Wedding Photos of Intimate

The following “Intimate” 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 “Intimate” 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.

In a romantic scene at Crested Butte, CO, a groom lifts his bride amidst a vibrant field of wildflowers. This award-winning portrait captures the beauty of their wedding day in a scenic venue.

Crested Butte's Wildflower Serenade: Groom Lifts Bride Amidst Romantic Beauty

In Cappadocia, Turkey, this award-winning wedding portrait showcases a bride and groom embraced under a veil, with the desert sun illuminating their love. Hot air balloons dot the blue sky, creating a romantic backdrop.

Cappadocian Dream: Sunlit Love Embraces under Veiled Desert Sky

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In a romantic setting at Saint Vaast les Mello, France, a wedding photo captures a couple deeply in love, their emotions evident as they pose intimately, with gentle touch and soft, dark tones.

Intimate Embrace: A Captivating Wedding Portrait in Saint Vaast les Mello, France

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In a dimly lit Minnesota library, the bride and groom sit closely, their faces softly lit by a book light, captivated in an intimate scene on their wedding day.

Whispered Wedding Album Pages: A Captivating Minnesota Library Affair of Love

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Wedding photo captured at Burley Manor in Hampshire, UK. The bride and groom stand face-to-face, surrounded by grazing deer on a lush grassy landscape, bathed in gentle, low lighting.

Deer-kissed Eternity: Romantic Exchange Amidst Serene Hampshire Wilderness at Burley Manor

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Gently caressed against the stunning backdrop of Emerald Lake in Crested Butte, Colorado, a devoted groom affectionately embraces his wife, their love illuminated by the rim light, as they face each other on their wedding day.

A Romantic Embrace at Emerald Lake's Radiant Glow

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A Denver wedding photographer captured a stunning portrait of a silhouetted bride and groom at a private residence. The image features a subtle rim lighting, warm tones, and the couple facing each other.

Denver Dream: Silhouetted Newlyweds Embrace in Warm Rim Lighting Portrait

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A talented wedding photographer captured a beautiful portrait of a bride and groom at Dreams and Dragonflies in Windsor, Colorado. The couple is elegantly posed in front of an old barn, beautifully lit in a rustic setting.

Rustic Elegance: Dreams and Dragonflies Wedding Portrait in Windsor

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Wedding photo taken at Hacienda Sitio de Mata in Costa Rica, showing the Bride and Groom gazing at each other inside a beautiful gazebo, with the stunning view as a background.

Romantic Vista: Bride and Groom Lock Eyes in Costa Rican Paradise

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In Charente, the bride shares a heartfelt embrace with a friend after the ribbon cutting ceremony for her bouquet. A beautiful moment of love and joy captured on her wedding day.

Charente's Heartfelt Embrace - Intimate Love and Joy Captured

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Bride and groom embraced in a passionate rain-kissed scene against the stunning backdrop of Philadelphia City Hall. The urban setting, with its towering buildings, added a gritty and vibrant touch to this award-winning wedding day portrait.

Love Among Skyscrapers: A Rain-Kissed Portrait of Philadelphia City Hall

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An award-winning wedding day detail picture captured by an artistic photographer at Tinnakilly House, Ireland. It showcases the bride's henna decorated hands delicately holding a wine glass against the backdrop of her white robe, portraying getting ready.

Delicate Henna, White Robe: Ethereal Bride Prepares in Ireland

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In Baeza, Jaén, Spain, a pre-wedding walking portrait captures the couple at night, bathed in the glow of a photographer's light, creating an intimate and romantic atmosphere. - Night Stroll: Love Illuminated Brightly

Baeza, Jaén: Night Stroll – Love Illuminated Brightly

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A couple embraces the serenity of a boutique hotel in Sri Lanka for their destination wedding. In this striking black and white portrait, they share a tender kiss near a round window, just before their ceremony.

A Black and White Wedding Portrait in Sri Lanka

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In Budir, Iceland, a wedding photographer captured this image of a bride and groom walking away from the camera amidst strong winds, just as a storm loomed in the distance.

Budir breeze: Newlyweds embrace as stormy inspiration blows in Iceland

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An award-winning wedding day detail picture captures the intimate scene when a couple, after their portrait session, returns to their guests at Espace Maitena, Anglet, France, holding hands tightly.

La Main dans la Main: Espace Maitena, Anglet, France Wedding Bliss

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A wedding photographer captured a beautiful kiss at Santa Maria Assunta Church in Bargni, Italy. The award-winning image features a couple enjoying an intimate session inside their vintage car, shot through the front windshield from the outside

Bargni Bliss: A Vintage Kiss Immortalized Amidst Italian Elegance

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Award-winning wedding photographer captures the couple's intimate pose at Ambient Studio in Atlanta. The artistic silhouette portrait highlights their love against the backdrop of exquisite drapery.

Atlanta's Ambient Studio: A Silhouette Portrait Capturing Intimate Love

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A stunning wedding photo captured at Domaine de la Poudié, Tarn, France. The couple is elegantly framed through a chandelier on a balcony, creating a beautiful and intimate portrait.

Elegant Nuptial Portrait: Love Illuminated through Chandelier's Graceful Embrace

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In a forest, a couple embraces each other from behind, captured in a warm and intimate black and white portrait

Forest Love: Embracing Intimacy in a Serene Black and White Portrait

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In this stunning black and white image, this intimate couple is enveloped in a tender embrace, surrounded by the architectural beauty of Bergamo. Captured by a talented Bergamo wedding photographer

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In this enchanting portrait captured by a Lake Tahoe wedding photographer, a couple stands in the romantic setting of Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, embracing each other affectionately before their wedding day.

Enchanting Engagement at Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe: Embracing Love before the Wedding Day, Captured by a Talented Lake Tahoe Wedding Photographer

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In this pre-wedding session in Baeza, Jaén, Spain, a couple about to get married poses in a dark billiard hall with a red felt table, creating a romantic and intimate atmosphere

Romantic Engagement Bliss: Billiard Hall Love in Baeza, Jaén, Spain

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In Civita di Bagnoregio, captured is an intimate pose for a couple. Silhouetted against a sunset sky, their faces reveal the love they share at the end of a charming tree lined alley

Love Illuminated: A Romantic Engagement Portrait in Civita di Bagnoregio

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A picturesque wedding photograph at Les mariés au coucher du Soleil captures a beautifully composed scene as the couple shares an intimate sunset kiss, illuminated from behind, emitting a sense of romance

Les mariés au coucher du Soleil: Capturing a Romantic Sunset Kiss in a Picturesque Wedding Photograph

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Pierrick Roland is an artistic wedding photographer for Hauts-de-Seine (92)

Photo by: Pierrick Roland - Levallois-Perret Hauts-de-Seine (92)

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Honest and sincere emotions are on display in this wedding day picture created by an Alicante documentary wedding photographer showing an intimate and private hug for the bride

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Montpellier lifestyle couples portraits session in France with an intimate, private embrace at sunset

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A Parrano couple portrait in Umbria, Italy of them having an intimate moment in the sunset

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South Lake Tahoe wedding reportage photojournalist created this image at Tahoe Tastings as An intimate wedding party celebrates on The Legend yacht

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