Wedding Photos of Listening

The following “Listening” 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 “Listening” 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.

Best Steamboat Springs, Colorado wedding photojournalism picture showing Bride and groom listening to speeches during the reception

A top Asia wedding photojournalism example from a beautiful Singapore wedding venue, Bayswater Kitchen Restaurant, demonstrating the Bride listening keenly to a speech while their slideshow played in the background

Bayswater Singapore wedding venue listening slideshow restaurant Asia Singapore bride

A France documentary wedding photographer captured this moment at the Church of Brouages of Kids listening to the ceremony

Elodie Ruelleux Dagorne kids listening priest religious ceremony church Church of Brouages

Big Sky, Montana nuptial day award-winning image of the groom getting emotional listening to bagpiper before processional

groom snow Montana wedding image bagpiper mountains trees

California outdoor, remote wedding photography from Tahoe City, CA showing The wedding couple listening to their officiant at their sunrise ceremony

outside wedding officiant listening open air wedding sunrise ceremony Tahoe City garden weddings

Sheraton Hotel Downtown Montreal wedding photographer: Groom was sitting listening to his friends and the light hit him perfectly here - love this type of light.

wedding photo of the Groom sitting listening to his friends and the light hit him perfectly

Sheraton Hotel Downtown friends Canada listening Downtown Montreal light groom

WPJA contest judges have been recognized by their industry peers, winning top awards as staff picture editors, staff photojournalists, and newsroom mentors while working for these and other leading publications and journalism organizations.