A.I. is enhancing a time-consuming and stressful process, providing couples and planners with event suggestions, budgeting and many other useful tools.
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, organized and completed thanks to artificial intelligence.
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, Nev. A.I. is helping them manage their budget and found their officiant and cake maker, 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 D.I.Y., 120-person, outdoor ceremony in Las Vegas in October 2025,” said Ms. Strand, 31, a public defender for Clark County, Nev. Within seconds it 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 A.I. 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 over all, she said, was completed by A.I. in about an hour.
Wedding planning has long been time-consuming and stressful, filled with meticulous details and endless decision making. A.I. 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 R.S.V.P. reminders; and augmented reality, or A.R., which can allow couples to tour venues remotely.
Anne Chang, 32, a freelance D.J. from Brooklyn, said she wanted to “simplify and optimize” the planning for her five-day bachelorette party in Ibiza, Spain, and turned to an A.I. tool on Bridesmaid for Hire, a wedding service platform. Seconds after plugging in some basic information, a six-page itinerary was produced that “factored in that the night we’re going to a club, our following morning would be a late rise and breakfast, and a chill beach day,” Ms. Chang said. She paid $35 for the assistance.
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