About Styled in Pride
Creating a more LGBTQ inclusive wedding industry by connecting vendors and designing LGBTQ inspired styled shoots.
Styled in Pride’s Goal
- Help photographers elevate portfolios with photos celebrating LGBTQ couples
- Help photographers confidently capture LGBTQ couples
- Provide styled shoots exclusively featuring LGBTQ couples
- Host styled shoots across the country with LGBTQ friendly vendors
- Provide a creative space for vendors to be inspired by the LGTBQ community
- Provide a vendor directory for LGBTQ couples to find accepting vendors
- Help end couples asking if a vendor is LGBTQ friendly
Why Attend a Styled in Pride Shoot?
- We're the ONLY styled shoot company that exclusively features LGBTQ couples
- Network with other LGBTQ friendly vendors in your region
- Access our private Facebook group to connect with wedding professionals
- Free vendor listing in our LGBTQ friendly vendor directory
- VIP ticket level with more photo opportunities
- Grow your portfolio with real LGBTQ couples
- Gain confidence & experience working with LGBTQ couples
Nick Hanyok is a published wedding photographer and award-winning commercial photographer located in Seattle, Washington. He first came up with the idea of Styled in Pride in 2019 after continually hearing the trouble his gay and lesbian friends were having finding wedding vendors. Some being told “we don’t agree with your lifestyle” or “we don’t really want to attract gay couples” and “we really try to only work with traditional couples” etc.
Nick is an out and proud gay man himself and utterly baffled that this kind of discrimination still happens. He wants to do his part in making the wedding industry more accepting. “My goal with Styled in Pride is to prevent LGBTQ couples from having to ask if a vendor is gay friendly. We shouldn’t have to wonder or hope we are accepted, we should know immediately. Styled in Pride is my way of making the wedding industry more accommodating to the LGBTQ community.”