We got engaged while Jess was in San Francisco for an internship, which meant the first few months of our engagement were spent apart. Our schedules rarely lined up: one of us was available in the evenings, the other was a little more flexible in the mornings.

Slack

We ended up adopting a system of communication that worked from different states, and that could also be shared with other collaborators (our parents, members of our wedding party). Ryan all but demanded that we use Slack, which was still relatively "new" at the time. This became a depository for documents -- quotes and bills for various vendors, price sheets or details for food trucks and alcohol distributors, etc. Slack, unlike traditional texting, allows for searching through all content ever posted. (You don't have to constantly reload outdated posts.)