Cover contest: Only four days left!

If you were married in Southern Maryland and haven’t entered our cover photo contest yet, get moving! All entries are due by 5 p.m. this Friday, May 16. Get the full details here, but here are the basics:

Choose up to two color, vertical pictures of you and your groom at your wedding in Calvert, Charles, St. Mary’s, Prince George’s or Anne Arundel counties. Drop those pictures — high resolution, please! — onto a CD and mail it to the Southern Maryland Wedding Guide. You’ll also need a photography release (click here to get one). Don’t worry — if you’ve entered before, you’re still eligible. Just email us to make sure we still have your photos on hand.

After our online reader’s vote, the winner’s photo will grace the cover of our fall 2008 magazine. It could be you!

Predicting the weather

Take a look out the window, and you’ll see it’s raining and dreary — weather that started last night and could continue throughout the weekend. If your wedding is this weekend, did you plan for rain?

It’s tough to predict the weather more than a week out, but if you’re still choosing a date, a couple of tools I found online show you past weather patterns so you can make future plans. The Weather Channel has a whole wedding section on its website, including a “Set the Date” tool that shows you historic weather patterns for location. Accuweather.com also has tools to show you historic weather data. Nothing’s a guarantee, of course, but knowing past weather can help you plan for whatever Mother Nature might throw at you.