01 Checklist
Simplify your to do list.
- Design your day on a custom template.
- Tick off and delegate tasks, one by one.
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For the once in a lifetime.
South Africa’s wedding planning platform you'll only need once.
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.
Join the list and be first to demo the platform.
Real weddings, told properly.
The Journal features real local weddings, the suppliers behind them and what they actually cost, including tips and tricks.
Premium planning tools
Plan the whole day in one place.
Make the unglamorous part of a wedding easy.
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.
03 Guests
One list, many useful ways to manage it.
- Invites, dietaries and plus-ones in one place.
- Guests RSVP on your wedding website.
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.
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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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.
01Scan
Guest scan the code at their 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's best vendors and suppliers.
A handpicked supplier directory, from exclusive wedding venues to photographers worth booking.
Venues
Wine farms, gardens, forests, the coast.
Photography
The ones who catch the in-between.
Flowers & decor
Transform your day.
Food & cake
Love is the main ingredient.
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?
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