Junebug Weddings Terms of Use

Last updated: October 3, 2026

Summary

These terms cover everyone who uses JunebugWeddings.com: couples and other visitors, people who write reviews or vote in the Choice Awards, photographers who enter our photo contests, and Junebug vendors.
You keep the rights to what you give us. We take a license to publish and promote it, and we don't sell your photos or license them to anyone else.
Reviews must be honest and come from real experience. Paid, traded and fake reviews are not allowed.
Junebug vendors' prices, terms and cancellation are set by their own agreement with us.
Texas law applies, disputes go to the courts in Travis County, Texas, and you and we each give up the right to a jury trial and to a class action.

Who we are

JunebugWeddings.com is owned and published by JBW Media, Inc., doing business as Junebug Weddings ("Junebug", "we", "us"). Using the site means you accept these terms. Our Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect and what we do with it.

You can reach us at [email protected].

Using the site

You must be 16 or older to use the site, and 18 or older to open a vendor account or enter a photo contest.

You may read, share and link to anything on the site. Our articles, photos and design belong to us or to the photographers and others who let us publish their work, so don't copy them or republish them without permission.

When you use the site, don't:

give false information, pretend to be someone else, or use someone else's account;
post anything unlawful, threatening, harassing, hateful or obscene, or anything that infringes someone else's rights;
collect the site's content or other users' details with automated tools;
try to get around our security, interfere with the site, or upload anything harmful.

Keep your password to yourself. You're responsible for what happens under your login.

Vendors on the site are independent businesses. When you contact or hire one, any agreement you make is between you and them. We don't check every vendor's licenses or work, so make your own judgment before hiring anyone.

The site links to other websites and plays videos hosted by other services. Those sites have their own terms, and we aren't responsible for them. Some articles contain affiliate links: we earn a small commission when you buy through one, at no cost to you. The site also shows advertising.

Reviews

Reviews help couples choose vendors, so they must be honest. Write a review only of a vendor you have hired or worked with, and describe your own experience.

Don't:

write a review of your own business, or of a business you compete with;
offer or accept payment, a discount or anything else for writing, changing or removing a review;
write a review for someone else, or several reviews of the same experience.

Your name as you enter it, your rating and your review are published on the vendor's page, and the vendor can reply. We may remove a review that breaks these rules, and we may remove or decline any review at our discretion. Vendors can't pay to have reviews removed, and advertising with us doesn't change which reviews are published.

Choice Awards

Each year's Choice Awards rules set who can vote, how often and when. We may disqualify votes that we believe were made automatically, in bulk or under false identities, and withdraw an award won with them. Our decisions about votes and results are final.

Photo contests

These terms apply to every Junebug photo contest. Each contest also has a Rules page. It gives that contest's entry dates, prices, image limit, the dates the photos must have been taken between, its editing rules, judges and prizes. If a contest's Rules say anything different from these terms on any other point, these terms apply.

Who can enter

You must be 18 or older, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher. Junebug's employees and their immediate families can't enter, and neither can that contest's judges. Each photographer can enter a contest once. A business with several photographers can enter once for each of them. If you enter on behalf of another photographer, you confirm that they have agreed to the entry. The promises below then cover their photos.

What you promise about your photos

By entering, you confirm that:

you, or the photographer you are entering for, took each photo and own its copyright;
each photo shows a real couple, photographed at a real wedding, elopement, engagement or other session, and comes from neither a styled shoot nor a workshop;
each photo was taken within the contest's dates and edited within its Rules;
everyone who appears in a photo has agreed to Junebug using it as described here, with a parent or guardian agreeing for anyone under 18, and you can show us that permission if we ask;
no photo breaks the law or infringes anyone's rights.

We may ask for an original file to check a photo. We remove an entry that breaks these promises or the contest's Rules, at any point, including after it has won.

Fees and refunds

Each contest's Rules set its prices. The entry form checks the email address you verify against our vendor directory and applies the Junebug vendor price when it finds a match. If you are a Junebug vendor and were charged the standard price, tell us and we will refund the difference.

If you ask to withdraw before submissions close, we refund your fee in full and remove your entry.
If you submit the same entry twice by mistake, we refund the duplicate in full and remove it.
If a problem on our side affects your entry, we refund all or part of your fee, and your entry stays in unless you ask to withdraw it.
If your entry breaks these terms or the contest's Rules, we remove it and don't refund your fee, unless we decide otherwise.
If we cancel the contest, we refund every fee in full and keep no rights in the entries.

Refunds go back to the card you paid with. Once submitted, an entry can't be changed. After submissions close, we don't refund withdrawals.

Your photos and what Junebug may do with them

You keep the copyright in your photos. Entering gives Junebug a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and permanent license to copy, publish and show any photo you enter: to judge and run the contest, on our website and social media, in print, and in advertising for Junebug and its contests. We credit the photographer wherever it is practical, and we may crop photos and add text to them when we promote them. We don't sell your photos, license them to anyone else or use them on products for sale. With a photo we may publish the photographer's name, business name and website.

Judging and results

The judges named in a contest's Rules judge the photos without knowing who took them or whether the entrant is a Junebug vendor. The judges' decisions are final. We tell winners by email and ask for a full-size file and their approval of the caption. A winner who doesn't reply by the date in the Rules may be replaced.

If a claim about a contest succeeds, Junebug's liability is limited to the amount you paid to enter it.

Junebug vendors

This section applies to businesses listed in our vendor directory and the people who manage their listings.

Your account and listing

The person who opens a vendor account must be 18 or older and authorized to act for the business. One login can manage several businesses, and you confirm that you are authorized to act for each business your login manages. If other people manage a listing with you, you're responsible for what they do with it.

Keep your listing accurate. Don't list services you don't offer, a location you don't serve, or another business's work or awards.

What you give us

You keep the rights to the photos, videos, text and logos you add to your listing. You confirm that you own them or have permission to use them, including permission from the people who appear in them, and that they don't infringe anyone's rights.

You give Junebug a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to publish them on your listing and portfolio, and to use them to feature your business in our articles, galleries, newsletters and social media and in advertising for Junebug, with credit to you wherever it is practical. We may resize and crop them to fit. The license ends when you remove the material or your listing ends, except for anything we have already published. We don't sell your material or license it to anyone else.

Videos from Instagram and TikTok are shown on your portfolio as those services allow, and they stop showing if they are removed there.

Reviews of your business

You may reply to reviews of your business; keep replies honest and polite, and don't include a couple's private details. You can't ask couples to write reviews in exchange for anything, and you can't make a couple promise not to review you. If you think a review breaks these terms, tell us and we'll look at it. Reviews of your business may stay on Junebug after your listing ends.

Prices and billing

Premium listings are priced and billed under your own agreement with us, which sets the price, the term, renewal and cancellation. Essential listings are billed monthly by card on the site and can be canceled at any time. Essential fees already paid aren't refunded. Where your agreement and these terms differ, your agreement applies.

Removing a listing

We may decline, edit or remove a listing, or close a vendor account, if it breaks these terms or if we receive repeated, credible complaints about the business. For a Premium listing, your agreement says what happens to fees already paid. Essential fees aren't refunded.

Disclaimers

We work to keep the site accurate and running, but we provide it as it is, without any promise that it will be error-free, uninterrupted, or right for your purpose. We don't guarantee any vendor's work or any couple's booking, or that a listing will bring a vendor business.

Limit on our liability

As far as the law allows, Junebug isn't liable for indirect or consequential losses, such as lost profits or lost data. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before it arose, or $100 if you paid us nothing. For contests, the lower limit above applies.

You agree to cover Junebug's costs, including reasonable legal fees, if someone brings a claim against us because of something you posted or gave us, or because you broke these terms.

Disputes

Texas law governs these terms, without regard to rules that would apply another state's law. Any dispute about these terms or the site goes to the state or federal courts in Travis County, Texas, and you and we agree to those courts' jurisdiction. A claim must be brought within one year of when it arose.

Jury trial and class action waiver

You and Junebug each give up the right to a jury trial in any dispute about these terms or the site. Any dispute will be heard by a judge alone. You and Junebug also agree to bring claims only individually, and not as a plaintiff or class member in a class action or other representative proceeding.

Ending your use

You can stop using the site at any time. We may suspend or close an account, or block access to the site, if someone breaks these terms. The sections on licenses, disclaimers, liability and disputes still apply after that.

Changes to these terms

We will post any change on this page and update the date at the top. Using the site after a change means you accept the new terms.