Wedding Photos of Doves

The following “Doves” 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 “Doves” 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 Lyon documentary style wedding image showing a moment with the bride, The groom and the doves

Wedding photography from Andrespol Wedding Hall, Poland - the wedding couple releases the birds after they leave the church

doves birds Andrespol Wedding Hall Poland wedding couple church outside wedding photo

Occitanie wedding image from Behind church of the birds being released for the bride and groom

Occitanie church wedding Marion Pomes bride and groom Occitanie wedding photography Occitanie church ceremony bird release church exit

The bride and groom release doves during their wedding ceremony

Fallbrook outdoor wedding doves Fallbrook Fallbrook outdoor ceremony Grand Tradition Estate and Gardens CA

At the Bali Ayana resort, the bride and groom released a dove together in a moment captured in a low angle photographic shot looking up at their hands and the sky

At Bali Ayana Resort, a black-and-white photo showed the bride and groom releasing a dove from a low angle view.

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The bride and groom release two doves after the ceremony in this black and white photo by an East Flanders wedding photographer.

The bride and groom release two doves after the ceremony in this black and white photo from East Flanders

post ceremony Sven Soetens East Flanders doves flanders wedding photographer bw photo bride and groom

groom bride birds doves black and white groomsmen

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bride doves groom bridemaids petals guests

bride trees doves groom color

groom bride church black and white doves

lighting bride gown church bw doves

groom kissing gown doves groomsmen veil

Hesse Wedding Photographer | Image contains: release of doves after ceremony black white birds

hands doves birds black and white flower petals sky

groom black and white doves boy church bride

ceremony dove New Haven birds doves Color

red carpet chandelier dove bride birds red

gown bride cages black and white doves groom

groomsmen black and white doves groom bride

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