Wedding Photos of Officiant

The following “Officiant” 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 “Officiant” 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.

elopement wedding photography on a boat in Netherlands | laughter during the ceremony

small wedding photography on a boat in Netherlands with laughter during the ceremony

Wedding photo from Grenoble ceremony with a couple and a small boy as officiant

Love United: A Grenoble Union with Little Officiant

young boy officiant Grenoble couple Grenoble photographer love Grenoble marriage

Picture of the seated bride and groom laughing as the officiant speaks

Outdoor ceremony bride and groom officiant Italy outdoor ceremony

this ceremony officiant enjoys the guests bubbles outside

officiant guests VA Leesburg bubbles

Photo of the bride and groom kissing at the alter as the sun shines through the trees behind them

light sunset sun Flare kiss Color Washington DC

Picture of a despondent Labrador flopped on green grass while his human owners marry in an outdoor wedding ceremony in Phoenix AZ

bridesmaid officiant pastor animal priest pet

A black and white image of a wedding couple taking a selfie inside a church in Rome while the priest greets guests

priest ceremony camera altar black and white officiant

As a wedding couple willingly exchange rings in Lecco to the delight of guests the focus of the Lombardy image is on a slightly horrified looking flower girl in the center

hands officiant ring smiling hand flower girl pastor

A budding young photographer is captured while the Melbourne groom and bride smile at their wedding service inside a church in Australia

ceremony color camera photographer officiant child

An outdoor Bangkok wedding ceremony image from Thailand showing the groom getting emotional as his bride walks down the aisle

pastor bride tears ceremony cry color

A Netherlands lad practices his tumbling skills while the couple receives their marriage blessings inside a Zuid Holland church with arched windows providing natural light

color church priest officiant boy child

Documentary Wedding Photograph in UK | Image contains: church, mural, ceremony

artwork art color church officiant mosaic chapel

Wedding Photographer | Image contains: bride, groom, church, ceremony, candles

church light bride window groom candle priest

Wedding Photography in Messina | Image contains: ceremony, church, priest, bride, groom, laughter

Photo by: Ettore Colletto - Sant 'Agata di Militello Messina

bride officiant laugh groom Color laughing pastor

Montreal Creative Wedding Photographer | Image contains: wedding ceremony, bride, groom, church, pastor, vows

bride face groom Rabbi faces color

France Wedding Photographer | Image contains: church, black, white, ceremony, pastor, bridesmaids, couple, groomsmen, pray, praying

Photo by: Matt Guegan - Saint Maurice

prayer pray chapel cross black and white groomsmen church

Madrid Wedding Photography | Image contains: vintage car, priest, cobblestone, bride and groom, black and white

veil officiant transportation bride road vehicle car

chapel black and white bride officiant ceremony church

North Rhine-Westphalia wedding photographer captured this image of two children looking bored while sitting on either side of a priest before the wedding ceremony

cross girl priest boy North Rhine Westphalia Color white

officiant hands priest black and white color ceremony

detail shot of a priest before the wedding

officiant Playa del Carmen black and white priest church hands detail

A couple stands near a rock by water during their elopement ceremony as two gentlemen walk by

ocean groom eloping ceremony intimate wedding small weddings elopement

The priest takes a picture of the bride and groom in this award-winning wedding picture

phone ceremony picture groom color pastor

church groom veil excitement bride ceremony microphone

A bridesmaid helps the bride with her train as her veil blows into the groom's face in this documentary-style photo by a Playa del Carmen photographer

ocean veil officiant white Playa del Carmen ceremony

Coeur d'Alene Wedding Photojournalism | Image contains: bride, groom, ceremony, happy, outdoors, snow

smile laughing officiant smiling ceremony laugh black and white

The priest holds his hands over the bride and groom as they kneel at the altar in this black and white photo taken by a documentary-style Tuscany wedding photographer

officiant groom bride black and white hands pastor priest

Prague Wedding Photojournalism | Image contains: ceremony, church, bride, groom, pastor, table, reflection, orange

chapel organ officiant ceremony church reflection color

The groom makes a face while he stands next to the priest in this photo by a Madrid, Spain wedding photographer

Spain officiant groom Color ceremony priest

Charleston Wedding Photography | Image contains: ceremony, groom, bridemaids, shock, black, white, church

chapel bridesmaid aisle groom officiant black and white groomsman

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