Best Of Awards | Arizona Bride: How Voting Works & How to Win

What Best Of Awards is, and who runs it

Arizona Bride magazine runs Best Of Awards, a readers'-choice ballot that votes wedding vendors best in their own category, season by season. The program lives at azbridemag.com/best-of/, hosted directly on Arizona Bride's own site rather than a shared voting platform. Coverage runs statewide across Arizona; the page names no single city or region as its exclusive market.

The vertical sits squarely in wedding services, the photographers, venues, and planners a couple shops for while planning an Arizona wedding. Arizona Bride's own page frames the mechanic in plain terms, describing vendors as voted best rather than picked by an editorial panel, which lines the program up with a public vote rather than a magazine-staff list.

The dated record: four seasons, and what Arizona Bride hasn't published

Best Of Awards has run four confirmed seasons on azbridemag.com/best-of/, 2023, 2024, 2025, and the current 2026 season. Arizona Bride's own coverage of a past season describes the program directly as an annual fixture, language that lines up with four straight years appearing on the same page rather than a one-off promotion.

What that same page does not carry is any narrower detail. No opening or closing date marks the 2026 season, no roster spells out which vendor categories are in play this year, and no rule states how often a single supporter may cast a vote or whether any voter is excluded. The page publishes no window, no category list, and no per-voter limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

That gap is not unusual for a four-season program run directly by its own publisher rather than through a shared voting network with a standard publishing template. Arizona Bride sets its own schedule, and until it prints one, the season labels 2023 through 2026 are the only dated facts to work from.

How an Arizona wedding vendor's supporters vote today

The mechanic Arizona Bride describes is a plain public vote, wedding vendors get voted best in their own category, season by season, directly on azbridemag.com/best-of/. That single line is the extent of what the page states about how the vote itself works; it does not walk through a click-by-click sequence the way some voting platforms publish.

A supporter backing a specific photographer, venue, or planner for the 2026 season starts at that same address, since Arizona Bride hosts Best Of Awards directly on azbridemag.com rather than routing voters through a separate platform. Finding the right category for a given vendor depends on what the live page currently shows, because Arizona Bride has not published that category roster anywhere else.

Nothing about repeat voting is spelled out either. Whether a household can cast more than one vote across the season, or whether the count resets at any point before the season closes, is not addressed in what Arizona Bride currently publishes for Best Of Awards.

Where this ballot sits beside Arizona's other "best of" polls

Arizona runs several readers'-choice ballots at once, and Best Of Awards stands apart from the rest of that list as the program tied specifically to weddings rather than general community business.

None of those six share a masthead, a judging process, or a results page with Arizona Bride's own ballot, so a vendor's showing in Best Of Awards has no bearing on results in Havasu, Sedona, Verde Valley, Wickenburg, the Desert ballot, or Buckeye. A wedding-industry vendor chasing recognition on more than one of these programs at once is running separate campaigns under separate rules, not one combined push.

Building real support for a Best Of Awards nomination

A four-season program does not hand a wedding vendor a decade of past winners to study, so the practical move is asking real past clients to visit azbridemag.com/best-of/ directly, more than once across the season rather than in a single burst near the close. Arizona Bride's page does not publish its own stance on bots or outside promotional help for Best Of Awards, unlike some readers'-choice ballots that spell the rule out directly, so treating that silence as an open question rather than a green light is the safer read for any vendor weighing outside support beyond genuine client outreach. Business-of-the-year vote planning lays out what that kind of outside help typically looks like for a readers'-choice ballot shaped like this one.