Wedding Photos of Sitting on shoulders

The following “Sitting on shoulders” 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 “Sitting on shoulders” 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.

At Villa Nobel, Sanremo, a wedding picture captured the moment of a little girl throwing rice on the groom outside of the chapel

At Villa Nobel, Sanremo a wedding picture captured a little girl throwing rice on the groom

At Hacienda La Masía in Linares, Spain, the groom's friends hilariously blocked the bride and groom's attempt to reach the dolls on the wedding cake

At Hacienda La Masía in Linares, Spain, the bride and groom were hilariously blocked from the wedding cake dolls

sitting on shoulders Linares Wedding Photography Spain Jaén wedding cake Hacienda La Masía in Linares

A couple soon to be married, pose at Storymill Park by the fiancé lifted his bride-to-be onto his shoulders to capture a happy engagement photo

At Storymill Park, an engaged couple in love posed for a blissful photo, with the fiancé lifting his beloved onto his shoulders

Montana Bozeman Engagement Photography Storymill Park playful couple Bozeman sitting on shoulders

At the wedding venue of De Landgoederij in Bunnik, Netherlands, the groom is dancing with his daughter on his shoulders and the bride is joining them

The groom dancing with his daughter on his shoulders as the bride beamed, joining in their dance at the wedding venue

dancing sitting on shoulders De Landgoederij Bunnik Photographer Netherlands Bunnik

The groom about to fall when his friends lift him up at the Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai

The groom was lifted off his feet when his friends hoisted him onto their shoulders on the dance floor

sitting on shoulders friends Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai groom lifted up Mumbai wedding photography

A Northumberland wedding photographer captured the thrilling moment when men were lifted onto the shoulders of guests during a traditional hora celebration on the dance floor

UK contest award winning documentary wedding photography at Barn on the Bay in Northumberland showing a hora style celebration on the dance floor on the shoulders of guests

hora style celebration Northumberland Photographer dance floor Barn on the Bay sitting on shoulders UK Northumberland

Azur France engagement portraits of a couple at the beach

The engagement portraits featured a couple at the beach, with the woman riding on the man's shoulders as they walked in the photograph

Azur sitting on shoulders France beach engagement Azur Engagement Photography

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