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Send Us Your Destination Wedding!

Want to have your destination wedding featured? Here's how:

To be considered for Destination Weddings and Honeymoons magazine, please download our Real Wedding Submission Guidelines. This PDF gives detailed instructions on how to submit your images to be reviewed for the print magazine.

Real Wedding Submission Guidelines.pdf

Please keep the following print submission deadlines in mind:

Issue  Deadline
March/April 2012  November 1, 2011
June/July 2012  January 13, 2012
July/August 2012  February 29, 2012
Sept/Oct 2012  April 26, 2012
Nov/Dec 2012  June 28, 2012
Jan/Feb 2013  August 30, 2012

If your wedding is not chosen to be included in an upcoming issue, it may still be featured on our website as a Wedding of the Week. We will contact you if your wedding will be featured online.

If you are only interested in being featured on our website, please follow our Online Submission Guidelines, outlined below.

Email editor@destinationweddingmag.com at least 30 JPEG professional images from your wedding day. Remember, we want to showcase the beautiful destination, your wedding style (flowers, cake, etc.), as well as shots of you, your spouse and the wedding party. If your images are too large to send in an email, please request FTP information from the webmaster.

In your email please include answers to these questions and any other commentary of your wedding day that you feel could be of great benefit and inspiration to future brides and grooms of destination weddings.

Basic Info

- Couples' Names:
- Hometown:
- Wedding Date (including year):
- Wedding Location (include city, state, country, resort, etc.):
- Wedding Theme and Colors:

Planning Details (please list all that apply and use vendor information when available):

- Photographer:
- Bride's Attire:
- Groom's Attire:
- Bridesmaid's Attire:
- Groomsmen's attire:
- Wedding Planner:
- Flowers:
- Cake:
- Entertainment:
- Videographer:
- Invitations:
- Honeymoon Destination:

Wedding Details:

- Describe where you got married (destination and name of the location or resort Explain why you chose that locale.

- What was your vision for your wedding?

- Describe the activities you and your guests enjoyed at your wedding destination.

- Where did you hold your wedding (gazebo, beach, historic fort, etc.)?

- What time was your wedding (either a specific time or general time of day like sunset)?

- Describe what happened at your ceremony.

- What flowers did you carry?

- Tell about any ethnic traditions or customs from your destination that you included in your event.

- Describe the location and decor of your reception.

- What food was served at the reception?

- Describe the look and flavor of your cake, plus any other desserts that were served.

- What else happened at your reception? Toasts? Dancing? Any funny or meaningful stories?

- Describe any wedding-related events that followed the wedding and reception.

- What did you love about your destination that was specific only to that place?

- What was the best idea you had in planning your destination wedding?

- Best advice to future brides and grooms of destination weddings:

- Best memory of the wedding:

- Where did you and your guests stay? Did you find a lot of resorts and hotels offered good group rates?

- Did you use a wedding planner? If yes, how did he or she contribute to the event? If no, how did you organize a wedding that was so far from your hometown?

- What obstacles did you face in planning a destination wedding? How did you overcome them?

- In retrospect, is there anything you would have done differently in the planning?

Please be sure to include your wedding photographer's name, phone number and website and we'll gladly give photo credits and a link to his/her site. We look forward to receiving your information!

When you email us your images and/or text, you are giving permission to Destination Weddings & Honeymoons to use your contribution (text and/or photos) without payment so long as full credit and attribution are given to you. You maintain all copyright of your work now and in the future. The work posted here is your own and does not infringe upon the copyright of others.

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