Wedding Photos of Getting ready

The following “Getting ready” 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 “Getting ready” 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.

Knoxville, TN Wedding Photography | Image contains: black, white, getting ready, hair, bride

An old fashioned kissing of the hand moment captured in the reflection of a television on a wood paneled wall with a glimpse of a view behind the Bangkok wedding couple

getting ready color boards wood portrait tv

Shanxi Documentary Wedding Photographer | Image contains: bride, getting ready, wedding guests

Shanxi Documentary Wedding Photo of a bride, getting ready, and some wedding guests

color door chandelier curtains getting dressed getting ready doorway

Melbourne wedding photographer makes a black and white image of the bride getting the finishes touches applied to her makeup before walking down the aisle

black and white mirror women reflecting hair Melbourne reflection

Rome wedding photographer makes a picture of the bride making the final adjustments to her dress before the ceremony

trees window getting dressed Rome flowers tree reflection

Jacksonville wedding photographer captured this photo of the bridesmaids helping the bride lace up her dress as she lays laughing on the bed

Jacksonville wedding photo of the bridesmaids helping the bride lace up her dress as she lays laughing on the bed

getting readyc Color gown Jacksonville getting ready bridesmaids bride

The bride does her makeup while a woman holds a mirror for her in this black and white photo by a Milan documentary wedding photographer

bride mirror black and white veil Milan reflection getting ready

windows mirror reflection getting ready reflections black and white mirrors

detail flowers preparation face getting ready boutineer hands

Montpellier wedding photographer captured this black and white photo of the bride checking the mirror one last time and a bridesmaid checking her dress before they head to the Hérault ceremony

Montpellier mirror groom getting ready bride reflection preparation

Documentary Wedding Photography in London | Image contains: getting ready, girl, bride, hairspray, black, white, kids, children, flowergirl

Photo by: Lyndsey Goddard - London London

getting ready Lyndsey Goddard London hair girl bride black and white

Bangkok Wedding Photography | Image contains: ocean, color, deck, indoors, mirror, reflection, getting ready

water makeup deck mirror shadows make up color

Istanbul Documentary Wedding Photographer | Image contains: getting ready, mirror, reflection, indoors, bride, color

reflection getting ready Color hair face mirror

child getting ready getting dressed dress black and white boy

comb getting ready hands black and white hair

Wedding Photographer | Image contains: shack, makeup, getting ready, bride, silhouettes, sky

make up makeup sky water clouds silhouette getting ready

Last minute alterations to the bride's wedding veil and she bends to accommodate the seamstress in the doorway of her suite

getting dressed getting ready veil black and white dress bride

Photo by: Franck Boutonnet - Lyon

getting ready black and white dress tissue gown ring

Oklahoma wedding photographer caught the moment of the bride getting her dress laced up in this black and white photo

black and white reflecting getting ready white reflection bride

London wedding photographer gets a shot of the bridal party getting ready and enjoying a snack before the ceremony

food Color London windows reflection getting ready mirror

Jacksonville wedding photographer captured this photo of a flower girl getting her hair curled before the wedding ceremony

Jacksonville kid FL Color child getting ready chair

The bride and groom get ready in front of several mirrors in this wedding photo composed by a Bronx, NY photographer

frames reflections Color mirror getting ready reflecting

black and white mirror reflection preparation getting ready

black makeup getting ready black and white make up reflection

Zhejiang wedding photographer captured this black and white photo of the bride putting on her veil

window getting dressed dressing veil bride getting ready

Bytom Documentary Wedding Photographer | Image contains: dress, color, garter, bride, women, getting ready

Bytom wedding photographer Bytom weddings bride dress white getting dressed red

Italy Wedding Photographer | Image contains:

bride door black and white ring bearer flower girl sunglasses

Wedding Photographer in Slovakia | Image contains: getting ready, color, indoors, bride, dress, women, zipper

bridesmaid getting dressed getting ready dress bridesmaids bride mirror

make up closet makeup color getting ready

hands suit groom white getting dressed getting ready black and white

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