Aisle Planner vs PlannedBy: What to Compare
Aisle Planner vs PlannedBy, without a made-up feature table: what PlannedBy actually does, and the five checks to run on any wedding tool.
Aisle Planner vs PlannedBy usually gets written as a feature table, and a feature table is the half of this comparison we will not fake. We hold no current verified record of what Aisle Planner charges or ships, so nothing on this page describes it. What you get instead is PlannedBy in checkable numbers, plus five questions to put to any wedding planning tool on its own site.
That limit is deliberate. A comparison page carrying an invented price list is worth less than no page at all, and pricing and feature sets move through the year. Read Aisle Planner's own site for its side. Everything below about PlannedBy comes from the shipped product, and you can check all of it in a few minutes.
What to compare, and how to check it yourself
Five checks. The middle column is our answer; the right-hand column is how you get the same answer out of any other tool without taking our word for it.
| The check | What PlannedBy does | How to test any other tool |
|---|---|---|
| Does the day recompute | Times derive from the ceremony time, and the night ends five hours after the reception unless you type an end | Move the ceremony an hour and count the rows you have to retype |
| What each supplier sees | Nine columns, one per supplier, filtered to the rows that concern them | Ask to see the photographer's view, not the planner's dashboard |
| What ships in the box | Three full days, 52 to 62 rows each | Open a new wedding and count the rows already in it |
| How you pay | Couples pay once for the wedding; planner plans are monthly | Read the billing page for one-off against recurring |
| Whose English | Run sheet, written for Australian suppliers | Read the headings on their own template |
Does the schedule recompute, or do you retype it?
PlannedBy builds the day out from the ceremony time. Inside the reception it places dinner 45 minutes after the couple walk in, speeches at 90 minutes and the first dance at 150 minutes, and with the finish time left blank it ends the night 300 minutes later, five hours after the reception starts.
Beats that would land after your finish time get dropped rather than pushed past it, and the send-off is kept whatever else goes. A four-hour night therefore keeps dinner, speeches and the first dance and loses the back end of the dance floor, and nobody retypes a row to make that happen.
Reception beats as the generator places them, in minutes after the couple walk in.
The test: move the ceremony an hour in a trial wedding. If you have to touch every row afterwards, the tool is storing a schedule rather than building one.
What does each supplier actually open?
One run sheet, nine columns: the primary sheet plus photographer, videographer, hair and makeup, celebrant, florist, caterer, DJ and band, and transport. A row reaches a supplier's view only when that supplier's column has something in it.
The columns are loaded very unevenly, which is the whole reason for filtering them. In the afternoon scenario the primary sheet carries 32 rows of content, the photographer's column 23, the DJ's 21, and hair and makeup 11. The photographer opens a sheet about photography; the celebrant opens a much shorter one.
Rows carrying content per column in the afternoon run sheet, from the primary sheet down to hair and makeup.
Put in a ceremony time and read the day back The run sheet generator derives getting ready, the ceremony, the reception and the send-off from one field, with every row on a real clock.
The test: ask any tool to show you what a photographer receives, not what the planner sees.
Does it ship with real days in it, or a blank grid?
Two of the shipped scenarios show the difference. The morning wedding runs 52 rows across four sections, 5:45 AM to 4:00 PM. The two-venue day runs 62 rows across five sections, 6:45 AM to 11:00 PM, and 18 of those rows are the five-hour break in the middle, 11:30 AM to 4:45 PM.
That break is the part couples forget to plan, and a blank grid asks you to remember it exists. In the shipped day it is already written: the photographer is off the clock from 1:15 to 3:00, with cards backed up to two drives and batteries on charge before the evening starts.
Two shipped days on one clock, with the five-hour break inside the two-venue wedding marked.
The test: open a new wedding in any tool and count what is already in it before you type.
Do you pay once, or every month, for one day?
A wedding happens once, so PlannedBy charges couples once for it. The couple plans are a single payment covering the whole wedding and never a subscription; the planner plans, which run several weddings at a time and add seats for a team, are monthly. Charges localise by country, so the pricing page is the only accurate place to read your own figure.
The test: find the billing page and work out whether the charge stops when the wedding does.
Is it written in your English?
"Run sheet" is the Australian name for the minute-by-minute schedule of the wedding day, and "timeline" is the US name for the same document. Managing Matrimony's Australian runsheet guide says it plainly: "In Australia we say runsheet; in the US they say timeline."1
This shows up in small, daily ways. Your celebrant, caterer and DJ will ask for the run sheet, and a tool whose headings, help articles and support replies are all written for another market's suppliers makes you translate every time. We use the Australian word throughout.
The Knot Worldwide's 2026 Real Weddings Study, self-reported by 10,474 US couples married in 2025, puts the average at 13 hired professionals per wedding.2 That is a US figure and no equivalent Australian count is published, but the shape is familiar enough: a dozen or so people, each needing their own slice of one document, all opening the same live run sheet rather than a new attachment.
Thirteen professionals at an average US wedding, one run sheet between them.
Where PlannedBy is the wrong tool
Fairness is a requirement of a comparison page, and with no verified record of the other product, the fair version is to name our own limits rather than invent someone else's.
PlannedBy is built around the run sheet and the day it describes: the schedule, the seating, the guest list, the suppliers and the budget. If what you need is a back office for a planning business, with contracts, invoicing and lead capture, that is a different category of software and a run sheet tool will not cover it. Compare the business suites against each other and treat the day-of schedule as a separate question.
Common questions
Is PlannedBy an Aisle Planner alternative? That depends which job you are hiring for, and we will not answer it for you from a feature list we have not verified. If the job is the day-of run sheet and getting it into your suppliers' hands, PlannedBy is built for that. If the job is running a planning company end to end, compare the full business suites.
Why does this page not list Aisle Planner's features or pricing? Because we hold no verified current record of either, and a wrong figure on a comparison page does more damage than a missing one. Their own site is the source worth reading for that half.
Does PlannedBy work for professional planners as well as couples? Yes. Couples pay once for their own wedding, and planner plans handle several weddings at a time with seats for a team, billed monthly.
What is a run sheet, compared with a timeline? Same document, different country. Australian suppliers say run sheet, American ones say timeline.1
How many suppliers need a copy? Everyone working on the day, which in the US averages 13 hired professionals per wedding.2 Each of them wants the rows that concern them rather than the whole sheet.
Can I try it before deciding anything? Yes. The run sheet generator and seat planner are open on the site, and the generator will build a full day from a single ceremony time.
Which one to pick
| If you are | Look for |
|---|---|
| A couple planning one wedding | A day that derives from the ceremony time and shares straight to suppliers |
| A planner running several weddings | Multi-wedding management and seats for a team, billed monthly |
| A planning business needing contracts and invoicing | A full business suite, compared against other suites |
Open the run sheet generator, put in your ceremony time, and read the day it gives you. Then do the same in whatever else you are considering and compare two real days rather than two feature lists.