Weddings & Events Magazine Media Kit 2024

Our mission for over thirty 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 25 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, rack locations and book stores, 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.

• Editorial wedding features available of your wedding events.

• Ads and editorial featured in the magazine and online.

• Every advertiser linked to their website in the online magazine,

• You are featured with Ads & Listings on our websites.

• Social Media Blasts on Upstate Weddings & Events and more.

• Distribution of your message at the best bridal shops, shows and retailers.

• Extensive website– www.upstateweddingsandevents.com

• Comprehensive Venue Guide on our website

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 keep brides coming back for more.

We invite you to join Weddings & Events Magazine.

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.

Poinsett Bride

White Magnolia Bridal

Bella Bridesmaids

Barnes & Noble Stores

Marriott Spartanburg

Madison Carolina Bridal

Dillards Stores’

Fripp Island Resort

Professional Party

The Dress

Tim Holmes Catering

Lionsgate Mabor

Gassaway Mansion

Dressing Room South

The Castle Prom & Bridal

Table 301 Catering

Cribbs Catering

Gregory’s Formal Wear

Good Life Catering

Laurenda’s Catering

Cotton Rouge

Aurora Farms

South & West

Bubbas’ BBQ Bash

Noveli Photography

Southern Couture Makeup

The Venue at Edgewood

Bella Bridesmaids

Kathy & Company

Citizens & Southern Events

Hotel Hartness

Discovery Pointe

Brownstone Venue

The Duncan Estate

DiPietro Photography & Film

The Chapel at Mountain Spring

Sapphire Amor Events

Top Hat Limo

Belle Torsoro

Packages Include

Famzing Photography

Belk Stores

Edinburgh West

The Bleckley Inn

Cureton Photography

Sportsclub

Windy Hill Event Barn

Mandy Powell Weddings

Belleview Meadows

Uptown Entertainment

Culpepper Designs

AC Hotel Spartanburg

Westin Poinsett Hotel

South Wind Ranch

1881 Event Venue

The Venue at Falls Park

Historic Greer Depot

Front Row Films

Carolina’s Cuisine

Old Post 1940

Historic Hopkins Farm

Ole Blue Truck Farm

Together We Go Films

Lacee Meadows Venue

Upstate Bridal Association

Silver Smoke Mobile Cigar

Bloom Bridal

Jenny Williams Photography

Revel Event Center

Soundchoice

The Party Machine

Jumping Jukebox

Greenway Farms

Affluent Affairs 4 You and more

Distribution at Bridal Shows…

Wedding Festival Shows

Vendor Showcases

Veils & Tails

Distribution At Wedding Shows

Barnes & Noble In Racks

Barnes & Noble Stores

Haywood Rd.-Greenville

Shops of Greenridge-G’ville

WO Ezell Blvd.-Spartanburg

Rack Locations

Poinsett Bride –Greenville

The Castle Spartanburg

The Dress-Mauldin

Savvy Bridal-Greenville

We reach brides everyday, all day, year round.

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 a Web Ad on upstateweddingsandevents.com.

Interior Positions

Full Page plus 2 Pages…….

Full Page plus 1 Page

Double Page plus 2 Pages..

Double Page

Full Page

1/2 Page

1/4 Page……………………..

Additional Feature Page(s)…$750 per page

Premium Positions

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.

Cover Package...Your Bride on the Cover + a Full Page Ad…..$3895 (Photo Shoot $375 I/A)

Cover Advertiser subject to Publisher’s approval, restrictions and Cover Guidelines apply.

Back Cover, Inside Front & Right…$3385

Page 2-3…...$3075

Page 4-5……$2895

Inside Back…$2895

Magazine Display Ads include your business information and link on our website.

Production Fees

Production of your ad and Wedding Feature available from our creative and graphic team. Non-Camera Ready Ads and Editorial will be charged $95 per page.

Payment Terms

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 Target Niche Print and Digital

Our consistent growth over the past 30 years has shown the power of the Special Interest Printed Product. The ability to concentrate your ad dollars on the people you know are right for your product or service is a game changer. This idea isn’t new, though. It’s why our target print and digital advertising products have been growing for many years.

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. Print engages the senses in a way digital never will. It offers the eyes a much-needed screen break. It’s a simple tool, no threat of viruses and no dependency 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 bedside 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 also include a complementing website listing and Social Media Pages. Our Facebook Group Page, Upstate Weddings & Events has over 5300 members and grows by 160 new members each month.

Weddings

Magazine P. O. Box 16571 Greenville, SC 29606 864-230-3680

Ad Submission-

Ads can be submitted by a mailed CD or by e mail. Please send CD’s in a protected case.

Mail to-

Weddings & Events Magazine

P. O. Box 16571 Greenville, SC 29606

E Mail-

Please send ads smaller than 9MB to: gmg.info@aol.com

Graphics-

Convert 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.

Fonts-

If 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 Applications-

No Microsoft Publisher or Microsoft Word, or other word processor based or non-standard files.

Digital Ad Specs-

We 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 Rates-

All 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

GUIDEMEDIAGROUP

About our company-

We 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.

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.

Today our product mix still includes our flagship publication, Weddings & Events (now in it's 30th year of publication), website production, graphics, signage and mobile apps.

Advertising Specifications

The Product– An oversize publication, a dynamic 9”x12”

Deadline-November 5

Feature Story Requirements

-Send all copy by e mail to gmg.info@aol.com

-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.

-Please attempt to have all copy/vendors spelled correctly.