About
One of us planned the wedding. The other built the tool.
We are Kevin and Thi. Thi kept our whole wedding in a spreadsheet, three shared documents and a group chat — and wrote the same enquiry to one more vendor, evening after evening. Kevin makes software for a living, and once he had watched her do the same job for the third time, he started building Kuvert rather than suggesting another template.
The whole wedding lived in twenty files
The guest list in a spreadsheet, the seating chart as ovals in a presentation, the budget in a third sheet, the run sheet in a shared document. Each one on its own was fine. What wore her out was the distance between them: a name that changed had to change in five places, the file called “guestlist_final_v4” was not the last one, and the day before we discovered that the ovals had seated ninety-six guests on ninety-four chairs.
The vendors were a job of their own
Nine photographers, four venues and an unknown number of cake bakers, each of them found in a browser tab of its own. Thi wrote the same enquiry again for every one of them, and afterwards the prices, the free dates and who had not replied were spread across two inboxes and a chat. Finding a vendor is not the part that takes the time. Keeping track of them afterwards is.
Then Kevin started building
Kevin makes software, not weddings, and the only thing he could contribute that was not another template was to take the work out of the files. The first version was one page with the guest list and the room side by side, and it had one user. Everything that has come since — the vendors with notes, the budget that holds the estimate apart from the real price, the run sheet with a link of its own — is an answer to something Thi said was hard.
The guests were not going to download anything
No guest is going to install an app for a wedding they will attend once. So the guest site became an ordinary web page behind a QR code we hung up by the door: a guest searches for their name and gets which table, who is sitting at it, when the ceremony begins and where the venue is. No account, no sign-in.
Three languages, because our own guest list had three
Half the family reads Norwegian, half reads Vietnamese, and the friends from abroad read English. We did not want to send out three versions of the same information and keep them in step, so the guest site learned to speak all three and let the guest choose. It is still the part of Kuvert we are happiest with.
And then there were other people's weddings
When the day was over we were left with a tool built for one wedding and one person. The rest of the time has gone into making it usable for everybody else — and into no longer taking for granted that one of you is carrying all of it. Both of you can be in the same wedding in Kuvert, seeing the same thing.
Four things we are not going to do
Written down here because a promise made in public is easier to keep.
1
We do not sell your guest list
A guest list is names, allergies and who cannot sit with whom. It is yours. It is not sold, not shared with vendors, and not used for anything other than planning the wedding it belongs to.
2
No advertising in the planner
No banners and no “recommended” vendors who have paid for the position. The catalogue is hand-picked, and nobody can buy their way up it.
3
No lock-in
Cancel whenever you like, and the plan runs to the end of the period you have paid for. If you stop paying, everything you have entered stays where it is — we do not hold the guest list hostage.
4
We say when something is not finished
If a price is listed here, you can pay it. If something is not ready, it says so in the app where it applies, rather than you finding out by trying.
Kevin and Thi
Two people in Norway: one who planned a wedding, and one who sat up in the evenings building the tool for it. Kuvert is not a team of twelve, which is why an answer by email comes from one of us rather than from a help desk. If you have a question before making an account, just write.
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