The Lifecycle of a Wedding Submission
It all starts with the wedding — the heart of what we all do. Submitting your work is the first step in celebrating the hands and creativity behind each celebration.
Why Submit a Wedding
Submitting your weddings is the fastest way to showcase your talent, highlight your vendor team, and get discovered by couples actively planning. Each submission fuels your portfolio, keeps your profile fresh, and puts your work in front of millions.
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The First Step
The Wedding Submission
Submit your wedding through the form on our site to enter the queue. Our editorial team reviews submissions in the order they come in, and Pro Plus members receive priority review within one week. You’ll hear from us regardless of the outcome — no ghosting, ever.
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Site Feature
Featured Weddings
If your wedding is selected by our editorial team, it will be scheduled to go live on the site within a few weeks. Weddings chosen for extended features will receive direct communication from our team with next steps. After scheduling, your wedding moves to our social team for further review and potential visibility across our channels.
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Portfolio Addition
Album Weddings
Even if your work isn’t featured, we believe it deserves to be seen and celebrated. Weddings that are not featured become available in your profile as an album. Curated albums automatically appear on member profiles and you can update them at anytime. Albums offer a valuable opportunity to increase your discoverability, highlight your contributions to the wedding, and connect with planning couples. Scroll to the portfolio section in the link below to explore albums.
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Increased Visibility
Social Feature
After editorial review, featured weddings are evaluated by our social team for potential inclusion — either as a dedicated post or within broader stories and trend features. Each featured wedding receives a minimum of five Pinterest pins, and Instagram content is frequently extended to Facebook and TikTok to maximize reach. Images included in Cherry may also be surfaced on social through Cherry-driven highlights, trend stories, and other editorial moments. Whenever your work appears on our channels, all known vendors are tagged to ensure proper credit and visibility.
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Continual Exposure
Introducing Cherry
Cherry is our visual discovery experience, designed to connect couples with real wedding inspiration and the creatives behind it. Every wedding submission is reviewed for potential inclusion in Cherry, where curated images become part of a searchable, fully credited ecosystem — extending your visibility beyond a single publication moment. Think Pinterest — reimagined for the wedding industry: built exclusively from real submissions, fully attributed, and free from sponsored or AI-generated filler.
Explore CherryWhat are you looking for in a Featured wedding?
All weddings are truly special and beautiful. A featured wedding needs to truly stand out. We look for immersive storytelling that just gives you the feels or makes you want to share it with others. A featured wedding should showcase the work of participating vendors int the best light and be helpful to planning couples seeking inspiration and building their vendor team.
Membership status, vendor team, and budget are never factors during the review process.
What are the benefits of submitting a wedding?
Submitting a wedding is the best way to showcase your work within the Carats & Cake ecosystem. Each submission is reviewed for multiple visibility paths — including editorial features, albums on your profile, potential inclusion in Cherry, and consideration for social coverage — helping your work stay discoverable, fully credited, and connected to the right couples over time.
⚡ Bottom line: Submissions fuel discovery and build client momentum. A single submission enters our ecosystem for maximum reach, activating multiple arms of visibility and becoming the domino that drives your broader marketing efforts.
What are the possible outcomes of my submission?
A submission may be selected for a feature on Carats & Cake or made available as an album on your profile. Featured weddings are then evaluated by our social team for coverage across our channels.
All submissions are curated for potential inclusion in Cherry, where selected images become part of our searchable, fully credited discovery experience and may be surfaced through additional editorial opportunities over time.
What are Albums?
Weddings that are not selected as Features are made available as Albums within your portfolio. Albums are curated by our editorial team and automatically appear on Member profiles. They contain up to 20 images an vendors can update their albums at any time.
An Album allows you to showcase your work within the full context of the wedding story — helping couples understand your role and aesthetic as part of the larger celebration. It’s one of the simplest ways to highlight recent work and keep your profile fresh.
If a wedding I worked on is featured, will it also be posted on social media / Instagram?
Every featured wedding is shared with our social team for consideration across our channels. Weddings may receive a dedicated post or be included within broader editorial stories, such as trend features and roundups. Instagram posts are often extended to Facebook and TikTok to maximize reach.
While not all featured weddings are shared on Instagram, each one receives a minimum of five Pinterest pins.
