Wedding Photos of Capturing Love

The following “Capturing Love” 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 “Capturing Love” 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.

Capturing the love in Venice, Italy, this engagement portrait features the couple embracing at sunset by the water's edge in a vertical shot.

Venetian Embrace: Sunset Serenade at the Water's Edge

A modern love story unfolds amidst the breathtaking landscape of Seattle, Washington. Adorned in stunning Indian attire, the bride and groom share a tender embrace with touching heads, capturing their love on their wedding day.

Seattle Love: A Modern Indian Wedding Embracing Eternal Love's Embrace.

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Capturing the essence of love amidst the bustling cityscape, this award-winning portrait captures a bride and groom in Montauban, with a dreamy ambiance created by a slow shutter speed, beautifully blending them with the passing crowd.

Love Blooms in Montauban: Dreamy Cityscape Portrait of a Bride and Groom

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Wedding photo taken at Domaine de Rennepont, Haute-Marne, shows the couple in an intimate embrace, about to share a kiss, with radiant sunlight highlighting the surrounding foliage.

Embracing Love at Domaine de Rennepont, Haute-Marne's Enchanting Haven

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At Domaine de Montireau, the newlyweds share their first look during their wedding

Unveiling Emotions: Capturing Love at Domaine de Montireau

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In the beautiful city of Lyon, France, a couple poses for a romantic wedding photo shoot in a dazzling field, capturing the essence of their special day.

ROMANTIC LYON WEDDING: CAPTURING THE ESSENCE OF LOVE IN A DAZZLING FIELD PORTRAIT

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A couple in Chartres can be seen cuddling on the sidewalk, capturing the beautiful essence of their love in their engagement portrait

Capturing the Beautiful Essence of Love: Couple Cuddles on Chartres Sidewalk for Engagement Portrait

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In Chartres, a couple embraces during the golden hour for their engagement portrait

Capturing Love in Chartres: Enchanting Engagement Portrait Embraces the Golden Hour

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A couple in Trieste, Italy, poses for an engagement portrait at sunset, capturing their love against a backdrop of cloudy skies

Romantic Engagement Portrait: Italian Couple in Trieste Poses at Sunset with Cloudy Skies as Backdrop

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A silhouette portrait of a wedding couple at Hampden House in Buckinghamshire, capturing their love against a backdrop of a fiery sunset and warm clouds

Hampden House Buckinghamshire: Capturing the love of a wedding couple in a fiery sunset backdrop

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Bride and groom wedding portrait in the woods

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A wedding photo taken at Fattoria Mottava in Siracusa, Italy, captures the bride and groom in a historic structure

The bride and groom were captured in a historic Fattoria Mottava, Siracusa, Italy wedding photo

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Wedding pictures from getting ready by Baltimore photographer in Jessup MD

Capturing Love: A Journey through a Baltimore Wedding in Jessup MD

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The England forest houses a happily married bride and groom photo.

This artistic image of a newlywed couple walking away into the forest is truly unique

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WPJA contest judges have been recognized by their industry peers, winning top awards as staff picture editors, staff photojournalists, and newsroom mentors while working for these and other leading publications and journalism organizations.