Awards Process

• Businesses, of all sizes, and all locations, which provide wedding services to African wedding couples in the UK can directly enter the awards
• Any individual can nominate a wedding business to enter the awards
• Entries should relate to wedding services provided between 1st January 2024 to 1st December 2024
• Upon entering more than one category, please ensure you fill out a separate entry form per category
• Each category entered will be assessed independently
• Entry questions are dependent on your chosen category, therefore please take care whilst filling out each entry form
• All entries must be submitted with the admin fee

Entry Administration Fee

• There is an entry administration fee of £39 per category entered
• The entry admin fee can be made via our online payment system
• One administration fee covers one entry

• File uploads

  • All files must not exceed 3mb
  • When creating your online portal profile, please make sure your company logo is of high quality as this will appear on the awards presentation should you be shortlisted

  Confidentiality

  • All materials submitted will remain strictly confidential.

Submitting a Nomination

Each award category on offer at the UK African Wedding awards gives nominees an opportunity to be recognised for their hard work and achievements throughout the year.

For previous clients / individuals

• Submitting a nomination is a quick and straightforward process.
• Simply fill out the ‘Submit a Nomination’ form with as much detail as possible.
• Once your nomination has been received, we will alert your chosen vendor and invite them to officially enter the awards if they have not done so already.
• Once your vendors/suppliers have entered the awards, you will then be notified to return to the site to provide feedback for their services in Stage 2 of the awards process to increase their chances of being shortlisted to win the award.

Nominate your own business or another business

If you are nominating your own business, please select ‘Industry/Supplier’ option.

Please note, after submission, a request for the entry administration fee will be sent to you to complete awards entry.

Working with the esteemed panel of judges and trusted advisors of the UK African Wedding awards, we’ve selected categories which reflect the main businesses operating in the wedding process.

View all award categories here

• File uploads

  • All files must not exceed 3mb
  • When creating your online portal profile, please make sure your company logo is of high quality as this will appear on the awards presentation should you be shortlisted

  Confidentiality

  • All materials submitted will remain strictly confidential.

Client Feedback

• Clients who have used a vendors services between 1st January 2024 to 1st December 2024 are eligible to submit feedback 
• Individuals who are not previous clients are not eligible to provide feedback on services

Voting

• The following categories in the awards are judged by public voting:
• These categories are: Best Outdoor Wedding Venue, Best Countryside Wedding Venue, Best London Wedding Venue, Wedding Media Platform of the Year, Wedding Content Creator of the Year, Overall Wedding Brand of the Year and Overall Wedding Production (A collective Award)
• The public will be invited to vote via the UKAWA voting portal

• Stage 1  – Nominations and Award Entry 

  There are two ways vendors can enter the awards:

  1. Receive a nomination –  All vendors are notified of their nomination received and are invited to complete their entry to the awards.
  1. Direct Entry – Vendors can enter the awards directly by clicking here.

  After initial entry form is completed with £39 entry administration fee, vendors will be sent part 2 of the awards entry form

  Stage 2 – Client Feedback 

  Previous clients are invited by vendors to provide feedback on their services. 

  This information, along with award entry submission data, is assessed by the award judging panel.

  Stage 3 – Online Judging and Judges day 

  The UKAWA Judging panel are invited for a judging day taking place in London. 

  All judging takes place via the UKAWA online judging portal. 

  Judges who can not make the judging day will not be able to participate in categories which require physical judging, however they can still partake in the online judging process. 

  Each nominee will provide information specific to their award category which the judges will analyse and score using a points based system. 

  In order to create a 100% unbiased judging process, where applicable, judges will be asked to ‘Blind score’ meaning that they will not know which vendors work they are reviewing.

  At this stage, shortlisted nominees and award winners are selected and confirmed.

  Stage 4 – Award Winners announced

  Award winners and ‘Highly Recommended’ vendors are announced at the prestigious, celebratory UKAWA awards ceremony taking place on 1st February 2024 at Prince Regent Hotel, Chigwell.