Wedding Photos of Doorway

The following “Doorway” 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 “Doorway” 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.

Captured in the heart of Paris, the newlyweds share a timeless kiss after their ceremony. The black-and-white portrait, framed by a church doorway, reflects the artistic essence of their wedding day.

Parisian Reverie: A Timeless Kiss in the Heart of Love

In this candid wedding photo taken in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, the groom accidentally steps on the bride's dress as they make their way through a narrow doorway after the ceremony. A moment of lightheartedness amidst the joyous occasion.

Amsterdam Mishap: A Candid Moment of Lightheartedness at a Wedding

stepping on dress Noord Holland groom mishap doorway accident Amsterdam Amsterdam Documentary Wedding Photography

A stunning wedding dress hangs in a doorway at Chateau La Durantie, France. Symmetrical composition with two blue chairs framing the image.

Ethereal Elegance: A Spectacular Wedding Dress Dances in Chateau La Durantie's Doorway, Embraced by Symmetrical Serenity

Dordogne chairs symmetrical composition wedding dress doorway hanging dress Chateau la Durantie

A wedding photojournalist captured this award-winning image in Aix en Provence, France. In the photo, a woman can be seen leaning out of a doorway, checking for rain with her hand and eyes.

Woman in Aix en Provence Leaning out of Doorway, Checking for Rain with Hand and Eyes

leaning doorway checking for rain umbrella aix en provence Aix en Provence Wedding Photography

Couple at Mas de Alzedo Venue in Valencia, Spain, seen through a doorway adorned with a chandelier off center

Valencia, Spain: Stunning couple at Mas de Alzedo Venue, framed by a chandelier-adorned doorway

stunning couple framed Valencia doorway chandelier adorned doorway chandelier Mas de Alzedo Venue

This pre-wedding portrait session captured the beautiful sunlight in Cazorla, Jaén, Spain as the couple stood framed in a doorway of the stone building, creating a classic black and white lifestyle engagement image

The timeless black and white portrait of the couple framed in a doorway of a stone building in Cazorla, Jaén, Spain, illuminated by the beautiful sunlight, captured the essence of their engagement

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Eric Corbacho is an artistic wedding photographer for São Paulo

Photo by: Eric Corbacho - São Caetano do Sul São Paulo

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At the church in Echteld, Netherlands, the groom patiently awaits the start of the wedding ceremony in a memorable and graphic photograph

At a Echteld Church, Netherlands, the groom awaits the wedding ceremony in a memorable photograph

graphic photo Netherlands Echteld doorway Echteld groom Echteld wedding photography Gelderland

The bride is framed in the doorway of the White House in Rye, creating an enchanting wedding image

The bride stands poised in the doorway at a lower level of the venue

doorway East Sussex UK RYE Whitehouse Rye dark walls stairwell

Lifestyle couple portraits from Gödöllő, a town in Pest County, Budapest, Hungary

A lifestyle couple portrait of a couple standing near a doorway in the village, with shadows on the wall and them posing comfortably

light and shadows Hungary Budapest doorway Gödöllő Pest County Gödöllő Engagement Photographer

A Jaen Andalusia wedding photographer created this doorway framed portrait of the bride to be with her future husband

Jaen photographer Jaén doorway framed portrait Andalusia

Razlog, Bulgaria wedding photo from Pirin Golf & Spa of the bride getting ready

A framed wedding photo of the bride getting ready in the Spa's doorway

Pirin Golf and Spa doorway Bulgaria bride getting ready Blagoevgrad Razlog Wedding Photographer Razlog

Best Nexon reportage style wedding photography award in Haute-Vienne, France showing a slice of A kiss in the doorway

An experienced Nexon candid wedding photographer captured an intimate moment of a bride and groom kissing in the doorway

doorway Haute Vienne Photographer Haute-Vienne France kiss on forehead Nexon

Washington Mews lifestyle couples portrait session in New York City created as they stand in the doorway of a home formerly used as a Carriage House in Greenwich Village

NY lifestyle couple Greenwich Village portraits Greenwich Village sidewalk Washington Mews New York City - Metro New York City pre wedding

A most creative wedding photo from Denver, Colorado - the couple standing in doorway where they are having their intimate wedding

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Top, and timeless wedding photography from Denver, Colorado during a portrait session of the couple hugging in a doorway of an old Victoria house at dusk

dusk Colorado couple wedding photography Denver Denver Colorado hugging Victoria house

A Palisade, Colorado stylish wedding day detail photo of the wedding dress hanging in a doorway with a large chandelier in the foreground

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A Pennsylvania Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic, silhouette portrait of this PA couple backlit and framed in the doorway of a tower at The Chimes Tower at Longwood Gardens

doorway Silhouette portrait Chimes Tower tower gardens pennsylvania wedding photographer backlit

Best wedding photography of the bride from Siena, Tuscany as she stands in the doorway holding her bouquet of flowers

Tuscany bride IT wedding photography Tuscany doorway bw bouquet

Dramatic Farley Estate Milner wedding image of this Georgia bride and groom shot at mirror in bathroom with reflection of couple posed in the room outside and framed by the doorway to the bathroom

Georgia bride and groom The Farley Estate framed Georgia reflection Dramatic mirror

An exceptional Haarlem, Noord Holland wedding image by a pro Netherlands photographer exhibiting the bride standing in a doorway with guests watching

Noord Holland wedding image exit Haarlem doorway North Holland Netherlands Peter Kos

An original Lecco wedding couple portrait from Villa Subalgio as they stand in the doorway silhouetted near a chandelier

Lecco weddings IT couple portrait silhouetted doorway Villa Subalgio Italy chandelier

Oaxaca City outside environmental couple prewedding photoshoot in the doorway of a small village store

village store Mexico couple doorway Oaxaca City outside prewedding photoshoot MX photographer

Oaxaca City environmental couple pre wedding image session in the doorway of a large stone building

stone building doorway MX photographer Oaxaca City pre wedding session MX couple

A sophisticated Colorado wedding portrait of the Denver couple at The Wellshire Event Center as they dodge a rainstorm under the doorway of their historic venue

Denver sophisticated Denver couple Colorado The Wellshire Event Center rainstorm doorway

View this poetic France wedding image from a Castle near couples home during a couple session, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography from the WPJA

cross France couples home castle France couple session bw Marck Yvan

Surreal Nova Veneza wedding photograph in Goiás, Brazil at night of the bride and groom lit in a buildings arch doorway

doorway Goiás building Night Brazil Brazil Bride and groom

Zhejiang wedding couple artistic image session of the newlyweds framed in the doorway

newlyweds Zhejiang artistic portrait doorway Zhejiang wedding couple artistic image session framed

Istanbul, Turkey environmental engagement e-session with a couple framed in the doorway of a large building

istanbul couple Nilufer Nalbantoglu Istanbul doorway Istanbul engagement e session building Turkey

Sultanahmet Pre Wedding Photoshoot in a Fine Art Style against a colorful building doorway

sultanahmet pre wedding building sultanahmet doorway colorful Sultanahmet couple Photoshoot

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