Wedding Timeline Planner

A planner that generates and formats the day-of run-of-show timeline for a wedding — the second, full rebuild of a tool I first shipped as a simple public version.

🖥 live demo🔒 private repo

Runs privately — walkthrough available on request.

The Build Loop

Because I DJ and MC weddings, I kept hitting the fact that every event needs a precise day-of timeline and I was rebuilding them by hand each time, so I built a planner that generates and formats the run-of-show, that turns a repetitive document into a few inputs and a clean output. It taught me the value of rebuilding v1 properly once I understood the real workflow — [TIMELINE](https://github.com/BUTTERGANG/TIMELINE) was the sketch, WEDDINGTIMELINE is the real thing.

What it looks like

Dashboard — Maya & Devon's wedding at a glance, with the collaborative team on hand.
Timeline builder — the full day, ceremony to send-off, with categories, priorities, and color-coded blocks.
Run-of-show overview — the generated, shareable summary of the day.
Shot list — must-have, ceremony, reception, and family shots the photographer needs to hit.
Tasks — planning to-dos with priority and completion tracking.
Recorded walk-through of the running app.

Wedding Timeline Planner

One-liner: A planner that generates and formats the day-of run-of-show timeline for a wedding — the second, full rebuild of a tool I first shipped as a simple public version.

Origin (the Build Loop)

Because I DJ and MC weddings, I kept hitting the fact that every event needs a precise day-of timeline and I was rebuilding them by hand each time, so I built a planner that generates and formats the run-of-show, that turns a repetitive document into a few inputs and a clean output. It taught me the value of rebuilding v1 properly once I understood the real workflow — TIMELINE was the sketch, WEDDINGTIMELINE is the real thing.

The problem

A wedding lives or dies on its timeline — when the party starts, grand entrance, first dance, toasts, cake, last song. As the DJ/MC I need that run-of-show tight and consistent for every event, and hand-building each one is slow and error-prone. I wanted to enter the moving pieces once and get a clean, formatted timeline out.

What it does

  • Builds and formats a wedding day-of / run-of-show timeline.
  • Full web app for entering events and generating the schedule.
  • Successor to the earlier public TIMELINE planner (v1) — same job, proper build.

How it’s built

  • Stack: React + TypeScript, Drizzle ORM, Vite, Vitest (Replit-style client/server/migrations layout); tests included.
  • Notable engineering: clean rebuild with a real schema and test coverage, versus the minimal v1.
  • Architecture: React client → Express/Drizzle server → Postgres, with migrations.

Proof points

  • A v1 → v2 progression (TIMELINE → WEDDINGTIMELINE) that shows learning from a shipped tool.
  • Test coverage on a personal project.
  • Used against the real event workflow behind DJ Ops paperwork.

What to show

  • Demo: Deploy WEDDINGTIMELINE to a public URL (repo stays private); TIMELINE v1 is already public and linkable as the predecessor.
  • Visuals needed: the timeline-builder input screen; a generated run-of-show output.

Case-study angle

A small but honest signal of craft growth: Alex shipped a basic timeline tool, learned from running real events with it, then rebuilt it properly with a schema and tests. The Build Loop applied to his own earlier code.