Wedding Photos of Handshake

The following “Handshake” 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 “Handshake” 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.

Emotional moment captured in black and white at Benvenuto Banquet Facility in Boynton Beach, FL as groom shares a heartfelt handshake with his father, watched over by his adoring mother, just before the wedding ceremony begins, evoking a sense of family.

Father and Mother Witness Emotional Groom's Handshake Before Wedding at Benvenuto Banquet Facility

Father of the bride gives away his daughter and blesses them through a handshake at an outdoor Antwerpen Flanders Wedding Ceremony

At an outdoor wedding ceremony under a blue sky and a solo big tree, the father of the bride gave away his daughter and blessed them through a handshake

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A Worcestershire documentary wedding photographer captured this moment at The Wood Norton showing A hug between the bride and her mother and a handshake from the brides dad for the groom

Worcestershire mother brides Dad hug bride The Wood Norton

Wedding photography at Capitole, Toulouse, France with a Hello in 2020

elbow bump France handshake Hello Toulouse Toulouse wedding photo

A boy gives a man a strong handshake after the ceremony at Parish of Bl. Władysława in Warsaw in this wedding photo created by a Lodz documentary photographer.

A boy gives a man a strong handshake after the wedding ceremony

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Outdoor photo of groom and guest shaking hands while bride hugs woman

guests church Ribble valley hug handshake UK bride

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