Wedding Photos of Embracing

The following “Embracing” 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 “Embracing” 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.

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Denver illustrating a couple embracing and laughing in front of a reflection on a glass building

True Love Engagement Posed Portrait at Les Serres d'Auteuil in Paris capturing a Couple embracing in front of the greenhouses

paris engagement paris couple portrait Paris Greenhouses posed Les Serres d Auteuil couple

True Love Engagement Portrait Session in Granada, Spain displaying a couple embracing in a tender BW shoot

Spain couple embracing Spain Granada tender BW urban shoot

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session ay Lake Tahoe with the young lovers embracing above the water

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session at Lake Tahoe with the young lovers embracing above the water

Lake Tahoe Lake Tahoe photographer above embracing young lovers water

San Francisco on-location portrait e-shoot for a couple Embracing lovingly by the fort

embracing San Francisco portrait e shoot symmetry building San Francisco couple bricks CA Photographer

Donner Lake, California environmental engagement e session of the couple looking into each others eyes with love

embracing N California Sierra Nevada Donner Lake CA beach lake

Camargue portrait e-session of couple embracing with nice light

nice light sunlight France nature Camargue portrait e session rural

Halsweh Quarry Park Christchurch environmental engagement e-session - a couple embracing at sunset

Halsweh Quarry Park Christchurch engagement New Zealand photographer sunset Christchurch Liz Robson embracing

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge MA real wedding moment of guests embracing while viewing the couples first dance

Cambridge couple first dance guests Korri Crowley embracing MA real wedding bridesmaids

Flushing Town Hall, Queens NY documentary wedding image of a Bride and Groom embracing the Bride's father

Queens brides father embracing NY documentary wedding Queens outdoor weddings New York City - Metro Flushing

Paris pre-wed portrait using Prism photography of a couple embracing

Paris engagement photographer embracing Paris prism photography France Jeremie Sangare

Guangzhou pre - wed image with some night life Embracing in the traffic under the lights

Guangzhou city bus Jinqi Tan embracing traffic underpasses nightlife

Clear Creek, Golden, Colorado pre wedding engagement session in nature embracing in the hot summer sun on this green pathway

green pathway Colorado pre wedding Golden colorado engagement photographer summer nature

Perth sunset couple portrait embracing each other tenderly

Jacob Gordon perth embracing sunlight Australia aus Perth couple portrait

St. Mary's Lake, Colorado mini embracing couple photo session before the wedding day laughing and trying to stay warm while at 10,000 feet

St Marys Lake Colorado CO Colorado pre wedding photo

Garden of the Gods Park - Colorado Springs, Colorado couple embracing during portraits on their wedding day.

blue sky Autumn Parry Colorado Springs CO wedding day Colorado couple Garden of the Gods Park rocks

Cirencester Park mini embracing couple photo session with a warm hug

Cirencester Park couple embracing warm hug Cirencester Park photo session Cirencester Park

Hampshire woods mini embracing couple photo session before the wedding day next to cut and stacked firewood

Hampshire woods cut firewood Hampshire pre wedding photo embracing

French wedding photographer captures the bride embracing her father at the Church of Bagnols sur Cèze

bride church french Wedding photo father France embracing Bagnols sur Cèze

Orpheus Brewing Atlanta, Georgia mini embracing couple photo session before the wedding on proposal day

Atlanta weddings proposal day embracing Atlanta couple photo session Georgia Atlanta photographer

Edmonton, Alberta creative wedding day portrait shoot with the bride laughing while embracing groom against a background of the white sky

A newlywed couple embraced against a bright sky, the bride laughing joyfully in her husband's arms, as they posed for a creative wedding day portrait

Edmonton Wedding Portrait Alberta Edmonton embracing bride laughing white sky Alberta Photographer

Les Sables d'Olonne, Vendee, France Loving couple embracing moments after their surprise proposal

dirt path hiking trail outdoors Jeremie Sangare Vendee nature Les Sables dOlonne

Tennessee Black and white portrait of the couple in the middle of the woods in the mountains of Great Smoky Mountains National Park

nature monochrome Bryan Aleman bw forest tennessee engagement photo bw engagement portrait

Poleymieux au Mont D'Or pre-wedding photoshoot of embracing couple

bw pre wedding photo fields rural bw portrait ideas black & white pics Castille Alma embracing

District of Columbia pre wedding and engagement photography in Washington DC of A couple embracing with their puppy under a willow tree

Brittany Diliberto Washington DC puppy District of Columbia willow tree dog Washington DC engagement photography

Chicago, Illinois artistic wedding photo from after the Ceremony when all was Quiet

After the ceremony, when all was quiet, an artistic wedding photo was taken of the couple in a formal session, embracing each other tenderly and touching faces

faces Illinois chicago wedding photographer post ceremony artistic wedding photo embracing formal session

United Kingdom wedding picture of the groom with his mother embracing each other at the Manchester Town Hall

United Kingdom mother United Kingdom reportage weddings UK embracing uk wedding reportage United Kingdom wedding reportage

French civil wedding photography from the Town Hall of Nîmes France showing guests Embracing the couple

French wedding image guests Town Hall of Nîmes french weddings Ludovic Lieffrig embracing French civil wedding

Villa Garavaglia, Cortona artistic wedding photo taken as the bride embraces the groom from behind, they are inside a tunnel covered with flowers while the sun filters through the branches

A beautiful wedding photo is captured as the bride wraps her arm around the groom from behind, surrounded by a tunnel of flowers with sunlight peeking through the branches

Romantic wedding photo Villa Garavaglia Villa Garavaglia wedding embracing the groom Cortona wedding photo Cortona Cortona outdoor wedding

This couple dress up to walk around town for their engagement session before a dinner date out together in downtown Portland, OR

downtown Portland OR embracing formal wear Samantha Moore pre wedding location Portland Portland engagement session

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