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Missed call text service
for wedding suppliers
Wedding work has the longest lead times and the highest stakes of any trade on this list. An enquiry that comes in today is for a date eighteen months away, and the couple making it are contacting several suppliers in an afternoon. Whoever responds first is the one who gets the conversation.
Why wedding suppliers miss calls
You are working an event. Photographers are shooting, florists are installing, planners are running a day that cannot pause, and everyone is at a venue where the phone is on silent because there is a ceremony happening. Weekends are your busiest working days and also when couples do their research — the two collide precisely.
The maths
What one missed enquiry is worth
A wedding booking is one of the largest single commissions a small creative business takes, and most suppliers only have a fixed number of dates to sell in a year. A missed enquiry is not a small loss of income — it can be a Saturday in peak season that stays empty, and there is no way to make it up later.
TextTheCaller is £6.49 a month. Set against the value of the work above, it only has to keep one caller from ringing the next name on the list to have paid for itself several times over.
What to write in your text
You write the message once and it goes out on every missed call. Here's one that works for wedding suppliers:
Thanks for contacting Wren & Ivy Flowers. I'm at a wedding today and can't answer. I'll call you back tomorrow — or see availability at wrenandivy.co.uk
It sends from your business name
The caller sees your business name, not a phone number — so there's nothing for them to reply to. Give them something they can act on instead: a booking link, an email address, or a time you'll ring back.
160 characters
One SMS segment. The example above fits with room to spare, and we'll show you the count as you write so nothing gets cut off.
How it works
No app, no new number, no contract.
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1
Sign up with your mobile number
Enter your number, pick your network and set your business name. No password — we email you a magic link.
About 30 seconds
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Set unanswered-call forwarding
Follow the tailored dial-code or handset instructions for your carrier, then make a quick test call.
One time only
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3
Write your text-back
Use the example above or write your own. Next time a call rings out, the caller gets it within seconds.
Change it any time
It works on your existing number on every compatible UK network, and only ever triggers on calls you don't answer. Pick up as normal and nothing happens at all. If you want the general version before the wedding suppliers detail, read the missed call text service overview.
Step two is the only one that changes depending on who your line is with. We have written the unanswered-call divert up for each network separately — EE, O2, Vodafone, Three, giffgaff, Sky Mobile, SMARTY, Talkmobile, iD Mobile, Asda Mobile and Virgin Mobile — because the menu names, the codes each one accepts and what happens after a SIM swap are genuinely different. If you are not sure where to start, the general guide to stopping calls going to voicemail covers the part that is the same everywhere.
Questions from wedding suppliers
Less so than silence. A text saying you are working a wedding today and will call tomorrow reads as a busy professional. A phone that rings out and never rings back reads as somebody who is not taking bookings.
Only once a week at most, and not at all if you add them to your skip list — which is worth doing for couples in the run-up to their date.
Skip list. Venues, planners and the other suppliers on your regular circuit never need an automatic text.
Also built for
Every missed call is a job someone else gets
Keep your number. Two minutes to set up. Cancel whenever you like.
7 days free, then £6.49/mo. Cancel any time.