Wedding Photos of Makeup

The following “Makeup” 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 “Makeup” 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.

NJ wedding photo from Hotel during prep | Bride making some last minute adjustments to her makeup in a magnifying mirror

NJ wedding photo from Hotel during getting ready prep - Bride making some last minute adjustments to her makeup in a magnifying mirror

wedding pictures from the Getting ready

Varese makeup getting ready bride italian bride

the bride surrounded by friends getting her make up done

smiling bride hotel Erkin Agsaran makeup getting ready Istanbul

Bride looks in the mirror with her make-up artist

Rotterdam Holland getting ready makeup wedding reportage

Getting wedding day makeup on while a little one excitedly looks on

New Hampshire makeup Nottingham weddings Nottingham bride photo Nottingham Sarah V Martinez getting ready

Vietnam White Palace Wedding Venue Photographer: This shot was captures when bride was on makeup with a purple gel lighting at background.

Palace Wedding Venue Photo shot captured when bride was on makeup with a purple gel lighting at background.

White Palace purple bride Palace Wedding Venue Photo background gel lighting makeup

The bride and sister getting their hair and makeup done in hotel room

bride getting ready turkey wedding image Erkin Agsaran Turkey wedding hair makeup

the brie receiving last minutes makeup touch-ups

bride Casa Lavanda silhouette istanbul bride Istanbul Istanbul bridal photo makeup

the Bridesmaid and bride make-up

Bulgaria makeup Razlog wedding photo bridesmaid Pirin Golf Club Razlog Razlog wedding

bride peeks in the mirror at her makeup while the hairstylist works on her hair

Ontario Ontario bridal photo ontario bride makeup mirror bride hairdresser

wedding detail of the bride receiving the last refinement of the wedding makeup

Poland Poland wedding makeup Poland bride bride makeup bride Refinement Makeup

Bride is having her make-up done and her wedding dress hanged on a big window with a city view

makeup bride preparations dress Hilton Ankara gown

Wedding Photography from Lula Cellars, Anderson Valley, CA | Reflection of vineyards in a window with the bride getting her makeup done

CA bride getting her makeup done

done Anderson valley vineyard makeup California wedding Lula Cellars bride

mother of the bride preparing the wedding dress

Austria wedding dress austria weddings bride Schloss Thalheim Austria wedding venue photo

The bride gets makeup applied

the Bride applied John Decker Kirkwood The Hideout reception and wedding venue makeup CA Photography

Wedding photography at como lake of bride getting ready with makeup - without eyes

The beautiful bride was preparing for her Lake Como wedding with her eye makeup

getting ready bride makeup Lake Como wedding photography

makeup by the window while getting ready

window Wimborne St Giles House getting ready Dorset England wedding reportage photography makeup

Bride checking her makeup

makeup bride Titanic Hotel Liverpool

wedding detail of the bride puckering up as blush is applied.

Brazil wedding Pucker Up Rio de Janeiro getting ready bride Hotel Le Chateux Joá Brazil

A friend watching bride getting her makeup fixed

friend istanbul bride Istanbul Erkin Agsaran Istanbul wedding photography Istanbul bridal image bride

a bride having her makeup applied

applied Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro bridal image a bride Rio de Janeiro wedding photography Rio de Janeiro bride

bride getting ready photography at the home with hair and makeup

hair bride getting ready photography Napoli wedding photographer makeup at home

actual day wedding photo of getting makeup on before ceremony

hunan actual day wedding hunan before ceremony hunan wedding image actual day makeup hunan weddings

Mona Lisa t shirt on the makeup artist

Sofia Ivelina Cholakova makeup Sofia wedding photography t shirt sofia bride Sofia bridal image

Preparations for the bride's big day in Campinas were underway, with her getting ready indoors with her bridal makeup and gown to become a wife

The bride prepared to become a wife, enveloped in bridal makeup and anticipation

makeup Preparations getting ready indoor wife bridal indoors

The lips of the bride being colored red at the Hotel Jerome

The bride's lips bloomed a vibrant red, contrasting gracefully against her ivory dress at the historic Hotel Jerome

Preparations bride Colorado wife Hotel Jerome colorado wedding photographer getting ready

Fujian Bride's home wedding day photography | The bride is making up

The bride was captured in her home on her wedding day by an artistic photographer

China makeup Silhouette of bride blue light Quanzhou Fujian wedding photography Fujian

hotel dressing room detail of the application of lipstick on the bride

lipstick Nanping weddings getting ready Nanping getting ready makeup Nanping

A dog looks past the camera as he sits next to the bride while she gets her makeup done

fujian wedding image dogs Fujian dog fujian weddings the Bride pets

Rainbow Inn On Strawberry Creek, Idyllwild, California | Wedding Photographer captured the bride getting her makeup done while the flower girl and her dog sleep next to her.

the Wedding Photographer captured the bride getting her makeup done while the flower girl and her dog sleep next to her

bride makeup dog California Rainbow Inn On Strawberry Creek flower girl

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