Joy - Wedding App & Website Hack 0.1.59 + Redeem Codes

I found this website and app and I’m just so glad I did. It was so easy to use and helped with my guest wedding planning immensely. I love that I can use digital correspondence along with my traditional paper invites. We used the private online RSVP and had zero issues. Plus I love that all my guests can use the app for the schedule as well as post pics and communicate with us! Plus when I had questions about how to find a specific item on the app the support was quick and very thorough. I have recommended this to all my friends who are getting married and on a bridal group I’m a part of.

I love that it’s super easy to use. It doesn’t have a lot of clutter. The only downside is that it doesn’t have a lot of planning tools like budget and checklists BUT I also didn’t personally need those and they often have useless suggestions. It would also be cool if there was a non-wedding version too for other large events like family reunions, family vacations, birthdays, etc.

TL;DR - Perfect for planning my small, non-traditional, destination wedding. Perfect for guest use. Highly recommend.

I really like this website. Granted, haven't used the RSVP function quite yet but, after so much research, only maybe 2 apps I've seen have had consistent high ratings in the online RSVP area. With so many older invitees, we still will be using paper for the exact count(and it's a semi smaller wedding so I'm not worried about it).

What I really like outside of their website is their customer service and they listen to user/customer feedback! When I was searching on Google to see which wedding website to use, i actively saw Joy reps on the threads listening to the pros and cons. I actually saw each one of the forum suggestions implemented by Joy. Plus, they went back to announce the features were up and running. That's awesome!

Plus, I can say it wasn't a marketing ploy because I had a very minor suggestion, picky and they are adding the feature! But, what's great is that they went ahead and changed it for me on the spot. I really can't complain about that.

Every site has their pros and cons. This one is easy and great for me. I'm a rather private person so the ease of securing information and codes is great. Layouts are fine and easy to do pages and questions, etc. the cons I've found really aren't cons for me as I don't want elaborate luxury, I want sophisticated, classy, streamline and app and website friendly for ease of navigation. This app has all of that and I couldn't be any more pleased so far.

I was really excited to use a site and app that wasn't wedding wire or the knot. I really liked the design and the UI seemed pretty straightforward. Everything was great. Until we started getting our RSVP's... which is a pretty important part of the process. This part unfortunately got convoluted, and the UI seemed to get less and less friendly. The biggest heartbreak was that 6 guests who had, without a doubt, previously RSVP'd "yes," had inexplicably disappeared without warning. This threw off our numbers, and by the time we realized what had happened, we were a week away from our wedding. We scrambled to adjust rentals, catering, floral, favors, seating charts, and the like. When talking to their customer service (which has a great response time) we were connected with an engineer. They mentioned it was a bug that hey had been working on a fix for... but somehow they neglected to alert users??? This seems like pretty pertinent information that people should know about... preferably sooner rather than later...

I was so in love with our website till happened. I'm so disappointed now, and would recommend anyone considering using the site and app steer clear until they've fixed these issues.

When planning your wedding, there are SO many things that require your attention. And I was so worried that building a wedding website was going to be one of those things that took a lot of time and stressed me out. When searching online I came across joy. And other than finding my fiancé, it's the best thing that's come into my life in the last year and a half! It is so user-friendly, and allows you to easily create a beautiful wedding website that captures not only pictures and memories and moments, but wedding details for your guests like travel accommodations. Anytime I had a question, the real time chat function allowed me to get answers quick! I'd recommend this website to any bride out there who wants to create a beautiful website to share with friends and family.

I reviewed wedding websites and this one had great ratings and ranked at the top of lists. The site has a lot of great features that I love. However, It’s annoying that the guest list can not be managed via the app or smartphone, but I could deal with that if it was the only issue.

We are now less than 30 days out from the wedding and I’m realizing that our guests are having issues RSVPing using their smartphones. With one of my guests, I went through the email link to RSVP and it’s extremely difficult/impossible to edit the response on your phone. We had been getting notifications saying “You received and RSVP from ‘Said Guest’”, but the email just had their names listed and no actual response as to whether they choose accept or decline. When I finally checked the guest on a desktop computer, those guests have nothing in the RSVP column. So now we are chasing down dozens of people to get our final head count. This is so frustrating! Why would anyone make a site that is not mobile friendly!? I would not recommend this site.

I love Joy’s website. Very user friendly and straight forward. The app is horrible for managing the guest list. You can barely do ANYTHING with your guest list. I can’t update guests, I can’t easily add a new “family” or “party” of guests. All of the essentials that I need to do can only be done on the website, so if I am not in front of a computer or my tablet, I’m out of luck. My best bet is going to the website on my iPhone, but if I go to Guests, it won’t let me do anything and tells me to go to the app (where it does not have the functionality to manage guests). So, my work around is forcing my browser to “request desktop site” so that I can at least access the functionality of the website.
The app needs to allow users to:
-Fully manage guests.
-Add guests as a “party” or group/family. As of now, the app only allows you to add one at a time and you cannot group them (such as a husband and wife) into one party without going back to the website to do it.
-Check the boxes next to existing guests and then make them a party or group (like you can on the website).
-Manage individual guests and update their RSVP’s (essential when you have older guests who do not understand technology so that you can respond for them).
-You should be able to scroll to the right when viewing your guest list to see all the columns and data associated with that guest.

This really needs to improve. Guest tracking is the number one thing we need to do for a wedding.

I found this app and was thrilled at first at how easy it was to set everything up initially. As Im getting closer to the wedding though, there are new details and updates that i need to make that I literally can’t. Countless times I’ve gone to edit and it gives me an “oops! Something went wrong!” Or it redirects me to my own page but thinks I’m a guest, go to log in again and it’s just a never ending loop. Another extremely inconvenient thing are the pages that “aren’t mobile friendly yet” so if you want to edit those bits you need to be on an actual computer. Why make an app that isn’t fully functional as an app?! This is supposed to make things easier not more frustrating. So unless you know ALL the details of your event at the time of creating a page with JOY I suggest you look elsewhere to avoid unnecessary stress. They have the potential to be a great planning app but they need a lot more help in the tech department

With Joy is a great service for building an appealing but simple wedding site. By and large it's easy to use for both the couple and their guests. My fiancé and I got everything up and running in no time, and perhaps because of the site's single-page design, it looks great and gives our guests what they need with no hassle.

That said, there are a couple of things I found in the steps of setting it up and using it that were a little less than great. First, the RSVP process could be more intuitive for our less technologically ept guests. We've had more than one person RSVP multiple times on accident, because they found the steps unclear. Second, while the mobile app was something I was excited about, it turned out my fiancé was right: or guests really don't seem to be using it, so the communication features really aren't that helpful.

So, over all, I'm very happy we went with With Joy!

Out of all the wedding planning websites, I chose Joy for the ability to get a personalized URL without paying extra, use of ease, the fact they don’t take a percentage of your money for registry, and finally the ability to assign table numbers to guests. The guest list was the biggest item for me- I love being able to group everyone on the list based on table number, age, groom or bride side, out of towners, etc. The ability to personalize the website has been great.

Where Joy falls short is their app. The pictures are zoomed way in and text gets cut off. I hope my guests choose to only experience the desktop version, so they don’t see the app version. I also wish there were more options for themes/fonts with editable texts that don’t overlap.

TL;DR - five stars for user friendliness, three stars for design.

I wanted so badly to like this product. The setup was pretty easy and website designs were nice, but the deeper into planning and guest management we got the worse it was. The app has almost no usable features and no guests are going to download it (so far zero have even signed in). Guest management on the app is nonexistent, and not great on web (how can you not filter the list by rsvp??). RSVP function is not matching people/recognizing duplicates so I have to manually clean it up constantly. The website bugs every time I try to make changes (our Welcome Drinks location moved and we cannot update without an error). Highly custom registry is a highlight (aside from the cash funds - no one wants to Venmo a wedding gift). They seem to have put all their resources here, which I understand given it’s the only way they make money, but I would not recommend the basic features to a friend, which is a huge miss.