Applications are now open for our 2026 Ultimate Asheville & WNC Bride Guide!
This curated guide is designed to connect exceptional wedding professionals across Asheville, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and Western North Carolina with couples actively planning weddings, elopements, rehearsal events, and destination celebrations in the region. As a featured partner, your business will be positioned inside a premium planning resource built for couples who are already researching where to book, who to hire, and how to plan an unforgettable wedding in the mountains of North Carolina!
This is not just exposure for Asheville-based businesses. It is a regional guide built for vendors who serve couples across Asheville, Black Mountain, Brevard, Hendersonville, Sylva, Bryson City, Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, Hickory, and surrounding Western North Carolina destinations. If your business serves weddings in WNC, this guide is designed to put you in front of the right audience.
A placement in this guide gives your business visibility with engaged couples, destination couples, planners, families, and wedding parties who are actively searching for trusted vendors throughout Western North Carolina. Many couples plan by venue region, mountain destination, travel radius, or guest experience rather than by one city alone. This guide is built to match how couples actually search.
Year-Round Visibility: We'll be actively promoting the guide all year long! Your business benefits from continuous visibility across our website, dedicated Instagram features, and our full network of social channels, including TikTok, Pinterest, Youtube, Threads and Facebook, keeping you top-of-mind for couples planning their Asheville & WNC weddings. That means ongoing exposure, stronger brand recognition, and more opportunities to be discovered after the initial launch.
Flexible Rate Option Available: The standard guide placement is $550, but we understand that this may not be accessible for every business at this time. For select vendors experiencing financial hardship or working within a limited marketing budget, we offer the option to request a flexible placement rate when submitting the application below.
When applying, simply select the flexible rate option, and we’ll follow up with the next step to review your request.
Please note: Flexible-rate placements are limited and not guaranteed. Full-rate participants and early applicants may receive priority placement within the guide.
Posting Dates & Deadlines:
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Posting Dates & Deadlines:
This guide will be posted on Travel Guides Asheville’s Instagram & website on Sunday, May 10, 2026.
*Applications close Tuesday, May 5th at 11 PM.
*Approvals will be sent on a rolling basis and by the latest Wednesday, May 6th. To keep this guide accessible and well-balanced, we’ll be reviewing applications in phases and confirming spots as space allows.
*One-Time Payment of $550 (or your approved flexible rate) is due within 24 business hours of approval to guarantee your spot.
Why Apply:
Be featured in a curated wedding guide promoted across Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, and our website.
Reach a highly relevant audience of couples planning weddings in Asheville and throughout Western North Carolina.
Position your brand inside a trusted regional planning resource.
Benefit from year-round discoverability through our website and continued guide promotion.
Gain added exposure through a guide built to attract both local couples and destination couples planning mountain weddings.
Join a platform that has worked with 700+ businesses across Asheville, WNC, and North Carolina over the last four years.
Benefit from additional reach as we continue investing in the growth and promotion of high-performing guides.
New Bonuses
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NEW 2026 Guide Feature Bonuses:
We are launching an updated guide layout & format! Check out an example here.
All featured vendors will be added to our interactive TGA Curated Wedding Map, distributed directly to our audience of actively planning couples. This all-inclusive master map includes our featured venues, photographers, and vendors into one essential planning resource, driving targeted, high-intent leads straight to your website.
All featured vendors will receive at least 3 reposts from our Instagram over the next several weeks to help boost your visibility and engagement.
(These will appear under the new “Reposts” section of our profile — not on our main feed.)Full-rate participants and early applicants may receive priority placement near the top of the guide for maximum visibility.
💌Optional Incentive:
You’re invited to create a custom promo or discount code for TGA followers — a great way to drive bookings, track engagement, and make your offer stand out to new customers.Exclusive Collaborator Post Bundle Offer:
Want a stand-alone spotlight on the TGA feed?
For vendors featured in this guide, we’re offering our largest collaboration post discount of the season.
Bundle your guide feature + a collaborator post for $950 (a $1,300 value) and share your business with our 150K+ Asheville & WNC-loving audience (you’ll find this offer in the application to redeem!)
Our website version of the guide can now feature more than 4 photos per business — allowing you to showcase a full gallery!
New? Start Here!
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New to Travel Guides Asheville?
Here’s a breakdown below if you haven’t worked with us before!
How It Works:
Once you submit your application you will receive an approval or follow up email within 24 hours.
You will receive a check out link within your approval email to purchase your business’s spot in the guide.
You must purchase your spot to be included in this guide within 24 business hours of receiving your approval email. Your payment guarantees your spot!
Our “Ultimate Asheville & WNC Bride Guide” guide will be posted on Sunday, May 10, 2026. Every guide is posted on:
Instagram Feed (@travelguidesasheville)
Instagram Stories
Facebook (@travelguidesasheville)
Website (www.travelguidesasheville.com)
Pinterest (@travelguidesasheville)
Tik Tok (@travelguidesasheville)
NEW: YouTube (@travelguidesasheville)
Posting Dates & Deadlines:
This guide will be posted on Travel Guides Asheville’s Instagram & website on Sunday, May 10, 2026.
*Applications close Tuesday, May 5th at 11 PM.
*Approvals will be sent on a rolling basis and by the latest Wednesday, May 6th. To keep this guide accessible and well-balanced, we’ll be reviewing applications in phases and confirming spots as space allows.
*One-Time Payment of $550 (or your approved flexible rate) is due within 24 business hours of approval to guarantee your spot.
FAQ
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You’ll submit 4 photos for the Instagram version of the guide — plus you’re welcome to include additional photos for the website version, where we can now feature a full gallery!
Your business name, Instagram handle, and physical location address (if applicable) will be included as well!
The guide - as posted on our website - also includes a button that links to your business website (not included on Instagram, TikTok, or Pinterest versions of the guide).
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No, Travel Guides Asheville is currently an online-only travel guide!
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No. It’s a one-time fee to be included in the guide. The guide then remains available forever!
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The guide stays on our website for 1 year, and on socials (Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok, Youtube, Threads) as a permanent post.
Bonus? For up to a year after the guide is posted, we frequently re-share it into our Instagram stories + include it in our Link in Bio. This reminds our audience (and new followers) what guides we have available on our page!
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No! The application is free and payment will only be due after you have been approved. One you receive your approval email, you then have 24 hours to check out and submit payment.
Your spot is held during this time, and once you submit payment you are guaranteed your spot.
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There are so many benefits to working with us!
Think of Travel Guides Asheville as being your personal marketing team - we love supporting the businesses & individuals we work with. Here are some of the benefits of participating in a guide feature:
• You will be presented in front of our Asheville-based audience, across each of our channels - all of which are popular among locals & visitors to the area! Our guides also make a great reference point. For example, when someone asks, “Who are the best wedding photographers in the area?”, our followers (or anyone who has seen the list) can easily share the applicable guide.
• Our approach also takes social media SEO into consideration. By using strategic keywords, our Instagram posts are indexed by Google Search and added to search results to offer you added visibility to an even wider audience.
• Another way we get you in front of your key target audience and potential clients is through our involvement in the popular Facebook Communities/Groups for Asheville. It is common to see visitors and locals alike popping into these Facebook groups to ask questions. For example, a user may post, "Who's a great wedding photographer based in Asheville?" We actively monitor these groups, sharing relevant guides to help answer questions and promote our featured businesses and individuals.
• Across all our channels and social media engagement, we continually prioritize those who have worked with us - especially as it relates to sharing content you tag us in on Instagram! We love to share local businesses and entrepreneurs in our IG stories whenever we can. That's what we're all about - supporting local! You now have a forever social media support team - tag us in your posts or your stories and we will re-share with our audience, even long after the guide has posted. We also try to keep an eye on your page and comment, save, share, and like your posts, too!
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• You pick the photos that are included in the guide! We feature four photos on each business's page in the Instagram version of the guide. You’ll find this information in the form you fill out before checking out/submitting payment.
• Your business’s Instagram @ name is shared on your page of the guide and in the caption/description section. This way viewers can easily find you on social media and check out your page!
• Wanting more backlinks to your website? When a guide is posted on our website, we have a clickable button under each businesses featured section that links to their website.
• Questions about SEO? A ton of work behind the scenes goes into to making sure our guides appear in Google results and Pinterest/Facebook/Instagram searches. SEO Titles, navigation titles, keywords, tags and categories, site and page descriptions, image names, alt. text, etc. are all part of our process for SEO.
• Insights after 21 days of the guide posting date are sent to your email. This way you can see how well the post performed on all of our social platforms!