Wedding Photos of Dance

The following “Dance” 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 “Dance” 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.

Outdoor Bourges couple engagement photography portrait with a trash dance

The Virginia WPJA is proud to award this non traditional and quirky Charlottesville wedding image at The Event Barn at Mt Ida Farm created as The groom dances with his mother

Event Barn groom mother Charlottesville Virginia quirky non traditional weddings

Hotel La Palma, Stresa, Italy indoor wedding reception party award-winning picture showing the couples First Dance

dance dancing Italy photographer indoor gown Italy Stresa

Lier indoor wedding reception party award-winning picture showing bride and groom dancing on guests shoulders

guests bride and groom dancing Lier dance wedding reception venue Lier photographer

Bar Harbor, Maine indoor wedding reception party award-winning picture showing The bride and groom are hugged while people dance at a wedding reception

bride and groom wedding reception party Maine Bar Harbor hugged bw dance

Domaine de l'Orangerie, France indoor wedding reception party award-winning picture showing Grooms friends during a dance battle

paris wedding photographer France reception party groom France battle dance Domaine de lOrangerie

Lille indoor wedding reception party award-winning picture showing The bride and groomsmen who hold the groom after their entrance dance

bride groomsmen Lille indoor wedding groom Lille dance entrance

Sylvanside Farm, Purcellville, VA indoor wedding reception party award-winning picture showing an emotional Father daughter dance

VA reception party Purcellville wedding photographer picture father VA dance Purcellville

Sofia, Bulgaria outdoor marriage reception party award-winning photo that has recorded the groom gesturing - Come on, baby

Bulgaria outdoor marriage gesturing Sofia dance Sofia reception venue Ivelina Cholakova Bulgaria photographer

Opuntia Events, San Miguel de Allende outdoor marriage reception party award-winning photo that has recorded a tree illuminated with artificial lights to cause this blurred frame between a short dance of the couple

blurred frame San Miguel de Allende illuminated tree dance Opuntia Events couple

Castelnuovo Magra agriturismo La Valle wedding couple artistic image session during a dancing round of love

artistic image session Castelnuovo Magra agriturismo La Valle dancing dance posing Italian wedding couple wedding couple

Artistic Fort Collins wedding portrait of a Colorado couple sharing a romantic dance at sunset with an orange sky outside the wedding venue

Fort Collins wedding portrait orange sky Fort Collins Colorado romantic Colorado couple

Orleans, France wedding photographer contest award winning image sample showing the dancing of the wedding Queuleuleu

French reception Line Henri Deroche dancing Orléans dance france wedding photographer

Maceió, Alagoas environmental engagement e-session with a Man and woman smiling and dancing on the beach

sunset Maceió photographer beach Alagoas Maceió smiling hair

A top wedding photographer in Allenspark, CO at the Wild Basin Lodge captured this picture of the grooms parents sharing a romantic dance at their wedding reception

bw Wild Basin Lodge wedding reception CO Lucy Schultz colorado wedding photography Allenspark grooms parents

Clear Creek, Golden, Colorado portrait e-session of couple swing dancing out in a field

Lucy Schultz Clear Creek Colorado couple field Golden swing dancing dance

Cappadocia Fine Art Engagement session at the sunrise with hot air balloons

Turkey photographer Cappadocia Cappadocia engagement session dancing dance sunrise

Denver Fine Art Engagement Session for a Couple doing a little dance in front of colorful wall in Downtown

co couple Denver engagement session dance Colorado Downtown downtown Denver yellow

The Venue at Lenoir City wedding day moment of love image from TN created as The mother of the groom gets emotional after a dance with her son at the wedding reception

Venue Lenoir City Bryan Aleman Tennessee love TN wedding day son dance

Palazzo Borghese, Florence wedding moment pic from Italy showing the dance of the bride with her father

Italy Palazzo Borghese venue bw dance Florence weddings Tuscany

Boom Island Park lit couple portrait as they dance and dip in the clouds of dusk

lit couple portrait boat dock biking dance MN Riverside

Grand Est Home wedding photography showing that Everyone wanted to dance

Grand Est wedding photography Patrycja Janik home dance reception

Villa Antonio, Taormina wedding photography showing The joy of this bride becomes contagious for the mother and the mother-in-law, also dragged into the dance

dance Villa Antonio mother Taormina wedding photo joy bride mother in law

Dancing indoor image session with the couple doing the Tango at Studio Noir Rödermark

inside portraits tango dance Under roof within doors indoors

Studio Noir Rödermark small indoor photo session with the couple before the wedding day

at home in house Studio Noir Rödermark inside photo ideas dancing dancers

UAE engagement portrait with a posed couple in the hot Dubai sands while Desert dancing

sands monochrome Desert dancing Dubai couple portrait shoot black & white pics Dubai sand

California wedding photography from the venue of Topanga Canyon, CA showing The groom and his mother enjoying a dance together

enjoying mother outdoor receptions outside reception Nicky Byrnes groom CA

Vietnam wedding photography from the Hotel showing women who dance in glee

glee women dance vietnam wedding day photo Vietnam wedding venue Vietnam wedding photo Huy Che Hoang

Lake Tahoe, CA wedding bride and groom dance on a private waterfront pier during an outdoor portrait session under the clouds

The bride and groom danced on a private waterfront pier during an outdoor portrait session under the clouds, in a vertical image, for their wedding

CA groom portrait clouds private CA bride Lake Tahoe pier

The Liberty of Congress couple engagement portraits - They knew each other from a dance

pre wedding location Nam Trinh hands Liberty of Congress silhouette dance Nam Trinh engagement session library

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