Wedding Photos of Garter

The following “Garter” 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 “Garter” 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 fun and lighthearted moment captured at Villa Bria during the wedding reception, as the groom playfully removes the bride's garter with his teeth while she sits in a chair on the dance floor.

Groom cheekily removes Bride's Garter with Teeth at Villa Bria Wedding Reception

The bride in Baltimore, Maryland had a surprise under her dress for the groom, who was kneeling and laughing at the reception in MD

The groom, laughing and kneeling on the dance floor, was in for a pleasant surprise as the bride revealed her hidden garter beneath her dress at the reception

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The groom ceremoniously took off the garter from the bride's leg as she sat in a chair surrounded by guests, all eagerly anticipating the start of the Belite skali in Bulgaria

At the reception, the groom ceremoniously took off the garter from the bride's leg as she was seated in a chair

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At the Hodsock Priory Wedding Venue in Nottinghamshire, England, the bride and her brightly attired guests were framed in a beautiful image captured of the bride's dress and garter

Nottinghamshire, England: Bride and guests in bright attire, beautifully framed in a captured image of the bride's dress and garter at Hodsock Priory Wedding Venue

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Scottsdale, Arizona wedding documentary photographer created this image of the Sanctuary Resort showing The groom tries to take the garter from his bride at the reception

Sanctuary Resort wedding venue bride Scottsdale groom Brett Butterstein Arizona Scottsdale bride

A high quality Somerset wedding detail picture at the Orchardleigh House in the United Kingdom created as The England bride walking towards the church with her bridesmaids, showing the garter and bridal shoes

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Arrowhead Golf Course, Littleton, CO marriage reception party award-winning photo that has recorded the Kids are poised to jump for the garter, with the grooms shadow on the wall

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Noord Holland wedding photo from Scheveningen beach of the garter being retrieved by the groom

Noord Holland wedding photo garter Scheveningen Peter Kos groom beach

Sofia wedding photography from the Reception venue Hotel Akord in Sofia, Bulgaria showing the groom In search of a garter

Sofia reception venue Bulgaria Lubomir Jiponov Sofia wedding venues Hotel Akord Sofia wedding photo groom

Bangkok Garter removal - wedding photography from the dance floor of the bride and groom

the dance floor - the bride and groom during garter game

Bangkok thailand wedding photographer bride and groom bangkok wedding venue Chanarthip Cheingthong dance floor Thailand

the bride's garter, with a small accident

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bridal accessories removal

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Hotel Marinela, Sofia, Bulgaria wedding venue pictures - Taking off the garter

the groom Taking off the garter

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The garter is mine

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Groom getting the garter

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The bridesmaid and mother of the bride traditionally put banknotes behind the garter

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a kid and a groomsman diving for the garter

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Installing the garter for the bride

Installing garter Chateau Valeč bride

a blindfolded groom looking for the garter in the wrong place

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A man pretends to be the bride as the blind-folded groom touches his leg in this photo

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The Groom Throwing the garter

Garda Island wedding venue Garda Island garter italy wedding reception image Daniele Borghello

Mother and sister of the bride help add her garter in a humorous moment

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biagio evants wedding photography | garter dance about to begin the groom fishing the garter from under the dress of the seated bride

wedding photography of the garter dance about to begin the groom fishing the garter from under the dress of the seated bride

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Wedding reception photography for weddings in Mulhouse

Wedding reception photography of a wild reception party in Mulhouse

Mulhouse wedding retrieve attempt Haut-Rhin blindfolded Mulhouse wedding picture Mulhouse

Nizuc, Cancun, Mexico couple on the dance floor during garter ritual at wedding reception

Wrapped in Romance: The Garter Ritual at Nizuc, Cancun

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Wedding photojournalism at Hesse with baby girl in dress crawling on the floor by the bride

Innocence in Hesse: A Bride's Joyful Bond with Her Baby Girl

Innocence dress Crawling Germany wedding picture bond Hesse bride garter

Wedding shoot with Provence, France groom removing the garter from of the brides leg using only his teeth

OUTDOOR PROVENCE WEDDING: GROOM REMOVING GARTER FROM BRIDE'S LEG

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Groom getting the garter from the bride at the wedding reception in Goiânia

Groom getting the garter from the bride's leg

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Bride laughs as the groom gets the garter

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The groom retrieves the brides garter on the dance floor

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