Wedding Photos of Bw

The following “Bw” 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 “Bw” 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.

World's best creative wedding portrait photography from Hacienda de Mare Olimp, Romania of the Bride and groom as they pose on the beach in front of the wedding venue

Cloudland Canyon State Park romantic engagement image of a couple embraced by the Waterfall spray

GA engagement image bw Shannon Cain Cloudland Canyon State Park Georgia photographer spray embraced

Cloudland Canyon State Park, GA pre-wedding engagement session capturing the water bokeh in BW at the Waterfall

waterfall Georgia wedding photography GA engagement session Georgia bokeh Cloudland Canyon State Park water

A pre-wedding Ramonville, France engagement session with a couple embracing and sharing romance in bw

Haute Garonne Ramonville wedding photography France engagement session Ramonville France couple romance embracing

World's most innovative and best Chengdu wedding photography of The groom writing down his wedding vows, from under the glass table The words on the white paper are clearly visible, We can see the shadow left by the nib on the paper

white paper paper glass table nib Chengdu wedding photography Chengdu groom writing

Ceparana creative engagement image of a couple in BW behind the grid of sturdy netting

Ceparana engagement grid bw Italy La Spezia netting

World's best and most unconventional Netherlands wedding portrait with the Couple posing before clouds in BW

silhouette Sky bw Netherlands Netherlands wedding portrait posing clouds

World's most artistic and best wedding couple portraits from Glacier Park in BW with the brides dress blowing in the windy scene near a wind bent tree

park blowing scene bent tree wind MT wedding couple portraits

World's most innovative and best Mexico City wedding day portraits at Calle Hidalgo Casa of the bride by a window and a white curtain in the background to Try to overexpose the photo to cause drama between low key and high key

Calle Hidalgo Casa bridal Calle Hidalgo Casa Jorge Alcala Goded drama high key overexpose low key

World's most innovative and best Naantali wedding day portrait in black and white taken just before the wedding ceremony

laughing Finland bw Naantali black and white Risto Kuitunen walking

World's most artistic and best wedding couple portraits from the Netherlands in BW of a Cool groom posing next to a vintage station wagon muscle car with rims

World's most artistic and best wedding portrait from the Netherlands in BW of a Cool groom posing next to a vintage station wagon muscle car with rims

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World's best and most unconventional wedding photography from Osimo, Italy showing The falling powder at the brides home during getting ready makeup time

italy bride makeup time getting ready bw ITALY wedding photography brides home

World's most artistic and best wedding photography from the top of the Stanserhorn, Switzerland during a BW Bouquet Toss

Stanserhorn Mischa Baettig clouds bw Switzerland Switzerland outdoor wedding bouquet toss

Perth engagement photo showcasing the couple is Always laughing together

jackets bw perth engagement photo laughing australia wedding photography Jacob Gordon australia photographer

World's most artistic and best wedding image from Black Canyon Inn, Estes Park resulting in a black and white portrait of the bride and groom and the Colorado wedding venue

Black Canyon Inn Estes Park weddings colorado wedding venue Black Canyon Inn venue bw CO wedding image

World's most artistic and best wedding couple portraits from a Cleveland, Ohio Reception Venue with smoke bombs to make the image in BW

Ohio wedding image artistic Smoke Bombs OH wedding couple portrait Cleveland couple Ohio

A black and white Germany couple portrait from a high angle before they kiss

intimate kiss bw Passionate high angle black and white Germany couple portrait

Kennedy Center, DC pre-wed portraits for a fun Washington couple against marble walls

bw DC pre wed portrait DC wedding photography Kennedy Center Washington DC marble walls DC photographer

World's best and most unconventional wedding photography from Washington DC showing us in BW that The bride is getting ready

DC bride Washington DC wedding bridal getting ready Washington DC DC wedding photography bw

World's most innovative and best Kilkenny, Ireland wedding photography of a bride always ready when the wind blows her veil

Ireland wedding photography bouquet blows Ireland bw wind windy

World's most visionary and best wedding couple portrait image from Castel d'Ombrone with The flare being the subject of this photo, the married couple are face to face, while the flare that comes from their shoulders illuminates the contours of the faces

faces bw Castelnuovo Berardenga Flare contours Castel Monastero

World's top and most original Cortona wedding portrait photography with a generation in comparison, on the first floor the father of the bride waiting for his daughter for the first look, while inside the house, the groom looking out waiting

looking inside first look Tuscany Cortona wedding father of the bride bw

World's most visionary and best wedding couple portrait images from Castello di Fosdinovo Massa showing they can love each other forever

bw Castello di Fosdinovo Massa IT portrait image Massa and Carrara Italy wedding couple love Castello di Fosdinovo Massa venue

Sobótka, Poland playful engagement image of a couple embracing in BW

Joanna Figarska bw Sobótka wedding photographer Sobótka couple embracing Sobótka Poland

World's most artistic and best wedding couple portraits from Abbazia San Pietro in Valle in BW using a light and a vintage auto to frame the bride and groom kissing

Italy kissing bw light Abbazia San Pietro Valle bride and groom

Ravenna Wild beach playful engagement image of a couple in BW in an embrace of love

wild love Vincoli Ravenna beach Ravenna engagement image San Pietro bw

World's most visionary BW wedding photography from Corte San Ruffillo, Forlì showing a cake cutting moment outdoors under strings of lights

cake cutting strings of lights Forlì outdoors Corte San Ruffillo bw Caterina Errani

Villa Petrea, Tuscany engagement photo showcasing the natural love of this couple in BW tones

love Tuscany engagement photo tuscany couple Villa Petrea tuscany wedding photographer bw natural

A top documentary wedding photographer from Paris created this image in BW from the Reception venue showing the Bride with children during reception

Paris french wedding photographer bride France reception venue Lea Torrieri bw reception

World's best creative wedding portrait photography from Marsala, Sicily resulting in a Picture of the newlyweds with their friends holding their phones and using their own lights

Sicily wedding Picture Sicily photography Italy friends Sicily phone lights bw

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