Wedding Photos of Red carpet

The following “Red carpet” 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 “Red carpet” 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 unfolds as the Bride arrives at the wedding Ceremony at Peak Edge Hotel in Chesterfield, UK, with men assisting her out of the bridal car onto the red carpet.

Enchanting Arrival: Bride at Peak Edge Hotel Ceremony with Men Guiding Her onto Red Carpet

A picture taken at Chateau de Seguin captures a beautiful scene of symmetry, with the bride's shoes delicately balancing the wedding ring on a vibrant red carpet

Symmetrical elegance: Bride's shoes balance delicate wedding ring on vibrant red carpet at Chateau de Seguin

Gironde Wedding Photography bridal shoes Gironde Chateau de Seguin Lignan de Bordeaux detail of shoes red carpet

This wedding photojournalist captured this WPJA Honor Award-winning image during a traditional wedding in Fuzhou, Fujian. The photo shows the bride and groom on their way to start their new life together, coming down a large set of concrete steps.

Capturing Bride's Descent: A Wedding Journey in Fuzhou, Fujian

descending stairs Fuzhou Documentary Wedding Photography concrete steps traditional chinese Fujian red carpet Fuzhou

Three children are attempting to straighten a red carpet on the stairs of Domaine de la Palle in France

Three children are straightening a red carpet at Domaine de la Palle, France.

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At the traditional Chinese wedding ceremony in Ningbo, China, the bride and groom walked under an impressive canopy of red umbrellas and red lanterns, along a luxurious red carpet, creating a truly royal feeling

The bride and groom wowed guests as they walked under a red-hued canopy of umbrellas and lanterns at their wedding ceremony

China Ningbo red umbrellas Chinese wedding ceremony luxurious bride and groom Traditional

At a church in San Jose, California, the bride is walking down the aisle toward an unseen groom

In San Jose, California, a view from above as the bride walks down the aisle to the groom

Church wedding red carpet San Jose overhead shot San Jose photographer walking down aisle

Drone shot from Nanping Fujian at home of the bridegroom taking the bride out

Wedding photography captured a drone shot of the groom taking the bride out of her home to the ceremony

Nanping red carpet Fujian Nanping wedding photographer entering car drone shot bride leaving home

Best Portugal documentary wedding photojournalism image showing a young flower girl throwing a tantrum on the church floor

Nuno Lima tantrum red carpet floor Church wedding flower girl Portugal wedding photojournalism

Vliegveld Twenthe wedding photo created as the Driver puts down a red carpet for bride and groom

vintage car red carpet driver Vliegveld Twenthe wedding photo bride and groom

Syracuse, Sicily fine art wedding portrait of the bride and groom waiting

The bride and groom during their wedding day, with the groom tenderly kissing his bride's belly while they posed for a stunning portrait atop a staircase

Sicily photographer Syracuse Wedding Portrait red carpet staircase kissing belly Syracuse Sicily

China wedding photo of the groom dropping the bride on the red carpet - Accept relatives

Zhejiang groom Chenjie Tan car dropping the bride red carpet China wedding photo

China wedding photography showing the red carpet and the car as the bride and groom Accept relatives

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Xi'an, Shaanxi wedding photography showing the confetti cannons and the red dress on the red carpet

Shaanxi bride with groom red dress Shaanxi wedding couples Shaanxi wedding photo Xi'an confetti cannons

Fujian, China high angle wedding photography showing the red carpet and limo

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Zhejiang Wedding Ceremony Image | Arial shot of the church - because of the covid-19, everyone was forced to hold a wedding outside the church.

Zhejiang Wedding Ceremony Arial shot of the church - because of the covid-19, everyone was forced to hold a wedding outside the church

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FuJian PuTian wedding day photography with red carpet outside

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Fujian Asaph Xu China Putian weddings Putian wedding image outside red carpet

Cardinal Tien Cultural Center Wedding Photos - This is the moment while the bride's parents walked the bride to meet the groom in the red carpet hallway, the flash was firing on the photographer's camera.

the bride's parents walked the bride to meet the groom in the red carpet hallway

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The bride and groom walk along a red carpet outside by a bonfire in this wedding picture

Hangzhou wedding image outside red carpet bonfire wedding picture Hangzhou actual day wedding

Church Photography showing the Little girl as she struggles with carrying the veil

Flanders veil wedding photography girl carrying the veil red carpet

Image of the bride and groom walk through the vegetable field in front of their house

Fuzhou actual day wedding red carpet Fuzhou vegetable field bride Fuzhou wedding image groom

Melbourne wedding photographer - preparing the long red carpet on the grass for the outdoor ceremony - Bride on the way

wedding photography showing the preparing of the long red carpet on the grass for the outdoor ceremony with the Bride on the way

Australia bride outdoor ceremony red carpet Melbourne preparing grass

Trofa, Portugal Church wedding - Windy Wedding day with the red carpet blowing away

Trofa, Portugal Church wedding image from a Windy day with the red carpet blowing away

Portugal Church windy day windy Luis Efigénio blowing church Trofa

Junior Bridesmaid, ceremony - The Ceremony with Kids - Wedding Photography

Wedding Photography of The Ceremony with Kids

Sofia wedding photography red carpet junior bridesmaid Sofia Sofia Ceremony

image of groom getting some help carrying his bride

red carpet Wedding Photojournalism image carrying bride beijing weddings groom Peng Zhang

brown stone humor red carpet color lying

groom doves bride dove birds chandelier

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