Wedding Photos of Faces close

The following “Faces close” 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 “Faces close” 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.

Beautiful engagement portrait captured in Veneto, Italy, featuring the couple's faces in a close-up shot with the wind gently moving her hair, creating a monochromatic vintage look.

Veneto Couple's Close-up Captured in Classic Monochrome

Couple is laying in grass touching hands, showing off engagement ring at Chautauaqua Park, Boulder, Colorado, United States

A tight shot of the couple's faces showing off their engagement ring while lying in the grass captured in a pre-wedding portrait

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The experimental black and white composition of the New York engagement portrait captures the coming together of two individuals as one entity

A black and white engagement portrait captures two individuals as one, with a tight focus on their faces

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In Angers, France, the soon-to-be bride and groom look at each other laughing at sunset, as Their foreheads touch and their hands bring their faces together

the soon-to-be bride and groom look at each other laughing at sunset, as their foreheads touch and their hands bring their faces together

Audrey Dubessay Angers Photographer France faces close foreheads touching Angers

The Oise couple pictured with faces fitting together like puzzle pieces

The blissful intertwining of two hearts in a tender romance is depicted perfectly by couple engagement faces tightly fitting together like puzzle pieces

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France engagement images of a couple at a bar | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes photographer pre-wedding session

Engagement photo of a couple at a bar, sitting at table, faces close together

France Bar engagement sitting at table Puy de Dome Engagement Photography faces close Puy-de-Dôme

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