Photographer

Photographs your wedding. Set the hours and which moments to cover, and the plan builds the shot windows into your timeline.

Also called: photography, photos, wedding photographer, portraits.

When couples book this

Usually booked about 10 months out. It moves with your date.

Your wishlist, before you talk to anyone

Questions you can answer early — they become the yardstick you compare candidates against.

What look are you drawn to in a photographer?
About how many hours of coverage do you want?
Wishlist mirror of the coverage_hours candidate fact — compare each package against it.
What do you most want delivered?
Wishlist mirror of the deliverables candidate fact.

What to ask each candidate

Facts that differ from one vendor to the next — worth writing down while you shop.

Which moments should be photographed?
How many hours of coverage?
Add a second shooter?
What do you want delivered?

What settles once booked

The working details you and your vendor pin down together.

Are you doing a first look?
A first look reshapes the timeline — portraits move before the ceremony, freeing cocktail hour.
Family & group photo list
DERIVED from the people already on the plan. The couple edits freely; overriding stops recomputation.
When do the golden-hour portraits start?
AUTHORED, not computed. This was a derived decision sourced from "sunset(event.date, venue.location) - 60m", and the platform has no sunset table — so it resolved to nothing and the golden-hour block never reached a timeline. Photographers know the number for a date and a place; the couple records it here. A sunset lookup can derive it later without changing this id.
Photo usage & sharing preferences
What time do they arrive?
The time you agreed together, not an estimate worked back from the ceremony.
What times are set on the day?
One row per moment — a serving round, a pickup leg, a person's slot, a set. Each row becomes its own block on your run of show, labeled with whatever you type, so name it for whoever will be reading it.
What time do they finish?
Who do you call on the day?
The name and cell number of whoever is on site — not the office line.
Where do they come in, and where do they park?
The load-in door or dock, where the vehicles go, and who opens up.
Do they need a meal?
Counts toward your caterer's vendor-meal number.
What balance is due on the day?
Your own figure, from your contract — what is still owed when they arrive.
What gratuity are you planning?
Your own figure. It rides beside the balance on the day-of money sheet.
The shot list
One line per shot — the grandmother's toast, the heirloom in the bouquet, the surprise dance. Family groupings live on the family-photo list rather than here, so nobody types a name twice.

How it lands on your day

Photography coverage
Getting-ready photos
First look
Family & group photos
Golden-hour portraits
Set time
One block per row of the cell's dayof_service_times answer; the row's own label names it, and its `until` makes it a window.

How it’s usually priced

Usually priced as one flat amount.

Lines that sometimes ride along: Overtime (per hour past coverage), Engagement session, Album / prints, Second shooter.

What your vendor reads from your plan

Book on or off Beetrothed — either way the plan assembles a brief your vendor can work from: the event, coverage, people & groups, schedule, deliverables, logistics, contacts.

Plan your photographer — and everything around it

These questions live as one cell of a connected plan: your budget, guest list, checklist and timeline all read from the same answers. See the whole board work, or join the waitlist and we’ll write when it’s your turn.

We will write when there is something worth telling you.