Wedding Photos of Cake

The following “Cake” 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 “Cake” 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.

Sofia wedding photography showing some Bulgaria reception Cake moments

The bride and groom, surrounded by wedding guests, cut their cake at Glavatarksy Han Residence in Bulgaria

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Cog Hill Country Club wedding photo of the bridal party seated for the meal under a Mr & Mrs lighted sign by the cake

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wedding photography from Gutow Castle, Poland of the wedding cake, and the bride and groom looking at the little boy standing in front of them

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Wedding Reception Reportage Image from Brookfield Barn, West Sussex created as the Couple bursts out laughing while cutting cake

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Reception wedding photo from castle Wijenburg, Echteld showing four brothers yearning for some cake

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wedding photo from Old Town Manor of Their first cake together

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Wedding photography from Istanbul - Turkey showing that it's the cake time

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Stone Barn, Upper Windrush, Cheltenham, UK | Wedding cake photo made of cheese

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Pleinmont, Guernsey wedding venue photo | Cake at marquee reception under the tent

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Vienna, Austria photo of the wedding cake, well what left from it

wedding cake after the cutting with a small child crawling on the floor under it

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Artistic Chicago reception wedding detail photo of the cake

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Woodend Sanctuary, Chevy Chase MD wedding photography | Father of the bride rides in the back seat of the car with the three tier cake his daughter, the bride, made from scratch.

Woodend Sanctuary, Chevy Chase MD wedding photography - the Father of the bride rides in the back seat of the car with the three tier cake his daughter, the bride, made from scratch.

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San Diego, Ca Bride and groom prepare to cut the cake with a large sword.

Bride and groom cut the cake with a sword

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Siena wedding venue detail image of the cake

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Bride prepares for revenge with cake

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The groom teases the bride with cake

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Three children are looking at the cake cutting. Grandma is pointing at something on the cake

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Epic moment of the cake-cutting and kiss, the waiter decides it would be his time

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below the fireworks - cut the cake - bride and groom at night reception

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A bride and groom cut the cake with their hands

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Wortel Kolonie, Belgium wedding photographer: I entered the kitchen looking to make some shots of the chef - who is a good friend of the groom - when running into this 'trash' laying around. It was just a perfect summary of the day.

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Santa Maria Goretti Centre, Edmonton, AB , Canada wedding venue photo | Kid trying to grab decoration from the wedding cake.

Kid trying to grab decoration from the cake

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the groom receiving cake in his face

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Kasteel van Hoen - Photo of spectacular Cake with fireworks and kids and the bride/groom.

a spectacular Cake with fireworks and kids and the bride/groom

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The groom feeds the cake to the bride

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In Chicago, a wedding photographer captured the streaming lights in a reception hall as they illuminated the intricate details of an Illinois wedding cake at the Starline Factory

On a warm Chicago night, the streaming lights in the Starline Factory illuminated the intricate details of an Illinois wedding cake in magical glory

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