Who’s Who

The faces your photographer needs to recognize.

Nana Maureen is 93 and appears in one shot for forty seconds. Your photographer has never met her, and cannot pick her out of a room of 120 people. Who’s Who is how she gets found — and how the mother of the bride gets told apart from her sister.

✓ Built from your shot list   ✓ Nothing extra to maintain   ✓ Included when you unlock a wedding

The problem

“Which one is your aunt?”

Every wedding photographer has had this hour. Formals are running twenty minutes behind, someone is needed for a shot, and the only way to find them is to describe them to a bridesmaid and hope.

The people most likely to be missed are the ones least likely to be found: the 93-year-old grandmother who has quietly gone to sit down, the godfather who flew in that morning, the stepmother who is standing next to the mother of the bride in a photo nobody can later tell apart.

A shot list says what to take. Who’s Who says who you’re looking for.

In your shots ★ = in a priority shot
Maureen Foley
Grandmother of the bride — “Nana”
In 2 shots: Grandparents with the couple, Family formals
Table 3
Patricia Byrne
Mother of the bride
In 5 shots: Getting ready, Family formals, Toasts…
Table 1
 
Deirdre Byrne
Aunt of the bride — Patricia’s sister
In 1 shot: Family formals
Table 4
 
Ray Okonkwo
Godfather of the groom — flying in the morning of
In 1 shot: Groom’s side family
Table 6
How it works

It builds itself

Who’s Who isn’t another list to keep up to date. It is a view of two things you already have — your guest list and your shot list — assembled for one person on one day.

1

Everyone in a shot is on it

Add someone to a shot and they appear here. Take them out and they go. The roster follows your shot list, including people who arrived there through a live group chip.

2

Say who they are

Fill in the relationship line — Sister — Maid of Honor, Grandmother of the bride — right on the card. It writes straight back to your guest sheet, so you only ever type it once.

3

Print it and hand it over

Two columns of cards, sorted so the people who matter most are read first. Give it to your photographer with the shot list.

On each card

Enough to find someone, nothing more

Ordered the way faces are learned

Must-gets first, then whoever appears in the most shots, then alphabetical. The people who matter most are the ones read first.

A star for the must-gets

Anyone in a shot you starred carries a star here too, so the shots that cannot be missed are tied to the faces that can’t be.

The wedding party, hidden

Your photographer spends three hours with them before the ceremony. They’re off the sheet by default — one toggle brings them back.

Add anyone the shots missed

Pull in a whole group — Everyone in Family · 18 — or a single guest by name. They land in their own section, not muddled with the rest.

It tells you when it’s stale

“2 people are in a shot but no longer in your guest sheet.” Small warnings that stop a card going to print for someone who isn’t coming.

Built to print

Two columns of cards on the page, laid out to be carried around a venue rather than read on a screen. Prints, or saves as a PDF from your browser.

It prints, so it works for whoever needs it

Who’s Who is built for your photographer — that’s who it is ordered for and who it is worded for. But it comes off the printer as a plain sheet of names, relationships and table numbers, and plenty of people on the day could use one: the planner, the venue captain, the DJ who has to say a name into a microphone correctly.

There’s no separate planner or venue view. There’s one sheet, and you can hand it to anyone.

Honest about it

Two things worth knowing

Who’s Who needs an unlocked wedding

It’s the one part of Seat the Day behind the paywall. Unlocking a wedding is a one-time $14 and also lifts the five-table limit on your seating chart. Your guest list, your seating chart and your shot list are free to build and print. See pricing →

Add a headshot and the card shows a face

Upload a photo for anyone who is genuinely hard to pick out — it’s cropped square, kept private to your account, and prints on the sheet. You don’t need one for all 120 people; a handful for the faces that matter is the point. Filter the list to see who still needs one.

Questions

Answered

What is a wedding Who's Who sheet?
A printed reference naming the people your photographer needs to recognize on the day: who each person is to you, which table they are sitting at, and which shots they appear in. It answers the question a photographer cannot ask mid-ceremony, which is who am I looking for.
Do I have to build Who's Who separately?
No. It is derived from your shot list. Everyone who appears in a shot is on it automatically. You can add whole groups or individual guests on top, and the wedding party is hidden by default because your photographer will spend hours with them anyway.
Can I add photos of guests?
Yes. Upload a headshot for anyone worth recognising on sight and it appears on their card and on the printed sheet. Photos are private to your account, and you only need them for the people who are genuinely hard to place.
Is Who's Who free?
No. Who's Who comes with unlocking a wedding, a one-time $14 that also removes the five-table limit on your seating chart. Your guest list, seating chart and shot list are free to build.

It starts with your guest list

Create your account when you start planning. Build the list once; the seating chart, the shot list and Who’s Who all come off it.

Free to start. Who’s Who comes with unlocking a wedding, a one-time $14.