Wedding Photos of Lights

The following “Lights” 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 “Lights” 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.

the bride and groom dancing in the lights

NYC silhouetted couple at night with lights and water droplets - new York wedding portraits

NYC silhouetted couple at night with lights and water droplets for pre-wedding portraits

water droplets Night Emin Kuliyev silhouetted New York couple portrait shoot engagement image New York New York

Kids put glow sticks on the bride at this Los Angeles wedding reception

Kids put glow sticks on the bride's legs

legs kids LA photographer Los Angeles LA wedding photography bride glow sticks

Reception dance party revelers enjoy the colorful spotted lights

California San Diego wedding photography Temecula colorful Lights dance reception

Biscay pre-wedding portrait of a couple reflected with lights

Monika Zaldo carrying Biscay engagement photographers Biscay kissing indoors Lights

Phoenix indoor portrait session for this newly engaged Arizona couple

Phoenix engagement photos AZ pre wedding locations Phoenix Phoenix framed Lights

a groom pours rice onto the bride at the reception under the lights

Hyderabad rice reception Lights groom India bride

Shadows and lights fill this Manitoba Engagement Photo

pre wedding location mb city Night Lights Curtis Moore Manitoba silhouette

Brazil night wedding engagement pictures by a Rio de Janeiro photographer

Rio de Janeiro engagement photos Brazil Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro e shoot Rio de Janeiro engagement photographer Lights

Brive la Gaillarde, France groom kisses his cat while he gets dressed for the wedding

the groom kisses his cat while he gets dressed for the wedding

mirror Brive la Gaillarde Correze groom cat getting ready France

a beautiful staircase being light up by green and purple party lights

Lights reception party Italy staircase Tuscany

Guests use their phones to take pictures of the wedding cake

Messina Wedding Photography Sicily phone cameras Messina Lights wedding cake

bridesmaid dress sword cake bride lights red

Toronto Wedding Photographer | Image contains: black white night walk skyline bride groom

city skyline black and white lights

Taipei wedding photography showing guests taking shelter under umbrellas and the wedding tent during a rain storm

lights night white reception umbrella umbrellas

bartender reception color bottles bottle bar

Montreal Wedding Photography | Image contains: black and white, bride, groom, portrait, dancing, wedding reception, crystals, party

first dance lights black and white smile bride smiling

Devon wedding reportage photographer captured this black and white photo of the bride celebrating on top of the table at the reception in England

Devon reception table drinks arms black and white glasses

The bridal party stands outside beneath large lights in this wedding photo by a Hangzhou, China photographer

Hangzhou wedding photography outdoors Hangzhou bridal party Lights Hangzhou bridal party

tent color dresses candles bridesmaids roses

bride dress embrace dance dance floor lights

Wedding Photographer in Essex | Image contains: color, bride, lightbulbs, frame

bride mirror reflection strobe lights

bride night sky color lights bouquet

Bangkok Documentary Wedding Photography | Image contains: bride, groom, sunset, paper lanterns, wedding guests

dress ocean lights lantern cliff sky

Devon wedding reportage photos - black and white picture of the bridge being lifted into the air on the dance floor during the reception

Lights dress action outdoors Night bride hands

color faces guests dress family lights cake

town groom kiss color horizon strobe lights

Wedding photograph from Rome | Image contains: car, road, tunnel, couple, color

white lights car transportation street tunnel color

silhouette glass chandeliers orange color lights

Lisbon Wedding Photojournalism | Image contains: DJ, wedding reception, party, lights, detail shot

color laptop music reception lights DJ

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