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How The Veil works, for couples, their guests and the businesses who make the day. Search, or browse a guide.
For couples
Planning the wedding, sharing it with your vendors, and the day itself.
Getting started
Budget, checklist and timeline
Guests and RSVPs
- Add guests and their parties
- Track RSVPs, replies and dietary needs
- Invite guests to the rehearsal dinner
- Send save-the-dates and invitations by email
- Printed invitations and mailing addresses
- Your wedding link, QR codes and personal links
- Review join requests
- Day-of contacts and your phone numbers
- Lock your final guest list
- Message all your guests
- Share guest details with your vendors
- Build your family photo list
- Where guests stay and the shuttle
Your vendors
- Find, save and compare vendors
- A vendor's page, section by section
- Send an inquiry and follow it through
- Compare saved vendors side by side
- Messages: your chats, vendors and the wedding group chat
- Quotes, contracts and paying your vendors
- Sign a contract
- Your vendor list: payments, contracts and day-of details
- Vendors you booked elsewhere
- What your vendors can see
- Plan with your planner, and let your vendors talk
- Review your vendors
- A vendor sent you a link to The Veil
Floor plan and seating
Music
Registry and photos
Your style and story
DIY Workbench
Helpers and the wedding day
For guests
Your invitation, your reply and the day, with or without the app.
For wedding businesses
Leads to booked, getting paid, and running the day, in the portal and The Veil Vendors.
Getting started
- Sign up and claim your business
- Finish setup and go live
- Start with a kit for your trade
- Sign in, reset your password and turn on two-factor
- Plans and prices
- Founding rates
- Change your plan, add logins or cancel
- Your page: what couples see
- Your inquiry form, on your website and in your inbox
- Switch to The Veil from HoneyBook, Dubsado or a spreadsheet
- The Veil Vendors, the phone app
Your page
Leads and replies
- Your leads: the pipeline, search and filters
- Add a lead by hand
- The lead page, from top to bottom
- Tags, notes and the activity feed
- Archive a lead, and bring it back
- Reply to a lead
- Quick replies: your usual answers, one tap away
- Send later, and what's scheduled
- Messages: every conversation in one place
- Automations and your away reply
- Hold a date, and second holds
- Your team, roles and who gets new leads
Quotes, contracts and getting paid
- Send a quote
- Menus and per-guest pricing
- Invoices
- Payment plans, autopay and late fees
- Confirm a booking and set its payment plan
- Payment reminders
- Contracts and e-signing
- Contract templates and merge fields
- Countersign, and download the signed copy
- Clients who aren't on The Veil
- Your client's page: what they see
- Connect payouts, and what payments cost
- Checks, cash, refunds and cancellations
- Cancellation terms, and cancelling a booking
- Damage deposits
Calendar and tours
- Availability and blocking dates
- Sync with the calendar you already use
- Offer the dates you're still trying to fill
- Tours, tastings and calls
- Appointments: add, move or cancel
- Your calendar in the phone app
- Spaces, rooms and floor plans (venues)
- Draw your rooms (venues)
- Rates and minimums by room and season (venues)
- The event's floor plan (venues)
The wedding day
- What the couple shares with you
- The run sheet and the day sheet
- Confirm your run of show
- For the day: your BEO
- Crew and call times
- Walkthrough, rehearsal, load-in and the rain plan
- Run the day (venues and planners)
- Other vendors and insurance certificates
- Everyone working this wedding
- Final count, dietary needs and the final guest list
- The last 60 days checklist (venues and planners)
- Sunset and golden hour
Tools for your trade
- The family formals list (photographers)
- Hair and makeup schedule
- The shuttle manifest (transport)
- The music plan (DJs and bands)
- The officiant's ceremony kit
- Stationery: envelopes, place cards and the seating chart
- Delivery deadlines
- Preferred vendors and rules for outside vendors (venues)
- Planners: the couple's plan
Your team
Your business
Switch kit
The phone app
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