Wedding Photos of New Orleans

The following “New Orleans” 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 “New Orleans” 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.

Photograph taken at a wedding at Press Street Station in New Orleans. A member of the band is seen playing the trumpet, with pop art images in the background.

Jazzing Up the Big Day: Trumpet Player Serenades Wedding at Press Street Station

Bride and groom joyfully celebrate their wedding at Felicity Church in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans, leading a second line parade

New Orleans Splendor: A Joyful Celebration at Felicity Church

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Groom assists his mother who fell while dancing at Press Street Station in New Orleans

A Son's Grace: Groom Comes to the Aid of His Mother After a Fall at Press Street Station

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A wedding photographer captured this joyful picture at a New Orleans location. The image shows a couple dancing, with the man, who has long hair, being dipped. The scene is full of celebration and carefree vibes.

A Joyous Wedding Dance in the Heart of New Orleans

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A New Orleans bride's warmly-toned shoes rest on the windowsill, accompanied by glowing candles

The romantic atmosphere created by the bride's shoes resting on the windowsill, accompanied by glowing candles, is truly beautiful

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Amid the wedding reception, a Race and Religious, New Orleans street poet in straw hat used a vintage typewriter and hunt and peck technique to create poetry for the couple

At the wedding reception, a street poet in a straw hat provided the couple with personalized poetry composed on a vintage typewriter

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The joyous couple marched down the streets of New Orleans to the beat of a brass band, celebrating their union with a second line

A newlywed couple celebrated their union with a cheerful second line parade, led by a lively brass band

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New Orleans Hair Spray in the Daytime for a Bride Getting Ready at Home in Louisiana

The bride getting ready at home with sunlight streaming through the window

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New Orleans Ace Hotel Engagement Photos. A Louisiana couple posing outside the hotel as she reached in for a kiss at a small table

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A sunny New Orleans Arts District Engagement Session in the Orleans French Quarter of the couple dancing in the street to a live brass band with their 2 dogs

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An Urban Pre Wedding Photoshoot in New Orleans of a couple walking through the streets of the French Quarter with their 2 dogs

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Couple photography in the New Orleans French Quarter during a pre wedding engagement shoot of a couple dancing on the streetcar line

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New Orleans Crescent Park Engagement. A young Louisiana couple posing during a pre wedding portrait session Highlighting the power women carry in the relationship and the strength of a man, always watching and protecting

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Longue Vue House and Gardens post proposal photography showing a smiling New Orleans couple during a scene out of The Notebook with Fairy tale dancing in the sunlight

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Jackson Square in the New Orleans French Quarter post proposal portrait session with a Louisiana engagement photographer and a couple dancing in the sunlight in front one of the oldest catholic churches, St Louis Cathedral

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New Orleans Crescent Park post proposal portrait photos of a happy Louisiana couple Silhouetted over looking the Skyline at sunset

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New Orleans Crescent Park post proposal engagement session with a Louisiana wedding photographer showing an Album Cover style photo for their save the dates

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A New Orleans documentary style wedding image at Maison Perrier showing a moment showing the Bridesmaids vibe with a brass band as part of a second line

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New Orleans, LA nuptial day award-winning image of A bride and groom leading the second line through the streets of uptown during their rainy April New Orleans wedding

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a New Orleans Close up of man kissing woman's nose during their engagement photography shoot

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engaged Couple on bridge in Crescent Park during their New Orleans, Louisiana pre-wedding photo session

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a couple poses on the steps of a business as a street musician plays for them

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Father daughter dance

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Dance floor action with baby

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New Orleans bridesmaid getting emotional before the wedding

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