Security

Event security or door staff, with the posts, shifts and licensing your venue asks for.

Also called: security, door staff, bouncer, guard, crowd management.

When couples book this

Usually booked about 3 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 do you want covered?
What kind of presence are you picturing?
Wishlist mirror of the attire candidate fact below.
What must the company carry?

What to ask each candidate

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

Which posts are covered?
Staffing for entrances and the parking area is the common shape — posts describe where staff stand, in the company's own terms.
Staff attire

What settles once booked

The working details you and your vendor pin down together.

What does the venue's contract call for?
When a contractual level is recorded here, the staffing derivation yields to it.
How many staff?
Shift hours — when does coverage start and end?
Who do security staff check in with on the day?
License and certificate details
What time do they arrive?
The time you agreed together, not an estimate worked back from the ceremony.
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.

How it lands on your day

Security shift begins
Security coverage
Security shift ends

How it’s usually priced

Usually priced as one flat amount.

Lines that sometimes ride along: Additional staff member, Overtime (per hour).

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, the day, documents, schedule, contacts.

Plan your security — 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.