Seven capabilities you'll see live in a 20-minute walkthrough.

Type any wedding task into Vera — “our venue fell through,” “help me compare two photographers,” “we just got a $5,000 gift toward photography” — and she turns it into a step-by-step plan that uses your guest count, formality, date, and locked decisions. Not generic advice.

For things Verdeaux can't do directly (writing your vows, navigating family dynamics), Vera lays out a printable mini-plan so you still leave with a path forward.

Chat is direct conversation with Verdeaux, grounded in your wedding's specifics. We search trusted wedding editorial publishers — independent journalism, not algorithmic feeds — and cite every claim. Never Pinterest, Reddit, or TikTok.

Chat never invents vendor names. When you ask “find me a venue,” it explains what to look for and hands off to Vendor+ where Google Places live data lives.

Category baselines come from aggregated market data — real wedding spending by zip code, year, and guest count, refreshed annually with the latest cohort. We layer in Verdeaux's own modeling for the percent of weddings using each category, so your starting budget reflects what couples actually book — not what's averaged across a directory or self-reported by vendors.

Pricing scales for your city, guest count, day of week, formality, and alcohol choices. Lock a vendor and the budget reallocates around them — the math runs in the background; the decisions stay yours.

Five real candidates from Google Places, ranked for your wedding's style and budget. The Compare table shows them side-by-side with hidden costs surfaced and three pre-call questions drafted for each — so your first call is your sharpest call.

For every vendor category: a 10-minute prep, a warm-but-direct email draft, and inquiry tracking (contacted / responded / closed) so you always know where every conversation stands. Lock favorites and they become anchors for the budget math.

Vendor meetings feel like job interviews where you didn't read the posting. So every category opens with a Prepare step — know your guest count, your hours, your pickup points — because the vendor asks those first, and can't quote you until you answer. Then you get the questions to ask back.

23 guides: 545 questions, 334 of them must-ask, 276 flagged as cost drivers. Nineteen vendor categories, plus the four events couples forget to budget — rehearsal dinner, welcome party, day-after brunch, after-party. The venue guide alone runs 39 questions, twelve of them about costs the quote never shows: is sales tax applied to the service charge itself? · must we use their preferred vendors? · cake cutting, corkage, outside food and beverage fees?

Answers don't sit in a notes app. Each one lands in its column of the Compare table, so three venues line up side by side on the same questions — and the ones who dodged a question show as a blank you can see.

Tell Verdeaux where your guests are flying in. We map the driving route to your venue and find luxury, upscale, or boutique hotels on the corridor — not just whatever's near the venue downtown.

Each candidate shows the detour cost in miles honestly, so couples can choose a different experience without guessing what it'll cost their guests in drive time.

Drop in a vendor contract (PDF, photo, or text). DocReview flags hidden fees, cancellation windows, and the exact language to push back with — every flag carries a severity (Critical / Warning / Caution) and a paste-ready negotiation script.

DocCompare goes further: upload two or three competing quotes and Verdeaux lines them up apples-to-apples, with the same negotiation language drafted for each so you push back consistently across all of them.

Plan together via an 8-character join code. Both partners can edit; concurrent changes resolve cleanly so no one's work is silently overwritten. Every confirmed decision logs to your Decisions tab with the reasoning behind it.

Generate an Apple Wallet pass and your wedding lives on your home screen — address, countdown, timeline updates auto-pushed to you, your partner, and (if you choose) your guests on the day-of.