OurEventsGrid — our wedding/event planning tool — is now a proper paid add-on (£4.99/mo, no free trial). Getting it there meant fixing a few things that weren't right yet, so here's what changed.
It was built for any event, but only looked like weddings
Under the hood, OurEventsGrid always supported private events and corporate events alongside weddings — you tick a type when you create one, and it hides the irrelevant wedding-specific fields. But the public landing page only ever talked about weddings, with wedding photos and wedding copy throughout. If you weren't planning a wedding, you'd never have known it applied to you. We rewrote the landing page to actually reflect what the product does, added real screenshots of the dashboard, budget tracker, guest list and gift registry, and widened region/venue search from Scotland-only to the whole UK.
It was authenticating against the wrong app
OurEventsGrid was checking logins against OurKitchenGrid's database — leftover from early shared boilerplate, not a deliberate choice. Since it's a FamilyGrid add-on, it now authenticates directly against FamilyGrid accounts, the same login you already use.
While making that change, we found and fixed a real access control bug in the supplier vault: because nothing checked which household a supplier record actually belonged to, any logged-in user could view, edit or delete another household's supplier list just by changing a number in the URL. That's now fixed — every request is checked against the household that owns it before anything is read or written. We're flagging it here rather than quietly patching it and staying silent.
No free trial
Unlike some of our other tools, OurEventsGrid doesn't have a free tier. Planning a wedding or a big event is a short, intense burst of work rather than an ongoing daily habit, so it didn't make sense to build it around long-term free usage. It's £4.99/mo, straightforward, switched on from your FamilyGrid Add-ons page.