Planning your wedding with family: the collaboration board

A Muslim wedding is never really planned by two people. It's planned by two people, four parents, a couple of siblings with strong opinions, and at least one aunt who has Views on the menu. That's a blessing — more hands, more duas — but it's also how things get booked twice and forgotten once.

The family collaboration board is built for exactly this. It gives everyone helping you a shared space to see the plan, vote on choices and pick up tasks — without thirty messages a day landing in the family group chat.

Invite the people already involved

From the family board, invite family by email. Each person gets their own access, so your mum doesn't have to plan over your shoulder on your laptop.

You can label who's who as you invite them — "Mum", "Bhai", "Maid of honour" — so the board reads like your actual family rather than a list of email addresses.

Give people the right level of access

Not everyone should be able to change everything, and the board respects that. There are three levels:

• Viewer — can see the plan and follow along, but not change it. Ideal for relatives who want to stay in the loop without touching anything.
• Collaborator — can join in: vote on vendors, comment, help move things along.
• Editor — fully hands-on, for the one or two people genuinely planning alongside you.

You can change anyone's access whenever you like as roles shift through the planning.

Vote on the shortlist instead of arguing about it

Here's the feature that saves the most arguments. The vendors on your shortlist can be pulled onto the board for the family to vote on — a simple thumbs up or thumbs down on each one.

Instead of the same debate every weekend, you get a tally. Three thumbs up for the first venue, one for the second. It won't make the decision for you, but it makes the room's actual opinion visible — and that alone settles a surprising number of disagreements.

Share the jobs, not just the opinions

Weddings have a hundred small tasks, and they quietly default to the bride. The board lets you put shared tasks where everyone can see them, so "someone needs to confirm the imam" becomes a job with a name on it rather than a worry in your head.

Because the board is live, when your brother ticks something off you see it straight away — no "did you sort the cars?" / "I told you I did" loop.