Rules & FAQ

Any photographer, professional or amateur, who deals with wedding photography can register. Click on sign up. Fill in your email and set your password. You will receive a confirmation code in the entered email, which you will enter in the next form. Then set your real name and surname, your country, professional status, gender, and social links. After that you must upload at least 6 wedding photos in your portfolio, otherwise your account will not be verified and listed. If you only want to participate in the contest, upload your photos to the contest. Then your profile will be verified by our editor, who will also check your social links. It usually takes up to 24 hours. After your first login you need to upload your face picture and set you others specializations and bussiness information if you want.

Not! It is not allowed studio or agency name, one account is only for one photographer! Please use your real full name and surname for the account. The button on the camera is pushed by a human and not a studio or avatar. We need to know who push the button. You can keep the studio logo as a profile picture if you want, but it is always better for the bride to see the photographer's face and real name. There’s no need to hide behind the studio name or alias. If there are more people in your studio, please have them each open their own account, be fair and collect points for only one person. The name and address of the studio can be used in the bussiness folder.

Yes, it's completely free. You can upload 12 photos at the start and then one photo per week and your total limit for the portfolio is 50 photos. If you would like to upload more photos per week and fight for a better rating, you can purchase a paid membership and upload photos without restrictions. More info at your ACCOUNT/MEMBERSHIP & PRICING

There is a maximal limit of 50 photos per week for everyone. Why do we have this limit? We want every member to have the same chance, you have to understand building your portfolio as a year-round competition. If one photographer sends 50 photos a week, then the other cannot send 500 photos a week, such a collection of points would be unfair. Because it's a big difference to get 20 pictures of the day out of 50 photos sent than to get 20 pictures of the day out of 500 photos sent, right? So don't send all your photos for review, but choose only the best ones and as writen bellow it is not allowed to upload the same photos over and over again.

Definitely Not! You have to understand the building of your portfolio as a year-round competition and it is not allowed to send the same photos all the time! Please don't upload the same photos over and over again, if the editor recognizes the photo it will not be judged again, so unnecessarily you don't overload the editors. Your portfolio will be checked once in a while and if we find two identical photos, the less point duplicate will be deleted and the points for this duplicate will be deducted. As for the annual contest, you can submit a photo that you already have in your portfolio, there is no restriction.

Our rank system is used to determine the rank and quality of photographers based on the various awards they receive over a given period. The Overall rank shows the ranking of the best photographers since the launch of the website and the Annual rank shows the ranking of the best photographers in last year.(2021)

All submitted pictures are aproved by our editor daily except Sundays and public holidays and the best pictures are selected for our Wedding Gallery. After that our editor selects a Pictures of the DAY whitch will be published on our website & social networks. The best pictures from the previous week will be awarded as a Picture of the WEEK and the best pictures from the previous month will be awarded as a Picture of the MONTH, Picture of the YEAR will also be announced. Of course, the other prizes is continuously awarded as a Photographer of the week or month. WORLD'S TOP 25 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS and TOP 10 photographers in each COUNTRY if you participate in the annual contest.

You get points for each awarded picture as follows:

• Official Selection (Editor Choice): 0.2 points
• Picture of the DAY: 2 points
• Picture of the WEEK: 5 points
• Picture of the MONTH: 10 points
• Picture of the YEAR: 20 points

You get points for each badge as follows:

• Photographer of the WEEK: 10 points
• Photographer of the MONTH: 20 points
• Honorable photographer of the YEAR (by editors choice): 30 points
• COUNTRY's TOP 10 photographer of the YEAR (by contest result): 30 points
• WORLD's TOP 25 photographer of the YEAR (by contest result): 50 points

Don't worry, our algorithm reliably recalculates and keeps the raiting up to day. The points are not credited automatically but they are recalculated every day at midnight (CET), so the raiting will not increase immediately after you award get.

Our recommendation for better results:

• Keep only the awarded photos in your portfolio, photos that have not been approved for our Wedding Gallery take up the space and have no point value. Therefore, delete unselected photos regularly.
• If your photo has already won an award in another contest, add this info to the photo, then it will receive a white flag.
• Add your hashtags and location for your pictures, we can include this information to increase the interaction and impression of the post. It will help you market the social media content more successfully.
• Fill your instagram username in your account setting, if you receive an award we can mention you in the post.
• Use your referrer link to invite your friends to join us. You get 15 coins for each new Professional Photographer who will used your referrer link at registration. Loyalty coins can be spent on membership fees. More info at your ACCOUNT/LOYALTY PROGRAM

The same rules also apply to uploading photos to our contests.

• Please upload photos with a resolution of at least 1000 pixels at the shorter side, smaller photos are not allowed.
• Export images as JPEG at a setting of 10 (100%) with sRGB colour space.
• Layouts, collages, watermarks, copyright, logos, signatures are not allowed.
• Only bleed photographs without borders.
• Photos that show images of pornography or have visual content of an offensive, slanderous or extremist nature are not allowed as well.
• All photographs must be the original work of You and must not violate the rights of any other party and must have obtained permission of any people featured in the entries.
• PROWEDaward may use all entries for marketing & promoting the PROWEDaward although there will not be any monetary compensation for the same.
• The photographs must not have breached any laws.
• This photo has been rejected for a rules violation. It can't contain a logo, signature, text or frame or it doesn't look like a wedding or pre-wedding photo.
• This photo has been revealed as a duplicate and was rejected. The points for this photo will be deducted. It is forbidden to have the same photos in the portfolio and collect double points for them.
• This photo has been rejected for a rules violation. You've upload photo like this before. It is forbidden to upload the photos repeatedly.
• Accept and trash
• You must select a category to start review process.

Every year you stand a chance to be recognized as the WORLD's TOP 25 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS. This year we will also appreciate the TOP 10 photographers in each COUNTRY! The more points you earn during the year, the more chance you have to aspire to this award. The first 25 photographers with the biggest annual raiting will be announcement as the WORLD's TOP 25 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS and the first 10 photographers with the biggest annual raiting from each country will be announcement as the TOP 10 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS in this COUNTRY. The annual raiting includes annual raiting from your portfolio + points for medals awarded in the contest. The announcement of the WORLD's TOP 25 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS will be in early February after judding the contest.

WORLD's TOP 25 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS - You only have the chance to get this award title if you will be in the TOP 25 in the WORLD by annual raiting and if you participate in the contest and earn a minimum of 30 points for medals won (one gold medal = 30 points or three bronze medals = 30 points for example). You get a title and certificate as WORLD's TOP WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER, WORLD's TOP 10 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS or WORLD's TOP 25 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS.

TOP 10 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS in each COUNTRY - You only have the chance to get this award title if you will be in the TOP 10 in your COUNTRY by annual raiting and if you participate in the contest and earn a minimum of 10 points for medals won (one bronze medal = 10 points or two honorable mention = 10 points for example). You get a title and certificate as TOP 10 PHOTOGRAPHERS in ITALY (for example).