Wedding planning apps can save the day for today's busy engaged couples who face a long list of decisions and arrangements to make when they might already be overworked and overwhelmed. Even happy times carry stresses, so with all of that responsibility a little help is necessary. Wedding couples want to enjoy every stage of planning their big day, and even if they have a professional wedding coordinator on their team, apps can provide the perfect tools to keep everything in order.

Over the past few years, many different types of apps and sites have launched for the wedding couple's use, saving them time and money and creating connections to the vendors and artisans who may be that perfect find. These online tools connect others too, such as bridal parties working together from multiple locations and guests who present many challenges for meeting their dietary and lodging needs.

Couples in the earliest stages of wedding planning know that apps are on their path, but is an app better than a website? Jessica Bishop, founder of the wedding app and site The Budget Savvy Bride, says that the blend of app and website can provide ease. "Having something that is both web-based and mobile-friendly ensures that you can access all the necessary information at your fingertips no matter where you are. This is super helpful for vendor meetings, site visits or going over plans when spending time with family members. Using an app with sharing functionality like Google or Notion also allows you to give access to anyone involved in the wedding planning process, such as family members or your wedding planner or coordinator."

Here are some other apps creating greater functionality for wedding couples as well as an enhanced sense of "We've got this" that skims away some wedding planning stress:

Creating color combinations for wedding decor, items and outfits: Pantone Studio.

Wedding inspiration: Pinterest, offering the ability to create different pins or boards to capture images and articles you like across the app and online in general. It's like a visual notebook, with the added perk of being able to make some boards private to keep wedding plans and dresses to oneself.

Budget control: Mint, where the couple can keep an eye on and adjust their budgets.

Photo sharing: The Guest, where event guests can upload the images and video they take for the wedding couple and everyone else to see and have access to some perfect moments they may have missed during the day and night.

"The Knot is still a super popular and robust wedding planning app that many couples are using. Joy and Zola also both offer checklists and timelines within their platforms to keep couples on track. However, these lists tend to be very templated and typically cannot be customized for a couple's specific needs," says Bishop.

"But now more than ever I am hearing and seeing couples utilize other task-management platforms and web-based apps for their wedding planning. Their robust functionality allows for complete customization so couples can build their own wedding planning system for their specific needs -- a large task in itself! Notion seems to be a popular choice for this, in addition to utilizing Google's app suite of Sheets, Docs, Drive, Calendar and Slides," Bishop says.

In addition to functionality, time-savers and budget help, wedding couples can use apps to create artistically. "Canva is becoming brides' BFF for creating anything from wedding mood boards, bachelorette party planning and even designing their own wedding invitations," says Bishop. Canva offers a nice range of free design details like graphics, borders, backgrounds and image placement for wedding signage, invitations, notes and other creations.

Apps provide a reliable, budget-friendly layer of extra help, which can create calmer wedding couples through organization and perhaps through a relaxation app like Calm. Whatever the couple's wedding needs are, there's likely an app for that.