Wedding Photos of Getting ready

The following “Getting ready” 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 “Getting ready” 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.

Illinois wedding photo of a Chicago bride opening a gift on a bed during the getting ready

Wedding photography from Avignon - Hôtel la Mirande as the Groom is getting ready

wedding photo Avignon getting ready Vaucluse Hôtel la Mirande groom

Wedding photography from The Peninsula Bangkok of the brides Getting ready time

Chaiyasith Junjuerdee wedding photo brides The Peninsula Bangkok getting ready

Goias wedding preparation capture of a bride at the Dayanna Vaz Luxury Salon

getting ready Dayanna Vaz Luxury Salon bride Goiás Goias wedding preparation drinks

Zurigo wedding detail image of the grooms shoe Preparations

groom Preparations grooms shoe getting ready Zurigo Zurigo wedding detail image

Vendée, France silhouette detail shot of the Bride having her makeup done at Domaine de la Gerberie

France bride France silhouette detail shot Domaine de la Gerberie Vendee Jeremie Sangare makeup

Casa Gertrudes, Santa Teresa wedding detail image in 3-fold, view of outdoors, bridal gown, and bride getting ready in a robe

Santa Teresa wedding detail image bride 3 fold Casa Gertrudes Santa Teresa getting ready

Artistic Michigan wedding detail of a bride's dress at Donnel Lake

Michigan brides dress getting ready Donnel Lake wedding detail artistic

Chicago Bride puts on her earrings while her sister helps during this at-home wedding preparation photoshoot

earrings at home getting ready IL chicago bride Chicago

Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple wedding detail of the bride's jewelry in Aurora

getting ready Traditional Sri Venkateswara Swami Balaji Temple wedding detail Aurora bride

Trieste, Italy wedding detail pic of the bride having lipstick applied

lipstick getting ready Trieste Italy Trieste wedding detail pic bride

Artistic Ardeche wedding detail image of a bride having lipstick carefully applied

getting ready bride Ardeche Jerome Villard lipstick artistic Ardeche wedding detail image

Vietnam wedding detail image of a red wedding dress hung and ready for the ceremony

Asia red wedding dress Vietnam wedding detail image Huy Che Hoang seagulls Vietnam getting ready

Tennessee wedding detail image of a make up brushes being used for the bride getting ready in Lenoir City

Tennessee black and white getting ready Lenoir City bride Tennessee wedding detail image makeup brushes

Chinese family home wedding photo of the bride getting ready for the ceremony

Chinese wedding image bride family home wedding getting ready Chenjie Tan Chinese weddings ceremony

Florence, Tuscany artistic wedding photo of the bride Getting ready at home

Florence at home Tuscany wedding photo getting ready bride Tuscany

Erice, Sicily artistic image of the bride getting ready at the Hotel Carmine

A picture of the bride having her hair done at the Hotel Venue was taken before the event

hotel venue Erice picture Sicily wedding photographer braid shadow Hotel Carmine

Zhejiang China detail image of the groom's wedding shoes being tied

A close-up shot of the groom's shoes being tied before the ceremony at the wedding venu

shoes tied close up shot pre ceremony Zhejiang zhejiang wedding photographer groom shoes China

Spain wedding photographer created this black and white image of the bride getting ready at hotel, Talavera de la Reina using a Grandma veil detail with bride

black and white grandma Talavera de la Reina hotel detail getting ready Spain wedding photo

Wedding photography of the bride in Gebze during Make Up Time

getting ready Turkey makeup Gebze bride

Wedding photography of the Getting ready bride in Bretagne at rennes ille et vilaine during preparations

bride Hong Phuc Bui Preparations getting ready Bretagne bride image rennes ille et vilaine Bretagne

Wedding photography from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes during the getting ready at Home - Beautiful dress mom

black and white little girl home beautiful dress Auvergne Rhône Alpes Jerome Villard getting ready

Vermont wedding photography of getting ready at Shelburne Farms, VT - The bride gets ready with some help from her bridesmaids

Vermont wedding photo getting ready gets ready Vermont bridesmaids the Bride

Turkey wedding photography from the Wyndham Grand Izmir Ozdilek as the Bride is getting ready in the hotel room

Wyndham Grand Izmir Ozdilek Turkey hotel room bride Turkey bride image Turkey wedding photo Turkey bridal photo

A Lyon wedding photographer captured this Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Little boy getting ready with Grandma

Lyon reportage weddings Lyon wedding photo grandma Auvergne Rhône Alpes lyon wedding reportage Lyon getting ready

Fuzhou Fujian wedding photography from a busy room of many people getting ready for the big ceremony day

ceremony day busy room Fujian Fujian bridal preparations Shubin Shen Fujian wedding photo getting ready

Wild Basin Lodge, Allenspark, Colorado wedding image of the brides dress reflected in an infinity mirror while she gets ready.

The brides dress is reflected in an infinity mirror, creating a wedding image, as the bride prepares in another room, silhouetted

wedding image silhouetted bride Allenspark wedding photographer Wild Basin Lodge getting ready Allenspark

A Reggio Calabria wedding photographer captured this image at the Groom's House, Locri during Getting ready - high uniform of the Carabinieri weapon

getting ready Locri grooms house Reggio Calabria grooms Reggio Calabria Reggio Calabria wedding photo Carabinieri weapon

Roma wedding photography from the Lazio Bride's home as the bride is getting ready putting the veil on

veil brides home getting ready mirror Roma bride image Roma

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes at Home bride puts on her bracelet, she shivers with emotion in this wedding image

In this black and white wedding image, the bride can be seen getting ready as she puts on her bracelet

bracelet black and white Auvergne Rhône Alpes wedding photographer wedding image bride wedding dress Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

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