Haaaaaappy Valentine’s Day, hunters !!
I'm one of the co-founders of LadyMarry. 1 year before, we launched our 1.0 web version @PH. And now we’re glad to introduce our Android and iOS virtual wedding planner to all friends here!
If you don’t know/use LadyMarry - “ She" is a virtual wedding planner that helps engaged couples schedule to-dos, recommend vendors, and coordinate all details without an expensive real wedding planner. And more importantly, “she” encourages the groom and other family members/friends to help out the planning together to learn how to work with each other even before marriage.
Over the last year, we’ve collected huge amounts of feedback, suggestions, complaints, rants and even some praise from PH (XOXO!).
What’s new? (in a nutshell)
1) Automatically customize a monthly checklist
2) Collaborate with others about the same wedding
3) Find vendors with availability and pricing
4) Cross-platform, including iOS, Android, Web
We're pretty proud of it. All that is left is to hope that you and our community would love it and be the lifehackers too! Enjoy~
P.S. Congratulations to our team members who recently got engaged and married!!
Wedding planning (and beyond) is def a chore, but a happy chore :) Hope LadyMarry can go a long way to help. I've see a couple of wedding related services including planning before. What do you think as the maker that sets LM apart? Congrats again!
@ma_xiaoxu If you browse around the existing wedding planning apps, you'll easily find they all provide endless glamorous contents for inspirations - the more the better. While for LadyMarry, she only focuses on the efficiency part - how to get things done. "She" won't provide endless inspirations, but aims to save couples' time, $$ and stress at the best.
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Congrats. I guess your team members used this when planning their wedding. What was the main challenges that they could get help with using the app?
@mikaellowgren Thanks. And your guess is right :) We all can't stand the exhausting and expensive planning experience, so we've made LadyMarry. The main challenge based on our own experience is to know "how to get started", due to lack of experience, time and money.
Interesting idea and glad to see the new updates in V2.0! Just curious, why do you choose this niche market? And what's the next step for LadyMarry after launching V2.0?
@elaineluyi Great questions. Wedding is a niche for sure. Since we are all very family-oriented, when several of us planned our own weddings, we noticed how strong of the need to get things done, and encourage more friends to re-value the wedding and marriage. For the next steps, will definitely focus on the engagement, esp the collaboration part. Let me know if you have any ideas.
Awesome idea. I remember the days when I used to plan my wedding, and it was a disaster, too many things to be done, too many things to be remembered.
I believe LadyMarry can save time and the most important some nerves.
Do you guys consider involving some event planning agencies and some wedding service suppliers right into the app to make communication between user and agency easier and faster? It could be a killer feature.
Good luck! Great job!
@aramiggs Thanks for your empathy. We are trying to connect the planning vendors with LadyMarry's users, through more transparent data for both sides.
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Very timely posting. My fiancée and I were *this close* to putting an Asana project together to handle this problem but decided to give LadyMarry a try. We're both very impressed with what you already have so far. The basic structure feels just right. There were many pleasant surprises throughout the experience, particularly tying budget/cost to tasks and the out-of-the-way, yet helpful, articles.
The only hiccup so far was adding a collaborator. We had to run through the flow 3 or 4 times before I was prompted to join (this was on mobile). However, once we were past that, it's been all good.
Thanks for all the hard work that obviously went in to this, @joannejrr!
@favrot@joannejrr Hi Laurence, thanks a lot for trying out LadyMarry! I am Zetong, another maker behind the scene. We want to make the collaboration on-boarding experience better and may we understand better what went wrong and made you run through the flow 3 or 4 times? We can also be reached at info@ladymarry.com
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@zetong_li@joannejrr@ladymarry Sure thing. I downloaded the app, signed in via Facebook auth, added Brittany as a collaborator within the app. She was sent an email with instructions to join as a collaborator. She had already downloaded and signed in via Facebook auth as well by the time she opened the link. Opening the link sent her to the mobile website which redirected her to the app store. She then went back to the mobile app but didn't see any indication of the invitation. She then deleted the app and tried to go through the link again and re-install. Reinstalling and logging in put her back into her own account with no indication of my invitation. We tried that once more and it didn't work. Brittany then invited me. On closing and launching the app on my side, I was prompted to delete my tasks and populate with hers. Now when I open the app on my phone she shows up as the owner and I'm a collaborator. When she opens her app, I don't show up as a collaborator (although the apps sync fine otherwise).
As a small side note: Brittany says "it's not MY wedding, it's our wedding..." referencing the copy at the top of the Me section. Small thing, but it might be helpful to allow naming the wedding even if it has to have an owner or principal organizer.
@favrot@zetong_li@ladymarry Thanks a lot for the try and these UX bugs. Could you send your registered email address to info@ladymarry.com? We will make the wording more friendly to the multi-accounts situations. Every detail matters.
@joannejrr Actually is next week :) I'll run through v2.0 and compare to things we wish we could have done differently beforehand, etc. Fiance took control of most of the planning as I'm absolutely terrible in that area -- she utilized The Knot.
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