For Service Providers

How wedding hire and styling companies can keep 100% of every job

Hire and styling bookings often carry the strongest margins in the wedding industry - which makes percentage-based commission especially costly. Here is the alternative.

Wedding hire and styling packages - arbors, furniture, signage, full styling - often book at $1,500 to $10,000+ per event. A percentage-based directory takes a meaningful slice of exactly the bookings with the most margin to protect. A flat membership fee does not.

Why hire and styling is hit hardest by commission

Unlike a service charged purely for time, hire and styling packages often bundle equipment cost, setup, pack-down and design work into one higher-value quote. A 10-15% commission on a $6,000 styling package is $600-$900 - far more than the same percentage on a smaller, time-based service.

The repeat-equipment advantage gets eaten

One of the strongest margins in hire is reusing the same equipment across multiple events. Commission undermines exactly that advantage by taking a cut of every booking, no matter how many times the same stock has already paid for itself.

What a flat membership changes

With a flat fee, your largest and most profitable styling packages keep their full margin. The bigger the booking, the more a no-commission structure is worth relative to a percentage-based directory.

Building visibility beyond one directory

A strong portfolio of past styling work, relationships with venues and planners, and being listed somewhere visible to AI search all compound over time - unlike a directory subscription that stops working the day you stop paying it.