Wedding Photos of Holding hands

The following “Holding hands” 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 “Holding hands” 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.

CR True Love Engagement Portrait Session at the Doka State in Alajuela, Costa Rica displaying a couple Shot from above of the couple holding hands on a garden

True Love Engagement Posed Portrait at the Calle Terraplen in San Miguel de Allende capturing the striking colors of the walls with a fun pose

mexico Engagement holding hands walls San Miguel de Allende Mexico pose Jorge Alcala Goded

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session at Foothills Parkway in Tennessee capturing a couple Holding hands admiring the beautiful scenery of foothills parkway

couple parkway Foothills Parkway TN PreWedding Portrait clouds foothills Bryan Aleman

Engagement Picture Session in Panama City showing a couple Walking holding hands in the jungle

Panama City couple holding hands Panama Engagement Picture Panama forest tiger jungle

Sky Ranch Lodge, Sedona Arizona wedding photography showing Brides mother, father, and bridesmaid watch on during wedding ceremony

Sedona Sky Ranch Lodge Arizona wedding photography outdoor wedding ceremony bridesmaid outdoors father

True Love Engagement Portrait Session in Siracusa displaying a couple walking over the bridge during sunset at Spring in Sicily

spring Siracusa walking Sky arches holding hands

San Francisco on-location portrait e-shoot - I'm so glad to be walking through this journey together with you

rocks San Francisco walking beach CA Photographer waves

San Francisco environmental engagement e-session with a Juxtaposition of holding hands couple in the city

glass CA couple holding hands SF couple streets doors SF

Old Montreal, Canada environmental engagement e-session with the couple holding hands in the city

Canada Canada engagement e session Montreal couple Old Montreal photographer concrete streets

Punta Sabbioni, Cavallino-Treporti, Venice, Italy on-location portrait e-shoot with a couple that will give you something spontaneous, cute and beautiful to photograph

Italy portrait e shoot Punta Sabbioni holding hands spontaneous blue sky Italy dancing

Lyon, France environmental engagement e-session at a botanic garden

French couple e session Lyon holding hands Botanic Garden grass greenhouse

Donner Lake on location portrait e shoot of a couple walking along the beach holding hands

Sierra Nevada portrait couple Lake Tahoe walking lake lake

Taíba portrait e-session - couple walking on beach with a dog

Taíba Brazil photographer sand pets holding hands Taíba couple beach

Halsweh Quarry Park Christchurch environmental engagement e-session of the couple dancing

couple quarry holding hands park Christchurch Liz Robson Christchurch engagement

Crete Senesi, Siena portrait e-session of a couple holding hands with the hills and valleys as a backdrop

Italy couple hills valleys Siena Portrait holding hands Siena

Volunteer Landing Park, Knoxville on-location portrait e-shoot - the couple holds hands at the park with the Henley Street Bridge and the Tennessee River as their background

TN engagement image Henley Street Bridge background Knoxville couple portrait park water TN

Volunteer Landing Park, Knoxville environmental engagement e-session of the couple standing by one of the park trees holding hands while people are walking by

Knoxville engagement Knoxville holding hands trees Bryan Aleman walking couple standing

Volunteer Landing Park, TN environmental engagement e-session of a couple walking through the park as they hold hands

TN Engagement holding hands park Knoxville Knoxville couple Tennessee bw

Central Park, New York City on-location portrait e-shoot of couple framed under the opening of an overpass

nyc Casey Fatchett New York City couple portrait NYC couple Central Park photographer opening Central Park

Assis Chateaubriand portrait e-session of couple at sunset holding hands in a field

Assis Chateaubriand Assis Chateaubriand Photographer sunset portrait walking in field holding hands Heloisa Todescatt

Restaurant Shtastlivetsa, The Happy man, Sofia Artful Engagement Picture with The groom to be is holding the hand of his fiancée

Restaurant Shtastlivetsa Tatyana Chohadjieva restaurant Sofia engagement photographer windows holding hands

Boituva Pre Wedding Photoshoot for a sunset couple portrait

sunset Boituva couple holding hands field Silhouette portrait Boituva

Central Park, NYC Pre Wedding Photoshoot with a Kiss under cherry blossom tree

NYC couple holding hands couple kissing cherry blossoms nyc Central Park

Paris Montmartre Fine Art Pre Wedding Portraits while walking through town past La Maison Rose

Montmartre La Maison Rose streets Henri Deroche city couple walking Paris

J V Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Fine Art Engagement Image showing they Love in two layers

monochrome bw trees Tyler Vu holding hands J V Fitzgerald Marine Reserve black and white

Perth Artful Engagement Picture of a young couple in BW Laughing together

holding hands black and white Jacob Gordon monochrome bw Perth couple shoot tree

Jaen couple engagement pic session at Hotel Noguera de la Sierpe in Arroyo Frío on the wooden dock at the water, sitting and holding hands

Jaén engagement photographer Arroyo Frío wooden dock Jaén holding hands Hotel Noguera de la Sierpe

Golden Gate Canyon State Park pre - wed image of the Couple walking and holding hands

couple walking colorado engagement photographer holding hands Shea McGrath Golden Gate Canyon State Park

Muggia, Trieste, Italy beach couple photography session before the wedding day

Open sky beach couple photography session before the wedding day

Muggia photographer Trieste beach engagement holding hands Italy Muggia

Ambar, DC indoor photo session with the couple before the wedding day sitting at a table and holding hands

Black and white, artsy indoor photo session with the couple before the wedding day sitting at a table and holding hands

sitting at table DC engagement photographer Johnny Shryock bw monochrome black and white laughing

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