LUXlife is excited to announce the launch of the Global Wedding Awards 2024! We have now been proud hosts of this prestigious award for eight consecutive years, and we look forward to shining a light once again on the top service providers making the Wedding industry what it is today.
After facing a challenging period during the pandemic, the global Wedding sector has gone from strength to strength in recent years, bouncing back much more quickly than many experts had anticipated. The industry is projected to reach a value of over $410 billion by 2030, thanks to a variety of factors such as product innovations, growing market competition, regulatory changes, and evolving consumer demands.
Now more than ever couples are looking for different and inventive ways to express themselves through their marriage ceremonies. Key trends like destination weddings, unique guest experiences, and custom or personalised packages are influential in shaping the overall Wedding industry. In this highly saturated market, it is important for vendors to keep up with the changing needs of clients in order to remain competitive and carve out a niche for themselves to expand their business.
The figures show that engaged couples are increasingly relying on vendors to execute their wedding plans and bring their ideas to life on their special day. Fifty percent of all weddings are now organised via professional wedding planners, and couples are hiring an average of over ten vendors for the event. While catering services leads in terms of overall market share, the photography segment is expected to experience the most growth across the Wedding industry over the next decade. A recent study by The Knot Worldwide revealed photographers to be the most popular vendor internationally, being hired by eighty-five percent of couples surveyed. There is growing demand for everything from caterers and bar staff, speciality venues, photographers, videographers, and entertainment – to bridal boutiques, hair and makeup artists, jewellers, and honeymoon packages.
LUXlife will bring all of these various sectors together under the umbrella of the Global Wedding Awards 2024. Our experienced research and judging team will utilise all publicly available sources to determine those most deserving of recognition in this years’ programme. While we do accept and encourage external nominations, we don’t operate as a popularity contest; only those who have demonstrated exceptional customer service, business growth, and innovation in their field will go on to be successful.
Winners in the Global Wedding Awards 2024 can expect to receive a marketing toolkit, completely free of charge, to assist them in promoting their award. For those looking to truly capitalise on the marketing benefits of being an award winner, LUXlife also offers a range of commercial packages to take advantage of. We provide a plethora of options including editorial coverage in the Global Wedding Awards supplement, dedicated articles on the LUXlife website, e-newsletter inclusions, digital items such as personalised badge logos, as well as trophies. Regardless of budget level, we have a variety of ways for our winners to effectively celebrate their success!
To submit a nomination for the Global Wedding Awards 2024, please click ‘Vote Now’ and follow the instructions provided. The team at LUXlife wish the best of luck to all of this years’ nominees!
Ready to cast Your Vote?
nominations@ai-publishing.com
+44 (0) 204 586 6427
We invite you to have a direct hand in celebrating excellence. Participate in the prestigious process of honouring the elite in luxury by nominating your favourites. Your voice contributes to the recognition of innovation, artistry, and the highest standards of quality that our awards represent.
Methodology
Voting
We operate an open-vote policy, whereby any organisation can put themselves forward or be nominated by a third party. Votes are cast anonymously via our secure online portal. Voting is promoted digitally to LUXlife magazine’s extensive circulation, across our social media platforms and where appropriate, across our partner network. We, the publisher, also nominate candidates whom we feel are appropriate and deserving of recognition. The number of votes is not directly influential to the ultimate category winners.
Evidence
Our specialist researchers scrutinise the shortlisted candidates, putting them through a period of extensive investigation prior to judging where we will make the ultimate decision. We review supporting evidence submitted by the nominees in addition to conducting our own independent research. The probe is typically centred around the evaluation of skills and services on offer; we will consider client and customer feedback and testimonials whilst recognising the nominee’s wider market reputation.
Consideration
To move successfully, from nominee to winner; there must be evidence of extensive expertise within a given field or discipline, dedication to customer service and client satisfaction with an ongoing commitment to excellence and innovation.
Promotional Items
After notification of their success, our winners are given a time-frame to discuss the celebratory items on offer. We are proudly not a pay-to-play enterprise with all winners encouraged to select a promotional package, be it commercial or free of charge.When we make the formal announcement, we again reach out to LUX magazine’s extensive circulation, as well as our social media followers and, where appropriate, across our partner networks to promote the news.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When did LUXlife launch?
Today, LUXlife is one of AI Global Media’s most popular standalone publications but it launched as a bi-product of the luxury lifestyle sections from two of our flagship brands, Acquisition International & Wealth & Finance. In this respect, we’ve been active in the Lifestyle Sector since 2010; however, as demand for this type of coverage increased, we made the decision, in 2015, to separate the content and launch LUXlife, as an independent brand.
Who nominated me?
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A large part of the nomination process is driven by LUXlife, we spend a great deal of time identifying potentially suitable candidates within their appropriate markets. A publisher-cast nomination doesn’t hold any more weight than a self, or third-party nomination, they all filter through to the research stage in the same manner. If you didn’t self-nominate the nomination will have come from either a third-party vote via our online voting form or, by us the publisher. We run the nomination process via our website entirely anonymously, prohibiting us to provide specific details. Tried and tested over the years, response rates are always higher this way. As we operate in this manner, we run a very rigorous filtering system and do not directly link the number of votes received with success. We store encrypted versions of the IP address associated with the nomination, allowing us to track unusual behaviour.
I’ve accepted the nomination, what happens next?
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Once a nomination is accepted, the organisation will be moved on to our shortlist. Shortlisted parties are encouraged to submit supporting materials via our optional questionnaire. This is the perfect opportunity to put forward any specifics you’d like our judging panel to take into consideration before they undertake extensive research for up to 8 weeks.
Who makes the final decision?
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We have an entirely unbiased internal panel. It consists of an international, collective of individuals, with backgrounds from a myriad of fields, such as business, economy, politics, media, journalism, history and education. The panel is led by a veteran academic leader with international pedagogic and coaching experience who is well versed in research, fact-checking and mediation; allowing the panel to operate with efficacy and dependability.
When’s the ceremony?
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We do not gather our winners together to present the news. We’re a little bit too new-media for that! All announcements are made digitally, online and across our network. Hosting events and celebration dinners is an expense we’d rather our clients not entertain. We’d much rather keep the cost of our services and products low, so our winners can choose to spend money on marketing that generates real-world value.
So, what happens if I do win?
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You get to select the level of coverage that suits you and we set to work to prepare all the relevant elements in time for our public announcement. Our main coverage takes the form of a digital winner’s magazine, but we also offer physical trophies, certificates and varied online packages offering social media exposure. We have a highly experienced editorial and production department who will guide you through this process and give you full control over your eventual coverage.
What are the costs?
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There are no obligatory costs in accepting a nomination or winning a LUXlife award. In fact, to demonstrate our commitment to this, all our winners are offered a free of charge promotional package. Our company policy will always remain, regardless of budget, our clients should always be able to leverage the value of the award and our seal of approval. We offer a variety of promotional opportunities to our winners. as we have an extensive network and we know, more than anyone, the wider business benefits from promoting industry awards. It’s important to highlight, all conversations pertaining commercial add-ons are conducted after winners are announced, so there is no possibility an organisation can influence any internal decisions, based on their appetite to spend on marketing; this remains our utmost concern.
Why does your email domain differ from your website domain?
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Because we send a large volume of emails, we separate our campaign email sends from our transactional ones. This structure helps to ensure a prompt and thorough response from one of our diligent team members. The sending email address will always be recognisable but please contact us via the address on this page if you have any concerns.
