POLICY

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Posted: December 13, 2009 at 5:01 a.m.

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Deadlines

Submit by 4 p.m. Tuesday to be considered for publication in the following Sunday’s paper.

Engagements will be published any time before the wedding. Six weeks before is customary. Weddings older than six months cannot be printed.

Anniversary announcements will be printed at five-year intervals from 25 to 50.

Anniversaries after the 50th will be printed for any year.

Forms - available from any of our offices, the Rogers Morning News, the Springdale Morning News, Benton County Daily Record and Northwest Arkansas Times - must be completed and must include day, evening and cellular phone numbers. These numbers are for verification and will not be printed.

We take information only from the couple. This helps ensure the information is correct. If submitting electronically, have the photographer e-mail the photo to you, and then you can forward it to us with information for the article attached.

Submit form and photo together. They can be submitted via mail, e-mail or delivery to any of our offices.

Submit information and photos electronically to living@nwaonline.net. In the subject line, note the couple’s names and that the item is a society announcement. For example, Smith-Jones engagement or Smith- Jones wedding.

Photographs

Photos will be published if submitted in sufficient quality. Black and white photos also are accepted, but they will be published in black and white. Photos must be submitted with forms.

To ensure the quality of reproduction, we have some very specific guidelines for submission. Any photo that does not meetthe criteria might delay publication of the announcement.

An original 4-by-6-inch photographer’s studio print is required. Photos from desktop printers (even those noted for picture quality), commercial scanners, copy machines and Polaroids do not reproduce well and will not be used.

For electronic submission, send a studio print as a jpg image at least 8-by-10 inches in the file with a 250 dpi resolution and 1,460-by-2,000 pixels. Include the couple’s last names in the name of the file.

Pictures will be published showing the head and shoulders of the couple. For best reproduction, such a portrait is preferred for submission. The couple’s heads should be side by side in the photo.

The photo may include the couple or only the bride; no children or pets. Separate photos of the couple cannot be used as a set.

Our Town cannot guarantee return of the photo. Do not submit one-of-a-kind pictures.

Photos must remain in the custody of the paper until they are published.

Photos will be available for pickup after publication.

General

The newspapers reserves the right to edit any information.

Use of this form helps ensure the announcement is correct.

Please type or print legibly, and check the spelling of names, etc., to ensure the announcement is correct.

Announcements will be reprinted if the newspapers have made an error. If an error appears, notify the newspaper the next day, so a correction can be made in a timely manner.

Help

Call Debbie Miller at 872-5029 or e-mail living@nwaonline.com.

Our Town, Pages 13 on 12/13/2009

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