Wedding Photos of Painting

The following “Painting” 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 “Painting” 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 moment on the wedding day, as the bride gets her makeup applied by a professional, with a vintage painting of a woman looking on in the background, in Milan, Lombardy.

Vintage painting watches over Milan bride: Professional makeup application captures beautiful wedding moment

Three men sit in a serene moment at a hotel in Nanping, Fujian, surrounded by a striking blue and yellow wall painting on the wedding day.

Serene Wedding Moment with Three Men at Nanping Hotel Amid Striking Blue and Yellow Wall

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Wedding day picture at Plage de Vendée, portraying the bride gazing at the ocean with an artistic feel reminiscent of a painting.

Bride's Serene Ocean Gaze: An Artistic Wedding Moment At Plage De Vendée Beach

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A pro documentary wedding photographer captured this award-winning photo at a reception venue in London, England. The image shows a crowd of guests seated and watching the wedding ceremony under a painting of ancient warriors in the background.

London Unites: Witnessed beneath Warrior's Watchful Eyes

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A İstanbul wedding photographer has captured a striking image of rings on a hand background

Wedding detail photograph from Soho House İstanbul of Rings on a painting background

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World's most innovative and best Mondonville wedding day portraits in France during a free interpretation of a famous painting called the last supper

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Civitanova Marche wedding couple artistic image session in BW with a boat painting behind the Bride and groom

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Auburn, Georgia wedding portrait art at the Carl House creating a relationship between deer painting and mirror reflection

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Digital artistic Beach Haven wedding detail image at The Gables Inn in LBI, New Jersey showing the wedding rings against Lori Bonanni painting

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A top wedding photographer in Noord Brabant captured this picture of the bride getting ready near a painting on the wall

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Krumpak, Slovenia creatively framed wedding photo from the place of Civil ceremony in the castle of the Bride and groom being observed by the lady on the painting, while the gentleman on the painting is observing the photographer

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Chicago Illinois ping tom park engagement photo session with a couple and a mural wall

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Rochester, NY Flowers & Sun = Sunflowers in this colorful engagement couple photo portrait session

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England street art engagement image from London

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Street art engagement image from Helen, GA of couple posing with wall art

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Church ceremony wedding photo from Brazil Sao Paulo of a couple receiving the blessings of the priest and the painting looks like this too

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New Zealand Couple in front of street art painting of elephants in Christchurch

a Couple portrait in front of street art painting of elephants in Christchurch

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Couple Engagement Photos | Ljubljana Slovenia - A couple kissing on a kissing painting

Engagement Photos of A couple kissing on a kissing painting

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Calabria (Italy) cufflinks detail photography

Calabria wedding groom cufflinks detail image

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Bristol England wedding photographer working at the Bride's home in Bath | Wedding dress hanging detail photo

Bath Wedding gown hanging detail image

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China Academy of oil painting - Engagement portrait of a couple looking Like a painting

Academy Engagement portrait of a couple looking Like a painting

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Engagement photography session in Brooklyn, NY with a couple and a painted red fence.

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This engaged couple kiss in front of a kissing lips painting in ljubljana slovenia during their pre-wedding shoot

This engaged couple kiss in front of a kissing lips painting during their pre-wedding shoot

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A couple sits on the floor holding a painting while a string of lights shaped into a heart lays on the floor in front of them for their pre-wedding photoshoot by a Hualien County, Taiwan photographer.

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Photo of the bride sitting in the Make Up Artists chair as she is prepared for her Cotswolds wedding.

Photo of the bride sitting in the Make Up Artists chair as she is prepared for her wedding

sitting makeup bride getting ready painting Cotswolds Linus Moran

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Pattern art London Wallpaper England Patterns Color

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Tacoma Wedding Photography | Image contains: mirror, painting, candles, ceremony, wall, reflection

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A Venice bride has some help getting ready in Veneto with a Renaissance painting serving as a striking backdrop

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