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The following “Nostalgia” 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 “Nostalgia” 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.

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A timeless black and white photo of a bride getting her final touch up by a stylist on her wedding day at the charming Borgo Fregnano venue in Faenza, Italy, evoking a sense of nostalgia and elegance.
Nostalgic Elegance: Bride's Final Touch at Borgo Fregnano Venue in Faenza, Italy
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A unique perspective of the first dance at The Lalit, Udaipur, on a wedding day, captured in a timeless black and white photograph with a low angle shot, evoking nostalgia and elegance.
Elegant First Dance Bliss at The Lalit, Udaipur: Timeless Black and White Romance
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A timeless black and white wedding photo captured at Geelong Grammar in Victoria, Australia, featuring the bride standing at the altar with her bridesmaids in a line in the background, evoking a sense of elegant nostalgia.
Elegant Nostalgia: Bride and Bridesmaids at the Altar, Geelong Grammar, Victoria, Australia
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Capturing the love and nostalgia of their special day, the bride and groom exchange a tender kiss inside a classic Beetle car, illuminated by the photographer's creative lighting techniques. Award-winning wedding day artistry at Villa Resta Mari, Milano.
Vintage Romance: A Classic Beetle Car Kiss at Villa Resta Mari
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Engagement portrait of a couple taken at their high school campus in Fujian. This stunning set of wedding photos captures their love and nostalgia, beautifully photographed by a top China wedding photographer.
Fujian's High School Sweethearts: An Engagement Portrait Capturing Love and Nostalgia
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The Hessen couple embrace against a horse in a pasture
The timeless, rustic, old-west setting of a couple's romantic embrace against a still horse in grass pasture evokes a classic, black-and-white nostalgia
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Wedding photojournalism at Rotterdam - ice cream for grandmother
CONE-TENDER MOMENT: GROOM SCOOPS OUT LOVE FOR GRANDMA
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The couple in a vintage car in twilight during their Bangkok engagement session of photography
The couple is captured in a vintage car during their engagement session in the twilight, with bokeh effects adding a soft and dreamy atmosphere to the scene and the car adds a touch of nostalgia and retro charm to the image
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