Your data

Wedding Computer is built around a principle of open data: your contacts and weddings are stored in a plain text format you can read, edit, and take with you — without needing Wedding Computer’s software to access them. This is a deliberate design choice, not a feature to be unlocked.

How your data is stored

Every contact and wedding is a Markdown file with YAML frontmatter. Here’s what a contact file looks like:

---
first_name: Sarah
last_name: Thompson
partner_first_name: James
partner_last_name: Chen
email: sarah@example.com
phone: +61 412 345 678
wedding_date: 2025-11-15
status: booked
source: enquiry_form
---

Notes about Sarah and James go here as plain text.

The YAML block at the top contains structured fields — the same ones you see in the CRM. Everything below it is your free-text notes. Open the file in any text editor and it’s immediately readable and editable.

These files live in a storage bucket (Cloudflare R2 by default) structured as a folder of Markdown files. The structure follows the open standard published at wedding.computer/standard. A wedding folder looks like:

weddings/
  sarah-james-2025/
    wedding.md       # wedding details + shared notes
    todo.md          # checklist
    timeline.md      # run sheet
    notes.md         # your private notes
    vendors.md       # generated vendor team list
    log.md           # generated changelog
    files/           # uploaded attachments

Exporting your data

Full account export

Go to Settings → Export to download a zip file containing everything:

All your contact files (one .md file per contact)
All your wedding folders (wedding details, run sheet, notes, checklist, log)
All uploaded files (photos, PDFs, attachments)
A JSON index of your full data set

Exports are available on both free and Pro plans with no restrictions. There’s no paywall on taking your own data.

Exporting individual records

From any contact: Export → downloads that contact’s Markdown file
From any wedding: Export → downloads that wedding’s full folder
From the timeline: Export → Print run sheet (PDF) or Export → Save as wallpaper (PNG)

Available formats

The primary export format is Markdown — the same files stored internally. A JSON export is available for contacts and weddings individually (useful for developers or importing into other tools). CSV export of your contact list is available via Settings → Export → Contacts (CSV).

Reading your data without Wedding Computer

Because the files are plain Markdown, you can open them in any text editor — Notepad, TextEdit, VS Code, Obsidian, iA Writer, or anything else. No special software, no file converter, no account needed. The format will remain readable in any text editor for as long as text editors exist.

Obsidian sync (Pro)

Wedding Computer has an official Obsidian plugin that syncs your data bidirectionally between Wedding Computer and an Obsidian vault. Install it from the Obsidian community plugins directory (search “Wedding Computer Sync”).

With the plugin configured:

Your contacts and weddings appear as Markdown notes in Obsidian
Edits you make in Obsidian sync back to Wedding Computer
Changes made in Wedding Computer appear in Obsidian on the next sync

The plugin authenticates using your vault sync token (from Settings → Device sync). Conflict detection is etag-based: if both Wedding Computer and your vault edited the same file, both versions are preserved and a conflict is flagged for you to resolve manually.

The vault sync API is a Pro feature.

GitHub storage (Pro)

As an alternative to the default Cloudflare R2 storage, Pro subscribers can configure Wedding Computer to store their data in their own GitHub repository. Changes in Wedding Computer are pushed as commits to your repo; edits made directly in GitHub are pulled back in on the next sync cycle.

To configure: go to Settings → Storage and connect your GitHub account. Your data becomes a Git repository — every change has a commit history.

What happens if you leave or if Wedding Computer shuts down

Because your data is already in plain Markdown files, there’s no lock-in. If you decide to leave:

Go to Settings → Export and download everything as a zip file
The Markdown files open in any text editor immediately
They can be imported into Obsidian, Notion, or any other Markdown-compatible tool

If Wedding Computer itself shut down, you’d receive advance notice to export your data. The files you download would remain fully readable and useful indefinitely — they’re not Wedding Computer-specific, they’re just text files following an open format.

The open standard

The file format used by Wedding Computer is published at wedding.computer/standard as an open specification. Any application can implement it — there’s no licence fee, no approval process. If another tool reads and writes the same format, your data moves between them without any conversion.