Stop searching for the perfect wedding business.
Start with who can actually say yes.
You already have the date.
You shouldn’t have to fall in love with a venue, photographer, florist, DJ or planner, send an enquiry, wait for a reply and then hear:
“Sorry, we’re already booked.”
And wedding businesses shouldn’t have to answer the same question over and over:
“Are you available on our date?”
OpenDates is changing that.
Couples search the date.
Venues and vendors show when they’re open.
You find each other faster.
We’re not building another wedding directory.
We’re building the place people check before the back-and-forth even starts.
A couple has June 12th.
A photographer has June 12th open.
A venue just had June 12th cancel.
A makeup artist wants one more June booking.
Why should all of those people spend hours trying to find each other?
They already match.
OpenDates is here to make that match visible.
We want one sentence to become normal across Canadian weddings.
“Just check our dates on OpenDates.”
That’s where we’re going.
Not ten emails.
Not three DMs.
Not filling out enquiry forms just to discover someone is unavailable.
Not couples keeping giant spreadsheets trying to remember who replied and who didn’t.
Just:
“Want to know when we’re free? Check our OpenDates.”
Faster for couples.
Less unnecessary admin for wedding businesses.
And more chances for the right couple to find the right business on the right date.
Your next booking already has a date.
That date matters again.
Somewhere, there could be a couple searching for exactly what you offer, on exactly the date you now have available.
We want them to see you first.
That is what the Open Calendar was built to do.
And if you never use the Open Calendar?
We still want you here.
This part matters to us.
Your OpenDates profile is free forever.
Not “free until you want anyone to actually see it.”
Not a tiny listing designed to push you into an upgrade.
A real profile.
Because whether you ever spend a dollar with OpenDates or not:
You are part of the wedding community, and we still want couples to know you exist.
- Your photographs.
- Your story.
- Your highlights.
- Your reviews.
- Your profile statistics.
- Your Share Kit.
- A direct route back to your business.
No commission on your bookings.
No booking fee.
No percentage of your sale.
The Open Calendar is optional.
It does something different.
Your profile tells couples:
“This is why you should choose us.”
Your Open Calendar tells them:
“And yes, we may actually be free on your date.”
Try it free.
If it works for your business, fantastic. Keep it.
If it doesn’t, don’t.
Your profile stays.
Your business stays discoverable.
And we’ll still be happy to have you here.
Want a little more attention at certain times? Boost and Spotlight are there when you want them.
Optional means optional.
Because we think wedding businesses deserve better than endless paywalls.
There are incredible wedding businesses all across Canada.
And we don’t believe the only ones couples should discover are the ones willing to keep paying more and more just to be visible.
OpenDates will have paid tools.
We’re a business too.
But we want those tools to earn their place.
We never want paying us to be the price of simply belonging here.
We’re growing. Fast.
OpenDates is young, but couples and businesses across Canada are already finding us.
Traffic has grown around 10× since launch.
Thousands of venue and vendor profiles are already live.
We’re building across every province and territory.
And this is still the beginning.
Because the bigger the community becomes, the more useful OpenDates becomes for everyone.
More businesses.
More available dates.
More couples searching.
More chances for the right people to find each other.
Built by a mother and daughter who thought wedding planning could be easier.
OpenDates started with a very simple frustration:
Why is availability still one of the hardest things to find?
We love weddings.
We love the businesses behind them.
And we know how much work goes into creating a wedding day someone remembers for the rest of their life.
So we’re building the platform we wished already existed.
One where couples can search smarter.
One where great businesses can be discovered.
And one where an open date doesn’t have to stay open simply because the right couple never knew about it.
Venues, we may have already started your page.
If we invited you to OpenDates, there’s a good chance we’ve already lovingly built the beginning of your profile.
We want you here.
Claim it, add your photographs and make it completely yours.
Vendors, come build yours.
It only takes a few minutes.
Show couples who you are, what you do and why they should choose you.
Then, if you want to, show them when you’re free.
This is the future we’re building.
A bride asks her photographer: “Do you have any dates next September?”
“Just check our OpenDates.”
A couple needs a venue after their original plans change.
Search the date.
A florist has a cancellation.
Put the date back out there.
A DJ wants to fill three remaining Saturdays.
Show them.
A couple is trying to build their whole wedding around one date.
See who can say yes.
Right couple. Right business. Right date.
That’s OpenDates.
Where open dates meet “I do.”