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The Thrifty Vows app icon: two interlocking white rings with sparkles on a rose gradient.
iPhone and Mac · SwiftUI

Thrifty Vows

A wedding planner built around one number: what the couple can actually afford. Every screen answers two questions: how much is this costing us, and how much have we saved?

No accountNo adsNo vendor lead-sellingWorks offline
Walkthrough · about a minute

A tour of the sample wedding

The app opens with a sample wedding already loaded, Sam and Alex's, so there is something to explore before typing anything. Press play, or pick a chapter.

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Welcome

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    The guest-count lever

    Guest count is the biggest cost driver in a wedding, so the app makes that trade-off visible in dollars. This is the app's own budget split and guest-cost maths, running in your browser.

    Each guest costs about

    in food, drink, cake, stationery and favors, the four categories that grow with headcount.

    Projected total
    Change
    Fixed costs
    Average per guest
    Recommended split for a budget wedding
    FixedGrows with guests

    Food and venue get the biggest shares, and a contingency line is kept on purpose so surprises don't hurt. Couples can edit every share in the app.

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    Savings you can count

    The app ships with about 40 concrete savings tips, each with a typical saving. Tapping "I did this" adds it to a running total on the home screen. A few of them:

    Saved so far
    $0

    Tap a tip you'd use.

    Screens

    Thrifty Vows 2.0, "Blush & Petal"

    Rose for actions, blush cream behind everything, sage for money saved and champagne for neutral highlights, with serif headings over rounded body text. Dark mode is designed, not inverted.