Chapter 5 — Pre-Wedding Questionnaires — Gather Intel in Half the Time
Prompt 17 Refine a Vague Client Answer into Actionable Intel
“We're pretty relaxed about photos” feels like an answer and gives you nothing to plan with. Behind almost every vague reply is a concern the couple hasn't articulated — a side of the family that doesn't photograph well, a divorced-parents seating situation, a previous bad experience. This prompt takes the vague answer and refines it into specifics a wedding photographer can shoot against. It suggests the follow-up questions that open the topic without interrogating, and turns whatever comes back into concrete planning language. The couples who seem “relaxed” are usually the ones who most needed the right question asked.
- Paste answers that are too long, ramble, or bury useful details in filler.
- This is the prompt to use when someone writes you an essay in response to "tell me about your wedding vision."
- Few-Shot Example: If a client answers "we just want our wedding to feel like us and be really fun and memorable and not too posed" — the AI will extract that they want candids over posed, and flag that you should ask specifically about family dynamics and must-have moments.
A clean 3-sentence summary for your planning notes plus a list of follow-up questions.
The Prompt
I asked my wedding client: "[INSERT THE QUESTION YOU ASKED]" Their answer was: "[COPY AND PASTE THEIR ANSWER HERE]" I need you to: 1. Identify what's genuinely useful in this answer for my shoot planning 2. Pull out any specific names, dates, locations, or details I need to remember 3. Note anything that's still vague or ambiguous that I should follow up on 4. Rewrite the answer in a clean summary I can add to my shot list or planning document Be specific and practical. Tell me exactly what I should do with this information.