Why Endorsed.me?
The half of the picture nobody shows you
Choosing a wedding supplier, you can judge their work. You can look at a photographer's portfolio, watch a videographer's showreel, taste a caterer's food. What you can't see is the thing that shapes your whole day just as much: what they're actually like to have there.
Were they on time? Did they communicate? Were they calm when things ran late? Did they make the other suppliers' jobs easier or did they block shots, talk over people, and leave the team tense? Were they kind to your guests?
You'll never know from a portfolio. And you'll rarely know from reviews because the only people who saw it were the other professionals working alongside them. The photographer who quietly made everyone's day harder isn't going to mention it. The couple who booked him didn't notice, because they were getting married. So the information exists it's just locked in the heads of the suppliers who were in the room, shared in private WhatsApp groups, and it never reaches the people choosing who to book.
Endorsed.me unlocks it.
What we do
After a wedding, the suppliers who worked it log the event and endorse the people they'd happily work with again the punctual ones, the calm ones, the ones who shared the space and made the day better. Those endorsements build up on each supplier's profile, so couples can finally see what the professionals see.
It's the “where do chefs eat” signal, for weddings. The people who know the industry from the inside, telling you who's genuinely good to work with.
How it works
Four steps, one honest signal
- 01A supplier logs a wedding
Couple first names, date, venue. Real weddings only.
- 02They tag the other suppliers who were there
Photographer, planner, band, florist whoever they shared the day with.
- 03They endorse each other with fixed tags
Positive tags only, one endorsement per shared wedding per person. No stars, no free text.
- 04Couples browse profiles they can trust
Ranked only by peer endorsements. Never by anyone who paid to be here.
Why you can trust it the part that makes us different
Every other wedding site shows you one of two things: what couples said (useful, but they only saw their own day), or which suppliers paid to appear at the top. Endorsed.me shows you neither. It shows you what the other professionals say and it's built so that trust can't be bought, faked, or manufactured. Three ways:
You can't pay to rank.
On the big directories, position is influenced by advertising suppliers pay to be featured, and the “top” results partly reflect who spent the most. On Endorsed.me, a supplier is ranked by peer endorsement and nothing else. No one can buy their way above a better-endorsed rival. Ever. Money can buy a supplier better tools on their profile it can never buy them trust or position.
Suppliers can't generate the signal themselves.
A review can be solicited, incentivised, cherry-picked, or written by a friend. A peer endorsement can't. It has to come from a different, verified professional who logged the same real wedding. You can't endorse yourself. You can't buy one. One shared wedding is worth exactly one endorsement. The trust is given by others, by design there's no lever a supplier can pull to inflate it.
You can't fake who's vouching.
Every endorsement is attached to a named, verified professional who was provably at that wedding and you can click straight through to their profile and see that they're endorsed too. Fake reviews work because the reviewer is anonymous and unaccountable. Here, every endorser stakes their own visible reputation every time they vouch for someone. The whole web of trust is out in the open, inspectable all the way down.
That's what trust you can't buy means. Not a slogan a structure.
Why it matters for your day
This isn't industry politics that has nothing to do with you. A supplier who's difficult on the day directly affects your wedding. The photographer who blocks the videographer means worse video. The one who's slow and disorganised means you spend your drinks reception posing for photos instead of with your friends. The one who's tense makes the whole team tense and guests feel it. Booking a professional the rest of the team trusts isn't a nice-to-have. It's how your day runs smoothly and feels good.
For suppliers why you're already part of this
If you work weddings, you already do this. You already know who's brilliant to share a day with and who you'd rather never see again. You already pass names quietly to couples and colleagues. Endorsed.me just makes that recognition count publicly, permanently, and in a way that brings you work.
When you're endorsed by the planners, venues, and photographers you've worked beside, couples see it. You carry an Endorsed.me badge on your own website that shows it. And because the whole system runs on peers vouching for peers, the good, professional, easy-to-work-with suppliers rise which is exactly the industry you'd want to work in anyway. It costs nothing to be part of. Claim your profile, endorse the people you rate, and let the people you've worked beside do the same for you.
The honest version
We're not saying Endorsed.me is all you need. You should still look at the work, talk to the supplier, check they're free and within budget. What we're saying is that we're the piece that's been missing the one thing no portfolio, price list, or couple review can tell you: is this someone the professionals trust to have at a wedding?
Check their work. Then check they're endorsed.
Endorsed.me trust you can't buy.