Wedding Photos of Cheek

The following “Cheek” 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 “Cheek” 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.

Bridegroom in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, preparing for the wedding day with white cheek masks in a white, minimalistic hotel room setting on the bed.

THAI BRIDEGROOM WITH CHEEK MASKS IN MINIMALISTIC HOTEL

Grandma lovingly kisses the bride on the cheek against a backdrop of the picturesque Gruyère countryside, in a cherished moment filled with warmth and joy.

Cheek to Cheek: A Kiss from Grandma in Gruyère

bride granny grandma kiss Fribourg cheek Gruyère countryside

Award-Winning Portrait: In the beautiful Guadeloupe, the bride and groom embrace with joy and smiles, as the wind tousles their hair. The groom wraps his arms around her, giving a tender kiss on her cheek, evoking a radiant smile.

Guadeloupe's Blissful Embrace: A Radiant Kiss in the Wind's Caress

beautiful arms portraits hair wind's joy wind

In this wedding photo taken in India, the bride is seen at her haldi ceremony in Hyderabad, having turmeric applied to her cheek.

Bridal Bliss in India: An Enchanting Haldi Ceremony Unveils the Radiant Bride in Hyderabad

Haldi ceremony cheek Hyderabad wedding photography turmeric application Hyderabad

Stone Mountain lifestyle couples portrait session in North Carolina in the forest with a fern leaf covering his kiss to her cheek

NC lifestyle couple Stone Mountain forest kiss leaf fern Stone Mountain NC

Colorado wedding reportage photojournalist created this image of the bride during her dance moments

dance bride Colorado kiss cheek Colorado wedding photojournalist

Best Coloma, California documentary wedding photojournalism image of A bride wiping the tear from the cheek of an emotional groom during their outdoor wedding ceremony

emotional California bride tear Coloma couple outdoor wedding ceremony

Pre-wedding Alacati couple portrait-session in Izmir, Turkey with a kiss to her cheek next to a building and some trees

İzmir cheek building Alacati couple portrait Izmir photographer Turkey

Colorado Springs couple portrait, as he gives his fiancee a smooch on the cheek in front of the incredible summer view of Garden of the Gods.

summer garden Colorado smooch Colorado Springs couple portrait Garden of the Gods Colorado Springs

Wedding photography At the reception venue during dinner in the Mariënhof in Amersfoort showing The son of the bride is sitting on her knees and Her nephew is giving a kiss on her cheek

bride dinner son nephew cheek Thomas Jongbloed kiss

Photo showing a bride kissed on the cheek by her mother and father at the same time as they pass her to the groom at the start of a Long Island, NY outdoor wedding ceremony.

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Arcachon Bay Engagement Photography Session - Image contains: black and white, kiss, ear, cheek, hair

Arcachon Bay Engagement Photo in black and white with a tender kiss

Arcachon Bay engagement session Arcachon Bay kiss cheek black and white ear

Guests watch as the groom kisses the bride on the cheek in Gioia Tauro in this black and white award-winning photo by a Calabria wedding photographer.

Guests watch as the groom kisses the bride on the cheek in this black and white award-winning photo

Gioia Tauro groom kisses black and white the Bride cheek guests

Red wall background | pre-wedding engagement pictures of a couple kissing | DC portrait shoot

Pre-wedding engagement portrait of a couple against a red wall background, with the bearded man kissing the woman's cheek

background kissing bearded man cheek dc engagement portrait red wall DC couple

Lyon wedding photographer captured this black and white photo of a bride reading her speech from a piece of a paper as she wipes a tear from her cheek

Lyon wedding photo of a bride reading her speech from a piece of a paper as she wipes a tear from her cheek

tear reading wipes Bourgoin-Jallieu wedding ceremony cheek

image of a bride and a groom with a lipstick smooch on his cheek

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