Wedding Photos of Entrance

The following “Entrance” 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 “Entrance” 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 stunning black and white image taken at a wedding in Wadhurst, UK, capturing the bride and her father waiting to enter the church.

Breathtaking Wadhurst Wedding: Father and Daughter Wait at Church Entrance in Timeless Image

A bride joyfully reacts as she enters Cissbury Barns in West Sussex for dinner in this wedding photo.

Breathtaking Moment: Bride's Joyful Entrance to Cissbury Barns Dinner in West Sussex Wedding Photo

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Outside a charming church in Bardos, France, the bride and her father waiting to enter in a vintage VW bus. A unique and whimsical addition to their special day.

Bride and Father Await Entry: Vintage VW Bus at Charming Bardos Church Wedding

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A moment is captured outside Basílica Nossa Senhora das Dores in Porto Alegre, Brazil, as the bride's veil elegantly floats in the breeze, adding a touch of grace to her impending entrance into the Church.

Graceful Veil Floats Outside Basílica Nossa Senhora das Dores in Porto Alegre, Brazil

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The groom shares a heartwarming moment with his mother as they make their grand entrance on the lawn during an outdoor ceremony at Villa Grassina in Pelago, Florence, Tuscany

Groom's Touching Entrance with Mother Exudes Warmth at Tuscan Wedding

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A bride and her mother step out of a large van, ready for the wedding ceremony at Little Wold Vineyard in Yorkshire, England

Vows Amidst the Vines: A Mother-Daughter Journey at Little Wold Vineyard

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Justin Edmonds is an artistic wedding photographer for Colorado

Photo by: Justin Edmonds - Denver Colorado

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At the Rustic Manor in Hartland, Wisconsin, a groomsman and a bridesmaid make a grand entrance, with money spewing machines kicking out paper money and bills flying through the air in a festive display

As a groomsman and a bridesmaid make their grand entrance, they create a shower of paper money and bills flying through the air, courtesy of money spewing machines in a lively and celebratory display

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Paris wedding documentary photographer created this image of the The bride and groom entering the dining room

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Best Ardeche documentary wedding photography showing some man Power Flower at the entrance of outdoor ceremony

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World's best creative wedding portrait photography from Paris, France of the bride and groom standing by the entrance door to a building with the groom jumping

Paris wedding portrait Patrick Lombaert groom standing building Paris couple jumping

A superior Scotland wedding couple portrait from the United Kingdom as the bride and groom stand near a garden gate entrance

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A Sao Paulo documentary wedding photographer captured this moment showing the father of the bride watching her entrance

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Île d'Yeu, France pre-wedding engagement image-session against a gate entrance from a low angle and symmetrical

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Parque Juarez, San Miguel de Allende outside environmental prewedding photoshoot at the entrance of a very famous park in San Miguel as the couple was taking a few dance steps and thus also captures the park gates

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Apulia, Italy indoor marriage ceremony award-winning image showing the entrance of the bride

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Lille indoor wedding reception party award-winning picture showing The bride and groomsmen who hold the groom after their entrance dance

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TCF Bank Stadium couple e-session in Minneapolis as they face the football field entrance

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Ireland wedding photography from the Kilshane House showing the Entrance of the bride

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England wedding reportage photographer captured this black and white image at Pendrell Hall showing the Groom overcome with emotion during Bride's entrance

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French wedding photography at the Church of Poussan South of France showing the bride walks towards the entrance of the church in a strong wind

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Couple sitting in an entrace lobby for prewedding portrait - Student home in Leiden, The Netherlands

Couple sitting in an entrace lobby for prewedding portrait at the Student home in Leiden, The Netherlands

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A couple entrance

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party entrance by the bride and groom

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wedding photographer creates an image of the entrance of the bride, from the perspective of the bridesmaids bouquets

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St. Gabriel Catholic Church. Poway, California wedding photographer - The groom helps his bride out of the car so they can make their grand reception entrance.

The groom helps his bride out of the car so they can make their grand reception entrance

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the Bride's Entrance

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The hailstorm during the entrance of the bride and groom

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Catajo Padova wedding reception photography | The entrance of the bride and the groom at the dinner can be seen in this photo

wedding reception entrance of the bride and the groom at the dinner can be seen in this photo

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Fairmont Copley Plaza, Boston reception - the bride is preparing for ceremony entrance at Goddard Chapel, Medford

Fairmont Copley Plaza, Boston reception photo as the bride is preparing for ceremony entrance at Goddard Chapel, Medford

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