Weddings & Events Magazine Our mission for over twenty six years has been to provide brides to be with the most informative, best distributed and elegant vehicle to connect them with wedding retailers and professionals. Our publication is just that. The large format size, a dynamic 9 ” x12 ” features more of what today ’ s bride wants. Over 20 different real wedding stories are featured, pages of fashions, venues, cakes , flowers, party ideas and more are showcased in the publication. Extensively distributed at area bridal salons, wedding professional retailers and wedding shows, we reach brides when their interest and shopping power is at it ’ s peak. We have been publishing longer than anyone in the Carolina ’ s, a trusted brand name that brides have turned to since 1993. We invite you to join the number one bridal resource and be featured as one of our extraordinary wedding experts. By advertising with us you will receive the best value and most exposure for your dollar. •
Continuous exposure year round in print and online.
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Editorial wedding feature of your wedding events.
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Ads and editorial featured in the magazine and online.
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Every advertiser linked to their website in the online magazine,
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You are featured with Ads & Listings on our websites.
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Social Media Blasts on Upstate Weddings & Events and more.
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Distribution of your message at the best bridal shops, shows and retailers.
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Comprehensive website– upstateweddingsandevents.com
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A website only about Upstate Venues- upstatevenues.com
Whether you ’ ve spent hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars developing your wedding business, doesn't it make sense to
spend a few dollars to keep your message in front of brides every single day? You can with Weddings & Events. A well established brand that brides recognize and retailers trust. Weddings & Events Magazine, upstateweddingsandevents.com statevenues.com keep brides coming back for more.
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Distribution Weddings & Events is distributed complimentary at area wedding professional locations with a focus on bridal salons, party rental stores, registry locations and bridal shows. Wedding professionals featured in the publication have the product available for their customers. Readership numbers are based on the 15,000 annual number of weddings annually in this region. We reach the portion of these brides planning a semi-formal to formal event seeking to patronize the leading wedding pros in the area. Distribution at wedding retailers such as… Poinsett Bride White Magnolia Bridal Bella Bridesmaids Zen Indigo Hall Marriott Spartanburg Oxford Farm Shutterbooth Madison Carolina Bridal Dillards Stores’ Fripp Island Resort Eastside Limosuine Professional Party The Dress Marriott Greenville Tim Holmes Catering Starry Nights Lionsgate Mabor Gassaway Mansion Dressing Room South The Castle Carolina Traditions Table 301 Catering Berbank Rentals & Events Cribbs Catering Gregory’s Formal Wear Good Life Catering Revel Event Venue Laurenda’s Catering Cotton Rouge My Wedding Group Aurora Farms South & West Bubbas’ BBQ Bash Southern Bleachery Venue 619 Noveli Photography The Rutherford DiPietro Photography
At Wedding Shows
Famzing Photography DiPietro Photography Noble Rentals The Commerce Club Belk Stores Younts Conference Center Edinburgh West Greg Hall Events The Bleckley Inn The Barn At Forevermore Farm Holly’s Cakes Cureton Photography Sportsclub Venue at Rose Spring Farm Windy Hill Event Barn Mandy Powell Weddings Pure Catering Historiic Hopkins Farm Belleview Meadows Uptown Entertainment Culpepper Designs Good L:ife Catering Asheville Hwy. Rental Sullivan’s Metropolitan Grill Greenville Hilton Petals AC Hotel Old Path Farm Southern Couture Clevedale Historic Inn & Gardens and more… Distribution at Bridal Shows… Wedding Festival Shows Belk Bridal Shows Vendor Showcases Veils & Tails
In Stores
In Racks
We reach brides everyday, year round.
Packages Include Print Ads, Wedding Features, Social Media Blast, Web Ads & Listings
Full Page Ad
1/2 Page Ads
Double Page Feature
Webs Ads & Listings on upstateweddingsandevents.com
Single Page Feature
Social Media
Webs Ads & Listings on upstatevenues.com
Advertising Rates A Full Page or Double Page ad not only adds credibility and prestige to your business, it also extends your marketing dollar and impact by the bonus space of 1 or more pages for a Full Page and 2 pages or more for a Double Page to be utilized as a Wedding Feature story of a Wedding Event. You are also featured with an ad/listing and link on upstateweddingsandevents.com and upstatevenues.com. Full Page plus 2 Pages…$2895 Full Page plus 1 Page…$2465 Double Page plus 2 Pages…$3695 Double Page…$2465 Full Page…$1975
1/2 Page…$1675 1/4 Page...$1465
Additional Feature Page(s)…$650 per page Want to be the first ad the reader sees or the last lingering image she views? You can with a Premium Position placement in Weddings & Events. Back Cover, Inside Front & Right…$3385 Page 2-3…$3075 Page 4-5…$2895 Inside Back…$2895 -Magazine Display Ads include Web Ads & Listings on both websites.
-Web Ad/Listings on- upstateweddingsandevents.com and upstatevenues.com...$475 Production of your ad and Wedding Feature available from our creative and graphic team. Non-Camera Ready Ads and Editorial will be charged $85 per page.
We accept Check, PayPal (Guide Media Group) & Venmo (William-Flanagan-10). Extended Payment Terms may be available, consult the Publisher. 5% discount with payment in full at Insertion Order signing. Rates are for 12 month insertion. Why Print? Our consistent growth over the past 26 years has shown the power of the Special Interest Printed Product. But despite our success, the digital era has some people wondering why we build our business on a traditional industry model. The answer is easy. Print works for us and it does for our readers and thus does for our advertisers. The feel. The look. The smell. The sound. Print engages the senses in a way digital never on wifi . For our advertisers, print’s audience is controlled, intentional and specific in a way other advertising opportunities can’t be. Printed products last, they can always be there and remain on coffee tables and bed-
side tables for as long as the reader likes. However, we are Digital as well. The magazine is online and each page linked to the appropriate advertiser. We offer two complementing websites and Social Media Pages.
Weddings & Events Magazine P. O. Box 16571 Greenville, SC 29606 864-230-3680
gmg.info@aol.com www.guidemediagroup.com
www.upstateweddingsandevents.com
www.upstatevenues.com
Established 1993
will. It offers the eyes a much-needed screen break. It’s a simple tool, no threat of viruses and no dependency
27th Anniversary
Payment Terms
Ad SubmissionAds can be submitted by a mailed CD or by e mail. Please send CD’s in a protected case. Mail toWeddings & Events Magazine P. O. Box 16571 Greenville, SC 29606 E MailPlease send ads smaller than 9MB to: gmg.info@aol.com GraphicsConvert all RBG graphics to CMKY values. EPS, JPEG, PDF and TIFF files are accepted. All images must be a minimum of 300 dpi and supplied at final size. FontsIf fonts are imbedded or outlined, include a copy of all fonts used in your files, If EPS images are linked, be sure to include all linked fonts as well. Be sure to include both printer fonts and screen fonts for your files. Unacceptable ApplicationsNo Microsoft Publisher or Microsoft Word, or other word processor based or non-standard files. Digital Ad SpecsWe are not responsible for ads not meeting our electronic submission requirements. A design fee will be incurred for any work we do on behalf of the customer. Design RatesAll ads and features submitted non-camera ready will be charged $85 per page. Weddings & Events Magazine P. O. Box 16571 Greenville, SC 29606 864-230-3680 gmg.info@aol.com www.guidemediagroup.com
Advertising Specifications The Product – An oversize publication, a dynamic 9 ” x12 ” Deadline-December 5
Full Page
1/2 Page Horizontal
Bleed Size 9.25 x 12.25” Trim Size 9 x 12” Safety Size 8.5 x 11.5”
1/4 Page
Half Page Horizontal 8.25 x 5.43 No Bleeds
1/2 Page Vertical
GUIDEMEDIAGROUP About our companyWe got our start in 1982 in the billboard business. It was challenging, fun and really enjoyable seeing these "giant signs" bring business to the customers. The urge to escape the corporate environment struck and thus the launch of a series of "city guides" reaching travelers in their hotel rooms throughout the Carolinas and Tennessee.
Half Page Vertical Quarter Page 4 x 5.43” No Bleeds
4 x11.25” No Bleeds
Feature Story Requirements
These were remarkably successful but the intrigue of a more specialized product was felt and we launched in 1993 a local Upstate wedding publication. This little 40 page, digest size, mostly black and white product worked well and we grew to cover cities throughout the Carolinas and Georgia. As the years went by our team consistently improved the product adding more color pages, updating the editorial content and increasing both the physical size of the product and page count.
-Send all copy by e mail to gmg.info@aol.com
Today our product mix still includes our flagship publication, Weddings & Events (now in it's 26nd year of publication), website production, graphics, signage and mobile apps.
-Please attempt to have all copy/vendors spelled correctly.
-Send no more than 15 images to be used. -DO NOT send an entire wedding images file with hundreds of images. -Be careful when you proof the Feature, only two Proofs allowed. $25 Proof Charge after 2nd Proof, per Proof.