Wedding Photos of Father

The following “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 “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.

At the Gettysburg Hotel in Pennsylvania, the bride shared a special dance with her father, lit warmly by the flickering candles on the tables

The bride shared a touching father-daughter dance, lit by warm candlelight, at her hotel wedding

The bride on the dance floor with her terminally ill father, creating an emotional moment for all at the Chicago, Illinois reception

At the wedding reception, the bride shared an emotional moment with her terminally ill father by dancing together

father dance floor Chicago photographer dance floor Chicago FOB bride and father dance

Bride hugging her dad and mother of bride looking on at Colshaw Hall

The bride's warm embrace of her father and the mother of the bride's joyful gaze create a room filled with smiles and emotions of pure joy

Cheshire wedding photographer hugging mother father emotions Cheshire Colshaw Hall

Honest and sincere emotions are on display in this wedding day picture created by a Cesena, Italy documentary wedding photographer showing a moment of true love with the old father

Honest wedding day picture moment Emilia-Romagna Caterina Errani Italy emotions

Paris wedding documentary photographer created this image of the Bride embracing and dancing with her father during reception venue party outside

Paris party Lea Torrieri bride Paris wedding documentary photographer dancing embracing

A top Occitanie wedding photographer captured this picture of the son crying because he did not want his father groom pick up and wear a ring

France Children kids son Occitanie Marion Pomes father

A majestic St Lazarous Church wedding photography image from Larnaca, Cyprus showing the Bride approaching church with father as the pass the long black limo

St Lazarous Church Larnaca weddings FOB black limo Bride approaching church limousine

Birmingham, UK wedding documentary photographer created this image of a Muslim bride saying goodbye to her family, crying father in the background

family father UK bride Birmingham saying goodbye uk wedding photographer

Istanbul wedding documentary photographer created this image at Markus Ribs Society showing The bride and her father are getting the party started

Turkey Markus Ribs Society Turkey photographer Istanbul bride Istanbul wedding documentary father

An exceptional Owlerton, Nottinghamshire wedding image by a pro UK photographer at The Pumping House exhibiting The grooms nephews and his father presenting the rings to the couple during the marriage ceremony

presenting UK Photographer marriage ceremony Nottinghamshire groom father

An extraordinary Antwerpen wedding picture by a pro Belgium photographer revealing The grooms daughter hugs her father right before entering the outdoor ceremony

Antwerpen wedding picture father outdoor ceremony daughter Antwerpen Belgium Belgium photographer

A top Jackson, NH wedding photographer captured this picture at Whitneys Inn showing The bride and her father walking down the wooded aisle to the ceremony

Whitneys Inn New England wedding NH wedding photographer Jackson NH New England walking

A black and white Ferring, UK documentary wedding picture of the emotional father huggging his daughter, the bride

bride Ferring father Ferring bride UK documentary wedding emotional

World's most artistic and best wedding photography from Sichuan as The bride took her father's arm They were waiting for the wedding ceremony to begin and the curtain can form a simple composition and artistic details

Cheng Gu artistic Waiting Sichuan bride Asia China wedding photography wedding ceremony

World's most innovative and best Chengdu wedding photography from the moment of the ceremony When the bride comes out, the brides parents hold the skirt for her, the brides mother holds the brides hand, and the bride holds her fathers arm

holding Cheng Gu Chengdu arm brides parents holds Chengdu wedding photography

An Italian top documentary wedding photographer at Conti di San Bonifacio Gavorrano in Tuscany created this image showing The preparation of the bride, mother, grandmother, father and her dog

father preparation IT wedding photographer Maurizio Gjivovich Tuscany wedding image Italian documentary weddings bride

View this climactic, sensational Philadelphia wedding image the Couple looking back towards there guests as they watch the fireworks show that the grooms father had arranged for the reception

guests father night wedding JD Land reception Philadelphia photographer fireworks

A Formello wedding reportage photographer captured this yoga cat the bride and groom are walking past

cat FOB father Formello Francesca Vitulano yoga walking

This Kansas wedding photojournalism picture is a prime example of what candid, nontraditional Edgerton wedding photography looks like, as a young boy is receiving help from his father getting suited up as the ring bearer at Kansas Mildale Farm

Peggy Stevinson Bair Kansas Mildale Farm Edgerton young boy Kansas weddings Edgerton wedding photography

A top wedding photojournalist from France created this image of the brides church entrance with father

father church France FOB France wedding image church entrance Jerome Villard

This China wedding photojournalism picture is a first rate example of what candid, nontraditional Sichuan wedding photography looks like, as The bride is holding her father's arm while They are waiting for the beginning of the wedding ceremony

China Wedding Photojournalism Sichuan Sichuan bride Sichuan wedding photography wedding ceremony holding Cheng Guo

A wedding photojournalist in Amsterdam captured this moment as the Bride is walking towards ceremony with father

Amsterdam NL trees walking outdoor ceremony father NL photographer

A top wedding reportage photographer captured this picture at the Asylum Church in London as the Bride enters the chapel with her father the chapel was bombed in WWII

father bombed Asylum Church bride London Wedding Reportage Photographer London

A France wedding reportage photographer captured this moment showing the Bride jams the heel during garden party and her father helps her

jams party France Marion Pomes France wedding reportage photographer bride grass

BW pre-wedding engagement image-session in Albatera, Alicante with a car that belongs to the grooms father.

Albatera engagement image vintage groom Alicante photographer Albatera father car

Compton Verney getting ready for marriage award-winning picture capturing the Father seeing his daughter for the first time in her dress

UK marriage daughter bride getting ready dress Compton Verney father bw

Noord Brabant nuptial day award-winning image of a Young brides man jumping over water, as bridesmaid checks him out, father frowns

jumping Elke Teurlings father flower girl brides man NB Noord Brabant weddings

By the Lake barn, Romania indoor wedding reception party award-winning picture showing father of the groom and family under strings of lights

father wedding reception party indoor By the Lake barn family Romania photographer

Sweetheart Winery, Loveland nuptial day award-winning image. The wind blew fiercely and took the bride's veil eventually way up high into a tree

brides veil FOB father outdoor nuptials walking blew windy

Tenuta Pantano Borghese- Rome outdoor marriage ceremony award-winning image showing the bride is entering at the ceremony with her father

father bride Light & Dreams ceremony Rome entering Tenuta Pantano Borghese

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