Wedding Photos of Prepare

The following “Prepare” 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 “Prepare” 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 surrounded by her bridesmaids in a room, having her final details attended to before her wedding day at Flood Mansion in San Francisco, California.

Breathtaking Bride and Bridesmaids Prepare in Flood Mansion Room, San Francisco Wedding Bliss

The Vienne wedding preparations - the bride is surrounded by her attendants in a cozy room at home, adjusting her dress for the ceremony.

Elegance in Vienne: Bride And Attendants Prepare in Cozy Home For Wedding Ceremony

bride dress joyful candid attendants love Vienne Wedding Moment

At House in Soho, London England, the bride and her family prepare for the big day, with the stunning wedding dress hanging in the background, adding to the anticipation and excitement. A beautiful wedding scene captured.

Soho House: The Bride, The Dress, The Big Day Excitement

bride family House of Soho Wedding beautiful wedding anticipation Stunning Wedding Dress big day

Los Angeles wedding reportage photojournalist created this image showing the Bridesmaids prepare the dress for the bride

Kate Hampson bridesmaids dress California Los Angeles Los Angeles wedding photojournalist prepare

An exceptional Dundee NY wedding image by a pro New York photographer at the Glendora Wine Cellar exhibiting A grandfather exchanging a happy look with his grandson while the boys father fixes the boys suspenders and an uncle prepares

suspenders Danielle Gardner New York photographer boys father grandfather prepare happy look

A Bulgaria documentary wedding photographer captured this moment at the Grand Hotel Sofia showing little princess helps to prepare the bride with her shoes

Sofia prepare shoes Lubomir Jiponov little princess Bulgaria bride

View this stylish Nanping wedding image of showing the bridesmaids prepare to go out with wedding shoes, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in China from the WPJA

stylish Nanping wedding image of showing the bridesmaids prepare to go out with wedding shoes, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in China

Nanping wedding image Nanping wedding photography prepare wedding shoes bridesmaids China

Sichuan indoor marriage ceremony award-winning image showing The wedding ceremony is about to begin. This is the door where the bride enters the auditorium at the beginning of the ceremony. The best man is closing the door to prepare for the ceremony

Sichuan enters closing Cheng Guo man door auditorium

China wedding photo from a Zhejiang Home showing Wedding documentary in Asia as the bride and bridesmaids prepare

Zhejiang Asia bride bridesmaids Wedding documentary China wedding photo

LI NY wedding photography as A bride shows her hair to her friends as they all prepare for her wedding ceremony. They are all outside in the backyard of a private residence on a sunny fall day

wedding photography sunny LI Backyard outside Private residence friends

Friends of the bride and groom prepare before the religious ceremony in France

France groom photo France France groom boutineer friends prepare religious ceremony

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.