How to Get Your Wedding Featured on a Blog or Magazine

As the beginning of July approaches, most wedding photographers are in full swing for summer weddings. During this time, it's a great opportunity to leverage your shoots and get them featured because this is my favorite equation: amazing clients + beautiful details + wedding = a great opportunity.

I'm a huge proponent of sharing the weddings I photograph because it's a win for the creative team to get their talents displayed, a win for my clients to share how special their day was, and a win because my photos are featured. Win-win-win!

If you're looking to submit weddings for publications, here are a few tips you might find helpful:
1. Respect Each Platform
Even if you are submitting a truly amazing wedding, it doesn't necessarily mean it'll be a good fit for every magazine or blog. Conversely, you might have an untraditional submission that might be an ideal for a specific editor. It's of the utmost importance to understand what each editor is looking for and what type of bride is reading each platform.
In it's most simple terms: don't submit a vintage wedding to a glam wedding blog…and don't submit a quirky wedding to a classic wedding magazine, regardless of how large the audience is. Your wedding submission will be more successful the harder you work to ensure it's a good fit.

2. It's All About Details
As a general rule of thumb, an average submission ranges from 75-150 images. The vast majority of the images (75%) should be dedicated to prep, ceremony, and reception details, and the remainder of the submission should be a mix of bride+groom photos (10%), family photos (5%), bridal party photos (5%), and candid photos of guests (5%).
The images should be web-sized for blog submissions (900 pixels on the long side at 100 DPI) and high res images for the magazine submissions (8×10 at 300 DPI)

3. Understand the Submission Protocol
It's important to understand that most editors want/require exclusivity, so be sure to respect each submission. It's best to submit a wedding to one outlet at a time. The worst case is to have two editors who want to feature the same wedding and then you must choose…and let one editor down. And letting an editor down runs the risk of leaving a bad taste in their mouth.

In order to know what an editor is looking for, be sure to read the Submission Guidelines on each blog or magazine website. Editors spent a lot of time outlining how to make your submission stronger, so taking the time to read their advice is worth its weight in gold!

4. Complete the Story
It's important to know a wedding is comprised of a lot of different parts, so they all should work together. It's not enough that the bride wore a stunning dress and beautiful shoes…it's not enough to just have beautiful flowers…nor it is enough to capture stunning portraits of the couple. Everything must work together to tell a complete story. The more complete the story, the better chance it stands at catching an editor's eye.

I hope these tips help and if you have questions, I'm more than happy to help via the comment box or on Facebook! 🙂