Getting your wedding featured on a popular wedding blog is a dream for many wedding business owners, but knowing how to craft the perfect wedding blog submission can be daunting. In this blog, I’m sharing with you my top tips for writing and submitting your real weddings to national and international wedding blogs.
From figuring out your narrative to selecting the right photos to include, I’ll share with you everything you need to create a compelling and beautiful wedding blog submission. With these tips, you’ll feel confident and inspired to share your work to top wedding blogs for other couples to get inspired by.
5 Top Tips for Writing Your Wedding Blog Submission
1 – Do Your Research Before Writing Your Wedding Blog Submission
The thought of submitting your real wedding to be featured on a popular wedding blog as a wedding blog submission can seem intimidating. Before drafting your wedding blog submission, research different wedding websites and blogs that fit your style and desired audience.
Once you’ve identified your target wedding blog, read their submission guidelines and study wedding blog submissions they’ve previously published. This will give you insight into what they look for in a compelling wedding blog submission.
2. What is the Goal of Your Wedding Blog Submission?
Once you’ve found a wedding website that matches the style of your real wedding blog, it’s time to decide what the goal for your article is. If your blog does get accepted and is featured, what do you hope to get from its publication?
Are you wanting more enquires about weddings at a certain venue or in a general area? Do you have a wedding aesthetic you love? Are you wanting to attract more of your dream clients?
Once you identify the goal of your wedding blog submission, it will make it much easier to know what elements of the wedding to focus on.
3 – What is the Purpose of Your Wedding Blog Submission?
While you will have a business goal in mind for your wedding blog submission, it’s important to remember why your article is of value to its reader, or publisher. To help guide your writing, you should ask yourself, is this wedding blog submission to educate your readers or to inspire them?
A blog that inspires should be about the execution of the wedding, the aesthetic and tone that the couple set. What were the unique choices the couple made in their planning so that their day would reflect their personalities and relationship to its fullest. What can others learn from their choices and why is it inspiring?
If you are educating with your wedding blog post, you can base the article around overcoming an obstacle or something tricky in the planning of the wedding. This will help share your knowledge and reinforce your credibility as an expert in your field. Did the couple have to work around budget limitations, a large guest list or want very specific flowers that were out of season? How did they solve the potential problems their wedding day faced and how did you help them?
Knowing if your blog is inspirational or educational will make it much easier to write your submission
4 – Think of Your Wedding Blog Submission’s Keywords
Once you have your business goal in mind, you should have a good idea of the keywords to include in your wedding blog submission. What is the venue or location you want to cover? If you don’t include the thing you want more of in your article, then you won’t get enquiries about it. If you never tell anyone you’re a destination wedding photographer, you’ll be very unlikely to get a destination wedding enquiry! Use your keywords to help your potential clients find you
5 – Make Your Own Wedding Blog Submission Formula
Using all the research you’ve done, knowing to identify your blog’s goal and purpose and remembering to include keywords in your submission, you’ve got the beginnings of a wedding blog submission formula.
If you’ve identified the wedding websites you’d like to submit to most often, you’ll have an idea of what details to include and focus on. Make a list of the points you will need to include in each wedding blog submission you make. This list will help you write your wedding blog submissions much easier. To keep things fresh, you can alternate goals and purposes for your wedding blog submissions.
Getting published on a wedding website is highly competitive. They receive a high numbers of submissions each day. If your blog doesn’t get selected this time, don’t give up and don’t let your hard work go to waste! Share your wedding blog submission on your own blog and promote it on your socials all the same.
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