01 Checklist
Every task, in its season.
- Built from your date, not a generic template.
- Tick things off together, both of you.
You only do this once.
Once is the South African wedding platform. The website, the planning, every guest’s photos, and the Western Cape’s best suppliers. All of it, beautifully.
Everything below is real and arriving soon. Join the list and be first through the doors.
Real weddings, told properly.
The Journal opens at launch with real Western Cape weddings, the suppliers behind them, and what they actually cost.
The planning tools
Plan the whole day in one place.
The unglamorous part of a wedding, done beautifully. Four tools, one login, everything in rand.
02 Budget
Honest numbers, in rand.
- Real line items, real totals, no surprises.
- See what is paid, owed and still open.
03 Guests
One list, RSVPs included.
- Invites, dietaries and plus-ones in one place.
- Guests reply on your wedding website.
04 Seating
Tables you can move people around on.
- Drag guests between tables until it feels right.
- The chart your venue actually wants from you.
Tick it off
Every task by milestone, checked as you go.
Every rand tracked
Estimates, payments and what is left, live.
RSVPs in one place
Accepted, pending and declined at a glance.
Seat by drag
Move a table, drop a guest, done.
Inspiration and registry
Inspiration
Find your look, then make it yours.
Gather every idea in one place, then arrange your whole day the way you see it in your head.
Browse thousands of ideas
A living feed of real South African weddings, venues and suppliers. Search it, filter it, fall for it.
Save what you love to boards
Tap Save on any photo, a cake, a bouquet, a ceremony arch, and keep it in a board of your own.
Arrange it on an infinite canvas
Pull your saves onto a freeform mood board: pin photos, add notes and a colour palette, then share the whole vision.
A registry with grace.
Gifts and cash contributions your guests can give in two taps, handled quietly and well.
Your wedding website
A wedding website that looks like it cost more than the flowers.
Your story, the details, directions and RSVP, live in minutes. Premium invitation experiences your guests open like a gift.
Start for free
Once Memories
Every guest’s photos, one album.
Guests scan one code at the table and shoot on a shared film. No app to download, no chasing anyone for photos afterwards.
The roll stays locked until the film develops. One reveal, all of it together.
01Scan
Scan the code at your table. No app to download.
02Shoot
Everyone shoots on the same shared film through the day.
03Develops
The roll stays locked, then develops into one album after the day.
One album of every guest’s photos, and a guestbook they sign as they shoot. Starting from R249.
The directory
The Western Cape first. The best of it.
A hand-picked supplier directory opens with us, from wine farm venues to photographers worth the booking. Every supplier is announced at launch.
Venues
Wine farms, gardens, forests, the coast.
Photography
The ones who catch the in-between.
Flowers & decor
The room, transformed.
Food & cake
What everyone remembers eating.
Music & entertainment
The dance floor, sorted.
Beauty
Hair and makeup that lasts the day.
The Once Store
Coming soonThe pretty details, shoppable in one place
A curated store of wedding products made by South African suppliers and makers we have chosen ourselves: stationery, décor, favours and gifts. Shop them all in one place, and every order is tracked alongside the rest of your planning.
Stationery
Invitations, menus and the on-the-day paper suite
Décor
Table styling, signage and the finishing details
Favours
Small thank-yous for every place setting
Gifts
For the wedding party and the people who made it
Are you a venue or supplier?
Join the list as a venue or vendor and we will be in touch before doors open.
Be first through the doors.
One email when we open. Maybe one more before that, only if it matters.
Start for free.