💍 Wedding Vendor Leads Scraper — Photographer & Venue Emails

A wedding is assembled from a dozen independent micro-businesses: a photographer, a planner, a venue, a florist, a videographer, a bridal shop. Almost all of them are owner-operated, almost all of them buy software, insurance, print, rentals and referrals — and almost none of them show up in a normal B2B database, because they are sole proprietors with an Instagram and a Squarespace site.

This Actor finds them on the live map for any market and enriches each one from its own website: business name, phone, website, address, emails and social profiles, at $8 per 1,000 vendors.

Instagram is the real switchboard

Treat socialProfiles as a first-class field here, not a nice-to-have. Wedding vendors run their entire business on Instagram: it is where they post work, where couples reach them, and where they respond fastest. A photographer who ignores email for a week will reply to a DM in an hour. This Actor returns Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter handles alongside the email, which means a two-channel sequence — email first, IG follow-up on the non-openers — instead of the single dead channel most vendor lists give you.

Categories you can select

wedding photographer · wedding planner · wedding venue · wedding florist · bridal shop · wedding videographer

Pick any combination from the dropdown, or leave it empty to sweep all six. Categories outside the list — DJs, cake bakeries, officiants, catering, hair and makeup, rentals — work perfectly as free text in searchQueries, e.g. ["wedding dj in Nashville, TN", "wedding cake bakery in Nashville, TN"].

Fields on every vendor

Field	Example
name, category	Rivergate Photography · Wedding photographer
phone, websitePhones[]	Booking line plus any number on the site
email, emails[], emailFound	Addresses the vendor publishes for inquiries
socialProfiles	Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter
website, techStack[]	Site plus platform (Squarespace, Showit, WordPress…)
address, city, country	Parsed location, incl. service-area businesses
rating, reviewsCount	Volume proxy — a booked vendor accumulates reviews
placeUrl, searchQuery	Map link and the search that surfaced it

Who this is built for

• Software for creatives — CRMs, booking and contract tools, galleries, invoicing. techStack shows who is running a modern site and who is still on a builder from 2014.
• Print, album and product suppliers — photographers and planners reorder physical product constantly; a per-metro list is a route plan.
• Insurance, financing and bookkeeping for sole proprietors — an entire vertical of unincorporated businesses with real revenue and no back office.
• Venue and vendor marketplaces — recruit supply into a new city before you launch it there.
• Rental, lighting and AV companies — start from wedding venue, then work the planners who fill it.

Pricing

$0.008 per vendor delivered ($8 per 1,000) plus a $0.01 start fee per run. A mid-size metro across all six categories typically yields 200–500 vendors: under $4 for the market. No subscription and no minimum spend; rows you exclude with onlyWithWebsite are never charged.

Example input

{
  "location": "Nashville, TN",
  "keywords": ["wedding photographer", "wedding planner", "wedding venue"],
  "maxResults": 120,
  "maxPagesPerSite": 2
}

FAQ

Do wedding vendors actually publish email addresses? More than most local niches — inquiries are their lifeblood, so a contact address is usually on the site or the contact page. Expect roughly 55–70% of vendors that have a website. The rest still carry a phone and, importantly, social handles.

Why is socialProfiles so much more useful here? Because a large share of these businesses treat Instagram as their primary inbox. Vendors who never open a cold email will reply to a DM. Plan your sequence around that rather than fighting it.

Photographers work regionally — will I miss the ones outside the city? Map listings tie to a base location, so a photographer serving three states still shows once, in their home market. To cover a region, run several city queries through searchQueries and dedupe on website afterwards.

Can I target only high-volume vendors? Sort on reviewsCount after export. In this vertical review count tracks bookings closely — 100+ reviews means a full calendar and a real budget, single digits usually means a side hustle.

What about seasonality? Engagement season runs Thanksgiving to Valentine's Day and vendors buy tooling in the quiet winter months, before spring bookings hit. Late fall and January are the windows where outreach lands.

Are venues and vendors mixed together? Only if you select both. Venues are a different buyer (facilities, capex, event staff) than creatives — run them as separate lists if your pitch differs, since each row is tagged with its searchQuery.

Is the data live? Yes, scraped at run time. This vertical has heavy churn — a lot of solo vendors open and close each year — so a fresh scrape beats any stored list by a wide margin.

Is this legal to use? The Actor gathers publicly listed business information and the contact emails vendors publish on their own sites to receive inquiries. No couple, guest or consumer data is touched. Sending compliance — CAN-SPAM, GDPR where relevant, and platform rules if you DM — is your responsibility.

Officiants, hair and makeup artists, and the vendors nobody lists

The six presets cover the vendors with the biggest budgets. The rest of the wedding-day roster is just as reachable, one search at a time:

wedding officiant in Charleston, SC
bridal hair and makeup artist in Charleston, SC
wedding calligrapher in Mount Pleasant, SC
wedding cake baker in Summerville, SC
wedding rentals company in Charleston, SC

Custom search queries replace the category picker and location, so every line carries its own city. Vendors appearing under several categories — the hair-and-makeup artist who also lists as a bridal salon — are merged before delivery, so you are never charged twice for the same business.

DJs, bands, photo booths and entertainment

Entertainment vendors are the ones most likely to be booked through Instagram rather than email, and the data reflects that:

wedding dj in Nashville, TN
wedding band in Nashville, TN
photo booth rental in Franklin, TN
event lighting company in Brentwood, TN
live music booking in Nashville, TN

socialProfiles.instagram is captured from the vendor's own website and is populated far more often than LinkedIn across this vertical. If your first touch is a DM, that column is the deliverable; the email is the backup.

Bridal shops, dress boutiques and retail

Retail is the odd one out in weddings — a fixed storefront, staff, inventory and a phone that gets answered during business hours:

bridal shop in Kansas City, MO
wedding dress boutique in Overland Park, KS
tuxedo rental shop in Kansas City, MO
bridal accessories store in Leawood, KS

Because these are shops rather than sole traders, phone and address are reliable on every row, websitePhones often adds a direct appointment line, and reviewsCount is a genuine proxy for volume — a boutique with 400 reviews is fitting several brides a day and buying inventory systems, not deciding whether to.