Wedding Photos of Child

The following “Child” images were created by documentary wedding photographers from the WPJA, who regularly submit their best candid moments, artistic portraits, details, and scene setters for review by our WPJA competition judges.

WEDDINGS + ELOPEMENTS + ARTISTIC PORTRAITS & DETAILS + ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS

Some of the “Child” marriage photography samples below may have come from the getting ready events, the actual wedding ceremony, the reception after-party, an engagement session with the couple, or possibly be artistic portraits or detail shots.

FINE ART WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY: Our Artistic Guild award winners take a more creative approach to wedding day Portraits and use their innovative skills to capture the Details of each couple’s special day. The Artistic Guild’s Scene Setters are some of the most notable and breathtaking from within the artistic WPJA contest categories. Playing with light and shadow, special effects, and post-production editing, these images embrace the artistic component of wedding photography.

PRE-WEDDING ENGAGEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY: The story of every couple starts long before the wedding day, and the engagement marks one of the most important milestones in their story. Engaged couples often want to celebrate the occasion and announce their upcoming wedding with a photoshoot. Pre-wedding portraits of an engaged couple can be just as moving and compelling as the images taken on the wedding day. Engagement portraits can win a Diamond Award, an exclusive WPJA award whose winner is selected from the best engagement photography in the world.

A wedding day picture taken at Domaine du Castelet in Castres, France. The image shows an adult hand reaching out to a little girl's hand against a dark background in black and white.

Enchanting Eternity: An Intimate Connection Amidst Shadows

A lively reception venue in Centre-Val de Loire, showing people enjoyably mingling and drinking cocktails

Capturing the Joy: Lively Wedding Reception in Centre-Val de Loire

drinking tented reception child France documentary wedding photography mingling Centre-Val de Loire

A tired child takes a break at the wedding venue in England

Capturing Precious Moments: Cherubic Child Finds Solace amidst English Nuptials

England tired child taking a break child England Documentary Wedding Photography

A wedding photojournalist won a WPJA Honor Award for this image taken at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The photo showcases a child's perspective as he reaches for food from his mother, while the adult world looms above.

Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: A Child's Perspective of the Adult World at a Wedding Reception Party

Lake Geneva Wedding Photography food Wisconsin Wedding Photography Lake Geneva Wisconsin child

The bride and groom are captured in a celebratory wedding image at Poitiers Vienne, coming into the reception, dancing, and holding hands with a small girl

The bride, groom, and child celebrated at Poitiers Vienne Wedding Reception

groom child Poitiers Wedding reception celebration hands held bride Poitiers wedding image

The bride and groom watched a little one hugging the man giving the speech in Corrèze

The bride and groom were seated as a small child gave a hug to the man giving the speech

Correze Correze Photographer speeches bride and groom hug boy hugging man speech

A Ratingen wedding photographer captured a unique image of a child hiding and playing beneath a woman's dress

Ratingen reception photo of a child hiding under a woman's dress at Schloss Linnep

Ratingen Patrycja Janik germany photographer hiding under dress Germany child Schloss Linnep

A China wedding photographer captured an image of a child joining in the festivities with the adults during wedding toasts

Reception photograph of a kid hanging out with the adults during this Nanning wedding

Color Song child Nanning Nanning Photographer China toasting

From a home wedding in ermelo, netherlands, a kid is trying the cake

The eager child sampled the cake, delighting in its flavor as the family celebrated with a home wedding

Netherlands Netherlands photographer child eating cake Leonard Walpot Ermelo

Matera Italy church image of a child during the celebration

A young child played during the church wedding ceremony

Luigi Porzia Italy Matera Photographer child church Matera

Before a wedding in Shanghai China, the child goes to the wrong door

Before the ceremony, the child was confused, believing the 3 women looking at their phones to be the bride, when it was actually the wrong door

China Shanghai Photographer Shanghai child

the child is having a hard time getting the cake

child Bejing BEIJING photographer cake chinese hotel China

A Quebec, Canada wedding photographer at Les Cedres captured a Silhouette of child touching the wedding dress softly

Canada Les Cedres Quebec wedding dress Quebec photographer child

Best Portugal documentary wedding photojournalism image showing a young flower girl throwing a tantrum on the church floor

red carpet church tantrum Portugal flower girl Nuno Lima Church wedding

Surrey wedding reportage photographer captured this moment at Brookfield Park as a Child sits with chefs hat on

Children Surrey wedding reportage UK chefs hat sits child Surrey

Best France documentary wedding photography from Manoir Henri IV of the Bride feeding her child

Manoir Henri IV France wedding photography Henri IV child Manoir France Bride feeding

A Lille documentary wedding photographer captured this moment showing a young boy who is bored during the wedding party

Lille wedding venue kids young boy wedding party Children Lille

Provence marriage preparation time award-winning picture capturing a boy Getting ready

kids getting ready Provence wedding picture child boy marriage preparation time

The China WPJA is proud to award this non traditional and colorful Chengdu wedding image of newlyweds and flying fireworks and the happy smile of the newlyweds as the child in red shrugged his shoulders

shoulders Chengdu wedding image newlyweds fireworks China balloons smile

Brittany marriage preparation time award-winning picture capturing a child on the floor while the bride is getting ready

child Elodie Gentit kids Brittany Children getting ready picture

Kilrush, Ireland nuptial day award-winning image of a father bowing his head in despair of moody child whilst the sibling happily drinks his coke

Ireland wedding photography Ireland despair drinks coke bowing Jamie Gillies

Siracusa indoor marriage ceremony award-winning image showing a real funny moment at the church altar

child kids humor funny Siracusa Children

Vosges wedding photography showing Cocktail is not for child

ladies child France Vosges vosges reception cocktails

Best wedding photography from Orleans showing a pic from a home wedding showing a child, Wanna do like you

child wedding photography Orléans Orleans small wedding Home Wedding Henri Deroche

A top wedding photographer in Fujian captured this picture of a Waiter and child serving dishes at the wedding ceremony

Fujian serving dishes waiter Fujian wedding ceremony child

A top wedding photographer in Occitanie captured this picture of A child monitoring rings at the City hall during the marriage ceremony

rings marriage ceremony indoor ceremony photography Occitanie wedding picture child City hall Occitanie

Best wedding photography from Wicklow, Ireland showing a pic of a real candid moment in the car with the couple and a child during a private kiss with a toast

car couple toast Wicklow reportage wedding child Stefano Ferrier Ireland wedding photography

Arette, Pyrénées, France photography of a wedding moment showing A friend and her child embrace the bride with emotion

Pyrénées-Atlantiques emotion friend Arette outdoor wedding Pyrenees France photographer child

Tuscany wedding portrait of the child of the bridal couple in stairs

Tuscany wedding portrait tuscany weddings child bridal couple stairs Tuscany

Cérémonie Laïque wedding photo of the Finger Signing of the marriage certificate for a child

Cérémonie Laïque wedding photo child Jerome Villard Finger Signing marriage certificate

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