Wedding Photos of Beautiful dress

The following “Beautiful dress” 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 “Beautiful dress” 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 bride stands in a picturesque French vineyard wearing an elegant wedding dress at Chateau des Ravatys in Saint-Lager, Rhône, Beaujolais, France

Elegance Among the Vines: A Bride's Tale at Chateau des Ravatys in Saint-Lager, France

Domtuin, Utrecht wedding bride artistic image session with The bride showing her beautiful dress in a nice slice of light

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Haarlem, NL wedding portrait of the bride showing her beautiful dress in the wind which blows through the Amsterdamse Poort

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

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Two women help the bride arrange her beautiful dress as she prepares to enter the ceremony

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This photograph captures the bride posing by an open window in Kasteel Dussen, her dress billowing in the wind

A bride is captured in the wind in her wedding dress, posing by an open window at Kasteel Dussen

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A wedding photo from Hotel Xcaret Mexico, featuring the brides beautiful white dress comprising of various textures and patterns

A photo was taken at Hotel Xcaret Mexico on a wedding day of the brides white dress

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A breath-taking detail image from below of a wedding dress resembling a blossoming flower at Battery Gardens, New York

A detail image of a wedding dress resembling a blossoming flower was captured at Battery Gardens, New York

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The bride was beaming on her special day as she posed for a unique photo, sitting backwards on a park bench with her feet in the air and her beautiful Reggio Calabria wedding dress draped over the back of the bench

The bride radiated joy in her creative wedding photo, sitting on a park bench, legs up in the air, with her gown behind her

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The bride's dress was a beautiful surprise, hidden behind a strip of wall at the Hesse wedding, adding a special touch to the special day

A creative backdrop of wall slices featured the bride's dress, enhancing the BW wedding picture

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A bride in Phoenix poses for an indoor photo to show off her beautiful dress from afar

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