Wedding Photos of Night

The following “Night” 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 “Night” 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.

Shanghai City Reflections during Engagement Shoot with a Couple at Night

Liberty State Park, NJ - Engaged couple standing for portraits

Liberty State Park low light evening lighting Lights NJ NJ pre wedding portrait

Hradcanske Namesti, Prague Castle, Czech Republic Pre Wedding Portraits | A couple shares a late summer night kiss underneath the impressive gas lamps at Prague Castle

Prague pre wedding portrait dusk Lights lighting blue hour Czech Republic

Budapest, Hungary Wedding Photography - Proposal Photos in Budapest

columns historical symmetrical Budapest architecture Budapest engagement session

Using some available light to highlight the engaged couple against the Union Station in downtown Denver during a portrait session.

lit portrait dusk Night Colorado Denver pre wed lighting blue hour

Puglia outdoor wedding reception photos at night in black and white.

first dance at night in black and white

Puglia wedding venues Night first dance black and white

Alicante prewedding photo session under the lights at night.

Alicante Under roof Night Alicante pre wed inside portraits within doors

Trilhas do Araçari, Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro Wedding Photograph from outdoor reception

outdoor reception image at night with smoke

outdoor reception Rio de Janeiro outdoor reception Rio de Janeiro wedding photography Night Rio de Janeiro outdoor weddings Trilhas do Araçari

Gers, South of France Engagement Portrait Shoot - Just before a big storm

Lights sunset Night South of France blue hour Gers wedding couple Gers

Madrid, Spain Engagement Photographer - A couple smiling inside a kind of tent

Lights lighting Night Madridengagement session lit portrait dusk low light

Puglia bride photo as she tosses her bouquet outside at night

a bride tosses her bouquet outside at night

a bride Night tosses Puglia wedding photography outside Puglia

China Engagement Portraits at Night

engagement portrait silhouette Night Vinci Wang Fuzhou e session Fuzhou Fuzhou pre wedding portrait

China fun pre wedding portrait on the streets of carnival with balloons

Beijing engagement images pre wedding portrait fun China Beijing Beijing pre wedding portrait

Blue Heaven Neon Lights Key West Engagement Session at Night

Night city portraits FL urban environment Key West pre wedding portrait Blue Heaven city scene

The newlyweds, a bride and groom, stood in silhouette against the backdrop of the Atlanta city skyline at nightfall, their contours illuminated by the contrast of the red inner city lights and the darkness of the night at the Upstairs Atlanta

The bride and groom, newly married, were framed by the Atlanta skyline at night, lit up by the red city lights against the dark sky

red bride and groom newlyweds wedding couple silhouette evening shade

Naples Florida Engagement Photo Shoot at Night under a Light

Naples wedding couple Florida Naples Night Naples engagement session rim light

Brooklyn Bridge engagement couple portrait at night

Brooklyn Bridge, NYC engagement couple portrait at night

skyline Night dusk nyc lit Brooklyn Bridge

Engaged couple posing in front of the night illuminated Cec Palace in Bucharest for pre wedding portraits.

Bucharest Cec Palace Bucharest engagement photo Night illuminated Bucharest pre wedding portrait

Bucharest Dambovita River Engagement Shoot with a couple posing on a bridge

Bucharest Bucharest pre wedding portrait urban environment city scene public places Bucharest engagement photo urban portrait

New York Couple back lit under the hudson brigde for engagement portrait

New York - Upstate street photography New York urban portrait public places city scene Night

The bride and groom celebrated their special night at Villa Valenca in Brescia, posing for a lit portrait

The couple beamed as they captured the moment of their wedding in a beautiful urban photograph at night

Night Brescia Groom photograph beautiful urban moment Brescia

It rained and the bride and groom hugged at the dinner venue

Night umbrella couple Guangdong fine art wedding portrait Guangdong artistic wedding portrait rain Lin Yang

The bride, groom, and guests enjoy a fire dance show at night in this documentary-style wedding image

Phuket wedding image Stam Chananakhon Night fire dance show Phuket guests Phuket photographer

The bride and her mom dancing the night away

dancing bride Night Marriot CasaMagna mom Mexico

Papago Park- Phoenix, AZ engagemement session at night in black and white

Papago Park Hunts Tomb AZ Tempe National Register AZ

Romania engagement photographer caught the action in this photo of a couple walking happily through IOR park in Bucharest at night

Mihai Zaharia Night couple walking Romania Bucharest IOR park

A man holds an umbrella over the bride as she steps out of her car and into the snowy night in this documentary-style photo

China actual day wedding China china wedding image Fujian snowy car china weddings

wedding photo of Dancefloor time

lighting Night dancefloor Annecy bride Annecy bridal image Annecy outdoors

The engaged couple breaths are visible on a cold winter night engagement session at Bentleyville, USA

Bentleyville engaged couple Night winter cold USA breaths are visible

Guests push the bride and groom's vehicle as they say goodbye

outdoors goodbye grooms vehicle bride Night guests Mumbai

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