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Is your little one the cutest watermelon in the patch? Enter the 2025 Monticello Watermelon Festival Baby Photo Contest and let the community decide! This adorable tradition celebrates the sweetest smiles, chubbiest cheeks, and most charming little faces.

👶 Age Categories:
🍉 0-5 months
🍉 6-12 months
🍉 1 year-olds
🍉 2 year-olds

🍉 3 year-olds

🍉 4 year-olds

🍉 5 year-olds

🌟 A boy and girl winner will be crowned in each age group and featured at the festival!

📅 Submission Deadline: Friday, May 30, 2025
 

💕 Don’t miss out—enter your little cutie today!

This event has an entry fee of $10. Only one photo submission per child.

Applications must be received by Friday, May 30, 2025.

RULES AND GUIDELINES

  • All contestants must be full-time residents of Jefferson County.

  • A boy and girl winner will be named in each age group.

  • Age deadline June 1, 2025.

  • Last year’s baby contest winners are not eligible to win for this year’s contest but will be eligible for the People's Choice award.

  • Judges will view photos without any names and must not be related to any participant.

  • Watermelon themed photos are strongly encouraged but not required.

  • A People’s Choice Award category will be available for online votes for $2 each. Voting will take place at MonticelloWatermelonFestival.com and will start on June 1, 2025.

  • This is a contest to brag and show off the personality of babies and kids through photography and not a professional photo contest. While quality and clarity of the photo is important, and is given consideration, the judges will be instructed to look for the baby photo that appeals to them and really showcases the individual child. This contest is for fun and promotes the festival and the community.

  • Photos will be on display at Downtown Merchants. The winners will be notified by phone and/or e-mail no later than June 4. Awards will be presented at the Kick-Off Block Party held on June 6, 2025.

  • Parents of winning baby photos will be responsible for organizing and decorating a float for the Parade held Saturday, June 14, 2025.

PHOTO RELEASE

I give permission to the Monticello Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, the Watermelon Festival Committee, and all event sponsors, to record the appearance, physical likeness and/or voice on videotape, on film, or digital video disk, and/or take photographs of the appearance of my child and to release these images to the news media, use for posting on the Intranet or Internet, use in internal or external publications, or use in any other manner deemed appropriate by the Chamber, Festival, or Sponsor.

 

I acknowledge that the Monticello Jefferson Chamber of Commerce is the sole owner of all rights in, and to, this visual, sound production, photograph(s), or print material, thereof, and that it has the right to use or reproduce the resulting property as often as it finds necessary. The property may be used indefinitely by television, radio, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, brochures, Internet, intranet, or in other media once released.

 

The Monticello Jefferson Chamber of Commerce has the right, among other things, to edit and/or otherwise alter the visual or sound recording, or photographs, as needed. I understand I will receive no compensation for the appearance of the above-named person or for participation in said productions. I agree to hold the Chamber, Watermelon Festival Committee and all Sponsors, their employees and other parties harmless against claim, liability, loss, or damage caused by, or arising from, my participation in this activity. Revocation of this release may be made in person to the Monticello Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce.

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Once you click submit, you will be taken to the CHECKOUT screen. Applications submitted without payment will not be valid. If you would like to pay with cash or a check, please contact the Chamber office at 850-997-5552 first.

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