Wedding Photos of Hugs

The following “Hugs” 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 “Hugs” 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.

Wake Forest, NC marriage reception party award-winning photo that has recorded Bride hugging her mother at the end of her wedding day

Markus Ribs Society, Istanbul marriage reception party award-winning photo that has recorded emotions right after maid of honor's speech

Istanbul photographer bw Nilufer Nalbantoglu Markus Ribs Society speech maid of honor marriage reception venue

Istanbul marriage reception party award-winning photo at Markus Ribs Society that has recorded best friends forever hugs

Nilufer Nalbantoglu bridesmaids hugs Markus Ribs Society friends bw bride

Biarritz outdoor marriage ceremony award-winning image showing congratulations time

Biarritz photography flowers green dress hugs outdoor marriage ceremony Charline Eberhardt Biarritz

Fremont nuptial day award-winning image of vidaii hugs

Fremont nuptial day CA Wedding Photography hugs bw Fremont Fremont bride

France marriage preparation time award-winning picture capturing the First look by mother after the bride got ready

France marriage preparation time MOB first look France Bride bride getting ready

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

Rome friends Borgo della Merluzza pool drinking hugs

Giardino Viatori couple e-shoot in Gorizia, Italy with some Hugs and flowers in the trees

flowers Giardino Viatori hugs Gorizia trees Italy

France couple e-session at Lac Saint Apollinaire with hugs by the lake at the edge of the tree forest

lake tree forest Lac Saint Apollinaire edge France couple Lac Saint Apollinaire engagement hugs

Quiberon, France wedding photography showing a Hug between the bride and her grand mother

Quiberon bride Quiberon France Quiberon wedding grandmother Patrick Lombaert hugs

The Lombardi House, Los Angeles, California wedding photo showing Tears run down on the grooms face as he hugs his grandmother

Los Angeles tears hugs Lombardi House Los Angeles bride LA outdoor ceremony grandmother

A top Czech wedding photographer in Beskydy captured this picture of Congratulatory hugs outdoors after the ceremony

outdoors after ceremony hugs Czech wedding photographer Beskydy Czech congratulatory

True Love Engagement Portrait Session in Slovenia showing a couple in BW with some great Hugs and smiles

hugs bw couple embracing Slovenia bride to be smiles engagement portrait session

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Trieste showing a couple having some Hugs at sunrise

Trieste hugs Trieste bride to be couple pre wedding portrait session sunrise

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Naples illustrating a couple below reflected towering buildings

framing hugs hugging buildings towering reflected Naples PreWedding Portrait

Maceió, Alagoas on-location portrait e-shoot created as a man hugs his bride-to-be on a rooftop

Maceió photographer hugs Maceió Monica Guimaraes bw Alagoas on location portrait man

Perth environmental engagement e-session with some black and white hugs

perth embrace Jacob Gordon bw australia wedding photography Perth engagements hugs

France environmental engagement e-session while the couple dream in the bamboo

tall grasses hugs France France e session French photographer Kerry Morgan

Chamonix Mont Blanc France wedding reportage image of a grandma and the groom holding each other

bw holding grandmother groom grandma Chamonix Mont Blanc Mont Blanc

Villa Di Bagno - Bancole - Mantova wedding reportage capture of the sister of the groom after she has made his daughter fall asleep, the groom approaches the baby and the sister with a sudden hug, hugs both of them

baby hugs sister villa di bagno asleep Bancole bw

Burano pre - wed image with some urban hugs, Smiles and colors

Burano urban colorful buildings hugs architecture

Joe Mann Best wedding moment photograph from The Netherlands captured as the Bride hugs father who suffers from dementia

netherlands bride Eindhoven hugs father NL photographer Joe Mann Paviljoen Elke Teurlings

Northern Virginia backyard wedding moment image showing some Sisterly love - There is nothing more beautiful then the love of a sister

Northern Virginia touch Sisterly love sister Virginia backyard wedding image moment

Annapolis, Maryland emotion and love wedding moment photo showing the bride After the ceremony was over she grabbed her husband and just fell into his arms and cried

after ceremony husband emotion Maryland Annapolis wedding moment love Annapolis

Hasselt engaged couple picture session of hugs by the lake

hugs lake Hasselt Hasselt picture session monochrome bw black and white

Charente couple engagement pic session in a field

field trail France France engagement pic session rural Charente Charente couple

Nantucket Island emotional wedding day moment of a MA Bride and her father sharing an emotional and tearful hug before the ceremony

Nantucket Island wedding tearful before ceremony emotional father moment Massachusetts

Naples seaside couple shoot, holding each other on a a dock

Naples couple shoot Nautical holding sea dock hugs

Puglia pre wedding portrait session

white hugs cactus Outdoor portrait session Puglia Puglia pre wedding

Castellane, Alpes de Haute Provence pre wedding couple with Hugs during the session

session Provence pre wedding Castellane Castellane couple Jennifer Voisin hugs Alpes de Haute

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