Weddings & Events With Style 2017 Media Kit

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Rates & Information 2017

Weddings & Events With Style The Only Publication Exclusively Devoted to Upstate Brides.

Contents About Us…………. 4 Rates……………... 5 Distribution………. 6 Specifications…… 7

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Serving Brides and Grooms Since 1993.

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About Weddings & Events With Style…

Our mission for over twenty 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” f eatures more of what today ’ s bride wants. 20 different real wedding stories are featured, 20 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 Carolina ’ s number one bridal resource and be featured as one of our team ’ s extraordinary wedding experts. By advertising with us you will receive the best value and most exposure for your dollar. 

Continuous exposure year round in WEWS and online.

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Editorial wedding feature of one of your wedding events.

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Featured in the magazine online. Click link on bestweddingplans.com

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Featured on Resource page on our website bestweddingplans.com

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

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Multiple websites – bestweddingplans.com and upstatevenues.com

Weddings & Events With Style is a well established name that brides recognize and retailers trust. Weddings & Events With Style Magazine and bestweddingplans.com keep brides coming back for more.

We invite you to join Weddings & Events With Style.

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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 2 pages for a Full Page and 3 or 4 pages for a Double Page to be utilized as a Wedding Feature story of a wedding event or Fashion Pages. You are also featured with a listing and link on our website bestweddingplans.com and upstatevenues.com.

Full Page plus 2 Pages…$2695 Full Page plus 1 Page…$2255 Double Page plus 3 Pages…$3995 Full Page…$1975 1/2 Page…$1765 1/4 Page...$1495 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 With Style.

Back Cover, Inside Front & Right…$3385 Page 2-3…$3075 Page 4-5…$2895 Inside Back…$2895 Web Ad on bestweddingplans.com or upstatevenues.com…$475

Listing $375

Payment terms are available. Production of your ad and Wedding Feature available from our creative and graphic team. Consult Ad Rate and Specifications information for complete specification and rate information and terms.

Rates are for 12 months, include Ad space and web listings and link Weddings & Events With Style P. O. Box 16571 Greenville, SC 29606 864-230-3680 gmg.info@aol.com www.bestweddingplans.com

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Distribution Weddings & Events With Style is distributed complimentary at area wedding professional locations with a focus on bridal salons, party rental stores, registry locations and bridal shows. All 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 professionals in the area.

Distribution at wedding retailers such as…

Poinsett Bride White Magnolia Bridal Windy Hill Farm Zen Indigo Hall Marriott Spartanburg Oxford Farm Shutterbooth Chapman Cultural Center Dimitra Designs Events at Davenport ABC Party Rental Dillards Stores’ Fripp Island Resort Eastside Limosuine Professional Party The Dress Marriott Greenville Tim Holmes Catering Starry Nights Lionsgate Mabor Gassaway Mansion Macys Tri County Rental The Castle Carolina Traditions Boutique of Dreams Makin Pictures Krumms on the Plate Table 301 Catering Berbank Rentals & Events Cribbs Catering David Lawrence Photography Mel Nocks Photography O’Neill Team Gregory’s Formal Wear on the Go McConnell Plantation Fowlers On the Roxx Good Life Catering Revel Event Venue Sullivans Events & Catering Laurenda’s Catering Greenville Center for the Arts Elegant Gourmet Catering Cotton Rouge Ruth’s Chris

We reach brides year round, every day.

Belk Stores Thomas & Sons Formal Wear Stores Carolina Traditions Crowne Plaza Hotel Younts Conference Center Ryan Nicholas Inn SC Botanical Garden Greg Hall Events Buttercream Bakehouse The Bleckley Inn Starving Artist Café & Catering Timberock at Hopkins Farm GiGi’s Cupcakes The Barn At Forevermore Farm Hampton Road Farms Clevedale Historic Inn & Gardens The Oaks Southern Jewel Photography Seasons Café & Catering Chapman Cultural Center Cureton Photography Old Cigar Warehouse Mug & Muffin Evergreen Plantation Cureton Photograaphy Sportsclub and more…

In Racks...

Distribution at Bridal Shows…

Wedding Festivals– Greenville Wedding Festivals- Spartanburg Wedding Festivals- Asheville Wedding Festivals– Anderson Old Cigar Warehouse Showcase Sunday Soiree Belk Bridal Shows

At Wedding Shows...

In Stores...

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Advertising Specifications

The Product- An oversize magazine, a dynamic 9” x 12 ” Deadline – December 5 Ad SubmissionAds can be submitted by a mailed CD of via e mail.

Please CD’s in a protected case.

Mail toWeddings & Events With Style 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 submitted non-camera ready will be charged the followingDouble Page $170 Full Page $95 1/2 or1/4 Page- $75.

Feature Stories $95 per page.

Weddings & Events With Style P. O. Box 16571 Greenville, SC 29606 864-230-3680 FAX 864-292-2887 gmg.info@aol.com www.guidemediagroup.com GUIDEMEDIAGROUP

Live matter must be 1/4” from trim on all sides

Bleed Size18.25 x 12.25” Trim Size18 x 12”

Gutter .25”

Safety Size17.5 x 11.5”

Two Page Spread With Bleed When submitting an ad spread, live matter must be .25” away from sides.

Bleed Size9.25 x 12.25” Trim Size9 x 12” Safety Size8.5 x 11.5”

Half Page Horizontal 8.25 x 5.43 no bleeds

Full Page (trims to 9 x 12”

Half Page Vertical

Quarter Page 4 x 5.43”

4 x11.25” no bleeds

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