What we shipped, and when.

Wedding software has a habit of launching once and going quiet. This page is our answer: every meaningful change, dated, in plain words. If something here isn’t true of the product you’re using, tell us. That’s a bug.

September 18, 2026

A dashboard that knows what matters this week

  • The dashboard opens on a Focus section: the five tasks that matter right now with checkboxes that sync to your timeline, a Glimpse of the next six weeks grouped by week, and a Notes pad that saves as you type. Vendor deposits and balances that are still unpaid show up in Glimpse with the amount.
  • Change your wedding date in Settings and Altessa now offers to move your planning tasks to match. Tasks you added yourself and anything already complete stay put.
  • Couples planning on a short runway no longer start with a wall of overdue tasks. Anything the schedule would have placed in the past is spread across your first two weeks instead, in order.
  • Style Studio: tap any swatch to change it. A spectrum picker, hex entry, and an eyedropper where your browser supports one. Custom colors carry into PDFs, the layout builder, and your wedding site.
  • Guest list: the count at the top now leads with a grand total that includes plus ones, and shows guests and plus ones side by side. Adding a guest has Save and add another, and clicking outside the form no longer throws away what you typed.
  • The sidebar entry for your wedding-day schedule is now called Wedding Day, so it stops competing with Planning Timeline for the same word.

September 13, 2026

Gift Altessa, share a code, and a long security pass

  • You can now gift Altessa to a friend: buy Core or Premium at /gift and they get a redemption link by email. Every customer also has a personal code in Settings that gives a friend 20% off for 90 days.
  • A full code audit closed 39 findings in one week: server endpoints that trusted the browser too much, a payment path that could lock a paying customer out, analytics that ran ahead of the privacy policy, and a set of state bugs that lost layout edits or refetched the whole dashboard on every token refresh.
  • The layout builder saves what you dragged even if you leave the page within a few seconds. Forward and Back actually change stacking order now.
  • Wedding sites open for logged-in visitors too, and a friend of a couple can no longer list every published site through the API.
  • Cookieless usage measurement runs until you decline; cookies and session replay only after you accept. The privacy policy now says exactly that. Guests visiting a couple's wedding site get no analytics and no banner.
  • PDF exports carry their own fonts, so an export works offline once the page is loaded.

September 11, 2026

Twelve more honest articles, and a Blog link where you can find it

  • Twelve new articles are scheduled through October 9, three a week: real line-by-line budgets at $5,000, $10,000, $20,000, and $30,000, a 50-guest wedding at three price points, a budget-by-percentage guide, and side-by-side comparisons of Zola, The Knot, and Altessa.
  • The blog now has a link in the homepage menu, so you can find it without scrolling to the footer.
  • Every article ends with the same quiet invitation: try every Premium tool free, and pay once only when you are ready to save your work.

July 25, 2026

Findable, citable, honest about 404s

  • Every journal article now tells search engines its own name: unique titles, descriptions, and canonical links per post. Before this, every article introduced itself as the homepage, and Google believed it.
  • Articles also carry proper article markup (BlogPosting schema), and the homepage FAQ is now machine-readable: the exact questions and answers you can read on the page, nothing invented for the robots.
  • Fixed: our robots.txt accidentally told crawlers to skip the free budget template and timeline generator, because their addresses share a prefix with two private app pages. Both tools are now explicitly welcome mats.
  • A typo in the address bar now gets an honest “page not found” instead of a full copy of the homepage pretending to be real.
  • Sitemap housekeeping: the login and signup doors are out. They were never the interesting part.

July 11, 2026

The privacy promise, shipped

  • We wrote the promise down: a plain-language privacy promise page, and a homepage section to match: we never sell your data, never sell your guests’ data, never show you a vendor ad, and you pay once.
  • Export everything: Settings now downloads your entire plan (guests, budget, timelines, vendors, layouts, and your wedding-site content) as a zip of clean CSV files. One click, no email gate, no request form.
  • Account deletion now offers that full export first, then removes your data from the app right away. No emailed codes, no retention runaround.
  • Fixed: the wedding-site editor preview could drift from the published site when your Style Studio palette changed after a save. Both now read one shared theme source, and the editor tells you when your palette has moved on instead of silently showing colors your guests don’t see.
  • The homepage “With Altessa” panel is now the real budget component rendered live, not a screenshot, so it can’t go stale again.

July 10, 2026

A sample wedding, open for inspection

  • The live demo: Maya & Jordan’s sample wedding, with a $22,000 budget, 111 guests, 16 vendors, and a fully seated floor plan, browsable with no signup. Read-only at the database level, not just the buttons.
  • Version history: Altessa now snapshots your whole plan twice a day when something changed, and before every restore, so restoring never loses anything.
  • Honest comparison pages: vs. the spreadsheet, The Knot, and Zola. Each one says what the other side is genuinely good at before making our case.
  • A free timeline generator joined the free budget template: enter your date, get the full booking-order timeline. No account for either.
  • Repriced the demo wedding to $22,000, closer to what most couples actually spend.

July 9, 2026

Liquid glass

  • A new control language across the whole app: polished glass buttons, progress channels, and panels in warm cream: controls you can almost feel.
  • The homepage hero got its marquee: a quiet stream of real product cards drifting behind the headline.

July 5, 2026

The ceremony gets its own room

  • Ceremony builder: rows, aisles, and seat-aware exports. The Layout Builder now plans both rooms of the day, not just the reception.
  • Seat monograms, names on seats, seat-level guest assignment. Also: a grand piano.
  • Blog posts now publish themselves on schedule.

July 4, 2026

Read us before you trust us

  • The blog opened, starting with the honest guides to wedding spreadsheets and planning apps.
  • Every public page is now prerendered to real HTML at build time: faster for you, legible to crawlers and AI engines.
  • Wedding sites picked up theme colors derived from your Style Studio palette, with readable text on every background.
  • The Vendor Guide got its booking-order grid: who to book first, at a glance.

July 3, 2026

Under the hood

  • Route-level code splitting: the layout canvas and the PDF engine now load only when you use them.
  • A security pass: row-level-security coverage verified across every table, admin gates tightened, and 38 dead files deleted.

Curious where it’s all going? Walk through the live demo or read our privacy promise.