Example couple: Maya & Jordan
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Decide whose house, plan the cooking, map the drive, and know what to say to both families.
$19$29until Oct 25
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The Planner Sheet, the Decision Workbook and four bonus tools. See everything that comes with it.
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Ends Oct 25, 11:59 PM ET · 8d 20h 42m
THE DECISION SYSTEM FOR NEWLYWEDS
Where you’ll be, what you’ll host, and what to tell both families, for Thanksgiving, Christmas or any holiday you share.
How it works
Each of you works through your own private page before you sit down together. The plan only moves to a shared page once you’ve both said what you want.
Choose alternate years, split the day, host both, rotate the holiday, or just the two of you. The planning system lays out this year and next, side by side, before anyone tells a parent.
Add each dish with its appliance, temperature and timing. The planning system checks it against your ovens, flags any clash, and tells you the fix: slow cooker, air fryer or staggered timing.
Launch price $19 — one-time
Goes to $29 on Oct 26.
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Make a Decision guarantee: Fill in the Start Here tab and your private Workbook pages within 14 days. If the planning system didn’t help you two reach a decision, email us and we’ll refund you.
The Planner Sheet
Put this year and the next two on one screen, so it stops feeling like a tug-of-war between two families. You both see the whole picture before either of you says yes to anyone.
Screenshots are the finished Maya & Jordan example, a constructed couple used to show the planning system. They are not customers.
Alternate years, split the day, host both, rotate the holiday, or just the two of you. Choose what feels fair to both of you from one dropdown, and watch the guessing turn into a plan you can say out loud.
No more scrambling to remember whose turn it was, or dreading the “so, are you coming?” text. You already know where you’ll be, and where you’ll be next time, so you can answer calmly.
Travel hours for each partner sit side by side, so the long drive isn’t something one of you quietly absorbs. It’s part of the choice you make together, out in the open.
Holidays can fill up until there’s no room left for the two of you. See how much time is left for just the two of you before you say yes, so your first married holiday still feels like yours.
Picture the holiday morning without the oven panic. The checker flags dishes that collide on space, temperature or timing while there’s still time to change the plan, not when guests are already at the door.
A warning alone only adds worry. For each clash it points to a way out (slow cooker, air fryer or staggered timing) and tells you why it works, so you feel sure about the change instead of just told to make it.
Your first hosted holiday is only the start. Christmas dinner, New Year’s or any gathering you host works the same way, so you’re never staring at a blank page with a knot in your stomach again.
Two families, a full table and a few dietary needs is a lot to hold in your head. Keep every guest and dish together, and let the coverage checks show what’s missing before someone at your table is left without.
Instead of carrying the whole day in your head, you get it mapped out from the night before to serving. You can stop asking “did we forget something?” and actually enjoy your own table.
Check it in the car, at your in-laws’, or in the grocery aisle. Nothing to install, just a free Google account, and your plan is right there when you need it.
The Decision Workbook (14 fillable pages)
It’s easier to be honest when nobody is watching. You each fill in your own private page first, so you know what you really want before you sit down together.
Half the arguments about holidays are really arguments about fairness. A page just for saying what fair means to the two of you, before either family weighs in with theirs.
The hardest part isn’t deciding, it’s saying it out loud to people you love. Nine situations, each with a firm and a soft version, so you can choose the words that sound like you.
Announcing the plan to parents
Firm and soft versions
“But we always do it this way”
Firm and soft versions
When your mother-in-law wants to host
Firm and soft versions
Being asked to split the day
Firm and soft versions
Declining an invitation
Firm and soft versions
Arriving late or leaving early
Firm and soft versions
Dietary needs
Firm and soft versions
Gift pressure
Firm and soft versions
Keeping couple-only time
Firm and soft versions
Hosting or visiting is a big decision to make in a hurry. One page lays out both sides, so you choose together with your eyes open, not because someone else already assumed.
Gift pressure can sneak up and sour a lovely day. One page to get on the same side first, so you walk in agreeing on what you’ll give and what you’ll expect.
Somebody has to say yes first. Whose parents get the call. Whose kitchen the turkey goes in. Whose calendar bends this year.
Most years, one person ends up making that decision alone — not because they wanted to, but because nobody else stepped up to make it together.
This is for you if:
Do you already feel a little sick about telling one set of parents before the other one finds out?
Sound familiar?
The early yes
One of you said yes to your mom before you’d talked it over. Now you’re explaining it to your partner’s side.
The mystery dish
You got voted into “bringing a dish.” Nobody said which one, and you’re hosting for the first time too.
The two-house shuffle
An hour in the car with a pie on your knees, arriving at the second house right as the good conversation ends.
The one-oven jam
One oven, and nine dishes that all need it at 350°F for the same forty minutes.
The same argument keeps coming back every year for one reason: nobody wrote anything down the first time.
None of them give you:
Advice tells you what to do. It doesn’t do the math, and it doesn’t write the sentence you have to say out loud.
Our First Holiday Season
Two parts that work together. The Planner Sheet works out where you’ll be, when, and what’s in the oven. The Decision Workbook gives you the words for both families.
Know where you’ll be, and what’s in the oven, before anyone asks.
Needs only a free Google account.
Say it once, say it together, and say it your way.
A blank planner leaves the work to you. This one has already done it.
Launch price $19 — one-time
Goes to $29 on Oct 26.
Four bonuses included, shown below.
Visa · Mastercard · Amex · PayPal
Make a Decision guarantee: Fill in the Start Here tab and your private Workbook pages within 14 days. If the planning system didn’t help you two reach a decision, email us and we’ll refund you.
Delivered as a Google Sheet copy link plus PDFs, yours to keep. You need a free Google account; nothing to install.
What happens next
Included with your purchase
The holiday is one day. These cover the rest of your first year, at no extra cost.
When you’ll use itAll year long
Bonus · Our Year of Firsts
When you’ll use itRight after the wedding
Bonus · Thank-You Card Rescue Kit
When you’ll use itBefore or after the trip
Bonus · Honeymoon & Minimoon Planner
Destinations are a starting point; always check current travel advice before you book.
When you’ll use itWhen the trip is over
Bonus · Re-Entry Guide
Everything above, plus all four bonuses.
Launch price $19 — one-time
Goes to $29 on Oct 26.
Visa · Mastercard · Amex · PayPal
Make a Decision guarantee: Fill in the Start Here tab and your private Workbook pages within 14 days. If the planning system didn’t help you two reach a decision, email us and we’ll refund you.
Delivered as Google Sheet copy links plus PDFs, everything included.
Yes — that's exactly the problem the oven checker is built around. Tell it how many ovens you have and what you're cooking, and it flags where things collide and what to move instead. (As always: cook to a safe internal temperature and check with a thermometer — the checker handles timing, not doneness.)
Yes. The main Sheet is built and tested for phones — you don't need a laptop to use it.
No — you both use the same copy of the Sheet and the same Workbook. The private pages in the Workbook are simply filled in separately, before you sit down with the shared pages together. For the private pages, print two copies of those pages or fill them in one at a time on separate devices.
The plan works backward from your own event date, whatever that is — there's no fixed calendar deadline built into it. The earlier you start, the more room you have, but there's no point at which it stops being useful.
The Start Here tab is built around any hosted holiday meal — Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, or another family gathering all work the same way.
It's built around your first married holiday, but it doesn't stop working after that. You can use it again for the next event you host — Christmas, New Year's or any other gathering — and the Year 1/Year 2 view already plans next year, so you know who you're with before either family asks.
It's built to do the opposite — the private pages come first specifically so you each work out what you want before either of you says anything to the other, let alone to a parent. But it's a planning tool, not a mediator; the conversation is still yours to have.
Yes — under our Make a Decision guarantee. Within 14 days of purchase, fill in the Start Here tab and your private Workbook pages. If the planning system didn’t help you two reach a decision, email us and we’ll refund you in full. If you’re charged twice by mistake, we refund the duplicate. If the files don’t arrive or won’t open, we fix it first, and refund if we can’t. Full terms are on the Refund Policy page.
Any free Google account works — you'll use it to make your own copy of the Sheet. No other app or download required.
Newlywed Seasons makes planning systems for one moment: the first holiday season after a wedding, when two families and one calendar meet for the first time. It's not a general organizing app. It's built around one hosted meal, one set of family decisions, and the conversations that come with both.
No. It's a planning tool and a set of conversation scripts — options for you to choose from, not instructions on what your family should do.