Wedding Photos of Family

The following “Family” 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 “Family” 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.

An exceptional Oaxaca City wedding image by a pro Mexico photographer exhibiting the Groom and family walking around the city

A Blue Hill, Maine documentary wedding photographer captured this moment showing The bride dancing with her friends and family

friends Kate Crabtree Maine bride dancing Blue Hill ME wedding photographer

A top documentary wedding photographer from New Hampshire created this image at the Omni Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods of The newlyweds announced to their family and friends at the end of the Indian wedding ceremony

New Hampshire Omni Mount Washington Resort newlyweds announced family Indian wedding ceremony indian NH

A documentary wedding photographer in Bordeaux captured this picture of a Pregnant bride getting ready while family is greeting guests

bordeaux wedding photographer Bordeaux documentary weddings guests Bordeaux greeting bride Bordeaux

View this important moment in Hyderabad wedding picture of The brides reaction caught in the moment as water is being splashed on her by her family and friends during her Mangalsnanam ceremony

Mohamed Jameer friends Hyderabad weddings water Hyderabad splashed Hyderabad wedding photographer

A top Sichuan documentary wedding photographer created this image showing the The newlyweds went to the stage, and The little girl threw the petals into the sky, Family and friends watched them

Sky little girl newlyweds China photography Sichuan stage china wedding image

This Bulgaria wedding photojournalism picture is a top quality example of what candid, nontraditional Varna wedding photography looks like, as the newlyweds accept warm greetings from family and friends at Euxinograd Palace

Detelina Krasteva family Bulgaria wedding photojournalism Palace Euxinograd bulgaria bride newlyweds

By the Lake barn, Romania indoor wedding reception party award-winning picture showing father of the groom and family under strings of lights

Romania photographer Romania father strings of lights family

Kent, UK outdoor marriage reception party award-winning photo that has recorded the family dog during speeches

UK reception party family Lyndsey Goddard Kent UK outdoor marriage Kent photography United Kingdom

Bodrum, Turkey nuptial day award-winning image of Bride saying goodbye to her family with traditional accordion goodbye song

turkey bride Turkey Bodrum Traditional accordion goodbye song red veil

Gap, France marriage preparation time award-winning picture capturing the Groom with family getting ready

family groom France wedding photography Gap photographer France marriage getting ready Jean Baptiste Chauvin

France nuptial day award-winning image of The family that throws wheat at the bride and groom

church wheat France wedding image Lille wedding photographer bride and groom family

The Ireland WPJA is the alternative to traditional wedding images and is pleased to present this inspiring wedding photography example from Kilrush showing Family and Friends hugging through a window whilst kitchen is ready for dinner

Jamie Gillies hugging family Kilrush Kilrush wedding photography kitchen County Clare

View this pictorial Saint Victurnien wedding pic showing the bride and grooms daughter, immersed in reading the new family booklet, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Haute Vienne from the WPJA

France Gaelle Caré Saint Victurnien wedding pic booklet Saint Victurnien immersed

Sichuan artful style wedding detail picture showing The glasses of the bridegroom and brothers, a rose of the bride, the white tabletop is the dining table used by the bride and her family for many years, and the cracked dining table has witnessed all

dining The glasses table a rose dining table white tabletop Sichuan

Toulouse wedding reportage photography contest award winning candid moment at home of the bride surrounded by her family getting ready

South of France Toulouse wedding reportage getting ready France Bride Toulouse France

Fujian wedding photographer contest award winning image sample of family at home with balloons during the bride getting ready time

family Shubin Shen fujian wedding photographer Fujian at home balloons bride getting ready

A wedding photographer in Vinsobres, France created this black and white image of Emotional moments in family

family wedding photographer Vinsobres wedding Emotional moments Vinsobres France black and white image

The Adirondacks, New York wedding venue reception photography showing final dip at the end of the first dance in the outdoor pavilion surrounded by all their family and friends

final dip outdoor pavilion friends New York wedding venue reception photography first dance Adirondacks outdoor reception Lucy Schultz

Linxe, France documentary wedding image of the members of a family meeting at the time of the preparations of the marriage

meeting time Landes France French wedding image Preparations Linxe family

Spain photography of a Toledo - Castilla La Mancha wedding Real emotional crying family moment at getting ready

Castilla La Mancha wedding Spain photographer Castilla La Mancha Toledo family Spain

The State Room, Boston wedding true love displayed as A family member holds the sleeping baby during the wedding ceremony and looks adoringly at the little baby

Boston The State Room during ceremony Boston wedding baby Massachusetts

Sow Exotic Farm in Winter Haven, FL fine art wedding bride flowers detail image showing the Family relaxing together right after ceremony

flowers detail image relaxing Samantha Moore Winter Haven Florida Sow Exotic Farm FL bride

Île-de-France Ceremony location wedding image of the Bride waiting with her family before the ceremony

Bride waiting FR Ceremony location ceremony family Lea Torrieri

Ballenger Farm, Leesburg VA wedding photography showing the couple toasting to their friends and family at their intimate wedding reception

intimate friends Brittany Diliberto couple toasting wedding reception Leesburg Ballenger Farm

Pennsylvania Ceremony wedding photography showing Sign of the times as the groom gets a livestream set up for the ceremony about to start, his family comes over to say hello to the extended family that couldn't be there in person because of Covid restrict

livestream Ceremony wedding photography JD Land groom Sign of the times COVID Pennsylvania

Grand Est Home wedding photography showing the Family is getting ready

Grand Est wedding photo home getting ready family

Syracuse, Sicily wedding photography of the bride and grandpa

Sicily wedding photo family grandfather bride and grandpa Syracuse

Wedding photo from Pennsylvania of the groom waiting on his families sailboat for his bride coming down the dock with her parents as they are about to get married on the sailboat

married parents dock PA sailboat family bride JD Land

France wedding photography in Paris of pre-ceremony Family prep with the flower girls

flower girls Prep France wedding photo pre ceremony family Paris

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