We want everyone to feel good on their wedding day
Weddings are a vulnerable place to be. For some reason they show up as a reflection of who we are to the world, of what our relationship is, of whether our love story counts.
And when you can’t see yourself reflected in wedding media, it has an impact. Just like in everyday life, you can’t see what you could be. You can’t see that your story and your love story is just as important as anyone else’s.
I know what it feels like to not see yourself reflected. And I built this place so that no one who comes here feels that way.
That means everyone. Every age, every gender, every ability, every race, every religion or lack of one, every body size and shape, every budget, every kind of love, every kind of family. Couples who are neurodiverse, disabled, chronically ill. Couples for whom English is a second language. Couples who can’t find themselves in the glossy version of what a wedding is supposed to look like.
Here’s what we’re actually doing about it:
We actively reach out to vendors and couples of different backgrounds rather than waiting for diverse stories to find us.
We feature real weddings that reflect a genuine mix of couples, not just the ones that photograph a certain way.
We go into territory that wedding media usually avoids. Grief, mental health, family estrangement, planning under financial pressure. Because those are real parts of planning a wedding and they deserve to be talked about honestly.
We commission expert voices. Counsellors, therapists, vendors with lived experience, not just vendors selling something.
We work on pricing transparency because we believe couples deserve honest information about what things cost.
We audit our content regularly to make sure what’s on our pages actually reflects the diversity of our audience.
We caption our videos, write image descriptions, and build to web accessibility standards.
We write in plain language so our content is accessible to as many people as possible.
We invest in the work of BIPOC, disabled and LGBTQ+ educators, financially and practically.
We will get things wrong. When we do, we want to know. You can reach us via our contact page and form and we’ll take it seriously.
We changed our name from Polka Dot Bride to Polka Dot Wedding in 2020 because the old name wasn’t big enough for everyone we wanted to include. You can read more about why here.
In 2025 we published the 2024/25 State of Wedding Media report. Read it here.
We’re not perfect at this. We’re always learning how to do it better. But our commitment is to always keep this as an integral part of the work we do at Polka Dot Wedding.
The Polka Dot Wedding team are honoured to conduct our work on the land of the BoonWurrung, WoiWorung, Eora and Kuring-gai people. We honour the traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander custodians of the land and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
