Wedding Photos of Dancing

The following “Dancing” 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 “Dancing” 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.

In Newton, New Jersey, the bride and groom are dancing as the band surrounds and serenades them during their North Shore House reception

The bride and groom are serenaded and surrounded by the band as they dance at the reception dance party

Bride, groom and friends dancing during the reception party at Zabola Castle in Romania

At the reception party, the bride and groom, their families, and friends were dancing with bride's wild hair flying in the air, captured in a black and white image

Zabola Castle reception party Zabala Wedding Photographer black and white Zăbala dancing hair flying

A Family farm, Wootton Basset, UK Reception Party wedding photograph of the band playing and guests dancing in silhouette

The guests at the wedding reception had their hands up dancing to the band playing while a silhouette wedding photo was taken

Wiltshire wedding photographer UK dancing Wiltshire band playing purple and red silhouettes

A dancing guest lost in the music, but found in the light at the Hardwick Manor Farm, Home Marquee, Hardwick, Northants, UK

A guest danced to music with great light beams shining down on the dance floor

Home Marquee Northants dance floor streams of light Hardwick Manor Farm Northants Wedding Photographer Hardwick

A dad catches his son after tossing him in the air during the wedding reception dancing. Taken outside the wedding venue looking in through the window in Leicestershire, at the Prestwold Hall

The dad caught his son mid-air after tossing him up during the wedding reception dancing

Leicestershire wedding photographer Prestwold Hall Leicestershire window black and white dancing tossing son

Couple dancing outdoors at night surrounded by family and friends at Oceanview, Nahant, Massachusetts

The couple celebrated their union surrounded by family and friends with an outdoor nighttime reception involving dancing

Nahant MA Nahant Photographer Massachusetts Oceanview Nahant couple dancing Nahant family and friends Night

Everyone was having a great time at the reception party in Chandigarh, dancing the night away amidst a stunning club-like atmosphere of lights

Partygoers danced the night away in a club-like atmosphere of lights and music at the wedding reception party

Chandigarh blue lights club like atmosphere dancing Chandigarh Photographer

The guests at Woodend Sanctuary and Mansion in Chevy Chase were in a frenzy of motion, dancing in sync on the vibrant dancefloor at the exciting party

Guests danced in a frenzy of motion to the music on the dancefloor at the exciting party

red light dancing Chevy Chase Woodend Sanctuary and Mansion Maryland exciting party Maryland photographer

couple in Montpellier dancing in the streets

sun and shadows Montpellier photographer dancing Montpellier dancing in street

The silhouetted couple held hands and danced stylishly with fireworks in the background at the IL MINARETO Reception Venue in Siracuse, Italy

At the Reception Venue in Siracuse, Italy, the couple danced stylishly with fireworks in the background, holding hands

Il Minareto Siracusa fireworks Silhouetted couple dancing Italy Siracusa photographer

An Ain couple are bumping hips while dancing outside under the sun and trees

Coralie Garavel ain Ain Photographer France dancing sun and trees bumping hips

At The Madison in Riverside, New Jersey, the bride was captured laughing and dancing on the dance floor, getting low with her guests

The photograph of the bride joyously laughing and grooving on the dance floor during her wedding reception illuminated the festivity of the party

new jersey photographer The Madison dance floor dancing New Jersey bride laughing

The bridal party celebrated with dancing beneath the purple lights on the Flow Datca dance floor, captured by their Turkey photographer

The vibrant colors illuminated the bridal party in the night scene as they celebrated with dancing beneath the purple lights on the dance floor

Flow Datca Turkey purple lights Turkey photographer dancing dance floor

At Noya Beach in Kınalıada, Istanbul, the couple's dance floor action was captured with the help of a slow shutter and light streaks, making for a stunning wedding picture

The couple's love was captured on the dance floor with a slow shutter, creating light streaks

Noya Beach Istanbul dancing Kınalıada Istanbul photographer Turkey

Goa Photographer captures the vibrant wedding party scene with India's traditional dancing, colorful bubbles and unique red lighting

Capturing the vibrant wedding party scene, a documentary image of the traditional dancing, colorful bubbles, and red lights

party scene goa Goa Photographer red light bubbles dancing

A Bigfork, Montana dress slipup is captured on the dance floor

At the outdoor reception party, a surprise dress slipup is captured as a woman is lifted and her dress rides up high

Montana photographer dress slip up Montana outdoor reception dancing Bigfork

Dancing wedding couple with violinist at a Noord Brabant Reception Venue

The romantic wedding reception was complete with a dancing couple and a violinist on the dance floor

violinist dance floor North Brabant Wedding Photographer Noord Brabant dancing couple dancing

Yvelines documentary wedding photography contest winning image at the Chateau dHardricourt of the Groom surfing the crowd above the dance floor

Documentary wedding photography contest winning image at a Chateau of the groom surfing the crowd above the dance floor

Chateau dHardricourt Yvelines groom surfing dancing Jean Baptiste Chauvin Yvelines Photographer

A Mount Laguna, on location lifestyle portrait in California created as The couple plays in the woods

California photographer Mount Laguna woods California - Southern dancing

Paris photojournalistic wedding photography at Salons Hoche of the French Guests dancing during the after party

A French wedding reportage photographer captured the joyous festivities of an after party, with guests dancing the night away

Salons Hoche French guests Paris dancing Paris photographer

A Summit County wedding photographer at a Colorado wedding venue captured the Dance and bride and groom Jump rope session at night

A Summit County wedding photographer captured the unique moment of a bride and groom jumping rope with napkins tied together at their night wedding venue

dancing jumping rope Summit County Colorado night reception Colorado photographer

Bracciano creative documentary wedding photography at the Castello Orsini-Odescalchi in Italy showing the Dances after dinner during a Lebanese marriage event

An Italian wedding photographer captured the lively atmosphere of a traditional Lebanese marriage event, with a crowded dance floor after dinner

Italy Edgard De Bono dancing Bracciano Lebanese Marriage Event Castello Orsini Odescalchi Bracciano Photographer

Hertfordshire photojournalistic wedding photography at Coltsfoot Country Retreat showing a BW wedding dance

A Hertfordshire wedding photographer captured a slow-shutter speed, high-camera angle image of a black-and-white wedding dance at a Country Retreat venue

bw moment dancing Coltsfoot County Retreat Hertfordshire Hertfordshire photographer

bride dancing with a wedding guest dressed as a motorcyclist

Poland dancing Zachodniopomorskie Poland photographer dance floor

Zachodniopomorskie Reception Venue Couple dancing on the dance floor during a wedding party

view of the couple's feet dancing

Poland photographer Poland dancing dance floor Zachodniopomorskie bw moment

Occitanie creative documentary wedding photography of a girl dancing a traditional dance named Paquito

dancing Paquito Dance Occitanie photographer Marion Pomes Occitanie traditional dance

Fun Cap Ferret engagement announcement picture outside in Aquitaine, France for A couple in a fisher village dancing

Cap Ferret Photographer fishing village CAP FERRET dancing Gironde Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Documentary style photography at a London wedding of guests on the dance floor having a great time

London photographer Stam Chananakhon dancing dance floor London bw moment

Baeza couple poses for garden dancing portraits to announce their Jaen, Spain engagement

Baeza Jaén Spain Jaen photographer garden portrait dancing

Best Massachusetts wedding venue photography at Chantham Bars Inn during the dancing Wedding reception

Cape Cod Photographer dancing Chantham Bars Inn drums wedding band Massachusetts

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