# RC-021 — Wedding Insights & Feature Freeze

Act as Senior Product Designer, Senior UX Designer, Senior Product Manager, Senior Wedding Planning Consultant, Senior Backend Engineer, and Senior PHP Engineer.

This release is RC-021.

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IMPORTANT
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This release officially begins FEATURE FREEZE for the Couple Portal.

The Couple Portal core feature set is now considered COMPLETE.

Do NOT introduce any new modules.

Do NOT create new planning tools.

Do NOT create CRM features.

Do NOT create Marketplace features.

Do NOT create Vendor Portal.

Do NOT create Crew Task Management.

Do NOT create Vendor Check-in.

Do NOT create AI recommendations.

Do NOT create Wedding Health score.

Do NOT create Product Scoring.

Do NOT invent new workflows.

From this release onward,

focus only on improving the experience using the data already available.

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OBJECTIVE
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Create Wedding Insights.

Wedding Insights transforms existing data into meaningful summaries.

It should help couples understand their wedding preparation at a glance.

The information must remain simple.

Avoid complicated analytics.

Avoid enterprise BI dashboards.

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SECTION 1
Budget Insights
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Display

Total Budget

Allocated

Actual Deal Value

Paid

Remaining

Difference

Display Budget Allocation by Category.

Display Categories sorted by

Highest Budget

Highest Actual

Largest Difference

Show

Top 5 categories only.

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SECTION 2
Budget Distribution
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Visualize

Budget Allocation

per category.

Keep charts lightweight.

No advanced BI.

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SECTION 3
Guest Insights
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Display

Total Guests

Invitation Sent

Invitation Not Sent

RSVP

Confirmed

Declined

Pending

Need Follow Up

Display RSVP percentage.

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SECTION 4
Timeline Insights
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Display

Total Tasks

Completed

Remaining

Due Today

Due This Week

Overdue

Display progress visually.

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SECTION 5
Vendor Insights
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Vendor remains a supporting feature.

Display

Total Vendors

Assigned Vendors

Unassigned Budget Categories

Upcoming Payments

Largest Vendor Expense

Vendor is NOT the main focus.

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SECTION 6
Wedding Countdown
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Display

Wedding Date

Countdown

Days Remaining

Weeks Remaining

Months Remaining

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SECTION 7
Recent Activities
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Display latest activities.

Examples

Guest Added

RSVP Received

Payment Recorded

Timeline Completed

Vendor Assigned

Keep only the latest 10 items.

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SECTION 8
Upcoming Activities
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Display

Upcoming Payments

Upcoming Timeline Tasks

Upcoming RSVP Deadlines

Sort by nearest date.

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SECTION 9
Insight Cards
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Examples

Largest Expense Category

Largest Remaining Payment

Most Active Guest Category

Newest Vendor

Latest RSVP

No scoring.

No health indicator.

No AI recommendation.

Only factual summaries.

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SECTION 10
Navigation
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Create a new page

Wedding Insights

Planning modules remain unchanged.

Do NOT add new sidebar groups.

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SECTION 11
Responsive
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Verify

Desktop

Laptop

Tablet

Mobile

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SECTION 12
Performance
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Avoid unnecessary queries.

Reuse existing calculations where possible.

Prefer aggregation queries.

Avoid duplicated logic.

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SECTION 13
Verification
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Verify

Budget summaries

Guest summaries

Timeline summaries

Vendor summaries

Countdown

Recent Activities

Upcoming Activities

Charts

Responsive

Browser Testing

PHP Syntax Validation

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DELIVERABLES
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Provide complete walkthrough including

Architecture

Controllers

Models

Views

Routes

Charts

Dashboard

Verification

Browser screenshots

PHP syntax validation

Responsive validation

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PROJECT DIRECTION
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After RC-021,

the remaining roadmap is:

RC-022
Wedding Report (Post Wedding)

RC-023
Super Admin Experience

RC-024
Crew Experience

RC-025
Public Invitation Experience

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PRODUCT REVIEW SPRINT

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QA-002

BUG-005

RC-026
Experience Polish

RC-027
Release Candidate v1.0

Do NOT create additional modules beyond this roadmap unless explicitly requested by the Product Owner.

Prioritize

- UI refinement
- UX refinement
- Performance
- Stability
- Responsive behavior
- Accessibility
- Bug fixing

The feature scope is now LOCKED.