Comparison
Aisle Planner is shaped for a planner who wants one client facing platform across the whole engagement, while AisleTimeline is shaped for the coordinator whose real pain is the wedding day schedule and the vendor emails that follow every change to it.
If your bottleneck is the engagement, from design boards and guest lists to client checklists across twelve or eighteen months, a broad planning platform is the right center of gravity and a second tool would only add noise. If your bottleneck is the last three weeks, when the ceremony start moves by thirty minutes and you have to rebuild the run of show and resend it to the florist, the caterer, the DJ, the shuttle company, and the photographer, then AisleTimeline is narrower and does that one job properly. A fair number of coordinators run both and hand the timeline over at the two week mark.
| What you are deciding | AisleTimeline | Aisle Planner |
|---|---|---|
| What the product is for | Holding the wedding day run of show and keeping every vendor on the current version of it. | A broad planning platform meant to carry a planner through the whole engagement. |
| Who it fits | Solo coordinators and small studios whose paid deliverable is the wedding day itself. | Planners who want client facing planning work gathered in one place. |
| When a start time moves | Change the time once and every vendor view updates, with a notice to the vendors whose blocks moved. | Depends on how you have the platform configured, so test that flow on a live wedding first. |
| What a vendor opens | A link filtered to that vendor: their call time, their load in door, and only the blocks they touch. | Vendor access follows their own model, so confirm what a caterer or a DJ can actually open. |
| Breadth of scope | Deliberately narrow. No proposals, no invoicing, no lead pipeline, no client portal. | Wide. You are evaluating a suite rather than one module. |
| Setup before your next wedding | Import an existing timeline, tag each line to a vendor, send the links. Usually one evening. | Broader platforms reward setup time, so expect a slower start and a payoff spread across the engagement. |
| Pricing shape | Flat monthly tiers: Solo Planner at $35, Studio at $89, Agency at $179, with unlimited weddings. | Priced as a full platform, so compare the whole thing rather than the timeline piece, and check current terms with them. |
| Where it stops | It will not build a mood board or collect a final payment from your couple. | A wide platform carries more surface than a load in crew needs at seven on a Saturday morning. |
The right hand column says what kind of product Aisle Planner is and who it is built around, not what it charges or ships this quarter. What a product covers moves over time, so verify where it stands today. AisleTimeline is published by MLJ, SASU and this page is written by Jimenez Julien.
A planning suite is organized around the engagement. Design boards, guest lists, budget lines, client checklists, and a portal the couple logs into all assume a relationship that runs a year or more. That is real work and a real product, and if you sell full planning it probably deserves to be the center of your stack.
A run of show is organized around eight to fourteen hours. It is made of call times, load in doors, cue lines, and a room flip. The people reading it are not your clients. They are a florist on a ladder at ten in the morning, a catering captain counting covers before doors, and a DJ who needs to know the toast order changed. AisleTimeline is built for that second document and that second audience.
Think about the last time a ceremony start moved by half an hour. You edit the master timeline, export a fresh PDF, write an email explaining what changed, attach the file, and send it to eleven vendors. Then you answer four replies asking whether their own call time moved. That is most of an evening, and on a busy wedding it happens more than once.
AisleTimeline changes the time in one place. Each vendor opens a view showing only their blocks, and the ones whose times shifted get told without you writing anything. You are not really comparing feature lists here, you are comparing an evening. A broader suite may be able to approximate some of this depending on how you have set it up, which is worth testing on an actual wedding before you decide.
Plenty of coordinators keep a planning suite for the engagement and move to AisleTimeline for the final three weeks. The handoff point is easy to name: the moment the timeline stops being a draft the couple is reviewing and becomes a document vendors will act on. Everything earlier stays where your clients already look for it.
If you do run both, pick one home for the master times and never edit the other. The failure mode is not the software. It is two versions of the same Saturday, one of which a catering captain printed on Thursday and taped inside a kitchen door.
Not if you sell full planning. It does not hold design boards, guest lists, budgets, or a client portal. It holds the wedding day run of show and the vendor communication around it. Coordinators whose main product is day of management often find that is the only piece they were really using a suite for.
No. A vendor opens a link and sees the blocks that involve them, with their call time at the top. That matters because a rental crew is not going to set up a login at seven in the morning at a loading dock. Anyone who wants paper can still print their own view.
Leave them there. Couples rarely read a full run of show anyway, and the vendors who do read it are not inside your client portal. Keep the engagement where your clients expect to find it and move only the wedding day schedule.
Comparison
HoneyBook is built around the business side of an independent service company, while AisleTimeline is built around the Saturday itself, when a run of show has to reach a florist on a ladder and a DJ standing in a loading dock.
Comparison
A shared spreadsheet is free form and familiar and unbeatable for drafting, while AisleTimeline trades some of that freedom for one live version, vendor filtered views, and a notice sent when a time moves.
Two columns of criteria only get you so far. Send over the schedule for a date already on your calendar and we will walk it through AisleTimeline on a call, with the vendor views a shuttle driver and a catering captain would actually open at a load in door. Half an hour is usually enough to know whether automatic change notices are worth it for the way you work.