Submit Your Real Wedding

We accept submissions from recently married couples, photographers and wedding vendors. If you are a photographer submitting, please ensure that you have the couple's approval. If you are a couple submitting, please ensure that you have the photographer's approval. If you are a wedding vendor submitting, please ensure that you have the consent of the couple and the photographer.

Please complete and submit the form below.

We only feature styled shoots online (not in the magazine). If you would like to submit for the website, please upload your images, a list of vendors, and a description of the inspiration behind the shoot via our real wedding submission page.

Our brides love to see details. Cakes, bouquets, favours, hairstyles, and of course, shots of the couple and the wedding party. Please refer to our submission form for a general shot list.

Between 25 and 100 1000-pixel-wide images are needed. If we require more, someone from our editorial department will be in touch.

Our print magazine (which comes out bi-annually) features several real weddings each issue. When you submit your real wedding, you are submitting both for online and in print. If you wish to be in print ONLY, please indicate that on your submission form.

If your wedding is selected, your images and story will be archived in our Real Wedding section and emailed to approximately 20,000 active Canadian brides via our e-newsletter.

Photographers receive on-page credit, and a link to their website is included (if applicable).

As long as either the bride or groom is Canadian, you can submit. We feature weddings in Canada as well as destination weddings.

A member of the Weddingbells staff will inform you the week your wedding is featured. This could take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months from the submission date.

We're likely to feature more timely submissions. However, we do accept weddings that have taken place over a year ago.

We love to feature Canadian couples with inspiring celebrations. Weddings should have a strong theme or motif, great images, lots of details and a well-answered questionnaire.

There is no specific deadline for print or online as we are always accepting year-round.

For online, we prefer to feature weddings that have not been featured elsewhere (with the exception of the photographer's/vendor's blog). However, we are open to accepting weddings that have been featured elsewhere. For print, we ask that Weddingbells receive exclusive rights to feature the photos first (with the exception of the photographer's/vendor's blog).

Weddingbells receives the following rights:

• Print: The publication rights in all language versions of Weddingbells for 12 months from the publication date of the issue in which the image is first published.
• Online: Right to use, publish and archive on weddingbells.ca in perpetuity.
• Right to edit the image.
• Right to copy and store the image and/or an edited version of the image in a digital archive for internal use only.

You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in content which you submit. By submitting, you give Weddingbells a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Weddingbells to display, distribute and promote the content.

You understand that Weddingbells may (a) transmit or distribute your content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this license shall permit Weddingbells to take these actions.