Wedding Photos of Bride and groom

The following “Bride and groom” 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 “Bride and groom” 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.

Best Minneapolis wedding photojournalism picture from Green Acres showing a great Welcome for the bride and groom

A top Bologna wedding photographer captured this picture of the bride and groom reaching the marriage location on foot

Italy Bologna IT Bologna wedding photographer walking streets

Best Biran, Gers documentary wedding photojournalism image with a little girl in front, the bride and groom behind

little girl garden France Biran Biran outdoor wedding bride and groom

Best Marseille documentary wedding photojournalism image from Eglise St Gabriel show The bride and groom leave the church

Colas Declercq bride and groom Marseille wedding photojournalism France leaving church Marseille Eglise St Gabriel weddings

Occitanie wedding reportage photojournalist created this image of the Bride and groom behind church leaving

church Occitanie Occitanie wedding photojournalist France Marion Pomes bride and groom Occitanie wedding reportage

Best Bretagne documentary wedding photography from the church altar at saint malo ille et vilaine

altar Ille et Vilaine Brittany France Bretagne wedding photography Saint Malo Hong Phuc Bui

Best Los Angeles documentary wedding photography showing the Bride and groom have a cigarette break after the ceremony

Kate Hampson LA documentary wedding photography cigarette Los Angeles car after ceremony roadway

Best Fort Collins documentary wedding picture showing a bridesmaid performing a worship dance for the bride and groom during the reception

bridesmaid reception worship dance Mark Creery Colorado bride and groom Fort Collins

Best Lake Tahoe documentary wedding photojournalism image of a Nevada Bride and groom waving to wedding guests on shore as they enjoy a wedding day cruise

CA couple wedding day cruise Lake Tahoe cruise California CA wedding guests

A top featured image from Sonoma, California among the best wedding photography showing the Bride and groom enjoying their first dance on the outdoor landing of a winery

Outdoor Sonoma Night CA CA couple first dance

A top London wedding photographer captured this picture at St Stephens Trust of the Bride and Groom carrying their kids through rainbow confetti

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Gorizia wedding reportage photojournalist created this image at the Castelvecchio Sagrado in Italy of the Bride and groom first dance

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Best Udine documentary wedding picture showing some After ceremony jokes

laughing bride and groom IT Udine documentary weddings Udine jokes fun

A top Omaha wedding photographer captured this picture at the Joslyn Art Musuem in Nebraska showing a Bride and groom walking through their guests drinking their cocktails at the same time

Joslyn Art Musuem wedding venue Nebraska guests Nebraska couple drinking walking

Best Fairfield, Connecticut documentary wedding photography showing the bride and groom try to control their eager dog from escaping to the water

Fairfield Fairfield beach wedding escaping water dog Connecticut wedding photography

A top featured image from Jackson, NH among the best wedding photography at Whitneys Inn showing The bride and groom waving after exiting the ceremony and crossing the street to the reception venue

NH bride street NH bride and groom waving ceremony

Best Trino documentary wedding picture from Principato di Lucedio of the Bride and groom cutting cake

Trino cutting cake bride and groom Principato di Lucedio kissing fireworks

A black and white North Yorkshire documentary wedding picture from Raven Hall in England created as the bride and groom embrace with joy at the end of the wedding ceremony, their guests cheering behind them

UK guests joy black and white North Yorkshire North Yorkshire documentary wedding embrace

A top Northern Ireland wedding photographer captured this picture at Hare Krishna Island showing The bride and groom gently holding one anothers heads, symbolically, towards the end of the ceremony

Hare Krishna Island wedding bride and groom Hare Krishna Island Northern Ireland holding heads ceremony symbolically

Best Buitenland wedding photojournalism picture showing a guest enjoying food near the bride and groom

Buitenland Buitenland wedding venue bride and groom Sanne De Block Belgium framing food

A top Lille wedding photographer captured this picture of the first dance of the bride and groom

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Best Handelsbeurs documentary wedding photojournalism image in BW from the first dance by the bride and groom

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Best Ramona, California documentary wedding picture from Mt. Woodson Castle showing The bride and groom reaching to their families during the wedding recessional

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Hilversum, Netherlands wedding reportage photographer captured this image of the bride and groom arriving at the reception venue in the middle of the woods near hilversum

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Paris wedding documentary photographer created this image of the The bride and groom entering the dining room

France dining room Pierrick Roland entering bride and groom Paris wedding documentary Paris

Best Romania documentary wedding picture from Artist The Barn of the Bride and Groom during the first dance

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A top Nottinghamshire wedding photographer captured this picture at Hodsock Priory in Blyth as the The bride and groom are announced into the dining room

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Best Amhem wedding photojournalism picture from Groot Warnsborn showing that After an incredible wedding the bride and groom are walking through their sparkler exit

Groot Warnsborn wedding sparkler exit walking reception Amhem weddings sparklers bride and groom

A top Colorado wedding photographer captured this picture at The Barn at Raccoon Creek of the The bride and groom navigating through the rain after the ceremony with help from the brides father

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

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