Wedding Photos of Holding

The following “Holding” 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” 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.

The bride is holding her dress in the harsh winter wind at Kasteel Daelenbroeck near Herkenbosch

Ceremony venue of France wedding photo of the bride getting kissed while holding her flowers

France wedding photo France bridal photo France Ceremony venue flowers France bride

a Couple holding each other in Pobłocie Wielkie during engagement shoot

Pobłocie Wielkie engagement photographers Pobłocie Wielkie pre wedding session Pobłocie Wielkie holding a couple each other

Auch, protestant church, France wedding image of Dad holding his daughter and both are crying

Dad holding protestant church bw daughter Occitanie Auch bride

Cachoeira das Andorinhas - Cidade de Goiás - Engagement Couple Session

Cachoeira das Andorinhas engagement photographer Cachoeira das Andorinhas pre wedding portraits cave Cachoeira das Andorinhas engagement photos holding Cachoeira das Andorinhas e shoot

North Rhine-Westphalia Engagement Photography - Image contains: couple, field, grass, ocean, water, beach, trees, holding, hands

Engagement Photography with a couple in an open field

grass water North Rhine Westphalia engagement photographers North Rhine Westphalia hands ocean

Aachen, NRW Engagement Photo of a Couple - Portrait contains: black, white, holding, looking, concrete, wall

Engagement Photo of a Couple in black, white, and holding each other

looking white Black pre wedding session Aachen Aachen holding wall

Bulgaria Engagement Photo Session - Portrait contains: love, holding, glass, reflect, windows

Engagement Photo Session with glass, and reflect

love windows glass reflect pre wedding location Bulgaria Bulgaria engagement session holding

Porto Cesareo Engagement Photography Session - Image contains: railing, leaning, black, jackets, holding, sunlight

Porto Cesareo Engagement Photography of a couple on a railing in black jackets

Black Porto Cesareo sunlight railing holding engagement photo Porto Cesareo

Cappadocia pre wedding session at the sunrise with hot air balloons

Hot air balloons Turkey carry her Cappadocia engagement session Cappadocia holding

Wyndham Ankara wedding photography – Groom is holding the bride from her hip just next to the wall with flower mural and highlighted with an orange colour

wedding photo of the Groom holding the bride from her hip just next to the wall with flower mural and highlighted with an orange colour

Ankara wedding photo wall flower mural Ankara Wyndham groom orange

the bridesmaids holding the veil

Chateau Valeč wedding venue photo veil the Bridesmaids holding

Bride, holding bouquet is getting out from the wedding car

ankara weddings bride the wedding car Ankara wedding photography ankara wedding venues bouquet

Goiania, Brasil Engagement Photo Session in the middle of the road, the burned cornfield and the approaching storm. Like in a dramatic movie!

scenic Goiania corn fields grass fields holding Brasil carry

the bride holding the groom's arm to walk down the stairs in their parents' old apartment

holding taiwan wedding Taiwan the Bride apartment The groom Taiwan wedding image

Ouro Preto, MG Engagement Session - Couple holding each other in the afternoon sunlight

sunlight holding sunshine MG wedding couple MG pre wed light

Seattle, Washington Pre Wedding Photo Session - Man holding onto his fiancée as surfers are in the background

background Washington Pre Wedding WA WA Photo Session surfers Washington

Guests watch as the bride and groom dance in Caracas holding champagne in this black and white documentary wedding photo captured by a Miranda, Venezuela photographer.

Guests watch as the bride and groom dance holding champagne in this black and white documentary wedding photo

Caracas Caracas small wedding black and white documentary wedding groom Caracas wedding photographer bride

Alberta, Canada Engagement Photographer captured this photo of a couple kissing in a field

scenic couple kissing Alberta farming alberta pre wedding portrait farm

A couple sits on the floor holding a painting while a string of lights shaped into a heart lays on the floor in front of them for their pre-wedding photoshoot by a Hualien County, Taiwan photographer.

Hualien County Taiwan floor holding string of lights painting

A Saigon couple can be seen holding each other in this engagement photo taken through purple flowers by a Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam photographer.

A couple can be seen holding each other in this engagement photo taken through purple flowers

purple flowers holding Saigon Ho Chi Minh Vietnam PreWedding Photography Vietnam

A couple can be seen holding each other by the beach in this engagement photo captured through palm fronds by an Alicante, Valencia photographer.

palm tree palm fronds palms holding beach Valencia

A woman stands holding the large shadow of a man's chin on Orgigia Island during their engagement photoshoot by a Syracuse, Sicily photographer.

Orgigia Island mans chin woman large shadow stands holding

Engagement shoot of a young couple in love in Carrara, holding two small dogs as they kiss.

Engagement shoot of a young couple in love in with two small dogs as they kiss

holding Carrara dogs kiss love

Chennai pre-wedding Photo session - Holding together, walking the beach together, forever.

The couple held each other close as they walked in the surf during their pre-wedding photo session, the beach providing a beautiful setting for their forever together

walking walking in surf holding beach Chennai pre wedding photo Chennai Engagement Photographer

Palmi wedding photograph from a game during the dinner with couples holding apples between their heads

Palmi wedding image from a game during the dinner with couples holding apples between their heads

Palmi wedding couples heads apples Palmi holding game

Otaki Rose Garden weddings - Love from the back. Photo of the bride hugging a Woman holding a photograph of a man

Otaki Rose Garden weddings image of Love from the back of the bride hugging a Woman holding a photograph of a man

bride Otaki Rose Garden man garden wedding Otaki bw Takafumi Iikura

Mont Du Soleil, Kalista, Australia wedding photograph of the bride holding and the hand of a woman seated in her wheelchair

Australia wheelchair bride Mont Du Soleil Gaelle Le Berre Kalista bride woman

Reggio Calabria documentary wedding photo of bride holding her dress on a hanger

Sophisticated Elegance: A Radiant Bride in Reggio Calabria

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Brooklyn wedding photographer captured this black and white portrait of the bride and groom embracing as the sun shines down through a window

smile black and white portrait holding groom sun bride

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