Plan your wedding in Claude

What connecting Aisley adds

Claude is good at the thinking part of a wedding: a budget split, a guest list cut, a first draft of an email. Aisley does the work with real venues. Connect her, keep talking in Claude, and Aisley does the job in your wedding and tells you what happened.

• Describe the place you want, such as "a barn near Bath for 120 guests, under £15k", and Aisley runs her venue search, brings back real venues with why each one fits, and saves the ones you pick to your shortlist.
• Ask Aisley to write to one venue, or to as many as 25 at once. You read every draft in the chat, change what you like, and each email goes from your own Gmail once you confirm it.
• Ask who has written back. Aisley shows the latest reply in each conversation, who is waiting on whom, and the answer she has drafted, which you send as it is or in your own words.
• When a venue has been quiet for a week, or the interval you choose, Aisley drafts a polite follow-up. Ask what needs chasing and send it from the chat.
• The rest of the plan is there too: the to-do list, the budget and its expenses, your notes, the moodboards and the wedding details. Aisley can also invite your partner.

What Claude doesn't do on its own

Claude can do more than write now. With Gmail connected, it can send, reply to and forward email, and by default it asks for your approval first. What it doesn't do by itself is run the venue hunt:

• It can be wrong about venues. A chat answer can name a venue that has closed or quote last year's prices, and Anthropic's help centre says Claude can write things that look correct but are mistaken. Aisley's search returns real venues with their websites, and the prices on your shortlist come from the venues' own replies.
• It doesn't keep a shortlist. Which venues you wrote to, who answered, what they quoted and which dates are free end up spread across chats and your inbox. Aisley keeps each venue's status, price and date on the shortlist and updates it when a reply comes in.
• It doesn't notice silence. Nobody tells a chat that a venue has been quiet for a week. Aisley drafts the follow-up for every quiet conversation, and after two follow-ups asks whether to move on.

For the planning jobs Claude does well on its own, the prompts in how to use ChatGPT to plan your wedding work in Claude too.

How it works

• Your wedding lives in Aisley: the shortlist, the conversations, the budget. Claude is another place to talk to Aisley about it.
• One connection is one wedding. You log in with your Aisley account and pick the wedding when you connect.
• Claude asks before anything changes. Each Aisley tool tells Claude whether it only reads, changes the plan, removes something or sends email, and nothing reaches a venue until you have read it and said yes.
• From the chat, Aisley never deletes your wedding or removes anyone from it.
• Questions you ask Aisley from Claude are saved as chats in the app, so either of you can carry on there.

What you need

• A Claude account. The free plan allows one custom connector, which is enough for Aisley.
• An Aisley account with a wedding set up. Every new wedding starts with a free trial, and you start without a credit card. Subscribe now to lock in £10 a month, including VAT, until your wedding day.
• Your Gmail connected in Aisley, so enquiries go from your own address. If it isn't yet, ask in the chat and Aisley sends you the link.
• Gmail forwarding to Aisley, set once in the app, so the venues' replies reach Aisley.

Connect from Claude

In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, press + Add and choose Add custom connector. Name it Aisley and paste the server URL below. Claude sends you to Aisley to log in and choose the wedding. Then turn Aisley on for a conversation from the + button, under Connectors. The developer page has the details.

Does Aisley work on Claude's free plan?

Yes. Claude's free plan allows one custom connector, which is enough for Aisley.

Where do I add Aisley in Claude?

In Claude.ai or Claude Desktop, under Customize, then Connectors. Once it is added, switch it on in a conversation from the + button, under Connectors.

Is this the same as asking Claude to plan my wedding?

No. On its own, Claude plans in the chat window. With Aisley connected, it works on a wedding that exists in Aisley: real venues on a shortlist, enquiries sent from your Gmail, the venues' replies, and a budget built from their quotes.

Will Claude email a venue without asking me?

No. Claude shows you each email in full, with who it goes to, and it leaves your Gmail only once you confirm it.

Can I use Aisley without Claude?

Yes. Aisley is a web app at getaisley.com and everything works there. Aisley also works in ChatGPT and Gemini, in the US for now.

Can we both connect?

Yes. Each of you logs in with your own Aisley account, and each can connect Claude to the same wedding.