Wedding Photos of Composition

The following “Composition” 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 “Composition” 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.

Captivating black and white wedding photo taken at Pembroke Lodge, London, of a church ceremony and a reflective composition capturing the grand scene at the bottom of the frame.

Black and White Wedding at Pembroke Lodge - London Church Ceremony Beauty

A beautiful composition showcasing a bride getting ready through a barn window at Rumbold's Farm in West Sussex, UK, capturing a unique and artistic reflection.

Bride's Elegance: Glimpse of Beauty at Rumbold's Farm, West Sussex Window, UK Reflection unique

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A picturesque wedding portrait of the bride and groom taken in the historic village of Clisson, with stunning reflections captured in the river as the couple embraces, creating a unique and captivating composition.

Romantic Wedding Portrait in Historic Clisson Village: Bride and Groom Embracing by River Reflections

composition embraces castle picturesque historic Clisson river

A minimalist wedding couple portrait in front of the orange wall of Mairie de Nîmes, showcasing a simple and elegant composition against a soft pastel backdrop.

Minimalist Elegance: Wedding Couple at Orange Wall of Mairie de Nîmes in Soft Pastel Palette

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Ravenna Wild Beach in Italy serves as a picturesque backdrop for a lifestyle couple portrait. The photographer captures an intimate pose as the couple shares a hug on the shore, their legs interlocked, resulting in a symmetrical composition.

Ravishing Ravenna: Intimate Elegance | A Symmetrical Couple Portrait on Wild Beach

engaged couple shore Legs Interlocked Engagement photography ocean sea hug

Wedding photograph featuring a geometric composition formed by mirror reflections, with the groom in the center

Centered Groom Featured in Geometric Wedding Photograph with Mirror Reflections

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RJ engagement photo-session on a day that was raining a lot in the city but using a light panel and composition with a silhouette

Gustavo Sarmento raining RJ engagement composition city RJ photographer light panel

Pre-wedding Ipioca, Maceió couple photo-session exposing the tide that discovered these stones that served as protection against the waves, it served as a beautiful composition for this record

stones Maceió couple tide jetty Gustavo Sarmento Maceió photographer beach

On location Mote Park, Maidstone, Kent couple engagement portrait shoot with the composition right in camera

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A creative Buena Vista wedding picture at The Barn at Sunset Ranch in Colorado showing the boardwalk that leads to the ceremony site takes center stage in this creative composition

deck Buena Vista wedding picture leads composition center stage outdoor ceremony site Lucy Schultz

Melaka, Malaysia couple e-session image composition for front and back using the space and the lighting

composition lighting Malaysia couple front and back Melaka Malaysia using the space

Hotel EL Convento, San Juan on-location portrait e-shoot with some Action and composition contrast for the image

action San Juan e shoot San Juan on location portrait contrast Hotel El Convento composition

Tunel Guajataca, Isabela environmental engagement e-session with The couple running in front of the Beach to create action in the composition

Puerto Rico couple running tunnel water composition palm trees Isabela

Charlestown Breachway on-location portrait e-shoot - composition of couple and cloudy skys

cloudy Boston Charlestown Breachway portrait Warren Lane MA couple Massachusetts Charlestown Breachway

Engagement session with a symmetrical composition and a centered kissing couple

kissing couple centered Roma pre wedding portraits Roma engagement photographer Roma symmetrical

A couple in Offenburg winds up an enclosed stairwell to their newly found eternity.

The black and white photo of a couple ascending a stairwell creates an artistic and unique composition

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