My Wedding Hero is the online solution for brides, their family and friends, and wedding professionals to get organized and connected. Getting started with your wedding plan is quick and easy. We’ve created this “quick start guide” as a useful reference and starting point.

Follow along as we show you how to sign-up for a new account and start planning your wedding in less that a minute.

To begin using My Wedding Hero, you will need to have an account with us. The process begins on our sign-up page. You do not need a credit card and there are no commitments to make. Your account will begin with a 5 day free trial where you can choose to subscribe.

Sign-up

• Enter your information in the fields provided and click submit to register for your My Wedding Hero account. This is a secure site and none of your personal information will be available to the public.
• Please only sign-up one person per wedding using the sign-up form. Once you log into My Wedding Hero, you’ll be able to quickly add all your other friends and family members.

Once you have submitted the form, you are in the program and ready to start planning your wedding. To help guide you, the program is pre-loaded with valuable planning tasks and tools. The program is organized by tabs at the top for managing various needs of your wedding. The first page you will see is the Home tab.

The first thing you will want to do is invite your family and friends to join you online. You can do this through our “invite users” form. All you need is the email address of the people you would like to invite to help you plan.

Invite other users

• From the Home tab, click the submenu link “Users.” Hint: you can also click the “Invite users” in the upper right of any page.
• Below the list of Current My Wedding Hero users, click the link to “Invite a new user.”
• Enter their email address (which will also serve as their username), an optional invite message and whether you would like to give them full permissions (admin) or restricted permissions (guest).
• When you click the “add the user” button, you and the person you are inviting will receive an email with instructions how to sign-in. We send you an email copy as a reference and so you know your invitation has been sent. Be sure any spam filters in your email program are set to allow email from myweddinghero.com.

Now let’s navigate to the To-do tab. This is a checklist of customizable wedding tasks grouped together in suggested time frames. You can add, edit, or delete any tasks you like.

Wedding Tasks

• Click the “12 - 18 months” heading to reveal to-do items listed in this timeframe. Click the heading again to conceal the tasks. Hint: you can drag and drop tasks to different time headings to match your wedding timeline.
• Use the task icons (red x, pencil and checkbox) to delete, edit or mark a task complete.
• Use the submenu link “Create a new to-do” to create your own wedding tasks. Hint: you can also add a new to-do by typing it in the quick add box on the right and hitting enter.

Next, let’s create your first message as a welcome to your invited users. Navigate to the Messages tab to start a new conversation.

Messages

• Click the submenu link “Create a new message.”
• Give the message a title and some text such as: “Welcome everyone to the wedding plan of Sam and Susan. We are so glad that you can join us to help plan for our special event.”
• Click the “Create Message” button at the bottom of the form.

When you are ready to start your Wedding Guest list, navigate to the Guests tab. In My Wedding Hero, guests are organized by Party with individual guests listed underneath. You can create your first Party by clicking the submenu link “Add a new guest.” Hint: you can also add a new party by using the quick add box at the right of the page.

Add a Guest

• Click the submenu link “Add a new guest.”
• Enter a Party name such as: “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” or “John Brown”
• Enter any other information about the party now or choose to add it later.
• Click the “Save and add first guest” button.

Once you have a Party name entered, you can begin to add guests under that Party. By default, every new Party is given 1 guest with a generic name “guest”. Let’s edit this default guest and enter something more realistic.

Edit guest details

• In the Guests in this Party table, click the “edit” link to change the details of the default guest. The edit guest form will be revealed.
• Add guest details and hit the “Edit guest” button to save changes.

To add more guests to a Party, use the “Add another guest” link under the Guests in this Party table.

For more Tips and Frequently Asked Questions, visit our help page.