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Five years of blogging under our belts is a big deal! So much has changed for Southern Weddings over the years, from the weddings we covered to the readers we’ve become friends with. We started looking at what the past five years looked like from a numbers point of view and had so much fun marveling over the stats. It’s shown us that y’all value the same things we value and that growing like kudzu is amazing and humbling.

Oh, the blog + online! My, it has grown. We’ve been around for the beginnings of Twitter, the launch of Pinterest and the introduction of Instagram. Five years worth of content also means a lot of counting backward (and reading old posts — so fun!). I have to give a huge high five to our intern, Emily 5.0, who helped us gather these giant numbers!

Here’s a little more about you, our readers, based on last year’s survey that y’all graciously helped us with. I love seeing all of this information come together and getting to know everyone a bit better!

We’re just getting started, my dears! We’re always looking to get to you know y’all better, as well as make the Southern Weddings experience greater and more helpful. We’d love for y’all to help us again with our 2013 survey! Brides, vendors, friends, family and general wedding-lovers can all pitch in!

Click here to get started. The survey should only take about five minutes to complete. Thank you so much in advance!

nicoleyang Written with love by Nicole
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  1. avatar sonia reply

    Guys, you have even readers in Poland :) I love your work and I think sometimes I had to have southern soul in my previous life :) Kisses!

  2. avatar Lauren @ Yellow Dress Boutique reply

    Happy Birthday Southern Weddings! Y’all are doing an amazing job!!!

  3. avatar Emily reply

    I love these images! They are so bright and colorful, really makes me want to know what they are about! Amazing job as always, Southern Weddings!

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Oh my — now that we have five issues under our belt, it’s time to celebrate our official fifth birthday! The first post on the Southern Weddings blog was published on April 1, 2008, making today the big 5-nil for us. And, if you’ll allow me to say it, we are as happy as goats in a briar patch. Last year we celebrated with a rundown of our history, but this year, we decided to extend things a bit, and have planned a full week of surprises! We’ll be sharing our favorite images, shoots, and weddings from the past five years; offering up a few facts and figures; asking for your input in our annual survey; reminiscing with a few favorite old friends you might remember; and, of course, doling out a few prizes!

Speaking of contests, I’m kicking off the first one right now! This is for all of our “vintage” readers, those who have been with us for quite some time (or, perhaps, have been lucky winners more recently!). We know many of y’all treat your copies of the magazine like collector’s items (which never ceases to amaze and delight us!). So, if you happen to own all FIVE Southern Weddings editions (including the elusive V1), we’d love for you to tweet or instagram a pic for us to see! Be sure to use hashtag #iloveswmag so we can keep track. At the end of the week, we’ll draw one random winner from the group to receive his or her choice of print from our shop.

This next contest is open for everyone — or at least everyone who loves Southern Weddings! Since we’ll be sharing some of our favorites from the past five years this week, we thought it would be fun to see y’all share some of yours! Tweet or instagram a pic of your all-time favorite feature from the blog or magazine, and use hashtag #iloveswmag so we can take a peek! You can either snap a pic of the actual magazine page, or save a pic from the blog. We’ll draw a second random winner from this group, and might even share some of your pics on the blog in the round-up on Friday!

Yahoo! We’re so excited to have the chance to look back, but even more excited about what’s to come. Hugs and biscuits for you all!

emily Written with love by Emily
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  1. avatar Shelby reply

    Ah!! Happy 5th Birthday!!! I’m so exciting to go down memory lane with y’all! :)

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