Wedding Photos of Emotional Father

The following “Emotional Father” 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 “Emotional Father” 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.

In Lake Tahoe, California, the emotional father of the groom stands behind his son during the ceremony, quietly wiping away a single tear in a powerful moment of pride and love.

A Father's Quiet Tear: Pride and Love Behind the Groom in Lake Tahoe

Poland, outside the church, is where the emotional father of the bride gently wipes a tear from his eye just moments before walking his daughter down the aisle.

Poland: Emotional Father Wipes a Tear Before Walking Daughter Down the Aisle

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Amares, Portugal: The emotional father of the bride sheds tears as he gives away his daughter during the wedding ceremony.

A Mares, Portugal Father Cries Giving Away His Daughter

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In Atlanta, bride shares emotional moment with dad, who cries while seeing her before the wedding ceremony,

Bride Shares Emotional Moment With Crying Dad Before Atlanta Wedding Ceremony Begins

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At Banyan Tree On The Bund, Shanghai, the groom’s father looks emotional while his mother wipes tears during the heartfelt wedding ceremony.

Emotional Parents Witness Heartfelt Ceremony at Banyan Tree On The Bund, Shanghai

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Ameglia, La Spezia: Emotional father and daughter portrait at a beautiful wedding.

Ameglia, La Spezia: Emotional Black-and-White Father and Daughter Embrace in a Beautiful Wedding Portrait

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At Crooked Willow Farms in Larkspur, an emotional father is captured during his first look with his daughter, embodying the deep love and joy of the wedding day.

Emotional Father Captured in First Look with Daughter at Crooked Willow Farms Wedding in Larkspur

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Emotional father at wedding in Beijing's Ritz-Carlton

Emotional Father Witnesses Wedding at The Ritz-Carlton, Beijing Ceremony

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A tearful father during a beautiful wedding ceremony in Ithaca, NY, with guests seated in the glowing sunlight.

Tearful Father at Beautiful Ithaca Wedding Ceremony

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At the Marriott Hotel in Brookline, Massachusetts, a touching scene unfolds as the father embraces the bride upon seeing her in her wedding dress for the first time, conveying deep emotion and pride.

Father Emotionally Embraces Bride at First Wedding Dress Reveal at Marriott Hotel, Brookline, Massachusetts

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Father sheds tears as he gazes at his daughter on her wedding day at Symondsbury Estate in Dorset.

A Father's Love: Emotional Glimpse into Memorable Wedding Day at Dorset's Symondsbury Estate

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The beautiful bride stands at the trees in the sunlight as her emotional father lovingly escorts her down the aisle at Kilkea Castle in Kildare, Ireland.

Ireland's Kilkea Castle: Where Love and Nature Meet at a Memorable Wedding

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Father sees daughter before the ceremony and becomes emotional seeing her dressed as a bride at the beautiful Maria's Garten in Araquari, Santa Catarina, captured by an award-winning WPJA photographer.

Emotional Father-Daughter Moment at Maria's Garten

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A touching moment captured at Cielo at Castle Pines, Castle Rock, Colorado - a new stepson gazing up at his stepmother during their first dance, while the emotional father watches on.

Family Bonds: A Stepson's First Dance at Cielo at Castle Pines

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Washington DC based wedding and event photography at the Thompson Hotel, capturing A father receiving a letter from his daughter on her wedding day

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Best Bodrum, Turkey wedding venue photography depicting Bride and her father and a picture on the wall

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Oxfordshire UK father gets emotional seeing his daughter in her dress

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Father gets emotional as he says the bride inter wedding dress before the wedding ceremony in Oakwell Hall

Father gets emotional as he sees the bride in her wedding dress

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