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The type of vendor the user is looking for. Use the below definitions to choose the most appropriate category for the user query: CATEGORY: Reception Venues DEFINITION: Venues suitable for hosting wedding receptions. CATEGORY: Wedding Photographers DEFINITION: Photographers responsible for capturing images at wedding-related events. CATEGORY: Videographers DEFINITION: Professionals who shoot and edit video of wedding-related events. CATEGORY: Bridal Salons DEFINITION: Vendors who sell wedding dresses and accessories. CATEGORY: Beauty DEFINITION: Vendors who supply beauty-related services to the bride, groom, and members of the wedding party. Includes hair, nails, spa services, tanning, and makeup application. CATEGORY: DJs DEFINITION: Professionals who play recorded music at wedding events, especially the wedding reception. Generally DJs work with the couple to create playlists tailored to the couple's taste. CATEGORY: Wedding Bands DEFINITION: Musical groups who perform live music at wedding receptions and events. CATEGORY: Florists DEFINITION: Vendors who provide the flower arrangements, bouquets, and boutonnieres for wedding-related events. CATEGORY: Wedding Planners DEFINITION: Wedding planners work with the couple to coordinate wedding vendors and to ensure that the wedding activities go smoothly. Wedding planners are more hands-on than wedding designers, who mostly focus on the overall look and feel of a wedding but may or may not participate in planning and logistics. CATEGORY: Jewelers DEFINITION: Jewelers who sell wedding and engagement rings. For more casual wedding jewelry, including the bride's wedding day jewelry, the groom's cufflinks, gifts for groomsmen and bridesmaids, etc, see Wedding Jewelry. CATEGORY: Wedding Cakes DEFINITION: Vendors who bake wedding cakes. These cakes may or may not take the traditional tiered form, but they are distinct from other types of desserts, including cupcakes. CATEGORY: Bar Services & Beverages DEFINITION: Vendors specializing in supplying and serving alcoholic drinks at weddings and parties. Vendors within Bar Services include alcohol suppliers, bartenders, mixologists, etc. CATEGORY: Caterers DEFINITION: Professionals who provide food (and sometimes drinks) at a wedding event CATEGORY: Dance Lessons DEFINITION: Professionals who teach dance lessons in preparation for wedding-related events (typically the couple's first dance, but can also include the father-daughter dance, a choreographed dance by bridesmaids, etc). CATEGORY: Decor DEFINITION: Vendors who supply wedding-related decor for events including wedding receptions, showers, and parties. Decor can range from small decorative items on tables to elaborate draping that changes the look and feel of the reception venue. CATEGORY: Ensembles & Soloists DEFINITION: Musicians and singers who perform at wedding-related events, especially the ceremony and cocktail hour. Ensembles typically have fewer members than Wedding Bands and play slower, more traditional music. CATEGORY: Favors & Gifts DEFINITION: Vendors who supply favors (small presents given from the couple to their guests, typically at the reception or bridal shower) as well as gifts given to the members of the wedding party, especially the bridesmaids and groomsmen. CATEGORY: Invitations & Paper Goods DEFINITION: Vendors who sell (and sometimes design) invitations and other paper goods (menus, table numbers, save-the-dates, thank you cards, etc.). CATEGORY: Officiants & Premarital Counseling DEFINITION: Officiants perform the wedding ceremony and may also offer premarital counseling as a service. Premarital counselors help couples to get to know one another better in preparation for the marriage and facilitate discussions around challenging topics. CATEGORY: Photo Booths DEFINITION: Cameras set up to automatically take photos of wedding guests, typically against a backdrop or within a kiosk. Photo booth rentals often include props and may or may not include on-site photo prints. CATEGORY: Rehearsal Dinners, Bridal Showers & Parties DEFINITION: Locations suitable for hosting bridal showers, parties, rehearsal dinners, brunches, bachelor and bachelorette parties, etc. CATEGORY: Rentals DEFINITION: Vendors who supply rentals for wedding-related events. Rentals can range from linens and dishware to chairs to portable restrooms. CATEGORY: Transportation DEFINITION: Professionals who provide local transportation as part of wedding-related activities. Types of Transportation vendors include, but are not limited to, bicycles, boats, trolleys, limousines, cars, buses, shuttles, etc. Distinct from Travel Specialists, who focus on long-distance travel. CATEGORY: Travel Specialists DEFINITION: Professionals who specialize in wedding- and honeymoon-related travel arrangements.

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Optional list of business attributes to refine results. When multiple attributes are provided, results matching any of the selected criteria will be returned.

Optional search radius in miles. The LLM should choose a distance appropriate to vendor type and location: use smaller radii for dense-city venue searches; use larger or any radius for mobile vendors (e.g., photographers). Omit this parameter when the location density or vendor type makes radius constraints unnecessary.

The maximum number of vendors to return in a single response. If the user requests more than the maximum value, the LLM should steer them toward a more specific query or narrower criteria instead of increasing this limit.

The number of vendors to skip before starting to collect the result set. Start at 0, then increment by the limit in subsequent calls to retrieve the next 'page' of results.