A couple on their wedding day.

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For the once in a lifetime.

South Africa's premium wedding platform.

You only do this once.

Find your venue and vendors, design your wedding website, book a digital wedding camera and take the stress out of planning with tools you'll actually use.

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Real weddings, told properly.

The Journal features real local weddings, the suppliers behind them and what they actually cost, including tips and tricks.

  • A groom wheeling a bicycle beside his bride on a tree-lined estate road.
  • A bride stepping out of a doorway while her party looks on.
  • A couple walking hand in hand along a dark-sand beach below the cliffs.

Premium planning tools

Plan the whole day in one place.

Make the unglamorous part of a wedding easy.

Once wedding checklist for Tessa and James, 11 of 62 tasks complete with the twelve-months-before milestone fully ticked off.

01 Checklist

Simplify your to do list.

  • Design your day on a custom template.
  • Tick off and delegate tasks, one by one.
Once budget for Tessa and James showing a R275,000 total, R257,800 estimated spend, R17,200 remaining and 61 percent paid.

02 Budget

Honest numbers, rand by rand.

  • Real line items, totals and no surprises.
  • See what's been paid, still owed and still remaining in your budget.
Once guest list for Tessa and James with accepted and pending RSVPs, dietary notes and plus-ones per guest.

03 Guests

One list, many useful ways to manage it.

  • Invites, dietaries and plus-ones in one place.
  • Guests RSVP on your wedding website.
Once seating chart for Tessa and James with six named tables laid out on a canvas and 22 guests seated.

04 Seating

Seating you can plan and reshuffle live.

  • Drag and drop guests between tables.
  • Use our handy rules to simplify the process. "Seat families together" or "Don't seat A next to B"

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.

An infinite-canvas Once mood board titled ‘Our day in Stellenbosch’: polaroid photos of a bouquet, a naked cake, a ceremony and a first dance, arranged with notes and a sage colour swatch.
The Once inspiration feed on a phone: a Pinterest-style masonry of full-colour wedding photos, a bouquet, a Cape-mountain couple, a tablescape, a champagne tower, each with a Save button.
A newly married couple showered with confetti as they leave a stone chapel.

A registry with grace.

Gifts and cash contributions your guests can give in two taps.

Your wedding website

A wedding website that looks like it cost more than the flowers.

Tell your story, include useful details, directions and RSVPs and go live in minutes. Premium invitation experiences your guests open like a gift.

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A Once wedding invitation for Tessa and James: a wax-sealed cream envelope with a monogram, waiting to be tapped open.

Once Memories

Every guest’s photos, one album.

Guests scan one code and shoot on a shared film. No app to download. No chasing anyone for photos afterwards. All shot on the same filter and revealed on a date of your choosing.

The roll stays locked until the film develops.

  1. 01Scan

    The Once Memories join screen for Tessa and James: scan the code, add your first name, and join the shared wedding camera with no app to download.

    Guest scan the code at their table. No app to download.

  2. 02Shoot

    The Once Memories guest camera mid-shoot: a live viewfinder over a confetti send-off, with the film counter showing shots left on the shared roll.

    Everyone shoots on the same shared film through the day.

  3. 03Develops

    The Once Memories film locked before the reveal: a countdown to when the roll develops, every guest’s frames kept safe until it opens as one album.

    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's best vendors and suppliers.

A handpicked supplier directory, from exclusive wedding venues to photographers worth booking.

A couple on a stone terrace among old trees at a Cape estate.

Venues

Wine farms, gardens, forests, the coast.

A flash photograph of a couple mid-run, her dress gathered in one hand.

Photography

The ones who catch the in-between.

A blush rose and carnation bridal bouquet with dusty eucalyptus foliage, held against an ivory tulle gown.

Flowers & decor

Transform your day.

A couple laughing together as they cut a single-tier wedding cake.

Food & cake

Love is the main ingredient.

A bride mid-dance, hair flying, lost in the music.

Music & entertainment

The dance floor, sorted.

A bride-to-be in a towel turban and dark sunglasses, ready for the chair.

Beauty

Hair and makeup that lasts the day.

The Once Store

Coming soon

The 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.

  • A welcome sign and champagne coupes seen through a veil

    Stationery

    Invitations, menus and the on-the-day paper suite

  • A tiered wedding cake dressed with cascading flowers beneath a chandelier

    Décor

    Table styling, signage and the finishing details

  • Garnished coupes arranged on a white tablecloth in the sun

    Favours

    Small thank-yous for every place setting

  • A bridal bouquet of soft peach roses held against the gown

    Gifts

    For the wedding party and the people who made it

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