava.
- You want one subscription that has every screen: TheWeddingPlanner.ai.
- You want to see where each vendor fact came from, and need the speeches and vows written too: WedGenie.
Five questions to ask any of them
- When it names a vendor, does it show where the information came from?
- When it does not know a price or a capacity, does it say so?
- Does it remember your plan next week, or start from zero?
- What exactly does the free tier stop at, in numbers?
- Who pays it: you, or the vendors it recommends?
How this page was made
Six products, public pages and press releases only, all read on September 23, 2026. Two more apps are left out of this edition: WeddingWire, The Knot's sister brand, which we will add at the next review, and Nupt.ai, whose site renders no features or prices to read. Prices change: if a figure here is out of date, the product's own pricing page is right and we are wrong, and we will fix it at the next quarterly review.