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Choosing a Wedding App for Your Fan Program (Video)
This seven-minute guide breaks down what actually matters in a wedding guest list app: easy imports, group and RSVP tracking, collaboration with your partner, and data you can reuse across the rest of your planning. No fan programs appear on screen — the video is a checklist for choosing tools, and it explains the features our own free planner is built around.
What this video covers
- The essential features every wedding guest list app should offer
- How imports, groups and RSVP tracking save planning time
- Why reusable guest data beats a one-off spreadsheet every time
Why the fan-shaped program deserves those features
The fan wedding program is the warm-weather favorite: a sturdy paddle or folding fan that carries your welcome, the order of events and the wedding party — and cools your guests through an outdoor ceremony in July. Because guests actually hold and wave it, the fan format rewards clear type, a simple schedule and print quality that survives sunshine.
Run the video's checklist against our planner and the boxes tick themselves: guest list import, shared access for two planners, and one project feeding every printed piece. Design the fan program in your browser alongside the guest list and seating chart, export the high-resolution file, and have a stack ready at the ceremony entrance.
Explore the rest of the wedding program cluster
Each sub-page below covers a narrow slice of the wedding program — the order-of-the-day card guests follow through the celebration — across editable templates, wording examples, design ideas, print specs, and the program fan. All built with the same free Wedding Planning Assistant project.
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Each item below pulls live from your seating chart on Wedding Planning Assistant, so a single update to your guest list flows through every printed piece — no copying names from one template to the next.