A full walkthrough of how a Cordelia wedding moves from discovery to delivery. You always know where you are. You always know where your money is.
You browse Cordelia like you'd browse a curated gallery. Every venue, every planner, every photographer, every florist on the platform has earned their place by passing the Verified Passport audit. There are no paid placements anywhere.
Vendor profiles are designed to make decision-making confident. You see the Market Manager's audit notes. You read references from past Cordelia couples. You see response time history, language fluency, and what the vendor actually delivered for their last three weddings.
Browsing is free. No account required. We don't believe a couple should have to commit to a platform just to look around.
When you've chosen a vendor (whether that's the venue, the planner, the photographer, or anyone else), you book directly through Cordelia. No PDFs traded by email. No wire transfers to foreign accounts. The booking flow is one continuous session: contract, deposit, scheduled milestones, all signed and timestamped on both sides.
The bilingual contract is reviewed in advance, written to be enforceable across borders, and signed in your language and the vendor's. The deposit moves directly into the Cordelia Escrow Vault. The vendor sees the funds are committed, but cannot touch them yet.
From this moment, your wedding date is reserved on the vendor's calendar. The platform is now actively standing between you and the things that go wrong. Each subsequent vendor goes through the same booking flow as you add them to your wedding.
This is the creative heart of a Cordelia wedding. Your planner builds proposals, mood boards, sub-vendor recommendations. You react. You revise. You explore. Nothing is locked yet. Everything is timestamped.
Sub-vendors come from one of two sources: vendors already inside the Cordelia Verified network, or vendors brought in from your planner's own rolodex. Either way, every sub-vendor passes the same Verified Passport audit before they're attached to your wedding. Your planner can recommend, but cannot lock anyone in.
You see what's been proposed, what's been approved, and what's still being worked. Your planner sees the same. Communication is timestamped, searchable, and auditable. If anything ever needs to be re-litigated later, the full record is there.
Lock-In is the moment that makes a Cordelia wedding different from every other planning experience. In one deliberate session, you approve the full design, the line-item budget, and the confirmed sub-vendor roster. Scope locks.
This isn't a soft commitment. After Lock-In, changes flow through a formal change order process. You can still make changes. But each change is documented, repriced, and re-approved. No surprise items showing up on the final bill. No vendors being added or removed without your knowledge. No scope creep.
Lock-In also triggers the first major release from the Vault. Fifteen percent flows to your planner and primary vendors so they can begin sourcing: flowers ordered, rentals booked, ingredients sourced. The rest stays in the Vault.
Between 30 and 60 days before the wedding, you fund the remaining balance into the Vault. The funds are still held. Not in the vendor's account, in the Vault. As pre-event milestones hit, working capital releases to sub-vendors against documented invoices.
On the wedding day, your Market Manager is on the ground or on call, with the authority to intervene live. If a vendor doesn't show, the Market Manager activates the regional bench. If a vendor underperforms, the final release can be paused until the issue is resolved.
Forty-eight hours after the wedding, if no dispute is filed, the final balance clears. The Vault closes. Cordelia's commission is collected from the final release, only on the dispute-free outcome.
You always know where you are. You always know where your money is. You always know who's accountable for what. Cordelia is the structure that makes a destination wedding feel like the best decision a couple ever made, not the scariest wire transfer they ever sent.
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