Every photo you want. From the rehearsal dinner to the after party.
Your photographer will ask for a shot list. Most couples write one in a Google Doc at 11pm three days before, from memory, with names their photographer has never heard. Yours builds itself from the guest list you already keep.
✓ Free to build and print ✓ No credit card ✓ Runs off your guest list
One list for the whole celebration
Organize it into whatever moments your wedding actually has. Getting ready, ceremony, cocktail hour and reception are there when you start — rename them, reorder them, and add your own.
Name your moments
Add a category for anything the four defaults don’t cover — the rehearsal dinner, the welcome drinks, the send-off, the after party — and drag them into the order the day happens in.
Write the shots
“Both sets of parents.” “Grandparents with the couple.” “First dance, wide.” Add a note for anything your photographer would otherwise have to guess.
Put people in them
Search any guest by name, or drop in a whole group with one chip. The names come from your guest list, so they’re spelled the way they’re spelled everywhere else.
Lock it and print
Freeze the list a week out so it can’t shift under you, then hand your photographer a running order with names, notes and table numbers on it.
Add twelve people in one click
“All of the wedding party.” “Everyone on my side of the family.” These aren’t lists you type out — they’re chips that resolve against your guest sheet every time the list is read.
Which means the version that matters is the one you have on the day. Add your cousin to the Family group in March and she is in the family formals by the time you look again. Nobody re-types a shot list at midnight.
You can still add people one at a time. Most lists end up a mix of both.
Freeze it, without going blind
Live groups are exactly what you want in March and exactly what you don’t want in the last week, when the list is printed and in three people’s hands.
So you lock it. Group membership is captured as it stands and stops moving. But Seat the Day keeps watching your sheet, and tells you precisely what has drifted since — “4 changes would apply if unlocked”, named person by named person.
You decide whether an aunt added in April is worth a reprint. You just never find out about her from the photographer.
The details that save the day itself
Star the must-gets
Mark the shots that cannot be missed and filter the whole list down to Priority only when the day gets tight.
Table numbers on every shot
Each reception shot carries a summary like Tables 3, 7 · 2 unseated, straight from your seating chart. No cross-referencing a chart mid-dinner.
Rough timings as you go
Every category totals itself — 8 shots · about 24 minutes — so you find out during planning if the golden hour is oversubscribed.
Nobody quietly left out
A running count of guests who appear in no shot at all. Normal for most of them, and worth one look before the day.
Collapse what you're not working on
Fold whole categories away while you concentrate on one part of the day. It remembers what you had open.
Built to print
The whole running order prints as a clean handover for your photographer — or saves as a PDF straight from your browser.
It knows where everyone is sitting
This is what a shot list built on your guest list can do that a document can’t. Your seating chart and your shot list are the same people, so every reception shot can tell your photographer which tables to walk to — and flag the two guests who haven’t been seated yet.
Your shot list builds Who’s Who
A running order tells your photographer what to take. It doesn’t tell them how to find Nana Maureen in a room of 120 people, or which of those two women is the mother of the bride and which is her sister.
Who’s Who is derived from this list — everyone who appears in a shot, with who they are to you and which table they’re at. There’s no second list to maintain.
Answered
Do I need a separate shot list for the rehearsal dinner?
Where do the people in each shot come from?
What does locking the shot list do?
Is the shot list free?
Start with your guest list
Create your account when you start planning. The shot list is waiting for the day you’re ready to think about photos.
Free to build and print. Unlocking a wedding is a one-time $14.