Wedding Photos of Love

The following “Love” 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 “Love” 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.

Cap Ferret is the location where a couple's engagement session took place

Romantic Engagement Session in Cap Ferret: Love Found in Paradise

In an engagement portrait taken in Bellvue, Colorado, a couple can be seen standing on a rock and sharing a kiss

Romantic Engagement Portrait in Bellvue, Colorado: Couple Shares a Sweet Kiss on a Rock

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They decided to commemorate their engagement with a stunning portrait taken in Saratoga, capturing their love and happiness for eternity

Capturing Eternal Love and Happiness: Stunning Engagement Portrait in Saratoga

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A couple in Chartres can be seen cuddling on the sidewalk, capturing the beautiful essence of their love in their engagement portrait

Capturing the Beautiful Essence of Love: Couple Cuddles on Chartres Sidewalk for Engagement Portrait

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In Chartres, a couple embraces during the golden hour for their engagement portrait

Capturing Love in Chartres: Enchanting Engagement Portrait Embraces the Golden Hour

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A couple in Udine, Italy, embrace tenderly and share a romantic kiss on the face during their engagement portrait

Capturing the love: A romantic engagement portrait featuring a tender moment and a kiss in Udine, Italy

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A couple in Trieste, Italy, poses for an engagement portrait at sunset, capturing their love against a backdrop of cloudy skies

Romantic Engagement Portrait: Italian Couple in Trieste Poses at Sunset with Cloudy Skies as Backdrop

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The Baeza couple strikes a romantic pose as they dance on the steps of an old building, capturing the essence of their love in their engagement portrait

Capturing the Essence of Love: Baeza Couple's Romantic Engagement Portrait Dance

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Ravenswood Wedding Venue in West Sussex, England: Heartwarming image captures the brides expressing their love as they hold hands during their joyous wedding ceremony

West Sussex Wedding Venue: Brides express their love with a heartwarming hand-holding moment at Ravenswood

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Couple in wedding attire kisses in front of Château de Goudourville, with the castle gate in the foreground creating a picturesque frame for their affectionate embrace

Château de Goudourville offers a picturesque frame as a couple in wedding attire shares an affectionate kiss

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A wedding couple is captured in a portrait at Domaine de la Métairie du château, as the bride and groom share a kiss beneath a soaring veil

Domaine de la Métairie du château: Romantic Wedding Couple Captured in Portrait with Soaring Veil

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The Florence couple chose to capture their love in a picturesque countryside wedding portrait, embraced in the tall grasses, creating a breathtaking memory of their special day

Countryside Wedding Portrait in Florence: A Breathtaking Memory for this Florence Couple

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At The Woods at Eisler Farms in Butler, PA, the groom tenderly kissed the bride's shoulder as she became emotional during her maid of honor's speech

The groom kissed the bride's shoulder tenderly at The Woods at Eisler Farms, Butler, PA

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At Oaks Farm wedding venue in Croydon, Surrey, England, the newlyweds were elated with joy during the reception speeches

The couple were delighted during the speeches at Oaks Farm, Croydon, Surrey, England

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At the bride's family home in West Sussex, England, a pre-ceremony wedding image was created with the father of the bride expressing his joy and love as he saw his daughter in her bridal dress

The father of the bride proudly shared his love and joy at the West Sussex, England family home as he saw his daughter in her wedding dress

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A couple posed for their engagement shoot in Nimes, showing love and affection

Nimes Engagement Photos: A Display of Love and Affection

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At the beautiful Bunny Hill Farm in Yorkshire, United Kingdom, a breathtaking detail picture taken by a professional photographer captured a wedding guest playing mini golf at the wedding reception, with the course spelling out the word LOVE

A professional photographer captured a wedding guest playing mini golf at a beautiful farm, with the course spelling out the word "LOVE"

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At the Ferme de Bouchemont in Yvelines, France, couples exchanged rings to signify their love

The couple exchanged rings to symbolize their love and commitment

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The bride and groom celebrated their love with a kiss as they stood on a deck in the Italian coastal town of Lerici Ca Borghese, Liguria, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea with her veil over them

The bride and groom shared a romantic kiss overlooking the sea from a deck in a coastal town

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A couple posed for a save-the-date engagement announcement portrait at Venere Azzurra beach in Lerici, with love writing in the sand captured in a drone shot

Lerici, Venere Azzurra Beach: Engagement Announcement Portrait with Drone Shot of Love Writing in the Sand

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The engaged couple at Székesfehérvár posed for a pre wedding portrait, spelling out "L.O.V.E." with Scrabble game pieces that they both held

At Székesfehérvár, the couple held Scrabble pieces to spell LOVE in their pre wedding portrait

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At Castle Oaks Hotel, Limerick, a young girl, late in the evening, wandering around the ballroom

A young girl wandering around the ballroom late in the evening stopped by a giant letter sign spelling LOVE

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Italy post proposal photography showing a smiling Milan couple in the love, hearts, and love studio

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Honest and sincere emotions are on display in this wedding day picture created by a Cesena, Italy documentary wedding photographer showing a moment of true love with the old father

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North Carolina lifestyle couples photography in the South End of Charlotte showing the light in their love

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A California Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, black and white portrait of this Davenport couple indoors with love

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A beautiful Selva di Filetto, Baglio della Luna couple portrait showing some Natural Love outdoors in BW

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Top, and timeless wedding photography from Villa Marigola, Lerici La Spezia during a portrait session from high above a labyrinth of love

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Italian elegant wedding portrait Castello di Fosdinovo Massa Ca Borghese showing the Love between veils under a blue sky with clouds at the castle

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A beautiful Alexandria, VA engagement photo created as a couple embraces and celebrates their love

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