Wedding Photos of Profile

The following “Profile” 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 “Profile” 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 pre-wedding portrait | Finca Vikingos, Santa Barbara, Costa Rica

ALBI, FRANCE | A Captivating Engagement Portrait: Mesmerizing Silhouette with Wall Lamp

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Love's Summit: A Captivating Engagement Portrait at Hunger Mountain

Vermont engagement photography profile Vermont low sun summit of Mount Hunger Mount Hunger warm glow

A couple stands outside a church in Sinsheim, Germany, basking in the sunlight. The bride and groom playfully interact with the interplay of shadows and light.

Sunlit Serenity: Embarking on Eternal Love in Sinsheim, Germany

Sinsheim Wedding Portrait Germany silhouette Baden-Wurttemberg Sinsheim sunlight shadows and light

The couple enjoyed being together in Banff, Alberta, Canada, for their black and white engagement portrait featuring the fiancée standing behind her man

The couple enjoyed their engagement portrait in Banff, Canada, with the fiancée standing behind her man

Alberta Banff PreWedding Portrait black and white portrait profile Banff

A romantic and sweet Dans une forêt engagement photo of the couple near the woods with a profile of the woman

Metz couple woods Metz profile Jonathan Fortuna Dans une forêt romantic

Digitally enhanced Anzy le Due wedding photo in France of the Profile of a bride getting ready

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Hasselt engagement photography session of the couple layered in the image

An urban engagement photography session of the couple layered in the image

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Tenuta di Polline - Bracciano wedding venue photo of the bride | Portraits in the wind

An artistic black and white photograph captured the bride in profile with veil, in a windy wedding venue

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A bride's silhouette is framed by her veil in a black-and-white wedding photo taken in Budapest, Hungary

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Athens, Attica engagement photo session and wedding photography

Engagement photo session with a woman in bright sunlight and a man in silhouette, highlighting the contrast between light and shadow and creating a dramatic and artistic effect

Athens engagement photography light and shadow profile Athens Attica bright sunlight silhouette

Vertical engagement pictures of a couple with bokeh lights | Dorset photographer pre-wedding shoot with photographer

The couple's faces, close in profile, were illuminated in a dreamlike haze of bokeh lights, a romantic vertical engagement photo capturing the intensity of their emotion

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Czech Republic Engagement Photograph of couple in shadows and sunlight against wall

In this engagement photograph, the man is captured in shadows as the woman and sunlight are framed by tree shadows against a wall, adding depth and texture to the image

Czech Republic engagement photography light and shadows profile Czech Republic tree shadows

Her profile with her fiancé gazing down make for a very intimate black-and-white engagement portrait

gazing down profile fiance Madrid engagement shoot Madrid pre wedding image Madrid

The bride's profile is split down the middle by shadow and light

middle black and white Asia Jiangxi shadow and light profile Fei Wang

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