Why your wedding data should be plain text
The thinking behind Wedding Computer's open, portable data — and why it matters for an industry built on relationships.
By Wedding Institute · 9 June 2026
A wedding vendor’s contact list is the most valuable thing they own. Years of relationships, notes, and history — and in most software, it’s trapped in a database you can’t see, can’t leave with, and can’t truly call yours.
We built Wedding Computer differently.
Files, not a black box
Every contact and wedding is stored as a plain text markdown file, synced live to your own GitHub repository. You can open them in Obsidian, in a text editor, or on github.com. It’s not an export you have to request — it’s a living mirror of your data that you control.
Portable by default
If you ever stop using Wedding Computer, your data is already on your computer, in files that will still open in fifty years. No lock-in, no “request your data” form, no proprietary format.
Open for your AI, too
Because the data is open text, you — or any AI assistant you trust — can read and write it directly over the Model Context Protocol. Your CRM becomes something you can actually build on.
The wedding industry runs on trust. We think the software underneath it should earn that trust by never holding your data hostage.