Koide — Wedding Microsites with a Galician Accent

Role: Concept, product design, UX/UI, frontend, branding Status: Pre-launch · functional in demo, two demo weddings published, payment integration and final polish pending Stack: Lovable, Supabase via Lovable cloud

Koide is a SaaS for couples to build a wedding microsite invitations, RSVPs, countdown, gallery, interactive map, guest book, music. There are plenty of products like this in English. There aren't many in Galician, and almost none that take Galician seriously as a primary language rather than an afterthought translation. I wanted to build the one I'd actually want to use if I were getting married.

The conceptual spine of the product is a three-act structure: Antes, Durante, Despois. Most wedding sites collapse into "this is the event": one page that lives or dies on the wedding day. Koide treats the wedding as a story with anticipation, presence, and aftermath, each act with different content needs.

Antes — Anticipación. Digital invitations, smart RSVPs, countdown. The job is building expectation.

Durante — Conexión. Real-time interactive maps, itinerary, live photo stream. The job is keeping guests oriented and inside the experience.

Despois — Legado. A shared gallery that grows with guests' uploads, personalised thank-yous. The job is extending the celebration past the day itself.

That spine drives the marketing site, the couple's editing experience, and the public-facing microsite the guests actually see.

Galician as the default, not the translation. Every word on the site, from the marketing copy, dashboard labels and testimonial voice, is written in Galician first. The product is positioned for couples who specifically want their wedding website to reflect the language they actually got engaged in. Other languages are planned for the top tier, but the brand identity is rooted here.

One-time payment, against the SaaS grain. Sen subscricións. Paga unha vez, úsao para sempre. Most wedding microsite tools charge monthly. That's psychologically wrong for a wedding, because you're not buying a service, you're commissioning a memory. The pricing matches the emotional shape of the purchase: 29€ for Premium, 49€ for Couture, paid once, yours forever.

Three product surfaces, one design system. Koide is really three products that have to feel like one: the marketing site (selling), the couple's dashboard (configuring the details with tabs for General, Sections, Timeline, Places, Quiz, Messages, Photos, Analytics), and the public wedding microsite each couple ends up with (the artefact: hero, countdown, navigation, gallery). Same high-contrast display serif, same cream-and-gold palette, same italic accents on emphasised words, applied to three different problems.

Built in Lovable, with Mosic as the precedent (proof I could ship a product of this scope solo before this one began). Where Mosic was utility, Koide is mood: every screen had to feel like a luxury wedding stationery suite, not a tech product. That meant heavy work on typography (the contrast between display serif and italic emphasis carries most of the emotional weight), generous whitespace, and a palette that holds together across marketing, admin and microsite.

Functional end-to-end in demo form, with two published example weddings. The remaining work is final polish, payment integration, and the launch question: whether to push Koide into the market as a paid product, or to leave it as a documented design study of a complete wedding SaaS. Honestly, I haven't decided yet, and I think either outcome is fair to the work.