Real Wedding Story Submissions From Brides
Thank you for your interest in submitting your wedding to Southern Bride.
Allow us to join the ranks of your talented wedding vendors and to do what we do best: painting a picture of your wedding experience that’s as vivid as your wedding and the photos you submit, curating a lasting memory and keepsake you will cherish and share forever.
Please note, from the hundreds of submissions we receive – we will select approximately 25-30 weddings for the Summer/Fall issue or Winter/Spring issue*
NON-REFUNDABLE SUBMISSION FEE: $35 (will be applied to your final price if selected)
MAGAZINE OPTIONS
Real Wedding Features:
INCLUDES: All Real Wedding features include a story on the Proposal / Planning / Big Day / Honeymoon. The wedding will also appear as a complementary blog post with social media announcements
5 pages: $1800 / 400-word count (18-25 images – depending on layout)
3 pages: $1200 / 400-word count (14-18 images – depending on layout)
The above magazine options also include a digital PDF copy of the feature for sharing.
*All submissions are subject to approval and if selected, you will be notified by March 30th for the summer/fall issue and Sept 30 for the winter/spring issue.
WEBSITE OPTIONS
Real Wedding: $300 / 400-word count includes a story on the Proposal / Planning / Big Day / Honeymoon (14-20 images / Video**)
**Video is an embeddable link of a video hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, or other video hosting platform that can provide an embeddable video.
- Real Weddings online digital features include complimentary social media promotion
- A photo release agreement must be completed
- All submissions are subject to approval and will be notified within 5-10 business days of submission
We reserve the right for final approval of all wedding submissions. Although most of our wedding features and content are located in and influenced by the south, we believe the Southern Bride experience transcends geography and welcome submissions beyond the southern region. Furthermore, we are committed to featuring cultural, racial, and sexual diversity in our submissions. We will take representation into account as we receive each submission and limit our selection in a specific region to 3-4 weddings per city in order to remain coherent with our vision while honoring our longstanding belief that “there is a Southern Bride in every girl.”
***This is NOT a PAY TO PLAY promotion. Southern Bride will continue to select the weddings (25% percent of the weddings submitted are selected). You are not automatically published because the wedding was submitted. Southern Bride reserves the right to final approval of all wedding submissions.
