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.

Documentary photography from a Ken Caryl Ranch wedding in Colorado showing Bride and groom dancing on the dance floor

Osteria Val de Buia wedding venue photography showing Bride and groom dancing with guests around them with fog

guests hands fog Brazil photographer dancing Osteria Val de Buia

Best Bas-Rhin wedding venue photography of a boy dancing at the reception party

dancing Marck Yvan reception party Bas Rhin photographer Bas-Rhin France

Documentary photography from the Little Wold Vineyard wedding venue in Yorkshire showing The groom catches his falling best man during dancing at the wedding reception

Patrick Mateer Yorkshire photographer dancing Yorkshire Little Wold Vineyard groomsman catch

Canyon du Diable post proposal photography showing a smiling Languedoc couple in front of a big red wall, with cinematic posture as they dance near photographers light

dancing cinematic posture Occitanie Languedoc Canyon du Diable Sophie Stacino red wall

Florida couples lifestyle outdoor photography in St Petersburg with some yellow umbrellas, a yellow dress with some Sunlight and Shade

umbrellas dancing FL lifestyle photography St. Petersburg Outdoor sunlight shade

A Maceio lifestyle couple black and white photo session at Praia de Guaxuma with some dancing among coconut trees with a different record, with movement

Praia de Guaxuma portraits Brazil clouds black and white Praia de Guaxuma dancing Gustavo Sarmento

Istanbul couples portraits lifestyle session at the Galata Bridge with a lit dancing dip against the blue sky over the water

Galata Bridge lit Turkey lifestyle session water blue sky dip

Calle Recreo lifestyle portrait photography for a San Miguel de Allende couple who are engaged and make the kiss in a magical way and captured with a 300mm lens and taken from far away

Mexico urban San Miguel de Allende Calle Recreo lifestyle portrait Calle Recreo dancing Guanajuato

A Philadelphia lifestyle couples Nighttime Engagement Shoot on Addison Street

Lights Addison Street PA Engagement Shoot dip Philadelphia Philadelphia lifestyle couple Addison

Nebraska lifestyle portraits session with a horse in the foreground, and the couple kissing and dipping in background

dancing Nebraska couple horse Nebraska lifestyle Nebraska portrait session Nebraska

Boston Seaport lifestyle couples portrait session of the duo dancing under a large arched opening

arch silhouette Boston engagement photography Boston dancing Boston Seaport

A Lake Tahoe Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic, carefree portrait of this Palo Alto couple at Pearson-Arastradero Preserve depicting this couple dancing in a field of wildflowers under the bright blue sky

Palo Alto blue sky Palo Alto couple dancing field wildflowers

A Denver Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic, mountain portrait of this Colorado couple at Maroon Bells illustrating them dancing in the mountains

dancing Colorado couple Aspen engagement photographer mountains Shea McGrath Maroon Bells Aspen

A great wedding day image from a San Francisco venue of dancefloor at the reception

dancing CA wedding day detail California dance floor San Francisco venue

Great wedding photography of the couple dancing at an airplane hanger in Eden Prairie

MN wedding photography Eden Prairie airplane MN couple plane Eden Prairie weddings

A creative black and white Lombardy wedding photo during a Italy session with the bride and groom dancing in the gravel lane

lane black and white Italy bride and groom dancing Italy Lucio Zogno gravel

A beautiful Estes Park, Colorado couple portrait showing that A little snow did not put a damper on this bride and grooms wedding day

Estes Park Colorado couple portrait trees Colorado dip Estes Park bride and groom

Paris wedding documentary photographer created this image of the Bride embracing and dancing with her father during reception venue party outside

bride father Paris Lea Torrieri France reception venue party

An extraordinary Saltaire Oyster Bar Portchester wedding picture by a pro New York photographer revealing an Awesome Fun Guest Dancing

Portchester Saltaire Oyster Bar New York photographer guest Denise Chastain Portchester wedding picture fun

A spectacular Baltimore wedding couple photograph from Sagamore Pendry Baltimore in Maryland with a Harbour View and dancing reflections on the water

Sagamore Pendry Baltimore Sagamore Pendry weddings dancing Baltimore weddings Maryland bride and groom city

A top Denver wedding photographer captured this picture of guests dancing at reception

Denver dancing guests Colorado Shea McGrath denver wedding photographer reception

Tyrone, Georgia wedding reportage photographer captured this moment at the Glendalough Manor of some Reception dancing by the bride

Georgia wedding photographer dancing Glendalough Manor Georgia reception Tyrone GA

Best Biarritz wedding photojournalism picture created while playing with the sun during the cocktail hour

France smoke cocktail hour dancing Biarritz wedding photojournalism Biarritz sun

Mumbai wedding reportage photographer captured this moment showing The bride surprising her groom by dancing with her friends

friends groom Mumbai wedding reportage India Mumbai photographer bride dancing

A fun Abu Dhabi documentary wedding photography example from Qasr Al Sarab showing the Groomsmen dance

Qasr Al Sarab Abu Dhabi groomsmen fun Abu Dhabi wedding photography Qasr Al Sarab weddings men dancing dance

A Miami Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative portrait of this Florida couple dancing in the stairwell of The Historic Cruz Building

Historic Cruz Building Miami Engagement Photographer Miami Rosina DiBello Cruz building stairwell

An exceptional Lake Tahoe wedding photojournalism sample by a professional Northern California photographer illustrating Blonde wedding guests dance at the reception

women dancing Lake Tahoe reception Northern California photographer Blonde CA reception

Lier wedding documentary photographer created this image of reception party guests dancing and playing the limbo game

Lier wedding photographer Belgian Lier Sanne De Block Koningshooikt game Antwerp

Best Handelsbeurs documentary wedding photojournalism image in BW from the first dance by the bride and groom

dance floor dancing Sanne De Block Handelsbeurs Handelsbeurs documentary wedding first dance bride and groom

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