1. The Best App for Shaving: Grooming: Shaving & Styling
Okay, you’ve probably been shaving for quite a while, but you’re bound to pick up some new tips and tricks with this app. Enter your personal details, from skin sensitivity to beard thickness, for personalized shaving advice and videos on how to obtain the perfect stubble. You can also snap a selfie to find the facial-hair style that suits you best. Your wedding day beard (or lack thereof) is sure to be your best at-home shave yet.
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Grooming: Shaving & Styling2. The Best App for Haircuts: Shortcut – The Mobile Barbershop
If you’re in need of a quick trim come wedding day (or any wedding event, really), download Shortcut. The grooming-on-demand app will send a professional barber to your home, hotel or wherever you are instantly. (You can also book a week in advance if you’re more of a plan-ahead type.) Side note: Right now this app is only available in NYC, with plans to expand soon. If you’re located elsewhere, try
Style Seat, which lets you book last-minute barber or stylist appointments across the US.Download for iOS:
Shortcut – The Mobile Barbershop3. The best app for honeymoon planning: TripIt
There’s a reason being a travel agent is a full-time job—trying to keep track of all those email confirmations and reservations can drive you nuts. Luckily, TripIt can help you plan like a pro. Just send your booking confirmation emails to the app and it’ll automatically organize all your arrangements into a detailed, day-by-day itinerary. Stress-free honeymoon, here you come.
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TripIt4. The best app for fitness: Full Fitness: Exercise Workout Trainer
While your fiance might be handling the majority of the wedding planning load, it’s time to put another weight on your shoulders—literally. Full Fitness is great for both in-gym and at-home exercisers, with photo, video and text instructions for more than 100 moves. It’s one of the highest rated apps in the fitness category, probably because it’s so user-friendly. What makes it really stand out? You can sort all the exercises by body region; target muscles and the equipment you’ll need; create custom workouts; and monitor your progress to stay motivated.
Download for iOS: Full Fitness: Exercise Workout Trainer, $2.99
5. The best app for budgeting: Mint
Whether you’re normally budget-conscious or not, there’s no getting around the dreaded B-word when planning your wedding. Mint is our favorite app to help keep finances in check. Add your accounts and it’ll compile all the data, organizing it into easy-to-understand pie charts so you can see where your hard-earned cash is going at a glance. You can even create a custom wedding budget to keep you on track; maybe you’ll end up with a little extra money that can go toward your honeymoon or post-wedding life!
Download for iOS: Mint
Download for Android: Mint
6. The best app for music: Wedding DJ
We’ve already designated music selection as a groom duty—here’s an app that’ll help you create the perfect playlist. Whether you plan on hiring a DJ or not, you can use Wedding DJ to organize tracks for different parts of your wedding day, putting songs from your music library into categories such as “Bride’s Procession,” “Guest-Book Signing” and “Wedding Party Entrance.”
Download for iOS: Wedding DJ, $7.99
7. The best app for finding groomsmen gifts: Etsy
You may not have time to browse a million stores for great gifts for your groomsmen—and you don’t have to. Download Etsy for instant access to tons of personalized and memorable items, from monogrammed flasks to matching watches. Even better, many vendors offer customization options—an easy way to score even more points with your boys.
Download for iOS: Etsy
Download for Android: Etsy
8. The best app for planning your bachelor party: Tablelist
Your best man is (hopefully) tackling this task, but you can point him in the right direction with Tablelist. The app makes it super-easy to plan the big night out. Just browse venues in your area, book VIP tables ahead of time and skip the lines. You can even choose the location of your table in the club, order alcohol and split the bill ahead of time. With all the details taken care of, there’s nothing to worry about except having fun.
Download for iOS: Tablelist
Download for Android: Tablelist
9. The best app for dancing: Learn Hip Hop Dance
You’ve probably seen those viral videos of grooms and their groomsmen breaking out in a choreographed dance at their wedding receptions—that could be you! Learn Hip Hop Dance is a training app that can teach you professional choreography moves right from your phone. All you need to do is find a private practice space to if you want to pull off a surprise routine. We’d say the $2 for the app is well worth potentially becoming the next viral wedding sensation!
Download for iOS: Learn Hip Hop Dance, $1.99
