By David
Sharing your work on wedding sites and blogs is a great way to gain exposure and promote your services. As a wedding photographer, you may have a distinct style, so it is important to find a site that matches this, reflects your work, and also aligns with your target audience.
Featuring on wedding blogs has several benefits. It promotes your work and the only cost is your time in preparing the necessary information and sending over relevant photos. Your featured work could lead to bookings from couples who contact you after seeing your work, increasing leads and traffic to your website.
Additionally, it is great for your overall SEO strategy. A link from a high-profile website can help you move up the Google rankings, making it an excellent part of your overall marketing strategy.
With that in mind, we have listed below some of the best high-quality and authoritative wedding blogs you should consider for wedding submissions. All links take you to the site submission page with full details.
A leading wedding blog in the UK, this site features weddings daily and has a large audience. Being ad-free, it ensures that weddings and articles featured stand out, with a strong focus on your photos. Submit your weddings here if they are inspirational, diverse, and highlight the finer details.
Stylish, pretty, and trendy, this popular wedding blog is full of inspiration and features a designated real weddings section. Once you have an account, you can submit for a chance to be featured. It’s perfect for showcasing your contemporary, stylish weddings, especially those with trendy couples in mind.
A well-known and established wedding site with 4 million monthly readers, it features a constant stream of articles from wedding planners, photographers, real weddings, and engagement shoots. They receive a high volume of submissions, and three things are key for them: great photography, unusual ideas, and gorgeous locations. If you’ve shot a wedding with a unique touch, this site would be ideal.
A website focused on amazing wedding venues, it’s a great way to be discovered by couples at the start of their wedding journey. Not just your typical wedding blog, it’s an excellent site to feature on, especially if you’ve shot at one of their featured venues. It’s perfect for showcasing weddings where the venue has been jaw-dropping or for destination weddings.
Real weddings, elopement features, and styled shoots are showcased, with submissions accepted from both members and non-members. Due to the large volume of submissions they receive, make sure your wedding stands out, fits the style of their site, and that you complete all the relevant fields and provide all the required information. Exclusivity rights are also in place. Personality is key for this site, making it perfect if you have a great story behind the wedding photos and lots of emotion.
A stylish UK wedding blog that accepts wedding submissions, it’s perfect for natural photography capturing raw emotion and love. For this site, it’s crucial to include all details of the bridal fashion.
A US wedding blog full of inspiration, it features engagement stories, anniversaries, proposals, and real weddings. Submit wedding shots that showcase creativity to stand out on this site.
A UK wedding blog focused on featuring weddings that match the Boho style. At Boho Weddings, they are interested in a variety of wedding types—bohemian, luxe, rustic, alternative, glam, modern, quirky, DIY, whimsical, destination, same-sex—anything goes as long as it fits with the ‘BOHO’ brand.
If you have a quirky style and work with couples who fall into the alternative rock ‘n’ roll bride category, this is the place to be featured. It’s a stylish blog that’s perfect if it aligns with your style and the couples you work with.
Ok, so this is our website. It’s a great resource for couples looking for a wedding photographer, as we’re dedicated to helping them find the perfect match. They can book message you, book video calls and pay by credit card online.
Each site and blog will have its own criteria and submission form. Some may ask you to submit information and photos for review, while others may require you to send everything in at once for evaluation.
Choose the right sites – Decide which blogs are suitable for your style. Don’t submit the same wedding to multiple blogs; be selective.
Read the guidelines – Take your time to select the photos you want to submit; don’t just send 300 photos and let them choose. Many sites will require you to select the photos yourself, so pick out your best ones that tell the story of the day. Ensure your photos are well-formatted, the right size, free of watermarks, and of high quality.
Photos are just one part of the submission. You will also need to provide supporting information about the wedding, including a list of suppliers. Take the time to collate and provide this information carefully, including supplier names and web links, as well as details about the couple and the venue.
Take your time – Submitting a wedding and being featured isn’t a quick process, and there are no guarantees. However, taking the time to put together a well-prepared submission with all the relevant information not only increases your chances of being published but also enhances the feature itself, thereby boosting the likelihood of receiving enquiries.
When submitting your wedding, many blogs look for exclusivity and will only publish it if it hasn’t been shared elsewhere before. If they do publish it, many wedding blogs ask that you don’t share it anywhere else for a certain period, which can vary from 3 to 6 months.
This isn’t the case for all sites, but it’s important to keep in mind when choosing where to submit your work.
The standard across all blogs and sites is that your photos should not include any watermarks. If they are featured in an article, they will be credited on the site and should include a link back to your website.
Don’t Take It Personally
When submitting your work, there is no guarantee it will be published. Don’t take it personally; there could be a number of reasons, and you may not always receive an explanation. It could be that the style or wedding doesn’t match their blog, the submission was incomplete, the images were of poor quality, or they have recently featured a similar wedding. Whatever the reason, don’t feel disheartened. If you keep the information you submitted, you can quickly adapt and submit it to another blog. Ensure it aligns with their audience and that you complete all their requirements.
Our list above highlights some of the best and most popular sites to submit wedding photos for publication.
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