Who you recommend is who you are.
Every wedding you work is a room full of vendors you chose. When their feeds read at the level of your work, the whole wedding does, and so do you. By Introduction is how the studios you already trust get directed, and how the introduction finds its way back to you. By invitation, for the people who shape the day: planners, photographers, venues, florists, caterers, and the rest.
You make the introduction. We do the rest.
No links to push, no codes to paste. You point us at a vendor whose work you rate, and we carry it from there. You stay in the loop the whole way, and your name is on the introduction, never a tracking number.
Send a vendor the free Grid Read, or simply put their name forward. The introduction goes out with your compliments, not a coupon.
A hand-written read on their grid lands in their inbox: two honest pages and a 90-day forecast, no pitch. They get something of value before anyone sells them anything.
We tell you it landed. If they go on to be directed by us, the introduction is recognized, quietly and on your terms. Your weddings get more cohesive either way.
"Your feed's coming along. Get a free Grid Read from the studio that runs mine, two honest pages on what's working and what's leaking. No pitch. I'll have them send it over."
Not a commission. A standing in the room.
Partners are not affiliates. You are the reason a vendor gets access to a studio that takes very few, and what you receive is built to match that. None of it is a payout slip.
A standing, public roll of the vendors KIR works alongside. Being listed says your weddings run at this level. A credential, not an ad.
A quiet mark for your own site and feed. The same standard, shown on your terms.
A handful of Grid Reads and one Trailer a year to bestow on a vendor you rate. You get to be the generous one.
Our roster is capped and category-exclusive, one vendor of a kind per market. As a partner, you can put a vendor forward and hold their seat while they decide.
Introductions that stay earn credit toward your own work with us. A standing account, never a check in the mail.
A spotlight in the journal, a place in the annual Benchmark, and a seat at the table when we direct a shoot.
You don't refer. You propose.
A seat at KIR is scarce on purpose. The roster is capped, and we take one vendor of a kind per market, so the studio down the street can't have what your favorite vendor has. That makes an introduction here different from a referral. You are not sending a lead, you are proposing someone for a seat. A vendor you propose moves to the front and holds their place for thirty days while they decide. Being proposed by someone whose taste is trusted is its own kind of arrival, the same reason a name on your preferred list has always meant something.
Bring your vendors into the same light.
You already know what the work does for your own feed. The photographer you shoot with every weekend, the florist you trust, the caterer who never misses, when their feeds match yours, every wedding you share reads as one editorial instead of five vendors who happened to be in the same room.
When the vendors on a wedding are directed to the same standard, the whole day reads as one story. Your portfolio is the first thing that improves, and it costs you nothing to set in motion.
Category exclusivity means the vendor you bring in holds the only seat of their kind in your market. You are not just helping a friend, you are locking in an advantage for the people you choose to work with, before the studio down the street does. When the moment is right, we will simply ask: who else should hold a seat?
When a vendor you bring in stays, your next month is on us, with our thanks.
What an introduction is worth.
We keep this plain, and we keep it off the front door, because a number is not why you would do this. Cash is the floor here, never the point. The point is that the vendors you vouch for become the ones who make you the obvious choice. Still, you should know what is real, and it is different for who you are.
One free month for every vendor you bring in who stays. It lands as credit, with our thanks.
A standing house account that grows with every introduction that stays, spent on your own work with us. A discreet finder's fee instead, if you'd rather, handled privately.
A hand-written note, a small thing chosen for you, and your name on the introduction if you'd like it there. No obligation, no list to join.
Put your name forward.
Tell us who you are and the vendors you love working with. A person reads it, and a person replies. No deck, no obligation, and your name stays yours.