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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Mischa Anouk Smith

“Will It Go Viral?” Meet the Brides Who Treat Weddings as Content, and Guests as Crew

The rise of the brand campaign wedding.

“I want nothing more than for the bride—my friend—to be happy, but the thought of messing this up is keeping me awake at night,” says *Carla, a thirty-something content creator tasked with turning her friend’s wedding footage into a suite of reels and carousel posts she hopes will jump-start her influencer career.

What began as a single two-minute video quickly snowballed into two five-minute edits, then five to ten additional reels. “She asked me to give this to her as my wedding gift,” Carla says—on top of travelling and spending more than £1,000 to attend.

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