Wedding Photos of Lanterns

The following “Lanterns” 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 “Lanterns” 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 the charming Beijing Wudaoying Hutong, this engaged couple showcased joy and playfulness while walking through the narrow alleyways for their portrait session.

Navigating Love in Beijing's Wudaoying Hutong: A Playful Engagement Portrait

A romantic wedding portrait captured at a Moselle wedding venue. The newlyweds stand forehead to forehead at night, holding lanterns at arm's length. A scene of love and intimacy on their special day.

Romantic Moselle Wedding Venue: Newlyweds Embrace Under Night Sky with Lanterns Aglow

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In Cappadocia, Turkey, a WPJA wedding photographer captured a pre-wedding photo session at an indoor location adorned with lanterns, providing beautiful lighting

Romantic Pre-Wedding Bliss: Capturing Love in Cappadocia's Lantern-Lit Haven

Cappadocia beautiful lighting off center framed lanterns Turkey Cappadocia engagement

The pre-wedding photo session in Istanbul, Turkey features a stunning display of vibrant colors illuminating the scene at the Suleymaniye Mosque

Istanbul, Turkey: Stunning Pre-Wedding Photoshoot at Suleymaniye Mosque with Vibrant Colors

Istanbul Lights Vibrant colors Istanbul PreWedding Portrait lanterns Suleymaniye Mosque

In Granada, Spain, couples often opt for creative pre-wedding portrait sessions, such as a photoshoot in a shop filled with hanging lanterns

In Granada, Spain, a couple in a lantern-filled pre wedding photoshoot

Granada Granada Engagement Photography Spain hanging lanterns Granada couple lanterns

After cocktail hour with friends, the couple took beautiful sunset and blue hour photos with lanterns outside their reception venue in Lynchburg, Virginia

The couple captured the romantic ambiance of the evening with their portrait illuminated by lanterns at their reception venue during the sunset and blue hour

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A couple carrying lit lanterns at dusk in an open field at Brookside Gardens for an outdoor lifestyle portrait session

A couple is featured in an image taken during a lifestyle portrait session with them carrying lit lanterns in an open field at dusk

Maryland Wheaton MD Maryland engagement photographer open field lanterns dusk portrait Brookside Gardens

Guests hang lanterns in the dining room and the lanterns match the color of the guest's clothing at the reception venue, kasteel wittenburg, wassenaar wedding

Guests hang lanterns in the dining room to decorate the reception venue for the wedding

Netherlands decorating dining room South Holland Wedding Photographer Wassenaar lanterns Zuid Holland

photo from the Luray Caverns created as the couple pose with their lanterns as if they are on a cave expedition

cave expedition Luray Luray Caverns Luray photographer Virginia Bee Two Sweet lanterns

Best France documentary wedding photography from Ferme Inharria during the The first dance under lanterns of light

lanterns Ferme Inharria wedding venue light Audrey Morisson France first dance Ferme Inharria

An impressive Hesse wedding image of the Germany couple indoors under lights and lanterns

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View this fine example of the best in the world wedding photography from Quimper, France at night during the Lanterns release party

France photographer France party Patrick Lombaert Quimper Night lanterns

An upscale Colorado wedding couple image at the Boettcher Mansion in Golden, CO resulting in creative nighttime portrait that combines the rustic lanterns at their venue

Boettcher Mansion Golden Boettcher Mansion lanterns CO bride and groom creative Lucy Schultz nighttime portrait CO wedding venue

Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado wedding couple artistic image session with lanterns surrounding the bride and groom on their foggy and snowy wedding day

Lucy Schultz lanterns RMNP wedding portrait artistic image session Bear Lake snowy wedding day Rocky Mountain National Park

Pre-Wedding Photo from İzmir, Turkey by the sea with lanterns

Pre-Wedding Photo by the sea with lanterns

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Engaged Couple Session | Taking a wander around China Town

Taking a wander around China Town for engagement pictures

Los Angeles Engagement Picture lanterns China Town Los Angeles weddings street

Ho Chi Minh Reception Venue portrait photo of love - Wedding couple photography in red with lights

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Castle Mierovo, Bratislava, Slovakia Bride and Groom portrait with soft, hanging lights at night

Photo by: Martin Almasi - Zvolen

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Key West engagement photos - Underwater lights at night

Key West engagement photos with Underwater lights at night

Key West FL pre wedding session Key West Night Key West engagement photographers lanterns

Engagement Portrait from Da Nang - Image contains: silhouette, couple, lanterns, lights, spotlight

Engagement Portrait from Da Nang with a silhouette, couple, lanterns, lights, spotlight and some dramatic love

Lights silhouette spotlight couple lanterns Da Nang

Engagement session picture was taken at Hoi An

Vietnam urban Hoi An Vietnam engagement session Hoi An Engagement city

Westenhanger Castle, Kent wedding photograph showing a man putting up Lantern in a tree

Westenhanger Castle, Kent wedding photo showing a man putting up Lantern in a tree

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Pre-wedding portrait session in Hoi An Vietnam with multi colored lanterns

Pre-wedding portrait session with multi colored lanterns

Vietnam multi colored lanterns Hoi An

San Diego Engagement portrait session at dusk - teepee, lanterns and early evening for this couple shoot

An Engagement portrait session at dusk with a teepee, lanterns and early evening for this couple shoot

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Pre-wedding in Hoi An Vietnam with red and multicolored lanterns

The couple posed for their pre-wedding photos in front of a solid wall of red color, with red and multicolored lanterns adding a playful and festive touch to the images

multicolored red Hoi An PreWedding Photography Hoi An Vietnam lanterns festive

Da Nang Engagement Photograph with couple and Lanterns and a Silhouette

In the Engagement Photo, the couple was captured alongside lanterns and a silhouette, creating a contrasty and dark-toned image

Da Nang engagement photo silhouette Da Nang PreWed Photography Da Nang lanterns dark toned

Bride and groom getting ready to release lanterns outside at night in Greensboro, Vermont

the Bride and groom getting ready to release lanterns outside at night

Night outside Greensboro VT reception bride and groom lanterns Vermont Greensboro VT

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gown bride groom palms lanterns

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