Wedding Photos of Looking

The following “Looking” 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 “Looking” 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.

Adventurous and scenic Pigeon Forge engagement session for The couple holding hands and looking at each others eyes with trees in the background

World's top and most original Cortona wedding portrait photography with a generation in comparison, on the first floor the father of the bride waiting for his daughter for the first look, while inside the house, the groom looking out waiting

inside daughter bw first look Tuscany Italy looking

Pre-wedding engagement image-session in Morancez, France of the couple in an open field holding hands and looking at each other

Morancez France couple open field France photography Ilhan Celebi holding hands looking

England wedding day prep image of the Bride getting ready, looking into the mirror

east yorkshire prep image mirror bride East Yorkshire artistic weddings getting ready England

It was a pretty looking sunset over the city line and we found a quiet spot to do just that

Ryan Ng Singapore wedding Singapore brides looking Singapore wedding photography sunset city line

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

Black NRW concrete holding white Aachen engagement photos Aachen

Taormina Engagement Portrait Session - Image contains: mountain, view, top, looking, down, bird, beach

Taormina Engagement Portrait Session with a mountain view

beach down Taormina Mountain engagement session Taormina Mountain bird view

Boston, MA Couple looking at each other while posing for their engagement session photos

MA Boston pre wedding portrait stare posing engagement photos Boston looking traditions

Medina de Rioseco Engagement Photographer - Portrait contains: high, above, angle, looking, down, couple

high looking Medina de Rioseco engagement photographer down couple

The bride was looking at something on the phone

Toronto Toronto wedding image Toronto photography phone Canada the Bride

Chicago wedding photograph of ring bearer with a Sweet Tooth, looking at the cake

Chicago wedding image of ring bearer with a Sweet Tooth, looking at the cake

ring cake gaze Sweet tooth Chicago bearer IL image

a boy looks at the beautiful bride curiously in Lintong District, Shaanxi Province, China.

Photo of a a boy looking at the beautiful bride curiously in Lintong District, Shaanxi Province, China

beautiful bride China looking boy Lei Zhao Shaanxi Province Shaanxi getting ready

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