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A wedding planner spreadsheet for cross-cultural weddings: two families, two languages, two sets of customs, one plan

This is a planned spreadsheet (Excel + Google Sheets) for couples planning a bilingual, cross-cultural wedding — for example an English–Chinese wedding. Generic wedding planners assume one language and one set of customs. Cross-cultural couples end up adapting them by hand: guest names kept in two scripts, a tea ceremony squeezed into a timeline built only for a Western ceremony, red envelopes tracked in a separate notebook from the gift registry, and a budget split across two currencies. This planner, if built, would put those pieces in one place from the start: a bilingual, mail-merge-ready guest list and seating chart, both ceremony timelines in a single countdown plan, red-envelope and gift-registry tracking side by side, and a dual-currency budget and vendor tracker. It has not been built. This page answers one question only: is that specific angle worth building, at an intended price of $29.99 one-time?

Why validate before building

Wedding planner spreadsheets are an established paid category on Etsy: multiple sellers offer multi-tab planners (budget, guests, seating, vendors, timelines) in Excel and Google Sheets. The category sells. What is not established is whether the bilingual / cross-cultural angle matters enough for anyone to choose it over a generic template — that is the untested hypothesis this page exists to test.
Free wedding checklists and generic templates are everywhere, and an AI can generate a planning checklist on request. A static checklist is not the product. The only reason to pay would be the cross-cultural structure already worked out: two languages, both customs, both gift conventions, two currencies. When you sign up, please say plainly whether that structure is the part you actually need.
If signups show the bilingual angle does not resonate — if a generic planner plus your own notes already covers you — this idea gets dropped, and that is a successful test result, not a failure.

Planned modules (not built yet)

Bilingual guest list: names in both languages/scripts, household grouping, RSVP status, mail-merge-ready for invitations
Bilingual seating chart: both families' tables in one view, with the fields you need for place cards
Combined timeline: tea ceremony and other Chinese customs alongside the Western ceremony and reception, in one countdown checklist
Customs checklist for both traditions: what each side expects, in the order it happens
Red-envelope ledger and gift registry, side by side: given and received, so the books balance after the wedding
Dual-currency budget and vendor tracker: deposits paid, balances due and their dates, in both currencies

What actually gets built — and which modules come first — will be decided by what signups say. If the cross-cultural modules are not what people ask for, the honest conclusion is that a generic planner already does the job.

Who this is for

Couples planning a wedding across two languages or two cultures, already keeping parallel lists to make a generic planner fit
Couples combining a Chinese tea ceremony (or similar customs) with a Western ceremony and reception
If a generic wedding planner already fits your wedding, you do not need this — use the generic one

Intended price (not a selling price — not built, no payment, no pre-order)

$29.99 one-time

Signing up is one email — no payment, no reservation, no purchase commitment. In it, please say: your wedding date, which languages/cultures your wedding combines, the hardest part of planning across both, what you use to manage it today, whether you use Excel or Google Sheets, and whether $29.99 is a price you would pay. Those answers decide whether this gets built and what goes in first.

Join the waitlist (send one email)

This product has not been built. If 20 people sign up within 30 days (by November 13, 2026), full production starts; below that, the idea is dropped and every signup gets an email saying so. Price and threshold are validation parameters, not market conclusions.

FAQ

Can I buy it now?
No. It has not been built. This page is the whole test.

Does signing up commit me to buying?
No. Signup only means "tell me if it gets built." You decide when you see the finished product.

Which language pairs?
The planned first version is English–Chinese, because that is the combination the planned customs modules (tea ceremony, red envelopes) belong to. If your wedding combines a different pair, say so in your signup email — that is exactly the signal this test is collecting.

Why not just adapt a generic planner?
Many couples do, and for a single-culture wedding that is the right answer. This test exists for the couples who found the adaptation itself — two scripts, two timelines, two gift conventions, two currencies — to be the painful part.

How would it be delivered, if built?
As a downloadable spreadsheet (Excel + Google Sheets) with written documentation — self-serve purchase and download, no one-on-one service attached.