Wedding Photos of Hair

The following “Hair” 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 “Hair” 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 Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum, an ironic wedding image was created as two ladies on the dance floor mirrored each other, one woman's hands mimicking the movement of the other's hair

Two women mirrored each others hands/hair on the dance floor at Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum

In Moselle, the bride-to-be is portrayed looking away from her groom-to-be while her long hair swirls around her face

Lovely Moselle Engagement Photo: Bride-to-be's Hair Surrounds Her on Special Day

shadows hair Moselle engagement portrait black and white portrait Moselle

The groom in Colorado Springs, Colorado was getting the kids ready for the backyard wedding ceremony, making sure their hair was perfectly in place

The groom ensured the kids were ready for the backyard wedding ceremony, with hair brushed and tidy

boys getting ready getting kids ready Colorado hair Backyard Colorado Springs photographer bw Wedding

A Sichuan wedding photographer captured the scene of the bride prepping for the big day, with hair spray backlit in her home

At the Sichuan bride's home, she was making up, and the hair gel spray on her head was very beautiful in the light

bridal preparations Cheng Guo hair Sichuan Sichuan photographer Silhouette portrait Sichuan bride

A France Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, adventurous portrait of this Ile de France couple standing in a field

france wedding france engagement photographer hair wind field standing Patrick Lombaert

A Brittany Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, urban portrait of this France couple at Saint Cast on a beach

France blowing Patrick Lombaert Brittany Engagement Photographer wind France couple beach

An extraordinary Steamboat Springs wedding image by a professional Colorado photographer conveying the Bride having hair and makeup done before wedding

Steamboat Springs wedding image Colorado photographer makeup Autumn Parry Steamboat Springs hair Colorado

Best Vail documentary wedding photography from Colorado showing the The bride eating a burger while having her hair and makeup touched up

hair CO Vail wedding photography Colorado Vail touch up eating

An exceptional Santa Teresa wedding photojournalism sample by a professional Rio de Janeiro photographer at Solar Real event venue revealing the grooms issue with rice in his hair

groom rice Rio de Janeiro Solar Real event venue hair outdoor event venue Santa Teresa wedding photojournalism

A great wedding day image from Ancona of the Wedding rings resting on the hair of the bride

Italy wedding hair Ancona Ancona bride hair detail IT bridal

San Francisco wedding reportage photographer captured this moment created as Mother and aunt of the bride kill time during hair and makeup

makeup bride hair CA weddings MOB San Francisco

A Sevierville, TN documentary wedding photographer captured this image showing that Getting the last touches on her hair did not prevent this bride from feeding her baby

feeding baby Bryan Aleman Sevierville TN last touches Sevierville photographer

A wedding photojournalist in Zhejiang captured this moment of the bride and bridesmaid making up

bw Hao Pan bride bridesmaid making up Zhejiang photographer hair

World's most visionary and best wedding photography from Domaine de Verchant during Preparations for the bride and her hair

hair Preparations Castelnau le Lez France Occitane bride France wedding photography Occitane

Rockaway Beach pre-wedding engagement image-session in Queens, NY with the couples kiss at the sunset

Rockaway Beach Sky ny engagement image sun sunset NY couples kiss

An expressive San Francisco wedding day detail picture in Northern California resulting in a closeup study of the wedding ring

hair wedding ring San Francisco California - Northern table San Francisco wedding picture hands

Maceió, Alagoas outside environmental couple prewedding photoshoot with a man and woman on the beach, and the wind blows her hair

hair outside man and woman wind alagoas couple prewedding photoshoot Alagoas

Pagosa Springs, CO nuptial day award-winning image of Bride flipping her hair while walking through snow on her way to her outdoor ceremony

Colorado outdoor ceremony snow walking Colorado photographer Pagosa Springs CO

The Netherlands WPJA is proud to award this non traditional and modern Baarn wedding picture at Kasteel de Hooge Vuursche of the NL bride spraying her own hair before putting on her dress

Baarn dress Kasteel de Hooge Vuursche Netherlands NL bride spraying NL

Beijing marriage preparation time award-winning picture capturing Getting ready in BW

dress hair beijing bride getting ready flowers Beijing BEIJING photography

The Turkey WPJA is proud to award this non traditional and modern wedding image of a Bodrum Groom getting ready with help on his hair

hair Turkey Bodrum Bodrum Groom bw turkey wedding image

Eeklo marriage preparation time award-winning picture capturing the bride getting her hair fixed

hair Eeklo weddings Eeklo marriage preparation picture fixed at home bride

An expressive Moulins wedding day detail picture in France of the bride having her hair final touches applied

France Bride Moulins wedding picture final touches hair Moulins France

Overlook Golden Gate, San Francisco couple e-shoot above the bridge with her hair held up on the wind

bridge SF San Francisco couple Tyler Vu San Francisco Overlook Golden Gate wind

True Love pre wedding Photoshoot at El Valle in Panama of a couple hugging in a wind gust

Panama wind Panama pre wedding Photoshoot Panama couple hugging blowing El Valle

Maceió, Alagoas portrait e-session created as the woman smiles while her fiance is watching, and her hair is flying

Monica Guimaraes flying fiance Alagoas watching Alagoas photographer wind

Maceió, Alagoas environmental engagement e-session with a Man and woman smiling and dancing on the beach

Maceió photographer hair Alagoas man and woman dance Alagoas engagement e session Maceió

Santa Monica Pier Fine Art Engagement Image in the beach sunlight with a light wind

Santa Monica Pier beach CA engagement image sunlight wind Santa Monica couple hair

Malibu Fine Art Engagement Session near the water at sunset in the soft wind

CA couple water sunset Matei Horvath blowing hair wind

Agriturismo il Rigo creative couple wedding portrait is taken in the wheat field, during the summer the wheat is dry, the photo is taken from below while the wind moves the hair of the couple

couple wheat field summer Siena wheat Agriturismo il Rigo Siena wedding portrait

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