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14 July 2011

Working on my SMP & All.Women.Stalk Submissions

Almost Friday again!

Dawn Pohlen
I have been sifting through the wedding photos picking the ones I will edit first. I have 76 from our photographer, some from Shawn's mom's camera and we're also waiting for the video to be done because some stills were taken from that for pictures, too!
As you brides know it takes a lot of weddings to make the blogs we love go 'round with features. Fortunately for wedding blogs, there are over 2,077,000 weddings in the U.S. each year! The U.S. is not the exclusive source for wedding features, though. You have to take into consideration brides from around the world with web access as well! This is approxiamately 41,975,000 weddings around the world every year, over 20 times the amount of weddings happening in the U.S.!
This helps me mentally prepare for refusal of our wedding for sure. The success of our wedding lies within us, NOT within the 1 in 42 million chance that we get featured somewhere. Besides, who cares about the people who say "No, thank you," to seeing and sharing pics of your rad wedding? No, THANK YOU! Now we can move onto people who lurve us and would like nothing more than to squee over our photos all day.

Dawn Pohlen
In any case, it would be a major thrill to have many people identify with and receive your wedding with interest. To better increase our 1 in 42Million chance, I have found several articles about standing out in the oceans of wedding being submitted these days. It comes from Style Me Pretty, which is basically the same thing as hearing it from the horse's mouth. Read here.

Are any of you ladies or guys out there submitting your wedding to be featured anywhere?

9 comments:

Saying I do said...Reply to comment

I might..but I still have a lot of organizing and sifting through of pictures to do first. And even then...I'm not sure if I will. I'll have to see how it all looks once I write it all out ya know?

HiLLjO said...Reply to comment

@Saying I do Totally. We are still buying our house so those Thank you's were our way of feeling like we have control again now even though life is just as buys as it was when we left it before the wedding. :oP

Anonymous said...Reply to comment

Even if your wedding isn't featured, it's still awesome!

jacin {lovely little details} said...Reply to comment

good luck lady!!! and like miss tattoo said, no matter if it's featured or not - don't forget the happiness that you shared on your big day!!!

Alex Jae said...Reply to comment

I hope to see your wedding featured somewhere! Everything I see about your wedding is just so adorable! I love the weddings on Offbeat Bride!!

Unknown said...Reply to comment

best of luck with it!!! You guys look A-MA-ZING!!! I know I can't wait to see more!!!

hugs! Kim @ Party Frosting!

Diana said...Reply to comment

We cant wait to have you...I love these photos...you two are just so amazing and adorable. And like all the ladies said...its not whether you are featured or not...its about the memories you have made already! ;)

Heather said...Reply to comment

Great post! I wish more sites and magazines would feature awesome weddings like yours. I was really lucky to be featured in Get Married Magazine talking about some of my wedding themes and details, and also on a couple blogs, though not super big Style Me Pretties. That's fine with me, though, because I loved my wedding even though it wasn't a platinum bash like many of the ones featured. It reflected us and had it's own unique touches that meant something.

HiLLjO said...Reply to comment

@Bicoastal Bride Thanks Heather! That is so awesome you were featured!!! Making your wedding you is what it's all about!!!

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