For wedding pros
Couples search by place. They type a town or their venue, choose how far they will look, and see the businesses within that distance. No counties to pick and no regions to buy. Here is how your location and the cities you add fit into that.
Three things to know
Almost every location question we get comes down to mixing these three up.
The address you give when you sign up. Your home city is always included and never costs anything, so you are always findable where your business is.
Other Pennsylvania towns you regularly work in, on top of your home city. Your plan sets how many. Each one is another place couples can find you, and it is not a second office.
Set by the couple, never by you. They choose 10, 25, 50, 75, 100 miles, and the search starts at 25. You cannot widen your reach by naming a bigger number, and neither can anybody else.
If you have used these, you already get it
On Zillow you pick an area and see the homes inside it. Here a couple picks a town and a distance, and sees the businesses inside it. Nobody is hidden on purpose. A business just has to be where the couple is looking.
Couples search from their town or venue, not from a list of counties.
Airbnb shows the neighborhood a home is in, not the front door. When you hide your address, we do the same thing: couples see your town, and the map places you in the general area rather than on your street.
Working from home? Hide your address and you can still be found.
Some national directories group vendors into big metro markets and sell visibility one market at a time, so a business in a small town gets folded into a city it may not serve. Here, real distance from the couple decides.
A small town is found on its own, not lumped into the nearest city.
The question we get most
Most of our businesses work from home, and that is fine. We still ask for your address when you sign up, because it is how we confirm you are a real business. Then you choose what couples see.
The default
Best for photographers, DJs, planners, officiants and anybody who travels to the wedding.
Your choice
Best for venues, shops, bakeries, salons and studios couples visit.
One thing to know: your address has to be picked from the suggestions as you type. Typing something like "Central PA" or "All of PA" will not save, because the map needs a real place to start from. Pick your town if you would rather not use a street.
The couple's side
Couples do not browse by county. They start with the place they already know, which is their town or their venue.
A town or their venue, picked from the suggestions. “Lewisburg, PA” works.
10, 25, 50, 75, 100 miles, depending on how far they will look for each vendor.
Every business within that distance appears, on the map and in the list, with how far away it is.
Category, budget, style and date filters sit on top of location, so the list stays relevant.
On your listing
Your listing shows a map of Pennsylvania with one pin where you are based and a dot for each city you added. Couples read it as "based here, also serves these towns". There is never a second pin, because you do not have a second office.
Example: a photographer based in Lewisburg who added State College, Williamsport, Harrisburg, Lancaster and Bloomsburg.
Cities by plan
Your home city is always included. The number on each plan is the cities you can add on top of it.
Basic
2
Home city + 1 more city
towns couples can find you in
Standard
4
Home city + 3 more cities
towns couples can find you in
Premium
6
Home city + 5 more cities
towns couples can find you in
Venues show at their own address only and do not add cities. A service couples can book without the venue, like catering, can still add them. Compare every plan
Who shows first
A business has to be within the couple's distance to appear at all. No plan buys a place in a search you are not part of.
In the Recommended order, higher plans show above lower ones, after a small number of listings our team features by hand.
When a couple sorts by price or rating, that is the order they get. Your plan only breaks ties, so the sort always does what it says.
Getting it right
Do: Add the towns where your couples get married. Look at where your last ten weddings were, not where you would like to be.
Do: Spread them out. Couples already search tens of miles around their town, so two cities close together mostly reach the same couples. We flag any city within 10 miles of one you already have.
Do: Think about venue hot spots. Towns with lots of venues, like Lancaster or the Poconos, draw a lot of searches.
Do: Match cities to services. If only one of your services travels, choose which services show in each city from your dashboard.
Avoid: Do not add towns you will not travel to. A couple who finds you there and hears it is too far will not come back.
Avoid: Do not try to describe a region. “Central PA” is not a place on a map. Pick a town inside it.
Quick answers
No. You give us your business location and, if your plan includes them, the other Pennsylvania cities you want to be found in. Counties and regions are worked out from those for browsing, so there is nothing to tick.
Only if you choose Show my full address. Hide my address is the default. Couples then see your town, distances read as approximate, and there is no street, map pin or directions link on your listing.
It is how we confirm you are a real business, and it gives the search a starting point for your listing. Hiding it controls what couples see, not what we keep on file.
Yes. A couple searching near Bloomsburg at 25 miles sees every business within 25 miles of Bloomsburg, whether it sits in a city or a village.
Add the cities that bring you the most weddings and spread them out. Couples search tens of miles around their town, so a few well-placed cities cover far more ground than the count suggests. Say in your listing that you travel statewide too.
A venue is where it is, and couples come to it. Showing a venue in a town it is not in would put it in searches it cannot answer. A venue is found by anybody searching within reach of its own address. If you also offer a service couples can book without the venue, like catering, that service can add cities.
You list with your real address, shown honestly. Couples search from Pennsylvania towns, so your reach is the Pennsylvania cities you add. Every city you add has to be in Pennsylvania.
No. Every city points to the same listing, so your photos, packages and reviews stay together. Cities belong to your account, and you choose which of your services show in each one.
Check that your location was picked from the suggestions rather than typed, that the distance you searched reaches your town, and that the other filters you used, like category or budget, match your listing.
Set your location, add your cities, and let the search send couples your way.
