Wedding Photos of Night portrait

The following “Night portrait” 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 “Night portrait” 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.

A Philadelphia modern couple poses for a more casual, personal announcement portrait of their Cherry Street Pier engagement near an art installment with a neon installation

A Colorado modern couple poses for outdoor, night announcement portrait of their RMNP engagement at Bear Lake under the rising Milky Way lit with flash, and a single exposure

mountains Bear Lake Silhouette portrait Milky Way lakeside portrait Colorado photographer RMNP portrait

The Virginia couple celebrated their wedding by spraying champagne during a night portrait shoot

A Virginia couple toasted their wedding with a champagne spray during a night portrait session

toasting Virginia photographer spraying champagne night portrait Virginia

Texas photography showing a beautiful view from venues roof top with backlight

Texas - Southern Houston backlit portrait Houston Photographer Brandon Lai night portrait roof top portrait

A pre wedding photoshoot from San Francisco for a Couple by the Bay Bridge at the Blue Hour

night portrait San Francisco photographer San Francisco blue hour bay bridge California - Northern

Nanning Engagement. A young Chinese couple posing during a pre wedding portrait session outdoors at night by a building with a photographers rim light

Nanning China Nanning Photographer Color Song rim light night portrait Chinese Couple

Engagement Photos Dallas. A Texas couple pose with a little lighting to light everything up

Forth Worth Dallas photographer night portrait Dallas Texas Vinh Vo

A romantic engagement session in Nancy, France for a creative Couple portrait at night

creative portrait night portrait Nancy France Nancy photographer

Shenandoah National Park post proposal portrait photos of a happy Virginia couple during a night session featuring a wet lens flare and a romantic embrace

Virginia romantic embrace wet lens flare night portrait Johnny Shryock Bee Two Sweet Shenandoah National Park

Wailea post proposal engagement session with a Maui wedding photographer showing a Couple kissing under an umbrella during a rare rainstorm in Maui

colorful umbrella night portrait Maui Photographer Maui rainy day engagement Wailea Engagement Wailea

Longwood Gardens post proposal portrait session with a Kennett Square engagement photographer of a Pennsylvania couple as they warm up next to a bonfire

Pennsylvania photographer Kennett Square Pennsylvania PA couple bonfire Longwood Gardens John Ryan

Lisbon lifestyle couples portrait photography in Portugal for a couple walking stairs under lantern lighting at night

Portugal Lisbon Lisbon engagement photography walking stairs Stam Chananakhon lantern light night portrait

A Vosges Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic, night portrait of this Nancy couple in France depicting them walking through a city at night

Nancy couple Night France couple night portrait France photographer France

An impressive Heritage Prairie Farm wedding image of the Illinois couple resulting in a night portrait of a bride and groom with the moon and clouds lighting them from behind

Heritage Prairie Farm Illinois moon Farm wedding image lighting night portrait clouds

Pine, Colorado dramatic actual wedding day couple image at Mountain View Ranch resulting in A backlit night portrait of the bride and groom below the Milky Way

bride and groom Colorado portraits Milky Way Colorado mountain view pine

A Pennsylvania Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, night portrait of this PA couple in Longwood Gardens at Kennett Square embracing under the water fountains and night sky

PA couple Longwood Gardens Pennsylvania night sky water fountains embracing John Ryan

Dramatic Golden CO wedding image of this Colorado bride and groom showing The silhouette of the couple and their hanging lights after dark

Colorado golden co Lucy Schultz Silhouette portrait Golden Wedding Photography night portrait

Friendship Arch, Chinatown DC pre-wedding engagement photoshoot for An elegant couple posing at night while traffic whizzes by

elegant couple Bee Two Sweet Brittany Diliberto passing traffic architecture DC engagement photography Arlington

Cividale del Friuli, Udine pre-wedding engagement session capturing the Bridge by night with lamp post illumination

Udine night portrait Italy lampposts Aria di Foto IT Cividale del Friuli

World's top and most original Bayern wedding photography for a colorful Night portrait

colorful Bavaria Germany Bayern wedding photography night portrait lit backlit

World's most artistic and best wedding image from Santa Marina Restaurant, Sozopol, Bulgaria for The newlyweds having a formal night portrait session under the wedding arch

Santa Marina Santa Marina Restaurant arch Sozopol formal Bulgaria wedding image night portrait

World's best and most unconventional Tarascon couple wedding Portrait of the bride and groom at night in BW

PACA night portrait France Bouches-du-Rhône Tarascon Bride france wedding photographer

Cividale del Friuli, Udine outside environmental couple prewedding photoshoot for a creative Night portrait

night portrait Udine Aria di Foto photoshoot couple prewedding dusk

DC bride and groom to be, modeling for a pre-wedding picture at the WWII Memorial, a night portrait of the groom dipping his fiance in front of a big fountain

fountain DC bride to be Brittany Diliberto Bee Two Sweet dipping bride DC night portrait

Freight, Leadville, CO wedding couple artistic image session resulting in a Colorful nighttime couple portrait

Freight Leadville Colorado night portrait Mike Kory Leadville couple

Le Pouldu couple e-session for a night portrait

Elodie Gentit Le Pouldu night portrait Le Pouldu couple night portrait

True Love Engagement Picture Session in Venice showing a couple Night portrait in Piazza San Marco

Engagement Picture Session couple night portrait Piazza San Marco architecture Venice Venice bride to be

Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO wedding couple artistic image session of the bride and groom spraying champagne at night

Champagne Spray Colorado Estes Park couple silhouettes night portrait Rocky Mountain National Park

North Avenue Beach, Chicago Artful Engagement Picture for a couple walking in front of the skyline

night portrait north avenue beach couple walking Chicago engagement city skyline dusk Chicago

North Avenue Beach, Chicago Fine Art Engagement Photos of a couple and the city skyline at dusk

dusk silhouette night portrait city skyline Chicago chicago e session Illinois

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