Wedding Photos of Flight

The following “Flight” 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 “Flight” 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.

Wedding photo taken in Zermatt, Switzerland at Hotel Hemizeus & Iremia Spa. Groom is thrown into the air by his male friends with the Matterhorn and sunset as a stunning backdrop.

CAPTURED IN ZERMATT: Groom's Majestic Airborne Flight Over Matterhorn & Sunset

A top wedding photojournalist at the Rheinstein Castle created this image of a dove taking flight outdoors by the bride and groom

Trechtingshausen photographer Germany wedding photojournalist outdoors Rhineland Palatinate Rheinstein Castle Germany

View this pictorial Adana wedding day bride portrait outdoors with birds in flight, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Turkey from the WPJA

Adana wedding day bride portrait outdoors with birds in flight, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Turkey

Turkey Adana Adana wedding photography bride portrait outdoors blue sky Adana photographer birds

Pordenone, Italy wedding photography showing the Dove flight outside the church

Italy wedding photo outside dove Pordenone flight church

Turkey engagement portrait with a posed couple kissing under the birds in flight above Istanbul, Sultanahmet

sultanahmet bw birds Turkey Black & White bw engagement portrait

Cappadocia pre wedding session at the sunrise with hot air balloons in flight

flight Turkey Cappadocia engagement photos desert Hot air balloons Cappadocia

the moment of the bride's flight in the pool with the groom

Maurizio Gjivovich Roppolo wedding couples groom pool flight Tenuta Variselle Roppolo Roppolo wedding

The bride walks up a flight of stairs into the light in Caracas in this image created by a documentary-style Venezuela wedding photographer.

The bride walks up a flight of stairs into the light in this image

bride walks flight stairs light Caracas

WPJA contest judges have been recognized by their industry peers, winning top awards as staff picture editors, staff photojournalists, and newsroom mentors while working for these and other leading publications and journalism organizations.