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Venice Wedding Photographers

Our Venice photographers also provide documentary-style coverage in: Venesia, Venexia, Veneto, Venetian Lagoon, Po, Piave, Brenta, Sile, Comune di Venezia, Padua, Treviso, Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, and all of Northeastern Italy

Venice Wedding Photography, Engagement Photo Sessions + Elopements

Intimate Wedding Photography in Venice - Capturing the Joy of Small Celebrations - Discover the best Venice 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 Venice 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, Venice documentary wedding photographers available right now who understand that some weddings and elopements can’t wait. Find yours today!
Recent WPJA WedElope Story Awards
Wedding Portrait Photographer for Rapolano Terme, Tuscany | posing for a portrait that felt secretive
Alessia Bruchi
The newlyweds walked for a sunset portrait after their fall backyard wedding
Xiaoqi Li
After getting married, the couple treated their guests and families to a cable car ride around town as a special surprise
Chris Shum

Venice Photographers for Large or Small Weddings

Shooting an elopement or small Venice 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.

Veneto WPJA members are ready to document any justice of the peace, courthouse, city hall, 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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Venice Wedding, Elopement and Engagement Images by WPJA Photographers

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

Capturing a session in Venice, Italy, this monochromatic engagement portrait features a couple walking under the arches of Palazzo Ducale, emanating a timeless vintage charm.
A romantic engagement portrait captured in Venice, Italy, depicts a couple embraced under the arch of Palazzo Ducale, with repeating arches pattern overhead.
In the charming setting of Venice, Italy, a close-up shot captures the intimate detail of an engagement ring, in a stylish and romantic portrait session.
A stunning sunrise in San Mark Square, Venice, captures the couple embraced by historic buildings in a wide-angle shot, creating a romantic and relaxed portrait session.
Capturing the essence of romance in Venice, Italy, this engagement portrait focuses on the intricate detail of the engagement ring, with profiled faces on the verge of a kiss. The high key, high contrast monochromatic tones exude a vintage feel.
A dreamy, foggy San Mark Square in Venice provides a romantic backdrop for this engagement portrait, with the couple framed elegantly in the scene.
A newly engaged couple embraces with a kiss on San Giorgio Island in Venice, near the water, capturing a second of love and joy.
An engagement portrait captured in Venice, Italy, with a couple sharing a kiss. A pedestrian walking past is blurred by a slow camera shutter.
Capturing the intimacy after a a surprise proposal near the water by the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, a couple shares a sweet kiss in a tender embrace.
A joyful couple recently engaged in Venice, captured in a serene portrait on a boat floating on the picturesque waters of St. Mark's Basin.
On a watertaxi in Bacino San Marco, Venice, Italy, the bride and groom bask in post-ceremony bliss after exchanging vows at Palazzo Cavalli, epitomizing romance against the picturesque Venetian backdrop.
An amusing moment captured in black and white as a gondolier hilariously reacts to a newlywed couple sharing a kiss on their wedding day in Venice, Italy.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How can couples find top-ranked Venice wedding photographers?
A: The WPJA created the original wedding photographer ranking systems. Our innovative system is based on contest winning points, meaning that the Venice 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 Venice wedding photographers for small elopements?
A: The WPJA is proud to have some of the top Venice 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.
Q: How can couples find reviews of Venice wedding photographers?
A: We call them Client Letters. At the WPJA, we decided more than 20 years ago to avoid incorporating those third-person testimonials and endorsements that are found all too often in advertisements. Instead, we elevated our listings with the use of Client Letters, which represent the actual words and feelings of the clients who booked those Venice wedding photographers for their own wedding.
WPJA Communiqué: Featured Wedding Photography Articles
Smaller Weddings in a Time of Social Distancing
It’s no secret that these are strange times we’re going through right now, and there are many couples out there with weddings set in the near future who are left feeling uncertain and concerned about their futures. While that’s understandable, it’s also important to...Read more
What is a Modern Elopement?
WHAT EXACTLY DOES IT MEAN TO ELOPE? If you look up the definition of “elope” in the Merriam-Webster dictionary , you’ll find a plethora of meanings making it quite clear how polarizing the word has become, and how it has transformed and evolved with the passage of time and...Read more
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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

RAVES, REVIEWS, AND Venice WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER RECOMMENDATIONS

Giovanna & Daniel

Photo by Luca Fabbian

Dear Luca, While planning our Italian wedding from Texas, we searched online for a photographer, thinking it would be a long and difficult process. But as soon we saw your website and portfolio, there was no doubt in our minds that we had to speak with you. The creativity you show, the colors you capture, the stories you tell with your pictures - were just unique. The photos exceeded our expectations, so much so that we ended up asking for two albums, not one! On top of the wonderful pictures, your passion and dedication to work are outstanding. We want to thank you again for the patience with which you interacted with us prior to the wedding, for the way you participated in our big day taking shot after shot but never being intrusive, and for capturing each and every one of our guests - at their best. Also on our day, we thoroughly enjoyed the photo session in the villa and gardens, which gave us a chance to be with each other in a beautiful setting, almost forgetting you were with us. We treasure all of the pictures (yes even the ones you think are not perfect!) as we will always be able to remember and feel those moments again. Thank you again! Giovanna and Dan.

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Yesenia & Alessandro

Photo by Luca Fabbian

Hello Luca! Ale and I wanted to thank you again for the wonderful job you did in our marriage, from our first meeting to the final result. The photos are great and the album beautiful. We are super happy and satisfied to have chosen you. Love, color, light, joy and emotion are some of the elements that were reflected in our splendid photos, making a sequential description of moments that perfectly tell how our day was. The photos are the only physical memory that will last in time, you captured the best moments and in the best way, a real, very natural and original way! Really, better impossible! Thank you for your kindness, professionalism and for the incredible work done! Thank you so much!!!

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Barbara & Andrea

Photo by Luca Fabbian

The wedding album you made us could not get more excited! It is a true masterpiece. Still today looking at the photographs we experience the same emotion of that day. You are a true master, you have known not only to grasp the magic of that day, but also our spirit, our desire to have something special that forever crystallize our promise of love. There are no obvious, trivial photographs: everything has surprised us with the originality, the great naturalness, the extreme care of every smallest detail, the way in which you have been able to magically capture the smiles, gestures, expressions of happiness not only ours, but of all the relatives and friends who shared that wonderful day with us. There really are no words to describe your beautiful photographs!

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