Wedding Photos of Painted

The following “Painted” 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 “Painted” 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 beautiful bride and groom posing for a portrait on their wedding day in Jaén, Spain. The couple is captured indoors against a backdrop of a painted wall adorned with stars, creating a celestial and romantic atmosphere.

Celestial Romance: Bride and Groom Embrace Under Starlit Wall in Jaén, Spain Wedding Portrait

A wedding photographer captures the bride and groom celebrating their special day by popping champagne at The Hotel Hershey in Pennsylvania. The stunning image showcases their joy against a beautiful deep blue painted brick wall, beautifully illuminated.

Champagne Celebration: Love and Joy at The Hotel Hershey Pennsylvania

Blue illuminated pennsylvania weddings painted Pennsylvania wedding couple champagne

A Huntersville NC lifestyle couple photo session at Lake Norman State Park as they are lying down on their backs on the roadway with painted directional arrows

North Carolina Huntersville lifestyle couple photo directional arrows lying down Huntersville NC backs

A spectacular Central Belfast wedding couple photograph from Northern Ireland in front of a piece of popular street art painted on the building wall

painted Jonathan Ryder Central Belfast building wall street art Northern Ireland

A sweet and serene Calle Correo engagement session for an image taken under a fountain painted yellow for the warm skin tones and a lovely color scheme

Calle Correo Madrid colors fountain painted yellow Spain

Sevilla fun-loving couple modeling for a pre-wedding session in an urban street scene against a painted brick wall

Spain urban Sevilla street scene Sevilla wedding photographer brick wall

Outdoor Marseille couple engagement photography portraits against a painted art wall

Outdoor Marseille engagement portraits Marseille painted Marseille couple art wall

On location Secretario couple engagement portrait shoot against a painted yellow wall

painted engagement portrait shoot RJ couple yellow wall Secretari Secretari wedding photography

Outdoor Oaxaca City couple engagement photography walking portraits against a painted red wall

walking portrait Mexico photographer Engagement photography red wall Oaxaca City couple Outdoor painted

Modern Sichuan wedding portrait in China created in the waiting area for the wedding ceremony near a wall painted with Chinese architecture frames with the position of the bride in response to the mural

China chinese before ceremony wall modern Sichuan Sichuan wedding portrait

True Love Engagement Portrait Session in Cordoba, Spain displaying a couple running in the urban sunshine near a vertical painted striped wall

Spain Engagement Portrait vertical Spain couple urban Jaen couple Session Cordoba painted

Île d'Yeu, France portrait e-session with the embraced couple against a painted white wall

Ile d Yeu embraced couple white wall Patrick Lombaert painted France wedding photography France couple portrait

Houston, TX Fine Art Pre Wedding Portrait against a boldly painted colorful wall in the city

Houston couple colorful wall Texas Jill Goehring TX city painted

Xi'an Shaanxi artistic wedding photo showing Details of the bride walking the streets with painted yellow lines

A wedding photo with artistic flair, depicting the bride strolling down a street lined with yellow paint

Xian details bride Shaanxi Xi an marriage street

couple sitting on a painted yellow line on a road during a prewed shoot

prewed shoot Belo Horizonte engagement images Belo Horizonte e session couple sitting Belo Horizonte engagement photography Belo Horizonte yellow line

Pomorskie pre-wedding engagement pictures of a couple on fire escape of a graffiti painted building | Poland portrait shoot

Urban engagement picture of a couple on fire escape of a graffiti painted building

graffiti Poland couple Pomorskie building fire escape painted urban Engagement

Federal District Black and white pre-wedding portrait of an engaged couple playing in the streets with a painted bike sign

Gustavo Lucena streets bike sign Federal District painted playing

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