Wedding Photos of Guest

The following “Guest” 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 “Guest” 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.

Best Buitenland wedding photojournalism picture showing a guest enjoying food near the bride and groom

Rome wedding reportage photographer captured this moment of a guest invited to the wedding dances

Giuseppe Voci Italy dance floor wedding dances guest Rome wedding reportage reception venue

World's best and most unconventional wedding photography from Sheraton Hotel, Romania showing A guest is photographing the wedding cake

Romania wedding photography Sheraton Hotel weddings Sheraton Hotel romania wedding venue guest wedding cake

A California documentary wedding photographer at The Mountain Terrace captured this picture of a guest Dancing away with the exhilarated crowd in Woodside

exhilarated dancing California The Mountain Terrace outdoor wedding picture California - Northern California documentary weddings

A top Cevennes documentary wedding photographer from France created this image While walking in nature the bride has taken her dress in a bramble, a guest comes to her rescue

bride gown Cevennes France wedding image guest dress Cevennes photographer

A top wedding photojournalist in Montrose, Colorado created this image of A wedding guest celebrating as another guest completes the limbo

guest wedding guest Colorado wedding photojournalist Night celebrating Colorado wedding image limbo

A top Colorado wedding photojournalism example from a beautiful Denver wedding venue displaying a guest keeping his wine glass upright as he spins around on the floor

Denver wine glass dance floor Colorado wedding photojournalism denver wedding venue spins Lucy Schultz. Colorado

This Masssachusetts wedding photojournalism picture is a top quality example of what candid, nontraditional Boston wedding photography looks like, as a guest performs a show for the bride and groom at Four Seasons Hotel

hotel Boston performs MA bride and groom Four Seasons Hotel show

View this imaginative Gemozac image of A guest preparing the wedding decoration which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in France from the WPJA

Gemozac image of A guest preparing the wedding decoration which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in France

Gemozac guest Gemozac wedding image Gemozac photographer wedding decorations France preparing

Parma, Italy outdoor church post-ceremony award-winning photo in the churchyard that hosts the wedding ceremony a refreshment point has been set up and a guest is about to scare the waiters ready to serve sparkling wine to everyone

churchyard Italy outdoor church wedding ceremony venue humor sparkling wine refreshment point Parma

Borgo della Merluzza, Rome outdoor marriage reception party award-winning photo that has recorded the bride getting her picture taken with friends whilst a guest in drinking in the foreground

cocktail hour guest bride drinking picture friends Rome photographer

Yorkshire, UK wedding reportage photography contest award winning candid moment at Robin Hoods Bay showing A guest tries his hand at limbo outdoors at the reception venue

Yorkshire reception venue limbo UK wedding reportage photography outdoor Reception Venue Robin Hoods Bay Patrick Mateer guest

Pennsylvania wedding reception image of a guest dancing as people throw dollar bills in the air in Boiling Springs

dollar bills guest throw air Pennsylvania wedding reception Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania wedding photography from the Westminster Preserve, Armstrong Farms, Saxonburg created as A guest shoos away 2 notoriously aggressive geese moments before the ceremony began

Westminster Preserve Pennsylvania wedding photo Saxonburg geese Armstrong Farms guest

Bangkok, Thailand fine art wedding detail pic of a guest - Don't worry, I'm ok at the after party

A guest at the after party was photographed in the bushes

Bangkok photographer shrubs Bangkok guest after party bushes Thailand

Paris wedding photography from a Reception venue of a guest during cocktail wiping himself with his mask

Lea Torrieri guest masks lockdown Paris Reception venue covid wedding cocktail

England wedding reportage photography from St Marys Meppershall, Hertfordshire of A guest in a dimly lit in a church wearing a mask enjoying a drink

St Marys Meppershall church Hertfordshire enjoying guest drink wearing a mask

Wedding photo form La Romieu, Gers, France - the couple and their guest singing and dancing

La Romieu France couple guest singing dancing wedding photo

England wedding detail image created as A guest decorates the groom's leaf

east yorkshire guest England groom decorates leaf Hollie Mateer

England creative wedding detail photo created as A guest picks up a flower pot smashed by the passing conga line

guest England detail photo flower pot Patrick Mateer conga line England england wedding

California beach wedding photography from Cupertino, CA showing A guest looking on as a bride and groom are wed in an intimate beach ceremony

intimate beach ceremony Cupertino California guest shoreline ceremony beach wedding

A Toulouse wedding photo from a Private place at La Romieu, Gers, France of a Guest looking at the ring of the bride

Gers France ring Toulouse wedding image toulouse weddings guest

Wedding photography from the Italy Venue Chalet del Parco - Milano showing A guest playing with bubble soap

Milano wedding children Francesca Zambrini guest Milano playing Chalet del Parco Italy Venue

Île-de-France Reception venue wedding image of Guests during cocktail hour

Île de France wedding coronavirus Île de France Île de France wedding photo cocktail hour guest mask

Wedding photo from a party reception in terras de bouro - amares - portugal of a guest drinking from a bottle

amares Portugal reception Portugal drinking Daniel Monteiro bottle Portugal wedding venue

A guest is mounting the "just married" writing before cake cutting in Italy

rome wedding Rome wedding photo just married mounting guest sign

Private place at La Romieu, Gers, France wedding Detail image of a guest's hairstyle

La Romieu fine art wedding image reception venue La Romieu hairstyle La Romieu wedding photographer France Gers

covid-19 masked guest wedding photo from France Quimper

COVID masks mask coronavirus Social Distance France door

wedding detail photography of the tattoo on guest's arm

tattoo arm uk wedding photography tattoo detail Fine art London Wiltons Music Hall

Radisson Blu Bosphorus Hotel, İstanbul wedding | image a child at the wedding touches the guest's face

guest touches Radisson Blu Bosphorus Hotel face Salih Ustundag child wedding

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