Brides, grooms and wedding professionals, we welcome your Lowcountry wedding submissions for consideration for Charleston Weddings. Please read on for information and FAQs, as the process is slightly different for couples versus wedding professionals.
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We look for unique, visually cohesive and idea-rich wedding ceremonies and receptions—and wedding rehearsal dinners or showers or brunches, too.
We narrow down submissions based on quality of photography, unique design ideas, and balance of look, locations, and feel. The tough thing is that a lot of submitted weddings have wonderful ideas, but oftentimes the images don’t capture those in print-quality imagery, or via enough images.
We’d love to, but we simply don’t have the staff to do so. Instead, we typically get wedding photography after the Big Day from couples, their families, and their wedding vendors (planners, photographers, venues).
Email Charleston Weddings Editor at weddingseditor@charlestonmag.com.
Thanks for considering us for placing your event! We’d love to review any UNPUBLISHED Lowcountry wedding or wedding event for inclusion in the magazine, our website, our social media channels, and/or our blog, The Wedding Row. We are always looking for unique, visually cohesive and idea-rich wedding ceremonies and receptions—and wedding rehearsal dinners or showers or brunches, too.
Please create an online gallery (or link to an online gallery folder for Charleston Weddings). For consideration, we’re looking for roughly 50 to 100 professional low-resolution (72 dpi) photographs that best illustrate the event, i.e. the location with guests present, the couple, their family, the food, cake, flowers, special details, etc.
Please note: DETAILS make a story, as we’re looking to give readers ideas. While we feature families, we must showcase reception and ceremony décor and details for readers. Consider those savvy details that will serve to inspire other future brides. We’re also more interested in party shots than we are in portraits as a service to the readers, so please share images with that in mind.
Please compose a brief write-up of the wedding, including the location and date; full names of the bride and groom; their contact information; key vendor names (venue, photographer, planner, cake, florals, decor, fashion, hair and makeup, stationery) and contact information; a short description of the event—the theme, the look, and feel. We’re especially interested in any inspiring design elements and personal touches. Include a link, with passwords, to any larger online galleries.
Please e-mail your link and write-up, sending a separate e-mail for each wedding submitted, with subject headers including YOUR COMPANY NAME, SUBMISSION, COUPLE’S LAST NAMES, to Charleston Weddings Editor at weddingseditor@charlestonmag.com by the dates noted above.
If we select your wedding to be reviewed by the pick panel, we’ll contact you and the couple. At this stage, we’ll let you know if we’re opting for a print or online story. We’ll work with you to gather any additional details or access to high resolution imagery.
Once your wedding has been published (in print and/or online), you may request a PDF copy of the story and the cover.
We are interested in seeing any styled inspiration shoots (with real couples, models, or no couples!), bridal portraits, engagement sessions, bridal luncheons, showers, and more that occurred here in the Lowcountry (the Greater Charleston Area, from Myrtle Beach down to Hilton Head and as far inland as Goose Creek and Summerville)! Please see the above submission guidelines, and contact Charleston Weddings Editor at weddingseditor@charlestonmag.com.
We at Charleston Weddings and The Wedding Row cover Charleston and the greater Lowcountry. To ensure that we are serving our readers well by bringing them fresh material, we prefer to publish weddings and wedding-related events and content that have not been published elsewhere. If an event has been published, but there are lots of shots that never were published, we’d be happy to take a look at the piece. Questions? Please contact Charleston Weddings Editor at weddingseditor@charlestonmag.com.
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