For vendorsBy invitation
Claim your listing.
Anyone can sign up for The Wed Thread. Not everyone gets invited. Someone on our team picked your business out and built your profile by hand — this is how you take it, in about five minutes. Your first ninety days are free.
Not what you expected? Read the guide for signing up from scratch.
We came to you.
Sign-up is open to any wedding business. Invitations are not. Someone on our team went looking for the businesses worth putting in front of our couples, found yours, and built the profile before asking you for anything — we do not send an invitation for a listing too thin to stand on its own. Nothing was invented, and nothing has been posted on your behalf.
| Business name | Your public business listing. |
| What you do | Your own description of your services, matched to our categories. |
| Address / area | The address you publish. Venues show a map pin; everyone else shows the areas they serve. |
| Photos | Images already published on your own website or business listing. |
| Rating & reviews | Your Google Business Profile, shown as Google's and kept up to date. We never write or edit a review. |
| The email we used | The contact address published on your own website. Nothing was bought, guessed, or taken from a private source. |
Where your listing stands right now
Until you claim it, your profile is not visible to couples — it sits with us, unowned and switched off. Claiming it is what turns it on.
Claiming it — seven steps.
About five minutes, start to finish. You will need the invitation we emailed you and a password you are happy to keep.
- 1
Open the email and press Claim your profile
Subject line: Claim your <business name> profile on The Wed Thread. You can open it as many times as you like; it stops working once the profile has been claimed, or after 14 days. Start here every time — not from the website. - 2
Check the profile we built
You will see your photo, name, category, rating and address under “Is this your business?” Nothing is decided yet. If something is wrong, claim it anyway and correct it afterwards.Yes, this is my business — claim it - 3
Create your account
Your email and a password — 8+ characters, one capital, one special character — or press Continue with Google. Confirm you are 18 or over and agree to the house rules. Continue with Google finishes here — if you use it, skip straight to step 5. - 4
Confirm your email address
We send a second, separate email — Confirm your email — and the claim cannot finish until you press the link in it. This is the step that most often stalls, so it gets its own number.
The link did not work? The same email also prints a code. Type it in at thewedthread.com/auth/confirm and you are through — a code cannot be mangled or rewritten by a mail system the way a long link can.
Nothing arrived at all? Look in spam or junk first — company mail systems hold ours more often than personal ones do. If it still is not there, reply to the invitation email and we will confirm your address by hand. You do not need to sign up again, and nothing you have done so far is lost. - 5
You land back on the claim page — press the button again
This is normal, not a glitch. The first press told us who you are; this one hands you the listing. - 6
It is yours
You will see “The profile is yours” and land on your own profile page. - 7
Add a card — $0 today
Nothing is charged. Your ninety free days count from the moment you claimed, not from the card — so adding it straight away costs you none of them. Until it is on file your listing is yours but not yet shown to couples.Free for 90 days
One thing to avoid
Do not create a vendor account separately and build a new listing. You would end up with a second, blank profile — and your claim link would then refuse to work, because the account already has a listing attached. Untangling it means us editing the database by hand. If you have already done it, reply to our email and we will fix it.
What has to be there before couples see you.
Most of this we have already done for you — check it reads the way you would say it.
- Business name and at least one category — up to five. Pick only what you genuinely offer; couples browse by category first.
- A description of at least 40 characters — in your own words. This is the part couples actually read.
- At least one photo — the first is your cover. JPG, PNG or WebP.
- One place we can check you out — website, Google listing, Instagram, Facebook or TikTok. Any one is enough. It is how we keep fake listings out.
- Venues: your address, and a price for at least one day of the week (Mon–Thu, Friday, Saturday, Sunday).
- Everyone else: a starting price, and the states you serve — a couple planning outside them will not see you unless you travel.
One firm rule
No phone numbers or email addresses in your business name or description. The form will refuse to save them. Couples message you through The Wed Thread, which is what keeps your inbox free of everything that is not a real inquiry.
Inquiries, invoices, and what it costs.
The money, plainly
Ninety days free from the day you claim — the card is the last step of claiming. What the invitation saves you is the building: your profile is already written, with your photos and your Google reviews on it. After your ninety days you move onto $24.99 a month, cancel any time. Nothing is charged until the ninety days are up, and we remind you three days before the first payment. If you decide not to continue, your listing stays visible for a further seven days and then quietly comes down — your profile is not deleted.
| Inquiries | A couple's date, guest count and message land in your inbox, and we email you. Answer the date question in one press, and mark them Booked when it is real. |
| Client invoices | Invoice a couple — line items, tax, due date. They are notified, they pay you directly, and you confirm when the money lands. We take no cut. |
| Availability | Click a date to cycle open, held, booked. Couples see which days are taken — never whether it is a hold or a booking, and never who took it. |
| Public profile | Everything couples see, saving as you type. Also where packages and your auto-reply live. |
If you edit your listing later
Change what you like, whenever you like. Because your listing is already live, edits publish straight away — and a human on our team sees the change afterwards. If we ever put something back, you get a message telling you which field and why, with a button to appeal it. We will not change your work quietly.
The ninety free days, in full
When they start. The moment you claim the profile — not when you add the card. Add it the same day and you keep all ninety; add it a week later and you have eighty-three left, because the clock started at the claim.
What you pay today. $0. Stripe asks for a card and charges nothing — the card is there so nothing interrupts you on day ninety-one.
What happens then. $24.99 a month, charged automatically. No commission on your bookings and no lead fees, ever.
The one reminder. We email you three days before that first payment. One email, not a countdown.
Stopping. Cancel any time before it, from your billing page, and you are never charged. Your listing stays visible for a further seven days and then quietly comes down — your profile is not deleted.
What you pay today. $0. Stripe asks for a card and charges nothing — the card is there so nothing interrupts you on day ninety-one.
What happens then. $24.99 a month, charged automatically. No commission on your bookings and no lead fees, ever.
The one reminder. We email you three days before that first payment. One email, not a countdown.
Stopping. Cancel any time before it, from your billing page, and you are never charged. Your listing stays visible for a further seven days and then quietly comes down — your profile is not deleted.
Things people ask us first.
The confirmation link did not work, or the email never arrived.
If you have the email, use the code printed in it instead of the button — type it in at thewedthread.com/auth/confirm. Codes survive mail systems that rewrite long links. If nothing arrived at all, check spam or junk, then reply to the invitation email and we will confirm your address by hand. Two things worth knowing: pressing resend will not help if the first one did not get through, and do not sign up a second time — that creates the blank second profile described above.
Why me?
Because someone on our team chose your business and built the profile by hand. Sign-up is open to anyone, so this is not the only way onto The Wed Thread — it is the way that comes with ninety free days and a profile already made for you.
How did you get my information?
From what your business already publishes — your website and your Google Business Profile. We wrote to the contact address on your own site. Nothing came from a purchased list.
I do not want a listing. How do I get it removed?
Reply to the email and say so. We will take it down. You do not need an account to ask, and we will not write to you again about it.
My claim link expired, or says it has already been used.
Reply to the email and we will send a fresh one. Opening a link never uses it up — links last 14 days, and stop working once the profile has been claimed. If it says already claimed, someone at your business may have got there first — tell us and we will check.
Do you take a commission on my bookings?
No. No commission, no lead fees. One flat monthly listing, and you are paid by your clients directly.
Can I pay to rank higher?
No — there is nothing to buy. Order comes from how closely a listing answers what the couple already told their planner: the style they want counts most, then their date and your service area, then whether your prices fit their budget. A fuller, truer listing ranks better than a thin one, and that is the only lever there is.
What happens if I stop paying?
Your listing stays up for seven more days, then stops being shown to couples. Nothing is deleted — your photos, packages and conversations are all still there if you come back.