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How this works
All submitters must have an account
Join us! If you’d like to submit 5 images per round, you must first create a free account above. Then, log in and click on the Submit Photos tab. You will be charged $19 to enter each round.
If you have a freebie link from Wandering Weddings, Adventure Wed, or Elopement Con, you must register for a free account, log in, and then use the promotional link to submit your images for free.
Annual Membership - $100 value
Joining our annual membership is optional. As well as getting free entry to our 4 rounds of competition, members can also submit features to our blog and participate in monthly themed galleries. Membership includes a profile listing on our photographers page, where you can add your website link, instagram, location, bio and a portfolio of your work – and display your legend awards. Simply opt in to the registration form above to sign up. If you already have a free account but want to become an annual member, log in first and then upgrade your account to an annual membership.
Legend Awards Competition Rules:
Images will be awarded based on the following criteria: strong documentary storytelling, emotional impact, creativity and personality.
We want the viewer to feel like they know the couple when they view the image. We want to feel the emotion and clearly identify the amazing story of your couple. All eloping couples are accepted: LGBTQIA and polyamorous unities, people of every size, religion, ethnicity, ability or disability, and those who don’t conform to tradition or expectations are celebrated here. All elopements with 15 or fewer people qualify. No, you don’t need a fancy, extreme or outdoorsy landscape to win a Legend award.
Not sure what to submit? Check out our complete guide.
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- Every photographer must register with a free account or paid account in order to submit photos. This is how we track who submitted which images.
Round 8 is open for submissions from October 1 to November 30, 2025. There are only 4 rounds per year.
Each photographer may submit up to 5 images for $19 or subscribe to our annual membership.
- Images must be taken by you, the account holder. Images from associates, second shooters, studio partners or marriage partners may be submitted only by those photographers. Read about this here.
- Yes you can submit images you have already submitted
- Images must be from an elopement day or days. You must have photographed the couple’s ceremony of 15 guests or less, but the image submitted does not have to be from the ceremony
- No images from workshops, shootouts, styled shoots, model calls, or content days
- Images must be from a paid client elopement and not the photographer’s friends or family members
- No engagement sessions, maternity sessions, anniversary sessions, family sessions, or portrait sessions
- Images can be from any year
- Images may not be taken in illegal, closed, or off limits places
- Images can have any file name and dimensions but must be 3mb or less. We recommend web or blog sized files. Images are renamed before judging for anonymity.
- Compositing elements from other photographs, such as sun flare, rainbows, clouds, or unicorns
- Ai generative fill
- Skin smoothing or liquifying that alters the authenticity of the person
- Logos or borders
- Cropping, any image size ratio is permitted
- Masking and brushes, including ai sky and subject masking
- Double exposures
- Panoramas and brenizer images
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