You Found Your Wedding Vendors on The Knot, Now What?

You did it. You found the venue. You booked the photographer. Your florist understands the vision. The DJ is locked in.

Maybe you found your wedding vendors on The Knot. Maybe you spent hours comparing reviews on WeddingWire. Either way, you're officially building your wedding vendor dream team.

But now comes the part nobody really prepares you for:

How do you actually manage all of them?

Because finding your wedding vendors is only the beginning.

Once you start booking them, you're suddenly juggling contracts, deposits, payment deadlines, questionnaires, meetings, contact information, timelines, emails and approximately 47 PDFs you swear you just saw somewhere.

That's where Plannerd comes in.

Plannerd gives you one place to organize your vendors, and everything else that goes into planning a wedding.

So, you found your vendors on The Knot or WeddingWire.

Now let's get them into Plannerd.

Step 1: Add Your Wedding Vendors to Plannerd

The first thing to do after booking a wedding vendor is get their information out of your inbox and into one central place.

Instead of trying to remember whether your photographer's phone number is in an email, your florist's proposal is in a PDF or your DJ's details are sitting in a text thread, add each vendor to Plannerd.

Now your wedding vendor team has a home.

As you book your venue, photographer, videographer, florist, DJ, caterer, rentals, hair and makeup team and other wedding professionals, add them to your Plannerd wedding.

Instead of managing a collection of separate bookings, you're building your entire wedding in one place.

Step 2: Put Your Vendor Contracts in Plannerd

You know that contract your photographer emailed you eight months ago?

You're going to need it again.

Wedding vendor contracts contain some of the most important information about your wedding: what's included, payment schedules, hours of coverage, cancellation policies, deliverables, overtime rates and more.

And when you're working with multiple wedding vendors, those contracts pile up quickly.

Keeping your vendor information organized in Plannerd means you don't have to dig through months of emails every time you need to remember a detail.

When you're wondering:

"How many hours did we book the photographer for?"

"When is our final payment due?"

"Does our venue include tables?"

You know where your wedding information lives.

In Plannerd.

Step 3: Track Your Wedding Vendor Payments

Booking a wedding vendor usually starts with a deposit.

It rarely ends there.

Your venue may have another payment due six months before the wedding. Your photographer may require the remaining balance 30 days out. Your caterer may need final payment after receiving your guest count.

Multiply that by an entire wedding vendor team and suddenly you're managing a lot of money, and a lot of dates.

Plannerd helps you keep those wedding expenses organized alongside the rest of your wedding.

Instead of relying on your memory or opening every vendor contract to figure out what's coming next, you can keep your wedding budget and vendor information together.

Because "I think we already paid them?" is not a financial system.

Step 4: Turn Vendor Requirements Into An Actual To-Do List

Here's something you don't realize until you're deep into wedding planning:

Your vendors need homework from you, too.

Your photographer may need a family photo list.

Your DJ may need your ceremony music and must-play songs.

Your caterer needs a final head count.

Your venue needs your floor plan.

Those aren't random notes to remember later. They're wedding planning tasks.

Plannerd gives you a place to turn all of those moving pieces into an actual plan.

As soon as a vendor tells you they need something by a certain date, put it in Plannerd.

Now instead of wondering:

"What are we supposed to be doing for the wedding right now?"

You can visualize what's next.

Step 5: Keep Your Wedding Vendor Contacts Together

Eventually, the individual vendors you've hired need to become a team.

Your photographer may need to coordinate with your videographer.

Your planner needs your catering contact.

Your venue needs to know when rentals are arriving.

Your DJ needs to know what's happening during the reception.

And someone needs to know who to call if the cake hasn't arrived.

Spoiler: that someone should not be you on your wedding day.

Keeping your wedding vendor contacts together in Plannerd gives you one organized place for the people helping make your wedding happen.

No hunting through Instagram DMs.

No searching your inbox for "florist."

It's already organized.

Step 6: Connect Your Vendors to Your Wedding Timeline

This is where all those individual vendor bookings finally become a wedding.

The florist needs access to the venue before guests arrive.

The photographer needs enough time for getting-ready photos.

The caterer needs to know when dinner begins.

Your vendors aren't operating in isolation.

They're all working on the same event.

Plannerd helps you keep the people, tasks and details of your wedding organized around one plan, so you're not trying to piece everything together during the final weeks before your wedding. The timeline generation tool cuts this process in half, and leaves you with a beautifully detailed Day-of timeline to share with those who need it.

Step 7: Manage More Than Just Your Vendors

Here's the other thing that happens once you've booked the big vendors:

There's still an entire wedding to plan.

You still have your guest list.

Budget.

Seating.

Wedding party.

Timeline.

Tasks.

And about a thousand tiny details that somehow become very important as your wedding date gets closer.

That's why Plannerd isn't just a wedding vendor tracker.

It's your wedding planning hub.

Instead of having your vendors in one app, your budget in a spreadsheet, your guest list somewhere else, contracts in your email, tasks in your Notes app and wedding ideas scattered across screenshots, Plannerd brings your wedding planning together.

One wedding.

One place.

A lot fewer tabs.

The Knot and WeddingWire Helped You Find Your Vendors. Now Bring Them to Plannerd.

Finding wedding vendors is exciting.

You browse portfolios. Read reviews. Compare options. Send inquiries. And eventually, you find the people you trust to help bring your wedding to life.

But once you've booked them, the job changes.

You're not searching for wedding vendors anymore.

You're planning a wedding with them.

That's the part Plannerd was built for.

Bring your vendors, budget, guest list, tasks, timeline and wedding details together so you can spend less time trying to remember where everything is, and more time actually enjoying planning your wedding!

You found your vendors.

Now plan your wedding with Plannerd.