Wedding Photos of Emotional

The following “Emotional” 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” 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.

Spain photography of a Toledo - Castilla La Mancha wedding Real emotional crying family moment at getting ready

Toledo - Castilla La Mancha - Spain BW photo from a wedding moment of the First emotional real moment after marriage

real moment wedding moment Castilla La Mancha weddings Spain BW photo marriage emotional Toledo photographer

Muggia, Trieste, Italy wedding image from Emotional speeches during the ceremony

Muggia bride and groom Muggia ceremony Italy trieste photographer speeches

Berkeley City Club wedding ceremony moment photo showing the bride's childhood and lifelong friend who just gave a powerful and emotional speech. She then sits down and uses her husband's necktie to wipe her eyes

lifelong friend bride necktie eyes wipe Berkeley photographer Berkeley

Punto de Vista, Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica emotional ceremony moment pic created as bride wipes tear from her soon to be wife

bride Punto de Vista tear moment Manuel Antonio wedding venue Costa Rica

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

outdoor Reception Venue Grey Crossing venue bride Grey's Crossing CA wedding photo speech moment

The Venue at Lenoir City wedding day moment of love image from TN created as The mother of the groom gets emotional after a dance with her son at the wedding reception

The Venue at Lenoir City wedding reception Tennessee moment mother of the groom United States love

Isola d Elba emotional wedding day photo of father and daughter outdoors in Italy

outdoors Tuscany Isola d Elba wedding venue emotional IT wedding Elba Island Italy

Seine-et-Marne emotional wedding image showing strong emotions at the outdoor ceremony

emotional Charline Eberhardt Seine-et-Marne France Seine et Marne wedding image emotions outdoor ceremony

Portmeirion, Wales wedding image of emotion and love with an Emotional groom during speeches

Wales wedding image speeches Portmeirion Gwynedd bride and groom emotion Wales groom

Lisbon loving wedding moment created as the The bride greets her emotional grandmother after getting married

portugal bride married bride Lisbon wedding Portugal loving moment

Nantucket Island emotional wedding day moment of a MA Bride and her father sharing an emotional and tearful hug before the ceremony

tearful MA bride hugs before ceremony emotional Nantucket Island father

Nantucket Island emotional wedding day moment of a MA Bride and her father sharing an emotional and tearful hug before the ceremony

Nantucket Island father bw hugs hug emotional Massachusetts

Church in Croydon, UK wedding photo displaying an emotional long distance guest watching the live stream of the wedding ceremony

long distance UK wedding photo emotional live stream zoom Emil Boczek guest watching

North Carolina wedding photo from South Nags Head showing the Bride is emotional as she dances with her father

father tented reception Outer Banks North Carolina wedding photo Neil Thurston dances emotional

Wedding photo from California - Emotional father-daughter dance as the bridal party parties around them

Outdoor wedding photo California emotional parties bridal party father daughter dance

Outdoor France wedding photo from Domaine de la Chesney, Pressagny-l'Orgueilleux during a moment of emotional hugs after the ceremony

Outdoor emotional France wedding photo France Domaine de la Chesney ceremony hugs

Spain Wedding ceremony of the bride wiping the tears of her son as he became very emotional

Spain bride with groom emotional wiping Spain tears Spain wedding couples bride

French bride hugs her emotional father on one of the biggest days of her life

french France FR Jerome Villard emotional bride France bridal photo

French town hall image of the bride and groom emotional to get married in this COVID period

French town hall COVID get married coronavirus french bride French bridal photo groom masked

Mersin Silifke Turkey wedding photo of the bride surrounded by guests and live musicians - Bride and her father's emotional goodbye moment

Turkey wedding photo Silifke bride father live musicians bride emotional

Teton National Park photo of the bride getting emotional during outdoor ceremony

Teton National Park photo Teton National Park ceremonies outside bride outdoor ceremony Teton National Park Teton National Park outdoor weddings emotional

At the end of the ceremony, the bride got very emotional and started crying in the groom’s arms at a Church in Ansião, Pombal, Portugal

Pombal photographer Ansião groom Portugal Pombal church wedding Pombal arms

Scicli Beach La Fornace Italy wedding image of an outdoor Emotional Hug

beach emotional hug Italy Scicli Beach La Fornace bw

Groom and dad have emotional moment | The Bell, Broughton, Shropshire wedding day image

moment emotional Groom and dad Shropshire bw Broughton photographer The Bell

The groom comforts his emotional grandmother at Avrig Church wedding ceremony

groom emotional Transylvania photographer Avrig Church Palm Sunday Church wedding ceremony

an emotional hug between the grandmother and the bride before leaving home to go to the ceremony in Milan

milan bride wedding ceremony Milan bw hug emotions emotional

The Mere, Knutsford wedding image of a family in an emotional hug

Cheshire UK wedding reportage image The Mere family hug Mere Knutsford emotions

Bahamas Wedding Chapel Photography | The brides daughter and grooms daughter hug as rings are presented

The brides daughter and grooms daughter hug during the ceremony

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bride and groom with son happy teardrop

Safari Lodge Zandvoort netherlands weddings bride groom Jess van Ruiven wedding venue Noord Holland wedding photographer

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