Wedding Photos of Smiling

The following “Smiling” 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 “Smiling” 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.

Norfolk Indoor profile silhouette couple portraits in warm light

A Brasília engagement photo shoot session of a couple | Federal District photographer

A Brasília engagement photo shoot session of a couple in black and white by the water

pre wedding session Brazil Gustavo Lucena black and white smiling couple Brazil engagement photographers Brasília

Black and white photo of the bride smiling as she looks in a mirror given to her by the makeup artist

getting ready black and white mirror smile smiling Devon England

a woman fixing the bride's wedding dress

black and white smile getting ready Burlington smiling bride VT

a man tearing up as he watches the bride getting her hair done

smile laugh Dad Umbria mirror reflection Istanbul flowers

bride cake children yellow smiling color

A wedding photographer captured this black and white photo of the groom taking a phone call on his cell phone during a dance with his bride

bride groom cell phone veil phone black and white

Reggio Calabria Wedding Photography | Image contains: black and white, bride, father, ceremony, church

guests sunglasses smile embrace veil smiling

Coeur d'Alene Wedding Photojournalism | Image contains: bride, groom, ceremony, happy, outdoors, snow

officiant ceremony bride smile laugh smiling black and white

Montana wedding photographer created this beautiful portrait as the bride leans over the groom shoulder in the car as they drive away

The bride and groom drove away, the Montana wedding photographer capturing their blissful moment in a beautiful image

vest bride smiling car smile Bozeman hand

Lower Saxony wedding photographer caught the bride and grooms happy faces as they walk down the aisle after becoming husband and wife

ceremony trees outside flowers smile suit laugh

excitement reception ring cutting cake knife girls

Singapore wedding photographer captured this photo of the bride waving goodbye to her parents from the car window

parents hands bouquet mother parent transportation Color

Terni Wedding Photography | Image contains: church, bride, color, groom, laughing, rice

color laughing laugh bubble smiling bride

Rome Wedding Photographer | Image contains: bride wiping sweat from groom's brow during ceremony

ceremony dress color smile bride gown smiling

San Francisco wedding photographer gets a shot of a little girl taking selfies with a camera

child San Francisco photo smiling girl smile camera

Lower Saxony wedding photographer caught the action in this photo of the bride and groom releasing the dove after the ceremony

smile bride Lower Saxony smiling dove laughing groom

smiling mac apple groom waving computer bride

Cosenza wedding photo in black and white of the wedding guests toasting the bride and groom

black and white Cosenza smile reception smiling

Wedding Photographer in Bali | Image contains: black and white, bride, groom, father, toast, hug

smile embrace drink hug black and white smiling

Arezzo Wedding Photography in Tuscany | Image contains: groom, bride, rice, ceremony, flowers, guests, black, white

ceremony black and white rice bride smiling smile

Baden-Wurttemberg wedding photographer created this black and white image of a group of wedding guests taking a selfie

smiling black and white phone Baden Wurttemberg phones smiles camera

Chicago wedding photographer freezes the action in this image of the bride and groom cutting the cake at the reception

Color chef cake cutting smiling laugh bracelet Chicago

hands smiling emotion black and white henna laughing

Paris wedding photographer captured this joyful, black and white photo of the bride laughing as her dad kisses her on the cheek

mother laughing parents transportation Paris kiss laugh

Documentary Wedding Photograph in Lima | Image contains: reception, color, dance, wedding guests, indoors

dance smiling first dance laughing purple arms

Wedding Photography in Arezzo | Image contains: father, bride, groom, bedroom, black, white, hands

gown hands hand bride smiling holding hands

Brescia wedding photographer gets a black and white shot of the bride waving goodbye out of the car window as they drive away from the ceremony

glass Brescia reflection smiling bride reflecting smile

Northern California wedding photographer captured this photograph of the bride and grooms reflection as they have their first dance in a rustic reception location

smile reception bride smiling reflection California groom

arms hands smiling toast low angle smile

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