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 12 wedding photos in the section MY PORTFOLIO, otherwise your account will not be verified and listed. 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.

You can also participate in a paid annual competition and win financial and material prizes, in which case upload photos to the paid annual contest in the section CONTEST SERVICE (it is voluntary).

Not! It is not allowed studio or agency name, one account is only for one photographer! Please use your real 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 1 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. More info at your MEMBERSHIP & PRICING

There is a maximal limit of 12 photos per week for SUPERIOR members, 6 photos per week for PREMIUM members and 1 photo per week for free accounts. 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.

Freshly submitted photos are reviewed by the editors few times a week (not daily).

Photos taken at seminars or workshop are not allowed. Only photos taken at a real wedding or pre-wedding (engagement) are allowed.

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 reviewed 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 paid 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 Current rank shows the ranking of the best photographers. For each flag you get some points that are valid for exactly one year. After a year, the flags lose a point value to ensure a fair rating and everyone had the same chances in a given year. The flags are re-evaluated every month on the 1st day of the month when they points expire (For example January 1, 2022 expire points of each flags older than January 1, 2021). Except on February 1, when is no re-evaluated of flags so that points from the complete previous year can be included in the award for the TOP 25 PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE YEAR (For example, the flags are valid from January 1, 2021 to February 15, 2022 when will be the announcement of the annual competition).

The first flag you can get is a Picture of the DAY (Editor's choice). The best pictures from the previous week will be flagged as a Picture of the WEEK and the best pictures from the previous month will be flagged as a Picture of the MONTH, Picture of the YEAR will also be announced. Of course, the other badges is continuously received as a Photographer of the week, month and year.

The most active photographer will be awarded as the TOP 25 PHOTOGRAPHER of the given YEAR, so it doesn't matter how long you are our member. Theoretically, a photographer who registers only 2 months before the end of the year can win if he will submitted amazing photos.

The editors can guarantee review of freshly submitted photos only for paid members, free accounts are checked for photos as often as possible in time. In addition, SUPERIOR accounts are checked repeatedly for freshly uploaded photos and their profiles are checked continuously, the bookmarks are given independently of the time the photo is uploaded. PREMIUM accounts are checked only once for photos that have been freshly submitted.

Title WORLD'S TOP 25 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS and TOP 10 photographers in each COUNTRY will be announced only if you participate in the PAID ANNUAL CONTEST.

The current rating of photographers consists of the rating of their TOP 60 photos (highlighted) and of the medals from the last paid contest you had win.

You will receive the following points for the flags:

• Picture of the DAY (Editor's choice): 2 points
• Picture of the WEEK: 5 points
• Picture of the MONTH: 10 points
• Picture of the YEAR: 20 points

These points for the flags expire after one year. (The flags remain visible but their points disappear.)

You can get the following medals and points for them:

• Honorable Mention: 10 points
• BRONZE medal: 20 points
• SILVER medal: 30 points
• GOLD medal: 50 points

These points for the medals expire after one year. (The medals remain visible but their points disappear.)

The best photographers can get the following badges:

According to the Editor's choice:

• Photographer of the WEEK
• Photographer of the MONTH
• Honorable photographer of the YEAR

According to the results of the paid Annual Contest:

• COUNTRY's TOP 10 photographer of the YEAR
• WORLD's TOP 25 photographer of the YEAR

These badges never expire. (There are no points for them.)

Any agreements between photographers to artificially raise a rating are considered fraud in the evaluation. If you like photos just to get mutual likes, we also consider it a scam. Message like: 'I have given you several likes, comments, etc. and I will go back in to follow your work. We have to support each other, please give me some likes, thanks.' , we also consider it a scam. In short, if you do anything unfair to get more likes, don't do it! In fact, you don't even have a reason to do this, because currently the editors don't decide based on the number of likes ;)

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

Our recommendation for better results:

• If your photo has already won an award in another contest, add this information at the photo, then it will show 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 paid annual contests.

• Photos taken at seminars or workshop are not allowed. Only photos taken at a real wedding or pre-wedding (engagement) are allowed.
• Please upload photos with a resolution of at least 1400 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.

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 current rating will be announcement as the WORLD's TOP 25 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS and the first 10 photographers with the biggest current rating from each country will be announcement as the TOP 10 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS in this COUNTRY.

The current rating includes points for medals you win in the paid annual 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 current rating of your portfolio and if you participate in the paid annual contest. 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. Minimum current rating for getting this title is 500 points.

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 current rating of your portfolio and if you participate in the paid annual contest. You get a title and certificate as TOP 10 PHOTOGRAPHERS in ITALY (for example). Minimum current rating for getting this title is 100 points.