Wedding Photos of Hand

The following “Hand” 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 “Hand” 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.

Tianjin Wedding Photographer | Image contains: bride, speech, microphone, reception, dress, lace

Tianjin Wedding Photo of a bride, a speech, a microphone, a reception, a dress, and some lace

Tianjin dress Color Asia hand China microphone

A Philadelphia image of diamante embellished wedding heels up in the air thrown by steady hands with a plain background in PY

toss hand detail shoes hands shoe

Tianjin wedding photographer makes a picture of the wedding dress hanging up in front of a bright white background

Tianjin China phone arm camera white hand

Washington DC wedding photographer captured this photo of the groom wiping something from his eyes as the bride and best man laugh nearby

eyes laugh reception hand hands eye laughing

Omaha wedding photographer caught the moment the bride was taking a selfie next to a painting of an elephant before the ceremony

veil camera animal hands bride phone

New York City wedding photographer captured this photo of a holy fire at a wedding ceremony

fire nyc hands hand red jewelry gold

hand hair black and white child hair dryer boy

color balloons pink silver wall metal hand

Chicago wedding photography - Black and white photo of the bride embracing her father before the ceremony

crying cry Chicago tears black and white dance hand

Tianjin Documentary Wedding Photographer | Image contains: detail, bouquet, flowers, chipmunk, tree, outdoors

Tianjin Documentary Wedding Photo with a bouquet, flowers, chipmunk, tree, and the great outdoors

China flowers green tree Color Asia bouquet

reception flower flowers sword hand cake cutting

Paris Wedding Photography | Image contains: bride, hug, brothers, family, love

hug embrace smile hand dark color

Lower Saxony Creative Wedding Photographer in Germany | Image contains: black and white, detail shot, hands bouquet, tattoo, hug, embrace

bouquet Germany tattoos black and white embrace Lower Saxony hands

Denver wedding photographer caught the moment of the bride wearing a floral crown smiling at the groom in this black and white photo of an outdoor wedding ceremony

hand ceremony outside outdoors groom black and white bride

Seattle wedding photographer captured this photo of the bride and groom laughing and smiling during the cake cutting

groom Seattle smiling hands hand smile suit

Paraná wedding photographer caught the bride and grooms reflection in the glass table as they cut their wedding cake

table bride faces Parana cake hand white

Phoenix wedding photographer captured this black and white detail photo of the brides arms adorned with bangles and henna tattoos

Phoenix bracelet hands Arizona AZ bracelets

groom emotion flowers hand black and white bride

detail fingers church chapel hand sign

Paraná wedding photographer captured this image of the bride checking her mirror in an antique hand held mirror

hands getting ready hand mirror bride

Paris Wedding Photographer | Image contains: outdoors, hug, bridesmaids, tree, night, black, white

embracing embrace hands arms hugging black and white

drive color car reflection driving dashboard

Brazil Wedding Photojournalism | Image contains: father, groom, crying, hug, black, white

black and white groom father emotion hand

Wedding Photojournalism | Image contains: bride, veil, getting ready, detail shot

hand color getting ready bracelet watch veil

Beijing wedding photographer gets a shot of the typed speech as the groomsmen is reading it

beijing weddings Beijing actual day wedding beijing wedding image purple hand Beijing Color

a little girl enjoying a delicious chocolate dessert at the reception

fingers chocolate child desert Toronto cake kid

This photo of a little girl carefully helping to slice the cake was created by a Key West wedding photographer

Key West girl child cake cutting hand black and white hands

Nouvelle-Aquitaine wedding photographer captured this photo of the groom getting assistance buttoning his cuffs

groomsmen hands groomsman Nouvelle Aquitaine getting dressed getting ready

Detail photo of bride's hand with ring on her chest.

color ring hand bride

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