Submitting a wedding, styled shoot or guest blog to English Wedding

Happy smiles and hugs after the wedding

Featured image credit: London wedding photographers York Place Studios

 

Diversity first

We’re working to represent everyone on English Wedding. We want to see and feature weddings with Black brides or grooms, Asian weddings, minority ethnic weddings, LGBTQ+ weddings, elopements and alternative celebrations. Please help by submitting all the wonderfully diverse weddings under the rainbow – we’d love to share them!

Members get priority

Gold, Silver and Bronze members of English Wedding are guaranteed a certain number of feature opportunities on our blog. To get priority consideration, check out our membership information pack for wedding suppliers.

You don’t have to be a member of English Wedding to submit a real wedding or styled shoot. Keep reading!

So what are we looking for?

The weddings and styled shoots we feature are beautifully photographed, creative and inspiring. We do adore details: the fold of a silk ribbon, calligraphy close ups, or a stunning statement bouquet. But we fall head over heels for romance too: a glance, a forehead kiss, magical light… We also want to see couples with their guests – hugs, group hugs, laughter and those human connections we’ve learned to treasure so very much. These are the things we love to share on the English Wedding Blog.

HOW TO SUBMIT

 


1) REAL WEDDINGS

Couples – email contactenglishwedding@gmail.com. Copy your photographer in on the email, and we’ll take it from there!

Photographers –

  • check your couple are happy with you giving us their email address and being featured
  • email contactenglishwedding@gmail.com and include:
    • your couple’s email address (we’ll send them an online interview form)
    • A WeTransfer or Dropbox folder containing 60ish of your most beautiful, bloggable images.

Images should be 2000px wide. Please send lots of detail images (flowers, stationery, venue styling) and couple portraits.

 


 

2) STYLED PHOTOSHOOTS

Please send a WeTransfer or Dropbox shared folder containing 60ish of your most beautiful, bloggable images.

Images should be 2000px wide

Please complete all the information on this form (click to download) and send the completed form via email, Dropbox or WeTransfer

Share your Dropbox folder or WeTransfer to contactenglishwedding@gmail.com

 

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM US

We’ll always try to reply within 14 working days to every submission. If it’s a yes, you’ll be given a date for publication, which will usually fall within 8 weeks of receiving your submission. It could even be the following day, if we have a slot free and LOVE your submission!

From the images you send, we will select 30-40 favourites for the blog: these will be the images we feel will inspire readers the most, and those which are beautifully photographed, overflowing with romance and take my breath away.

Please be aware that by submitting your images to the English Wedding Blog you are agreeing to us publishing them. Occasionally we’ll publish the day after you send in your submission; so it’s really important that you don’t submit to other blogs at the same time,  that any exclusivity clauses from other publishers have ended, and that you have permission from everyone involved. Once submissions are made they can’t be withdrawn. 

Wedding blogs actively encourage sharing to Pinterest by our users and editorial teams. At English Wedding we try and alt-tag all images with the photographer’s name because the alt tags feed through to Pinterest descriptions. We also encourage the use of (subtly) watermarked images so that where these are shared on social platforms people will see your brand. Do watermark your images if you’d prefer to; don’t submit if you’re not happy for them to be Pinned or shared on social media. By submitting your images to the English Wedding Blog you agree to us sharing your images across ALL of our social media.

Get in touch: contactenglishwedding@gmail.com

Wedding experts, wedding suppliers

If you have a product launch, new website, exhibition or exciting event you’d like us to share, please ask. We’ll send you our media pack. We’re happy to share our Directory members’ beautiful stationery collections, wedding cake designs, contemporary accessories and wedding ideas with English Wedding readers, so long as they fit the aesthetic of the blog. This means professional photography please – always.

And if you’ve an advice article up your sleeve we’d really love to hear your idea for a guest blog post! Send us a quick email with your idea and if it fits, we’ll get back in touch with what happens next! contactenglishwedding@gmail.com

A note on exclusivity

We’re often asked if suppliers are ‘allowed’ to share images before we publish a shoot, or if we accept submissions of weddings or shoots which have already been featured on other blogs. The answer is a resounding YES!

We don’t like exclusivity policies: they’re limiting, and we’d rather see suppliers able to feature their work on every blog and print magazine, to get the most exposure they possibly can for their brands.

The only thing we ask is that you don’t submit to different publications simultaneously. If a wedding or shoot is published on more than one blog in the same week, it’s just a bit… cringe. It’s also better for your business to spread out your submissions!

 


 

Further reading –

How to get featured – what are wedding bloggers looking for?

Why do wedding bloggers say no? (Read this for tips on submissions)

32 Comments

Cheshire photographer Sarah · October 20, 2010 at 1:37 am

Love your site Claire, great concept as well as execution. Will definitely submit some photos next time I have a ‘perfect’ wedding if you know what I mean 🙂

    Claire · October 25, 2010 at 4:07 pm

    Hi Sarah, do submit your weddings – and remember they don’t have to be perfect: interesting, creative and inspiring (in any way!) is the first thing I look for. A wedding with a story is also something that really appeals: sometimes when things go wrong and love conquers all it makes for a compelling read!
    Claire x

hire vintage crockery · November 2, 2010 at 11:33 pm

Hi, I like this section of the website and wondered if you are accepting new submissions? we hire vintage crockery and wondered if you could mention us? 🙂

    Claire · November 15, 2010 at 4:09 pm

    Hi, please send me an email with your ideas and I’ll have a look!

Sian (Elysian Weddings & Events) · April 5, 2011 at 2:44 pm

Would love to be on the map, but can’t see how to add myself… Says to click “Buy Now” on a package option, but can’t see any packages!!

    Claire · April 15, 2011 at 4:11 pm

    Hi Sian, it’s there on the supplier map page if you read all the info and click the links. Claire x

Wedding Photographer Wiltshire · June 30, 2011 at 10:01 am

I certainly like the content sat within this website and the work is inspirational in itself

Mango Days Premier Wedding Photography are based in Wiltshire and serve many of the surrounding counties, as well as the whole of the UK

I will enquire now whether I could feature on your blog

24-7 Wedding Band & Party Band · July 24, 2011 at 10:43 am

This website is a really useful resource for anyone thinking of getting married – and what’s more it looks great too. Thanks Claire for allowing us to submit a guest blog.

Simon Jordan · November 7, 2011 at 3:47 pm

What a beautifully designed site! I will look into your supplier map and maybe even turn my literary talents into writing a guest blog item for you.
Simon Jordan – violinist and pianist – celebratewithmusic.co.uk

Leeds Wedding Photographer - Martin Hillary · September 20, 2012 at 9:33 pm

Great site Claire and a fantastic showcase for anyone thinking of getting married and looking for inspiration for their big day!

Jan Green · November 19, 2012 at 7:31 am

Hello there! I have just googled Kirstie’s Vintage wedding and found your website. Wanted to say a huge thank you – I’m the mother of the bride (Amy) featured in the wedding programme! We too are waiting with baited breath (due to be screened on 29th Nov) to see the outcome – have to say the calligaraphy was beautiful. We have all kept our name place settings as momentos of a truly wonderful day. Thank you again for your amazing contribution. Warm wishes Jan & Paul – proud parents!!

Chris Dodd · January 16, 2014 at 12:16 pm

this is my email address….. chrisdodd21@hotmail.com

Cris Lowis · November 22, 2016 at 3:47 pm

Thanks for running this awesome blog, I always check here from time to time for inspiration.

I’ll be sending a few more weddings your way soon with hope to be featured.

Scott Spencer-White · June 29, 2017 at 12:14 pm

Hi Claire – thanks for providing clear instructions!
I’ll be looking for matching up with EW feature criteria from now on 🙂
Many thanks

Toby Lowe Photography · March 14, 2018 at 10:39 am

I’ve just spent a superb half hour with a cup of coffee going through your blog. Absolutely love it. I have a styled shoot that I think will be perfect for you. I’ll submit it later this week 🙂

Lisa Lander · September 26, 2018 at 11:20 am

Ive just found your blog and spent the last hour going through it. Its wonderful! I will be submitted a few weddings once I have everything together! 🙂

Paul · January 31, 2019 at 9:10 pm

This is an amazing site with brilliant content. We run a wedding orientated entertainment company in London and will definitely up sending you some great material later this week. Keep up the good work 🙂 Paul

David Wilkins · February 15, 2019 at 12:36 pm

Awesome blog with a great selection of weddings

David Wilkins · March 18, 2019 at 12:33 pm

This website is a really useful resource for anyone thinking of getting married awesome blog

Cynthia · April 27, 2019 at 3:55 pm

Thank you so much for the very helpful additional ways for wedding experts and suppliers to also get featured on your lovely site. I will most certainly be putting my thinking hat on!

Be in touch soon
Cynthia
http://www.ouimadam.com

Photography by Bryan · December 26, 2019 at 10:36 pm

Very interested in submitting a few weddings, It’s always good to share. I’ll follow up in the new year.

Steve Chatterton · January 18, 2021 at 8:39 am

This site is really nice and look forward to submitting some lovely weddings and engagement shoots that you may feel worth blogging about.

Dimitris · February 11, 2021 at 1:29 pm

Awesome blog with a great selection of weddings

albertpalmer · April 22, 2022 at 6:27 am

Very interested in submitting a few weddings, It’s always good to share. I’ll follow up in the new year.https://albertpalmerphotography.com/

Stephen Walker Photography · March 6, 2023 at 9:45 am

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