Wedding Photos of Embrace

The following “Embrace” 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 “Embrace” 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 pre-wedding Wollaton Park, Nottingham engagement session with a couple embrace and a kiss

NYC couple pre-wed portrait of a couple that was truly enjoying themselves in Central Park in the autumn colors

Casey Fatchett leather jackets fall autumn colors Central Park NY couple embrace

San Francisco prewedding engagement session capturing the nature of a couple as they embrace on the beach with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background

Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco CA Photographer water sand bw beach

A top wedding reportage photographer in Lecco captured this picture of a motherly embrace

IT wedding reportage photographer Italy mother embrace emotions Luigi Rota bw

Marechal Deodoro pre-wedding portrait-session of a couple at sunset near the grass fields in an embrace

embrace Marechal Deodoro Pre wedding Marechal Deodoro portrait grass sunset couple fields

Perth pre-wedding engagement image-session in Western Australia during a nice embrace together in the sunlight rays

sunlight Perth pre wedding image Jacob Gordon perth rays embrace Western Australia

Waterbury pre-wedding portrait-session on Mount Hunger, Vermont with a water reflection and an embrace

water Mount Hunger embrace Waterbury pre wedding portrait Vermont mountains reflection

On location Smithsonian Castle, DC couple engagement portrait shoot showing an embrace within the saucer magnolias

DC couple Smithsonian Castle Johnny Shryock embrace saucer magnolias Bee Two Sweet engagement portrait shoot

View this poetic Pyrénées-Orientales wedding Couple portrait under a flag, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Notre-Dame de l'Ermitage from the WPJA

Pyrénées-Orientales wedding Couple portrait under a flag, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Notre-Dame de l'Ermitage

Pyrénées Orientales wedding photography kiss embrace flag Pyrenees-Orientales Pyrénées Orientales wedding hug

Paris environmental couple pre wedding image session under a metropolitan sign

metropolitan urban lovers embrace sign city Paris photographer

View this sensitive Stone Tower Winery wedding photo showing A beautiful embrace of a loving couple, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Virginia from the WPJA

Stone Tower Winery wedding photo showing A beautiful embrace of a loving couple, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Virginia

Virginia wedding photography wine embrace loving couple grapes winery vinyard

Alagoas bride and groom to be, modeling for a Maceio pre-wedding picture as the couple embrace behind plants. The bride smiles as her groom hugs her tightly

plants Monica Guimaraes maceio couple portrait embrace hug tightly Maceió Alagoas bride and groom

Muggia, Trieste couple e-session in Italy with a Sweet embrace in warm sunlight

Trieste embrace Warm sunlight Trieste couple IT Muggia

Luberon couple e-session with a tender embrace under the forest woods

Luberon Thomas Orsatelli ender embrace forest woods Luberon couple

Jurong Lake Garden, Singapore wedding couple artistic image session with The couple sharing an embrace

Singapore couple couple artistic image session Jurong Lake Garden Charles Sng wedding couple Singapore

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session at Villa Montalvo in Saratago illustrating a couple showing their Love before his military tour

Saratago weddings Tyler Vu Saratago trees forest Villa Montalvo tour

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Perth capturing a couple in A lovely minute during sunset

embrace BW pre wedding portrait Perth photographer perth couple intimate Jacob Gordon sunset

True Love pre wedding Photoshoot at the Foothills Parkway in TN of a couple looking at each other as they hug in the middle of the forest

TN couple forest trees embrace Foothills Parkway hug nature

True Love pre wedding Photoshoot in Golden, CO of a couple and A stunning emerald engagement ring with the couple's silhouette in a creative double exposure

clouds emerald Golden couple embrace CO pre wedding Photoshoot silhouette Lucy Schultz

Golf du Morbihan, France portrait e-session using a low camera angle on The couple and shooting up into the clouds

Golf du Morbihan France photographer France portrait e session clouds low camera angle Patrick Lombaert embrace

Perth on-location portrait e-shoot with A beautiful embrace during sunset

Jacob Gordon embrace AUS wedding photographer Perth photography Perth couple portrait sunset

Perth environmental engagement e-session with some black and white hugs

bw black and white australia wedding photography embrace Perth engagements Jacob Gordon perth

Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil on-location portrait e-shoot with a horse statue, a light and an embrace

light Brazil portrait e shoot Aracruz wedding photography Espírito Santo Kássio Silva horse statue Aracruz

São Luis do Quitunde, AL environmental engagement e-session showing an old building testifies to love

sunlight Renner Boldrino embrace trees AL engagement building grass

Jaén, Spain environmental engagement e-session with a couple relaxing in a soft embrace above the city

relaxing Jaén sitting Jaen photographer Spain engagement e session embrace

Embarcadero, San Francisco on-location portrait e-shoot with a Yellow Fever embrace by the cable cars

Yellow Fever Tyler Vu N CA cable cars Embarcadero CA couple CA Photographer

Nantucket, MA portrait e-session of the couple sharing an embrace with flowers in the foreground

Nantucket engagement image Nantucket MA foreground MA couple hug MA portrait

Perth Pre Wedding Photoshoot in a Fine Art Style for a couple having An amazing sunset together

silhouette perth couple Jacob Gordon embrace contrast blue sky sunset

Arette, Pyrénées, France photography of a wedding moment showing A friend and her child embrace the bride with emotion

emotion Arette outdoor wedding friend Arette Pyrénées-Atlantiques child embrace

Grey's Crossing, Truckee wedding day moment photo from CA created as The bride and groom embrace a tearful sister of the bride following her emotional speech at an outdoor reception venue

California - Northern embrace outside tearful Grey's Crossing bride

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