Wedding Photos of France

The following “France” 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 “France” 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.

Montpellier lifestyle couples photography session in Herault, France showing the lovers hugging in a park setting in the sunshine

Montpellier nontraditional lifestyle engagement portrait of a French couple embracing at sunset in the wind by the water

France Montpellier windy Montpellier photographer sunset portrait

Montpellier lifestyle couples photography session showing an urban porch setting with a green bench

sitting on bench Montpellier Montpellier photographer Herault France

A Montpellier, on location couple lifestyle portrait in Herault, France with matching black sweaters

matching sweaters Herault Montpellier Montpellier photographer France

high angle view of kissing bride and groom on spiral stairs

Hong Phuc Bui kissing bride and groom Brittany photographer spiral stairs Brittany France high angle

the bride and the groom are having their first dance on a boat

onboard boat Paris photography Pierrick Roland bride groom first dance Paris France

Bride's dad discovers his daughter in a pre wedding Photo

The bride's father saw her for the first time in her wedding gown

father first look wedding gown father of bride France france wedding photographer emotion

Documentary style photography from a Brittany, France wedding showing the bride, groom, bridal party, and wedding guests laughing at the reception venue

bride, groom, bridal party, and wedding guests laughing at the reception venue

Hong Phuc Bui France laughing Brittany photographer Brittany Brittany Reception venue

Morbihan wedding + elopement photography in Brittany, France at the outdoor Reception venue with bride and groom smashing piñatas under the trees

bride and groom smashing piñatas under the trees

Brittany under trees France Morbihan photographer smashing pinatas Hong Phuc Bui Morbihan

Details shot, with ring and shoes

Toulouse bridal shoes Sophie Stacino wedding ring Detail Shot France Toulouse photographer

In Auvergne, France, a bride's portrait with her veil is framed by a small dark tree behind her with a huge blue sky dotted with clouds above

Auvergne, France: Bride's portrait framed by small dark tree, huge blue sky dotted with clouds above her

Auvergne french bride French Artistic Photographer dark tree clouds France veil

A Bordeaux desert lifestyle portrait session for a couple at a Public Garden on an arched bridge

France Bordeaux photographer Bordeaux arched bridge Yann Texier public garden

guests during the cocktail

France Cocktail time Lanouaille Photographer Lanouaille Patrick Lombaert bride and guests

bride and groom in joy during the cutting of the wedding cake

bride and groom joy Damien Dohmen France photographer France cutting cake

first dance of bride and groom at the reception venue

Damien Dohmen reception venue France France photographer first dance bride and groom

showing tears and emotion during the speeches

emotion Bordeaux photographer speeches Bordeaux France tears

some Funny getting ready action with the girls

bath tub Bordeaux bride getting ready France Bordeaux photographer

the men getting ready with mirrors and ties

men getting ready France Bordeaux Bordeaux photographer ties mirrors

Getting ready with lots of people

France Chamonix Photographer pre ceremony Chamonix getting ready busy preparations

a tear wipe and mirror makeup application

France tear wipe France photographer La Grange des Merciers mirror makeup application

French girl squad getting ready

Elodie Ruelleux Dagorne bridal preparations Paris girl squad Paris photographer France window light

Provence documentary wedding photography contest winning image of the father of the groom in France

The father of the bride preparing for the wedding

father of the groom France Provence Provence photographer Elodie Ruelleux Dagorne

Dordogne documentary-style wedding image in France created during the ceremony exit

Couple exiting their outdoor ceremony

Dordogne Photographer ceremony exit France outdoor ceremony Elodie Ruelleux Dagorne Dordogne

World class documentary wedding photography at Chateau de Saint Senoch in Varennes, France captured this moment as a Guest is slipping while helping an old man on his wheelchair

Guest is slipping while helping an old man on his wheelchair

Jean Baptiste Chauvin umbrella Varennes Varennes Photographer guest falling France wheelchair

A French wedding photographer artistically captured a newly married couple walking outside of a small village's City Hall

Documentary-style wedding image from a city hall in a small village of the bride and groom after ceremony

French City Hall post ceremony France photographer France Jean Baptiste Chauvin

Best documentary wedding photo from Domaine les Camiers in Véranne, France that shows a bride Hug with mommy

At her reception, a bride was embraced by her mother in a heartwarming moment captured by wedding reportage photographer

Veranne Photographer Veranne mom hugging bride Domaine les Camiers France

France candid documentary wedding photography of a bride having a blast on the dance floor with her guests

A candid wedding photographer captured the bride having a joyful time on the dance floor surrounded by her lively guests

bride with guests France photographer France dance floor fun

Documentary style photography from an Occitanie wedding in France of The bride and groom coming out of the church

A newly married couple kissed in the sunlight outside a church in Occitanie, France, as guests cheered

France newlyweds kiss church french bride family exiting church Occitanie

A France wedding photographer captured the End of the ceremony as the newlyweds cross the guard of honour

The newlyweds celebrated their union with a joyful ceremony, captured by a candid wedding photographer, as they walked across the grass under the trees to their cheering guests

family guests France photographer guard of honor End of ceremony trees outdoors

A wedding photographer in Bourges, France created this image of Kids during cocktails getting some food at a table

A reportage wedding photographer captured children enjoying an outdoor cocktail hour, with food displayed on tables

France Bourges kids food table Bourges Photographer Henri Deroche cocktails

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