Wedding Photos of Beautiful light

The following “Beautiful light” 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 “Beautiful light” 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.

Captured against the stunning backdrop of the Bund in Shanghai, this portrait showcases the couple in a beautiful light, with smiles, laughter, and joyful playfulness.

Joyful Playfulness Along the Bund: A Captivating Engagement Portrait in Shanghai

A beautiful portrait taken on a wedding day at Pembroke Lodge in London, England. The image features a bride and groom sitting in the back of a vintage car, bathed in soft, romantic light captured by the photographer.

Romantic Bride and Groom in Vintage Car at Pembroke Lodge, London: Wedding Day Glow

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Couple portrait by a wedding photographer at Château d'Ailly - artistic image of a couple running towards a bright future, happy to have the photographer for their upcoming wedding, with a beautiful light surrounding them.

Running Towards Forever: A Romantic Engagement Portrait at Château d'Ailly

Chateau d Ailly Manche Engagement Photographer Manche couple running Normandy beautiful light grass field

At Château Malvirade in Lot et Garonne, the bride's eyes are filled with emotion as she sits with the groom, both looking up at the woman giving a speech.

Château Malvirade Wedding: Emotional Bride and Groom Captivated by Family Speech

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In Tarvisio, Udine, Italy, an engagement portrait captures a couple bathed in beautiful light, with a picturesque forest serving as the backdrop

Capturing the Perfect Engagement Portraits in the Enchanting Forest of Tarvisio, Udine, Italy

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Weverton Cliff engagement photography portfolio image with a Maryland couple standing below tall forest trees in The perfect Light

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Leiden best wedding photography at Pieterskerk of The bride turning around in the beautiful light which is coming from the window

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Engagement Photos Salerno. A Castellabate Lovely couple in a beautiful light

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Fusine Lake post proposal portrait session with a Tarvisio engagement photographer of a Udine couple Walking together into a beautiful light

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Pre-wedding portrait-session in Oakland Hill for a pair of CA Lovers in the beautiful light of the forest

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View this dramatic Sichuan wedding image showing The newlyweds hug, smile happily and have a beautiful light, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in China from the WPJA

Sichuan wedding image showing The newlyweds hug, smile happily and have a beautiful light, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in China

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Cappadocia bride and groom to be, posturing for an engagement image with beautiful light hitting the couple with hot air balloons in the distance

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Ritrattistica, Piazza Sordello, Mantova, Italia wedding bride artistic image session In the atrium of a building with beautiful light as the bride positions herself to enhance the beauty of her eyes

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Artistic Saint Tropez wedding picture in the French Riviera showing beautiful Light on the bridesmaids outside in the sunshine

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Los Angeles on-location portrait e-shoot - a couple in the beautiful light during this home session

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Cervignano, Udine artistic wedding portrait in beautiful light

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Ristorante Giardino Resta, Tagliacozzo, L'Aquila, Italia fine art wedding detail photography showing the Guests await their drinks at the bar which the beautiful light makes the scene protagonists

wedding detail photography showing the Guests await their drinks at the bar which the beautiful light makes the scene protagonists

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A beautiful profile portrait of a Japanese bride illuminated by window light was captured at the Four Season Hotel, Florence

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