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.

bride and groom walking towards the camera as rice is thrown at them

bride and groom silhouetted by a street light as they stand on a road at night

silhouetted street light Night road South Holland Netherlands wedding photographer stand

night color lights bride groom blue

Italy Wedding Photography | Image contains: outdoors, color, flames, pool, night, couple, cake, fire, pool, cutting

night color tree outdoors pool outside

night color light

The couple are dancing joyfully at their reception, reflected in the tranquil tree-lined waters of Málaga, Andalusia, Spain

In Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, the couple joyfully dance at their reception with tranquil tree-lined waters reflected

water Night silhouettes tree Malaga wedding photography reflection reception

Lecco wedding photographer captured this photo of a vendor setting off fireworks at a night time wedding reception

red Lecco Night smoke musician

Rio de Janeiro wedding photographer capture this photo of the bride and groom framed by the archway of the door as they prepare to enter the reception

Rio de Janeiro church Night Color ceremony

Paris Wedding Photographer | Image contains: bride groom white lit portrait night blue sky

groom color bride dress suit grass gown

umbrella groom bride green grass rain color

Documentary Wedding Photography in London | Image contains: wedding guests, black, white, chairs, indoors

curtain reception curtains night chairs guests

cars night city black and white window glass

Blue Sky house Black windows Color

Rheinland-Pfalz wedding photographer captured this photo of the bride getting ready under a stone building lit up in purple and blue

Photo by: Marco Schwarz - Budenheim Rheinland-Pfalz

bride gown building dress Blue green Color

Montpellier wedding photographer captured this photo of a nighttime reception as several cameras capture the bride and groom as they stand under lit up, blue arches

Night Color reception Montpellier camera arches

toast laughing windows color reception food

lighting speech night black and white papers

Wedding Photographer in New York City - Metro | Image contains: fire, flame, bride, groom, cake, reception, color

cake surprise reception color food light

A Bronx high five between the groom and his best man before he drives away to his new future in an outdoor pavement image with only hands and vehicle visible in NY

hand black hands dark high five night

tent couch green boy Night Color

Charleston, South Carolina wedding photographer designed this aerial shot of the bride and groom dancing in front of a city skyline at sunset

sunset reception outside Color cloud Night

Siena wedding photographer captured this aerial shot of an outdoor garden reception as the moon reflects on the ocean in the distance

reception moon Night mountains cloud ocean

stars night sky bride groom black and white

black night black and white spraying fireworks cake champagne

Documentary Wedding Photography in Knoxville | Image contains: portrait, sunset, blue, couple, barn, color

night groom cloud blue clouds light portrait

Impromptu image of an exuberant groom deliberately dropping wedding cake on his bride's head in outdoor Tel Aviv by night

lei cake cake cutting leis smile hands

musician instrument trombone Lights Night dancing

Hampshire wedding photographer designed this photo of guests sending the bride and groom off with sparklers in the dark

departure Night Hampshire sparkler car guests sparklers

Bronx wedding photographer captured the shadows of the bride and groom dancing against the canopy sheltering their outdoor reception

Bronx wedding photo of the shadows of the bride and groom dancing against the canopy sheltering their outdoor reception

reception shadow tent Black Bronx Color

humor dark color chairs tent lights

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