Browse venues the way you’d browse a home: photos, floor plans, the real numbers and the fine print, all before you reach out.
The Dossier is a private venue intelligence platform for professional wedding and event planners. Capacity by configuration, F&B minimums, buyout costs, vendor policies, and the load-in details nobody puts on the website. Verified, and all in one place.
Beta opens to planners November 1.
How it works
Date, guest count, setup, catering and music. The things that decide whether a venue can work.
No scores. Each venue tells you why it works for this brief and what could get in the way.
The Larkspur House (sample)
Why it works
Potential issues
Every fact shows who reported it and when. If we don’t know yet, it says so.
Search
Type a venue, city or brand, or narrow the list with these filters. Every venue that fits shows up with why it works and anything to watch for.
Unknown is not no. If a venue hasn’t confirmed a detail yet, it stays in your results marked “Not yet confirmed,” unless you choose to hide it.
What you’ll find
The Dossier serves planners of every kind of event, and it was built with wedding planners at the table. A wedding asks more of a venue than almost any other event, and the details that make or break the day are the ones venues leave off the website.
So those are the details we chase down, write down and date.
What the venue states, what each space holds by setup, and what really fits once the dance floor, band and head table are in.
Where the ceremony can happen, which space is held as the backup, and what moving inside looks like.
F&B minimums, site fees and service charges for a Saturday in October and a Friday in March, side by side.
Outside caterers, preferred lists, fees, insurance and approvals. Never just a yes or a no.
When amplified music has to end, indoors and out, and what the venue allows after that.
How many rooms, whether the property can be bought out, and what it costs to have it to yourselves.
Loading docks, freight doors, power for the band and the details your production team will ask about.
Inclusive policies, and whether a property was once a plantation, so your couples never have to find out late.
How the coordinator, load-in and timeline really went, in words: Excellent, Moderate or Difficult. No stars.
For planners
You know how it goes. A property looks perfect online, and then the third email reveals the ballroom seats 140 with a dance floor, not 250, and the music has to stop at ten.
The Dossier puts those answers up front so you can qualify a venue before you open your laptop, and walk into the site visit already knowing what matters.
Beta opens November 1. Request access and we’ll send your invite.
For venues
Your sales team answers the same questions every week. How many seated with a dance floor, what’s the minimum on a Saturday in October, can they bring their own caterer.
Share those answers once. We verify them, and professional planners see accurate information about your property when they’re deciding where to send their next event.
Listing is free for venues, and verified properties carry a Verified on The Dossier badge.
Questions
The Dossier is a private venue intelligence platform for professional wedding and event planners. Capacity by configuration, F&B minimums, buyout costs, vendor policies and load-in details for hotels, resorts and event venues, with every fact dated and labeled by how much to trust it.
Professional event planners: wedding, corporate, destination and private-event planners, at every budget from mid-market to ultra-luxury. It was built with wedding planners in mind, because weddings ask the most detailed questions of a venue.
From venue sales teams, venue materials and planners who have worked at the property. Every fact says whether it was reported by the venue, verified by The Dossier or reported by a planner, how confident we are, and the date it was checked.
The venue confirmed the fact directly with The Dossier, or our team checked it ourselves. Verified facts carry a mint mark and the date they were confirmed.
No. Venues never pay and have no accounts. Our team enters and corrects every record. Venues can confirm their details through a private questionnaire we send them, and we review every answer before it appears. A Featured tag only means a wedding or event publication has covered the venue. It is never paid for.
Type a venue, city or brand, or filter by location (state or country), guest count, event type, what the venue is good for (a ceremony, welcome party or board meeting, for example), venue type, indoor or outdoor, hotel brand or collection, buyout, guest rooms, site fee and F&B minimum budgets, music end time and outside catering. Venues with a detail not yet confirmed stay in your results unless you choose to hide them.
No. A venue is not a number. Search starts from your brief and shows why each venue works and any potential issues, so you can decide for yourself.
Choose a monthly or annual membership, or buy credits that unlock individual venues for 12 months. Annual adds branded client pages and shortlist downloads.
Yes. Annual and Founding members can send a client a private page with the venues they're considering, branded with the planner's own logo and colors. Clients don't need an account, and the page only shows what a client should see. Venue contacts, rules and planner notes stay inside The Dossier.
“I’ve spent years chasing the same answers from venue after venue, one email at a time. The Dossier is the tool I wanted on my own desk.”
Shani Gailbreath, founder of The Dossier. Questions go straight to me at shani@thedossier.vip.