AI Timeline Generation

Gilded can generate a complete day-of timeline using AI. It takes into account your event details, vendors, venues, and existing entries to produce a realistic schedule that you can edit and refine.

Generating a New Timeline

If your timeline is empty, click Generate with AI in the toolbar. The AI will build a full timeline based on:

• Ceremony and reception times and venues
• Day-of details (prep locations, hair and makeup count, first look, cocktail hour)
• Guest count and wedding party size
• Vendors linked to the event (photographer, DJ, florist, etc.)
• Travel time between venues

Generation takes about a minute. When it finishes, your timeline is populated with entries and vendor assignments.

Enhancing an Existing Timeline

If you already have some entries, the button changes to Enhance with AI. In this mode, the AI fills in gaps around your existing entries without removing or overwriting what you have already built. This is useful when you have the key moments set but want the AI to add supporting entries like vendor arrival times, photo sessions, and buffer periods.

Guiding the AI with Instructions

Before generating or enhancing, a dialog lets you add optional free-text instructions — for example, "keep the ceremony short," "give dinner a full 90 minutes," or "we're doing a first look at 2pm." Your instructions take priority over the AI's defaults, so it's the fastest way to steer the result toward how you actually run the day.

There's also a Clear All & Start Over option in the toolbar menu if you want to wipe the timeline and regenerate from scratch.

What the AI Knows

The AI is trained on wedding industry timing patterns:

• Hair and makeup are planned separately — roughly 45 minutes for hair and 30 to 40 for makeup, per person
• Wedding party photos typically need 30-45 minutes
• Family formals take 45-60 minutes
• Standard cocktail hour is 60 minutes
• Buffer time between ceremony and reception depends on travel distance

It combines these heuristics with your specific event data to produce a schedule that makes sense for your wedding. It anchors to your stated times — ceremony and reception start and end (the reception end acts as a hard stop for the last entry) — stays within your coverage window, and correctly schedules late-night entries that run past midnight.

Editing After Generation

AI-generated entries are fully editable. You can change times, add descriptions, reassign vendors, delete entries, or reorder them. The AI gives you a starting point — you make it yours.

Vendor Assignment Matching

When the AI generates entries, it matches them to your event's actual vendors by type. If your event has a photographer named "Sarah Chen Photography," the AI will assign photo-related entries to that vendor automatically.

Plan

AI timeline generation (and Enhance) is included from your first day of the free trial onward. Building and editing a timeline by hand is always available too, if you would rather start from scratch.