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Missouri Wedding Photographers

Our Missouri photographers also provide documentary-style coverage in: Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield, Columbia, Independence, Lee's Summit

Missouri Wedding Photography, Engagement Photo Sessions + Elopements

Intimate Wedding Photography in Missouri - Capturing the Joy of Small Celebrations - Discover the best Missouri photographers specializing in intimate marriages. Couples are embracing the trend of smaller, more meaningful celebrations. Let our talented photographers capture the joy and intimacy of your wedding day.

By planning a simple Missouri elopement, couples are able to stay present in the moment and fully absorb the impact of their wedding day. Given the fact that many couples feel more natural and at ease in intimate settings, it's no surprise that some of the most breathtaking wedding images come from elopements.

The WPJA has an abundance of top-ranked, Missouri documentary wedding photographers available right now who understand that some weddings and elopements can’t wait. Find yours today!
Recent WPJA WedElope Story Awards
A wedding service for the entire family
Carlo Bettuolo
A Backyard Wedding Image | one final dance under the patio string lights for the bride and groom
Megan Rei
The bride and groom shared a beautiful moment of love and joy, sealed with a kiss at the city hall during their civil marriage ceremony
Myriam Ohayon

Missouri Photographers for Large or Small Weddings

Shooting an elopement or small Missouri wedding event is a wedding photojournalist’s dream: a fairly open schedule with lots of breathing space for creativity – it’s just the photographer, the couple, the officiant, and perhaps a few select companions.

United States WPJA members are ready to document any quick, secret, civil ceremony, or elopement wedding, even if it is a Monday-Thursday ceremony. Search for the “Can Shoot Weddings on Short Notice!” message on the listings below.

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5 Missouri Wedding Photographers...

Deanna Johnson wedding photography

With an expert eye for capturing raw emotion and a background in fine arts, Deanna Johnson is a wedding photojournalist. She finds inspiration in intimate concert settings and treasures found in vintage artwork.

Deanna Johnson

Kansas City in Missouri, US
16
1
19
6000 (USD)
Couple engagement portraits by wedding photographer Joshua Grasso

Joshua Grasso is a East Coast USA-based wedding photographer, dad, husband, and diaper-changing ninja. He and his wife are high school sweethearts and love documenting their daughter's sweet moments and adventures.

Joshua Grasso

Buford in Georgia, US *Now booking Missouri weddings.
67
5
2800 (USD)
Adventure weddings and elopement photography by Lauren Lindley

Lauren Lindley - Traveling wedding photographer specializing in capturing unforgettable moments. Enjoys people and gets them to feel comfortable in front of the lens.

Lauren Lindley

South Lake Tahoe in California, US *Now booking Missouri weddings.
73
7
35
4200 (USD)
Adventure marriage images by Nicky Byrnes of Nemus Wedding Photography

Documentary wedding photographer Nicky Byrnes has had a camera in her hand since childhood. With a degree in photojournalism, Nicky is published in several print and online magazines. An outdoors enthusiast and volunteer, she loves music, books, skiing, and her two rescue...

Nicky Byrnes

Carnelian Bay in California, US *Now booking Missouri weddings.
46
1
7
3900 (USD)
Wedding and elopement photography by Peggy Stevinson Bair - Heart of the Moment Photography LLC

Peggy Stevinson Bair is a working photojournalist specializing in people stories across the Midwest. With weddings, Peggy creates emotive imagery capturing all the special moments that make each occasion truly special. Peggy is a former staff photographer at numerous...

Peggy Stevinson Bair

Leavenworth in Kansas, US *Now booking Missouri weddings.
10
995 (USD)

Map of Wedding Photojournalists Serving Missouri Couples

Wedding Venue Pictures by Missouri Wedding Photographers

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Missouri Wedding, Elopement and Engagement Images by WPJA Photographers

Below are some Missouri wedding photography samples from the world’s best wedding photographers of the WPJA. Some of these Missouri marriage pictures might be artistic portraits, details, or documentary-style images that have come from getting ready sessions, wedding ceremonies, reception venues, or Missouri engagement portrait sessions with couples.

Bride and groom burst into laughter at their Kansas City, Missouri wedding reception during speeches, capturing a joyful moment
An engaged couple in Kansas City, Missouri, took time to relax in the sunshine at a city park, posing for their engagement portrait session in a kids play net.
An engaged couple in Kansas City, Missouri, enjoyed a relaxing afternoon in a city park, posing for their engagement portrait session amidst nature's beauty, in black and white silhouettes and leaves enveloping them.
The bride and groom, leaving their wedding reception in Kansas City, Missouri, were captured in a documentary-style photograph, sitting in a car covered in rain water with "Just Married" written on the window behind them
An artistic and creative lifestyle portrait of a couple in a park in Kansas City, Missouri, using a prism effect
A couple was photographed in Forest Park St. Louis with the sky behind them, with the man picking the woman up with her feet off the ground
The silhouetted bride and groom are illuminated by a magical bokeh light display at their wedding reception venue in Missouri
At the Kansas City, Missouri wedding ceremony, the groom was welcomed with a warm hug at the altar by dad, while guests watched in delight under the shade of many tall trees
At the outdoor Kansas City Missouri Wedding ceremony, the bride walking down aisle
Missouri wedding reception image of the Groom on a chair at the Kansas City festive celebration party
Top Missouri natural wedding photography showing bridesmaids watching the bride getting into her gown
Best documentary wedding photo from Missouri at the Reception venue of the Bride dancing with friends

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How can couples find Missouri photographers for pre-wedding engagement portraits?
A: The WPJA issues Diamond Awards for Missouri wedding photographers to showcase their best engagement photography work. These awards are given to photographers who prove that they have an ability to be creative, artistic, and intuitive while working on-location with couples who are newly engaged.
Q: How can couples find top-ranked Missouri wedding photographers?
A: The WPJA created the original wedding photographer ranking systems. Our innovative system is based on contest winning points, meaning that the Missouri photographers you see at the top of your search results page have recently won the most — and the most recent — contest awards. Our contests judge photographers based on their creativity, style, composure, and ability to capture the heart of any couple's story on their wedding day.
Q: Who are the best Missouri wedding photographers for small elopements?
A: The WPJA is proud to have some of the top Missouri documentary wedding photographers for elopements. Our members are able to submit WedElope Stories that take you step-by-step, via a 9 image picture story, through the unique and moving elopements that take place around the world.
WPJA Communiqué: Featured Wedding Photography Articles
Vows, Crowds, and Nerves: Avoid Stress with a Small Wedding
While some of us were fortunate enough to be born as extroverts, not everyone feels the same way. For a good chunk of the population, any number of the typical wedding day traditions can inspire anxiety and existential dread. This day is all about you, yes, but does that...Read more
An Unforgettable Romance: The Intimacy of an Elopement
While some people live for the hustle and bustle of a big wedding with extravagant décor and an impossibly long guest list, others find these kinds of weddings to be too much hoopla, preferring instead something simpler and quieter, allowing for more intimacy between them...Read more
jperlman elk cove inn ceremony
Top 4 Types of Small Weddings to Make Your Day Truly Yours
Everyone always says that your wedding day is all about you. But let’s face it; that’s not always actually the case. Many couples stress over guest lists, planning, expenses, and all the frills and traditions of your standard large wedding that they may or may not even be...Read more

WPJA Communiqué: Viewpoints
Elopements: Traditional and Modern
The oldsters among the WPJA ranks no doubt remember when 'to elope' meant, in Merriam-Webster’s definition, “to run away secretly with the intention of getting married, usually without parental consent.” Many wedding photographers have gone on the lam with couples who did just that. However, even Merriam-Webster now acknowledges that “elope appears to have become shorthand for ‘ small destination weddings ,’ a ‘ wedding that is not financially insane ,’ or a ‘ wedding that allows us to not invite all the people we would rather not invite .’” Smaller Weddings are... Read more
What is Reportage?
On Instagram and elsewhere, one can see images labeled as #photojournalism or #reportage when they are, in fact, merely photos. I say "merely," even though photography has been my career's great passion. But it's because of that passion and my respect for the work of actual photojournalists that I am particularly bothered to see wedding photographers call their work "reportage." That word properly used actually means something important beyond just a stylistic conceit. By contrast, however, I'm the lead cheerleader for those practitioners of #weddingphotojournalism ... Read more

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