To submit news of your wedding to The New York Times, please follow these instructions closely. Click here for the form to submit your announcement.

Please deliver requests for marriage at least six weeks before the legal event. Although we sometimes consider submissions received after that deadline, we give preference to those received first.

Marriages are reported in the Weddings/Celebrations pages in the Sunday Styles section and online at nytimes.com/weddings. We report on legal ceremonies taking place during the previous six days. Events on a Sunday are reported on the day of the ceremony.

The timing of publication is governed by the date on which the civil marriage certificate is officially solemnized.

We strongly recommend that your information and write-up be uploaded to The Times’s submissions Web site. (See the link to the Web form above.)

The Times does not charge for publishing these reports, but space is limited and we cannot guarantee publication. If it is published, the report will become a permanent part of the Times archives, on and off the Web.

You must include the full names of the couple, the date of their event and the approximate time of day. We need their addresses, schooling and occupations. Also mention any noteworthy awards the couple have received, as well as charitable activities and special achievements. And tell us how the couple met.

We also require information on the residences and occupations of the couple’s parents. Please include this even if the parents are deceased.

You may demonstrate your preferences by following the form of other announcements that have appeared in the Weddings/Celebrations pages, but submissions are rewritten, fact-checked and edited to Times standards.

In the case of a marriage, a civil union or a partnership registration, we must have the name, title and affiliation of the person who will legally sign the official certificate.

For an interfaith event, include the names and affiliations of any other officiants who will participate. Also state the exact location of the event.

All announcements must include daytime, evening and cellphone numbers for the couple and their parents. We also need the office phone numbers for those performing the ceremony. Identify each number. Submissions without telephone numbers cannot be considered.

Photos

The Weddings/Celebrations pages typically publish formal portraits of couples and individual brides. Couples posing for pictures should arrange themselves with their eyebrows on the same level and with their heads fairly close together with plenty of space at the top and sides of the couple's heads. Pictures should be in color and in a horizontal format. Include the photographer’s name if professional credit is required. Examples of formal portraits can be found here, here and here.

We will sometimes include informal photographs of individuals or couples at home, outdoors or in other attractive settings. Those posing for pictures should be neatly dressed, and the images should be of professional quality. Examples of informal portraits can be found here, here and here.

(Technical guidelines appear below.)

If you are unsuccessful in delivering your image file to the Web, you may email your photo (to Society@nytimes.com) as a high-resolution JPEG file attachment (not embedded in the body of the email).

If submitted as a physical print, please be sure to write the couple’s names and the date of the event on the back of the photograph, and include the photographer’s name if professional credit is required. The address is: Society News, Fourth floor, The New York Times, 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018. (To verify receipt, include a stamped, self-addressed postcard with your mailing.)

Photographs altered digitally or in any other fashion are not accepted. Physical prints cannot be returned.

Technical Guidelines

Image requirements: JPEG file format.
Width and height of at least 3000 pixels.
Maximum file size of 12MB. Minimum file size of 3MB.

Other suggestions:

• Select an image where couple’s heads and eyes are on the same level (formal portraits only).

• Please try to avoid images with red-eye.

• Images should be sharp, in focus.

• Avoid busy or confusing backgrounds.


Vows Column

To have us consider your event for the Sunday Vows column, please tell us how the couple met, how their relationship progressed and how they arrived at the decision to formalize their union.

Enter that information into the space marked “sample announcement” on the Times Web form or, if necessary, prepare a duplicate submission, with a covering letter giving details about the planned ceremony and reception, and direct that request by email to the Vows column at Society@nytimes.com.

If your announcement is selected, you will be called a few weeks before the event.

If questions remain, you may call the Society News desk at (212) 556-7321 or send an email to society@nytimes.com.

Because of the volume of requests, we may not be able to reply immediately.