Wedding Photos of Applause

The following “Applause” 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 “Applause” 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.

In a captured detail image at Rise Hall in East Yorkshire, England, a wedding guest joyfully displays a sign that reads "Applause" during speeches.

Wedding Guest at Rise Hall's Speeches with "Applause" Sign

Amidst the Shanghai wedding ceremony, the guests in their white dress shirts, ties, and vests applauded in celebration of the couple's love

The guests at the wedding celebrated the couple's union with enthusiastic applause, dressed in their formal attire

guests suits PRC applause wedding couples union China

A China wedding day hands detail picture showing the Applause and blessings

china wedding applause China blessings Vuca Zhang hands detail Liaoning

A documentary wedding photographer at the Patapsco Female Institute in Ellicott City, Maryland captured this picture of The couple entering their wedding reception to roaring applause

Bee Two Sweet MD weddings Johnny Shryock Maryland venue couple entering Ellicott City MD Photographers

Best wedding photography from Occitanie showing a pic of The bride and groom leaving the secular ceremony to the applause of their guests

wedding photography Ludovic Lieffrig bride and groom secular ceremony applause Occitanie guests

Italy outdoor, garden wedding photography from a Ceremony at Villa Angeli, Pegognaga, Mantua With an applause and a kiss from the couple, I try to recreate the intense moment that was breathed under a beautiful sunset

Fabrizio Demasi Mantua garden wedding photo Beautiful sunset couple intense moment Italy

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arms clapping smile applause bride frame

Wedding Photography in PACA | Image contains: ceremony, bride, groom, kiss, guests

Photo by: Fred Bruneau - Aix en Provence

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