Wedding Photos of Pray

The following “Pray” 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 “Pray” 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 spiritual black and white Asheville, NC documentary wedding picture showing Bridesmaids supporting the bride during a prayer before the ceremony

An exceptional Purcellville wedding image by a pro Virginia photographer at Sylvanside Farm exhibiting the Bride sharing a prayer with mom and dad

Sylvanside Farm Purcellville wedding image Virginia photographer Purcellville VA VA bride Virginia pray

A top Romania documentary wedding photographer at the Saint Spiridon Church created this image of the Groom and Godfather praying during the orthodox ceremony

Godfather Saint Spiridon Church Romania documentary wedding photographer Romania praying pray

Mercer Island Washington authentic wedding image of bridesmaids saying a prayer over bride before the wedding ceremony

Logan Westom prayer pray bride authentic Mercer Island photographer Washington

China food feast wedding photo from Fujian as they Pray for the wedding

pray Asaph Xu Fujian China food feast wedding wedding photo

St Salvators Chapel, St Andrews Wedding Photo - Groom and groomsmen praying before the ceremony

Wedding Photo of the Groom and groomsmen praying before the ceremony

church chapel St Salvators Chapel bridal party praying groomsmen

Lyon bride and groom pray at the wedding ceremony

a bride and groom pray at the wedding ceremony

French bride and groom praying wedding ceremony bw pray Bourgoin-Jallieu

Centreville, Virginia groomsmen put their hands on the groom and pray before the wedding

groomsmen put their hands on the groom and praying before the wedding

groomsmen church Centreville VA groom Virginia pray

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

Photo by: Matt Guegan - Saint Maurice

praying cross officiant couple white church Black

Minas Gerais Documentary Wedding Photographer | Image contains: bride, groom, hands, black, white, table, papers

hands pray ceremony bride groom praying

boutineer yellow color ties pray groom orange

headpieces pray bouquets black and white flowergirls bridesmaid

sari pray groom bride bangles

WPJA contest judges have been recognized by their industry peers, winning top awards as staff picture editors, staff photojournalists, and newsroom mentors while working for these and other leading publications and journalism organizations.