Here is a template for sending out BOWP invitations that should be tweaked and made personal:

Invitation to Best of Wedding Photography! – Luca Gallizio Photography (Title: Personalize with the Studio Name)

Hello Luca, (Personalize Name)

Congratulations! We’re writing to you to offer you an invitation to join Best of Wedding Photography. We are very happy that you applied. As you know, BOWP is an invitation-only membership group for top wedding photographers with very high standards for membership. 

We spent time looking over your site and we love both your sense of style and your sense of fun -- it infuses every one of your photo stories, and your website is gorgeous. Your dedication and passion shines through in your work, and we can certainly understand why you have been published in Rock My Wedding, Brides up North, and Festival Brides (to name a few). We especially enjoyed your wedding coverage of Elisabeth and Stephan – awesome. Overall, we love your bold, fresh, beautiful images that really capture the moments and the honesty of the events you document. (Personalize their accomplishments i.e. awards, member of ISPWP [who we highly respect in the wedding industry] and then check out their blog or full weddings on their website for a recent post -- that's where you personalize the names of the bride and groom.)

We hope that you will consider our invitation. You’re just the kind of photographer we’d love to see in the group, and we would be honored to count you among our members.

Membership costs $99 per year and you can join here. We’ve tried to keep membership dues as low as possible while still providing needed funds for promotion, web development, SEO, management, and additional investments in the group.

Please don't hesitate to contact the management team at editor@bestofweddingphotography.com with any questions.

Thanks and best wishes,

THE BOWP TEAM

Erick Danzer, Founder/CEO, Reactr

Alice Kennedy, Business Manager, Reactr

You can reach us anytime at editor@bestofweddingphotography.com.