A Planning Pod alternative for UK wedding planners
A Planning Pod alternative in the UK is usually wanted for one of two reasons: a price you can see before you talk to anyone, and software written for UK weddings. This page sets out where I Said Yes does more, side by side, from Planning Pod's own published pages, with the date we last checked at the bottom.
Where I Said Yes does more than Planning Pod
- A price on the page
- Planning Pod publishes no prices: every route to one is a demo, its terms are in US dollars and they say there are no refunds. I Said Yes is £39 a month for Planning or £69 for Complete, unlimited weddings, couples and team members, 30 days free with no card. Your price is fixed for 24 months from the day you join, and no VAT is charged in your first 12 months.
- Dietary needs handled as the medical data they are
- Planning Pod records meal choices with its RSVPs. I Said Yes also reads what each guest wrote about allergies and preferences, counts allergies apart, and puts them on the day pack and the caterer's sheet and nowhere else, with the guest's own words beside every flag.
- A day mode for the wedding
- A one-handed dashboard for the day: one running-late offset moves the whole day while the ceremony and the registrar stay put, clashes are named in plain words, and it keeps working with no signal. Planning Pod has itineraries, and does not describe a day mode or working offline.
- A website and mood boards for every couple
- A wedding website in twelve designs, each with six colour schemes, against Planning Pod's event webpage on its own subdomain, and mood boards drawn from a few lines you write, where Planning Pod has interactive vision boards.
- Built for UK weddings
- Pounds, UK dates and 24-hour times, suppliers rather than vendors, the UK legal steps on the checklist, and checklists for full planning, partial planning and on-the-day coordination.
Choosing a Planning Pod alternative in the UK: side by side
| Area | Planning Pod | I Said Yes |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | No prices published. A demo first; terms in US dollars, with no refunds. | £39 a month for Planning, £69 for Complete, or £390 and £690 a year. Your price is fixed for 24 months from the day you join, and no VAT is charged in your first 12 months. Unlimited weddings, couples and team members. 30 days free, no card. |
| Who it is for | Venues first, then planners and events teams. | UK wedding planners and on-the-day coordinators. |
| Guests and RSVP | A guest list with RSVPs and meal choices. A dietary field of its own is not described. | Households, meals, dietary needs with allergies counted apart, spreadsheet import with a preview and an undo, and replies through each couple's wedding website. |
| Seating | Floor plans to scale with seating, edited by several people at once. | A list table plan and a floor plan, with caterer sheets, place cards and reserved ceremony rows. |
| Budget | Event budgets. | A budget in pounds with VAT-aware totals, what is committed and what is still a plan, a payment schedule and reminders. |
| The day itself | Itineraries. A day mode or working offline is not described. | Day mode: a dashboard for the day that keeps working with no signal, one running-late offset that moves the day while the ceremony and the registrar stay put, clashes named in plain words, and a printed day sheet. |
| The couple's website | An event webpage on a Planning Pod subdomain. | A website for every couple in twelve designs, each with six colour schemes: link-only, password or public, an optional second language, and replies that land on the guest list. |
| Mood boards | Vision boards shared with staff and clients. | Mood boards drawn from a few lines you write, as photographs in the wedding's own colours, with a brief under every picture. |
| Payments | Stripe and other processors, with fees shown in US dollars. Use for a UK business is not stated. | Invoices that send and chase themselves, paid by card through Stripe, bank transfer or PayPal. Included in Complete. |
| Moving in | A migration specialist works with you. | Free on every plan. Tell us what you use now and we move your weddings in, usually within five working days of your files reaching us. Or import guests, budgets and suppliers yourself. |
Who I Said Yes is for
Choose I Said Yes if you plan UK weddings, want to know the price before you start, and want dietary needs, the day itself and a website for every couple handled properly.
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30 days free, no card.
Questions planners ask
- How much does Planning Pod cost?
- It does not publish prices. Its pricing page returned page not found when we checked, every route to a price is a demo, and its terms are in US dollars. I Said Yes is £39 a month for Planning or £69 for Complete, and no VAT is charged in your first 12 months.
- Is Planning Pod built for UK weddings?
- It is an American product that leads with venues, priced in US dollars. I Said Yes is built in Gloucestershire for UK planners: pounds, UK dates and the UK legal steps.
- Can I bring my events over from Planning Pod?
- Yes. We move your weddings in for you, free on any plan: tell us you use Planning Pod and we arrange it, usually within five working days of your files reaching us through our secure upload. Or import guests, budgets and suppliers yourself from a spreadsheet today.
- How do you keep this comparison honest?
- Every fact about Planning Pod comes from its own public pages. Where they do not say, this page says so rather than guess, and the date we last checked is printed at the bottom. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Compared against Planning Pod as at Saturday 24 October 2026, from its public website. What this page says about I Said Yes was last checked against the product on Saturday 24 October 2026. If something here is out of date, email planner@isaidyes.ai and we will put it right.