Wedding Photos of Dirty

The following “Dirty” 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 “Dirty” 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.

A York, England stylishly simple wedding day detail picture of the brides dress just after confetti is thrown at Skipridge Farm

A Yorkshire chic, rustic wedding day detail picture of the brides dress with mud on it at Thwaite Mills wedding venue

rustic wedding day mud dirty Patrick Mateer Thwaite Mills Yorkshire Yorkshire bride chic

Best Paris documentary wedding photojournalism image from Maison des Polytechniciens as The Brides family wash and dry the dress which was dirty due to the rain

wash Paris rain brides family dress dry

A top San Francisco wedding photographer captured this picture showing It rained so hard during the reception even the ground underneath a massive tent was straight up mud and Here the bride gets help removing her muddy shoes

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A superb example of a wedding detail in this Bannegon picture in Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France showing the Muddy Shoes as the bride is getting dirty

Cher dirty Muddy Shoes French wedding photography France Cher bride

A creative Primorsko wedding detail picture in Bulgaria showing the Bridal dress getting dirty at the shore of the beach

dirty bulgaria bride water Primorsko sand bridal dress Primorsko wedding picture

Guangdong artful style wedding detail picture at the outdoor Reception Venue showing Not so good weather getting brides dress dirty

weather dirty Guangdong artistic details Guangdong Jinqi Tan Detail Picture brides dress

Rudding Park Hotel, Harrogate, UK artful style wedding detail picture of bride's dresses got dirty over the day

Harrogate artful style Harrogate dirty UK Patrick Mateer Rudding Park Hotel brides

Noord Brabant prep wedding photo from Before the ceremony as The bride wasn't happy with her dirty shoes, the groom managed to fix them before the ceremony

Moniek van Gils shoes bride happy Noord Brabant wedding photo dirty North Brabant

Bride with a really dirty wedding dress getting lifted up by the groom on the dance floor inside a tented reception | Crossed Keys Inn | New Jersey Wedding Photography

image of a Bride with a really dirty wedding dress getting lifted up by the groom on the dance floor inside a tented reception at Crossed Keys Inn, New Jersey

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Zhengzhou, Henan wedding photojournalism image of two groomsmen playing dirty door games in China

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