‘I think a particular kind of woman gets almost feral in their need to be acknowledged by Vogue,’ a publicist tells Charlotte Klein, who writes that a Vogue-covered wedding is more coveted than ever.
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But after reviewing their submission, the magazine wasn’t interested in moving forward. The couple lodged an appeal: Could they submit different images? What would move the needle?told them it just wasn’t a fit. “There are definitely couples who try pitching their weddings through multiple avenues — one of us will reject it, so they will try another editor, without perhaps realizing that we are all discussing the weddings among us,” says a’s website has grown so fierce that fashion publicists are building whole arms of their business around the process. “Bridal was always this stepsister in the fashion industry — it’s like fashion forgot that they could make money on it,” says Savannah Engel, who handled the PR for oil heiress Ivy Getty’s. “There are three things that can always make money: porn, death, and weddings.” Under Engel, who has been a bridesmaid 39 times, the process can take ten months or more and involves helping couples find the right designers, photographers, and other vendors to ensure that the event is fit for publication. “We’re thinking about it from the angle of public perception,” Engel said. “We’re not thinking about it from the angle of the intimacy of a couple.” Most recently, Engel worked on theof the high-profile Nigerian couple Temi Otedola and Mr Eazi, a two-year project that entailed ceremonies in Monaco, Dubai, and Iceland. Wealthy people have always used their weddings to display their riches and influence. What’s curious is that, now more than ever, people like Engel’s clients want to display those qualities in, whose cultural power, along with that of other legacy-media brands, has long been waning. A younger generation of women, after all, are turning less tothan to fashion newsletters or their preferred influencer’s Instagram Story to find out what to buy and who to imitate. And yet, at a moment when anyone with a large social-media following is a microcelebrity, it’s become more difficult to measure what it means to be a person of note. “If you’re just Jane Doe influencer, being inis the only opportunity for you to really be cosigned by something that’s an arbiter of taste,” says a publicist who has worked with top bridal designers. And for many, their only opportunity to be inmatters less and less in other respects, but for weddings, it’s different,” says another publicist. “I think a particular kind of woman gets almost feral in their need to be acknowledged by. It’s going to live online forever, and people want to be able to show their kids and grandkids, ‘Look, Mommy was in“The new social currency is much more about showing that you’re a creative person than that you are a rich person,” says luxury-event planner Marcy Blum, whose clients have included Bill Gates’s daughter and LeBron James. Andoffers an opportunity to showcase that creativity in a controlled environment. “The only thing you can compare it to is home coverage, which is still a very vibrant part of the media landscape. It’s safe, for one; it’s highly visible; and it’s super-curated,” says publicist Kaitlin Phillips, who notes that couples often choose which photos they submit tophotographers are like war reporters: They will shoot you with a double chin no matter what because they want to show you in action.”’s editor last year. “We are turning it around in a military-operation way. Venus Williams gets married the weekend before Christmas, it’s up on Monday. No one else has seen the pictures.” Malle has been a driving force in expanding. “It’s not unusual that a wedding is our top-performing story of the week,” says Malle. In addition to attracting “some of the most time spent on our articles” — over 17 million minutes globally last year — wedding content, she says, is “a very appealing and popular destination for digital display for advertising partners,” particularly fine-jewelry brands.has long covered the weddings of presidents and celebrities in its print pages, but it wasn’t until 2011, around the time of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding, that the digital feature — now the franchise’s primary format — came to be. It was the brainchild of Alexandra Macon, then the managing editor of vogue.com, who wanted to cover weddings through a fashion lens and in a more candid way. Now the site publishes two or three weddings a week. The team behind it is small: Macon And that photographer is not selling their intellectual capital because you’re Suzie Floozy from Moozy. That’s not happening,” says Rago. Macon says if she “can sense that some backdoor deal is being done, I’m very clear that that doesn’t fly. We’re not going to serve as the vehicle for you to go out and get all of this stuff comped.” Ahead of their August 2024 wedding, actor Bobbi Salvör Menuez and artist Quori Theodor created a pitch deck for the event, advertising “notable guests” on one slide and “notable contributors” on another . Then came the “partnership opportunities” slide: “The creative vision is immense for this celebration and we are looking for partners to elevate what is sure to be an iconic gathering,” citing venue, production, food and beverage, and floral among the categories of interest. And under “press contacts,” they included“A wedding is a lot of work. It’s a full production and you’re spending months on it and you’re designing it — it’s a creative achievement in a way,” says one fashion editor. “If someone puts on a play or does an art installation, they get press and attention for it. 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