Vendor Code of Conduct for Wedding Planners

As a planner, you are the one steering the day. You see every vendor before anyone arrives, you hold the timeline, and you set the standard the entire team is measured against. So when a content creator rolls out the wedding before your photographer has uploaded a frame, when an assistant is eating at cocktail hour or dressed for the wrong event, when someone posts your client's day without permission — that doesn't reflect on them. It reflects on you. This Vendor Code of Conduct is one simple agreement that gets every vendor on the same page before the day begins — photographers, content creators, hair and makeup, florals, catering, entertainment, and the content teams they're all bringing now (and whether that's even approved in the first place). Think of it less as rules and more as alignment: everyone clear on conduct, dress, behavior on site, eating and breaks, confidentiality, and the social rollout — who shares what, and when — so the whole team moves as one. This is how you protect the experience and the caliber of the event you've built your name on: not by managing problems on the dance floor, but by setting the standard upstream, where you're already in control. Drafted by an attorney who also photographs weddings — from what's actually happening on real wedding days right now.