Wedding Photos of Missouri

The following “Missouri” 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 “Missouri” 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.

Bride and groom burst into laughter at their Kansas City, Missouri wedding reception during speeches, capturing a joyful moment

Kansas City, Missouri: Burst of Laughter at Wedding Reception

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.

Love Radiating in the Heartland: A Playful Engagement Portrait Session in Kansas City's Sunlit Park

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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.

Enchanted Love: A Serene Kansas City Engagement Portrait Amidst Nature's Embrace

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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

In Kansas City, Missouri, a documentary-style photograph captured the newly married couple in a car covered in rain water with "Just Married" written on the window

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An artistic and creative lifestyle portrait of a couple in a park in Kansas City, Missouri, using a prism effect

A photographer created an artistic engagement portrait of a couple in a park using a prism effect

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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

A couple were captured in a lifestyle engagement portrait with the man picking the woman up with her feet off the ground and the sky behind them

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The silhouetted bride and groom are illuminated by a magical bokeh light display at their wedding reception venue in Missouri

The newlyweds are romantically framed in a glimmering bokeh light display at their wedding reception

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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

As the groom made his way up to the altar for the outdoor wedding ceremony, dad gave him a warm hug under the shade of many tall trees

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At the outdoor Kansas City Missouri Wedding ceremony, the bride walking down aisle

The bride is walking towards her family and friends, followed by a dog, at the outdoor wedding ceremony

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Missouri wedding reception image of the Groom on a chair at the Kansas City festive celebration party

A wedding reception image of the groom joyously seated in the center of the festive celebration party and performing the chair dance

Missouri Missouri photographer Kansas City Deanna Johnson festive celebration reception party

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Bride dancing with friends

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The bride and groom are happily dancing at their outdoor sunset wedding reception in Kansas City, Missouri

At their outdoor wedding reception in Kansas City, Missouri, the bride and groom are joyfully dancing under the orange sky

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An after the marriage proposal St. Louis engagement photograph in Missouri created in BW as Engaged the couple runs quickly through the rainy city streets

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Best Kansas City wedding photojournalism picture of the Bride and Groom Kissing

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Kansas City Park picture session for a carefree engaged couple at sunset under the tall trees

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Downtown Kansas City couple engagement portraits with a couple with downtown lights at night in the city

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Kansas City pre-wed portraits for a fun couple on the rooftop of a parking garage using their silhouettes with buildings

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A black and white Kansas City couple portrait from a Missouri wedding under a huge tree

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A wedding photojournalist in Missouri captured this moment in BW of the Bride getting into car

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A top Missouri wedding photojournalist created this image of the Bride getting ready at home with a window reflection in BW

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This Missouri wedding photojournalism picture is a first rate example of what candid, nontraditional Kansas City wedding photography looks like, as the Groom dancing with friends

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A Missouri documentary wedding photographer captured this moment in BW at the Wedding Reception of the Mom dancing with groom

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A top documentary wedding photographer from Missouri created this image from an outdoor Wedding Ceremony of the Bride and Groom on zoom

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Embassy Suites St Charles Missouri wedding photographer: The couple cries together before driving off

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Embassy Suites St Charles Missouri Wedding Photographer: Dad Giving away bride and sharing tears

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Wedding photography from the Embassy Suites St Charles Missouri - Giving the bride's dad a lift

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Outdoor wedding ceremony photos from venue Haue Valley: Pacific, Missouri - One flower girl shushes another during the ceremony

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Haue Valley: Pacific, Missouri Wedding Photography | Kiddo shenanigans and chaos while wedding party photos are taken

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Missouri Headwaters State Park wedding photography of the guys getting ready

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