Photo Submission Instructions for Weddings, Marriage Proposal, Honeymoon, Engagement Shoots, and Bridal Showers
If you recently got engaged or married, and want to submit your wedding story and photos for consideration to be featured on this wedding blog, this post will guide you on how to prepare your photos in the format that we accept.
What we are looking for here: Here, we believe that photos without stories are not complete. *Only send us your engagement/ wedding/ honeymoon photos if you will also tell us the story (how it happened). At NaijaGlamWedding, we love wedding pictures, but we only publish PHOTOS THAT INCLUDE A STORY OF THE DAY, so that anyone looking at them immediately feels like they were also there.
Here’s How to Send Us Pictures
- On Instagram DMs (Direct Messaging): Follow us and send a direct message (DM) to our Instagram Page and there you can send us photos and story of your wedding (trad, white or registry), marriage proposal, honeymoon or any wedding-related parties.
- On Facebook DM: Follow us and send a direct message (DM) to our Facebook Page and there you can send us photos and story of your wedding (trad, white or registry), marriage proposal, honeymoon or any wedding-related parties.
- Via our Submit Page – click here to submit your wedding-related story.
- Via Dropbox: Send me your best white and/ or trad wedding pictures: Click this link to UPLOAD & transfer your photos directly TO ME https://www.dropbox.com/request/ruJC99qA4hBCzr5d7egv | If your photos are already on dropbox or a similar place, simply email us the dropbox link.
- Via WeTransfer: OR via www.weTransfer.com – (a) upload the pictures you want to send us (2) type in yours and our emails in the TO and From box. Our email is NaijaGlamWedding(at)gmail.com
- Email: OR email them as attachments to us, at: NaijaGlamWedding (at) gmail (dot) com
- If you simply want us to notice your pictures and maybe feature it, tag us with this hashtag: #naijaglamwedding or @naijaglamwedding
How to Prepare your Photos in the format below:
- Select between 20 (minimum) and 100 of your best photos covering a variety of the wedding day elements
- The photos you send us should showcase every aspect, detail, and style of your wedding day, not just photos of the two of you.
- We love traditional weddings lots, and most Nigerians have two weddings – both the trad and whit/religious or court weddings. So be sure to balance up the number of photos per wedding type. Also, select the best pictures that showcase the details of the most important and best parts of your weddings.
- Select a group of photos that show us around your wedding ceremony, such as: the invitation card, wedding cake, bride and groom’s wedding rings, reception venue with table décor and backdrops; details of the wedding fashion including fashion including close-up photos of the bride and groom in various wedding attires including the traditional wedding outfits, the bridal veil and bouquet, bride’s/ groom’s shoes, the wedding bands, the cake, closeup shot of bride’s hair and makeup, close shots of bridesmaids and groomsmen in their outfits, as well as the little bride and page-boy, the guests in aso-ebi etc.). And some candid shots too. I hope you get the idea – pick the best pictures that tell the day’s story.
- If you had multiple weddings (e.g. a trad engagement/wedding, and a white wedding, and maybe also, a court wedding), please upload all photos in one submission but one event group at a time (not haphazard). Be sure to label them in a way we can differentiate the different celebration types.
- We do not accept RAW or high resolution (hi-res) image formats. Confirm that your pictures are low resolution (72dpi) and .JPG photo file format.
- We accept only individual images, so please do not send us photo collages.
- We allow a maximum file size of 40MB per submission set, so ensure that each photo is the total file size of the photos you’re submitting do not exceed 40MB in siz
Final Check: Before Uploading Your Photos to Us
- Remove all the photographer’s branding or watermarks from each photo.
- Photo File names: Before sending us the photos, we require that you name each photo file with your first and last name, with a numerical value (e.g. BisiNdukao001, BisiNduka002 and so on).
- Title: give a name you want us to recognise your own submission ___________ (e.g. bisiwedsnduka2013)
- Description: In one or more words, tell us what’s inside the files (example: Bisi and Emeka’s Wedding Photos; or bisi and nduka’s trad wedding photos; bisi and nduka’s engagement shoot; bisi and nduka’s honeymoon shoot).
- Ensure to get permission/consent (for your photos to be featured) from your photographer and other parties before submitting a wedding or photoshoot.
Additional Information to Increase Chances of Acceptance
- Please don’t submit your wedding until after it’s happened and you’ve received all your photos back.
- The event submitted should occur within the past 12 months from the submission date.
- We love submissions that contain photos of the trad and white weddings. We love wedding photos that highlight the Nigerian theme, as in, the traditional wedding photos that tell the story of the day.
- Our readers love content that is romantic, trend-setting, creative, handmade, unique or any combination of the above.
- As a rule we prefer to show things that haven’t been published elsewhere, but we’re always open to exceptions for the right submission. If you think your wedding story and pictures are really unique and amazing, then try us – who knows, you might just get lucky!
- The photos you send should be the ones that showcase ALL the details and over style of your wedding ceremony (such as: wedding cake, bride and groom’s wedding rings, picture of the invitation card, hall and table décor and backdrops; details of the wedding fashion including fashion including close-up photos of the bride and groom in various wedding attires including the traditional wedding outfits, plus the white wedding outfits, the bridal veil and bouquet, bride’s/ groom’s shoes, closeup shot of bride’s hair and makeup, close shots of bridesmaids and groomsmen in their outfits, as well as the little bride and page-boy).
- If you’re sending traditional wedding pictures or other religious wedding types, be sure to include pictures that showcase details of the most important and best parts of your wedding.
NOTE: We do not publish content that has already been published on other blogs or magazines, as we like to respect other bloggers by not reproducing weddings they’ve posted. More so, we like to offer our readers something fresh and new, that they have not seen all over the place. So, if you have earlier submitted your photos for publication on other blogs or print magazines, please let us know. For more on what we consider when selecting real stories and photos to publish, click here.
But Where’s the Photos Submission Form?
Once you are sure that your photos are in our acceptable format, and want to start submitting your photos, click below for the appropriate submission form.
- Weddings submission form
- Marriage proposal submission form
- Honeymoons submission form
- Bridal shower or Bachelor party submission form
If your submission is chosen to be featured in an upcoming real Nigerian weddings section of our blog, we will email you with the story link.
*Terms and Conditions apply: NaijaGlamWedding.com’s submitters terms and conditions apply to all submissions. So before completing our submission form, ensure you first read and understand our submission terms and conditions – click here.
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