Wedding Photos of Father

The following “Father” 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 “Father” 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.

The UK WPJA is proud to award this non traditional and quiet London wedding image showing the moment the Father sees the Bride for the first time

Roedermark marriage preparation time award-winning picture capturing the Dad first look

marriage preparation time Roedermark Roedermark wedding picture Dad first look Roedermark photographer FOB

Sao Paulo nuptial day award-winning image of the groom and his father in an emotional hug

groom hug sao paulo wedding image sitting Brazil couch São Paulo

Sylvanside Farm, Purcellville, VA indoor wedding reception party award-winning picture showing an emotional Father daughter dance

VA indoor wedding Purcellville wedding photographer Sylvanside Farm dance VA reception party emotional

Kilrush, Ireland nuptial day award-winning image of a father bowing his head in despair of moody child whilst the sibling happily drinks his coke

bowing coke Jamie Gillies straw can moody despair

France town hall marriage preparation time award-winning picture capturing the bride with her father

Marck Yvan father Town Hall France france wedding photographer FOB France town hall

Black and White Guangdong wedding picture in China at home of the bride and her fathers hands

hands Jinqi Tan Guangdong Guangdong wedding picture at home black and white father

Modern Key Largo wedding picture at Bakers Cay Resort of a Florida Bride walking down with father to outdoor ceremony location at the beach

Key Largo wedding picture outdoor Ceremony location beach Florida father florida bride

A top Castello di Cernusco wedding photo in Lombardone capturing this picture of the bride pinning the flower in her buttonhole to her father, he gazes at her entranced

gazes flower buttonhole father bride pinning Lombardone father of the bride

A top wedding photographer in Pennsylvania captured this picture showing Father of the flower girl attempting different bribery techniques to get his daughter to come and eat her dinner, He started by offering a ring pop

daughter father ring pop wedding photographer Pennsylvania JD Land dinner

A wedding photographer in Scotland created this image of the Bride and her father entering the ceremony

father scotland bride Mike Cook bride wedding photographer Scotland ceremony

A wedding photographer in Guizhou created this image of the moment when the bride and father wait at the door before the wedding ceremony

wait Guo Chenhui China wedding photography father guizhou wedding image wedding ceremony bride

Sky Ranch Lodge, Sedona Arizona wedding photography showing Brides mother, father, and bridesmaid watch on during wedding ceremony

Sedona Sky Ranch Lodge holding hands outdoor wedding ceremony bridesmaid mother

İstanbul Turkey documentary wedding moment of thebride and her crying brother with their father watching them

istanbul bride Turkey documentary weddings crying Istanbul brother father

Maria Alm documentary wedding image of an emotional father hugging the groom after the ceremony

Europe groom Austria wedding image Austria hugging Maria Alm documentary wedding

Trieste, Italy wedding photography moment showing the Father's love

father Italy ITALY wedding photography Friuli Venezia Giulia wedding Udiine bride trieste photographer love

Hamble wedding moment picture showing the fathers reaction in BW

reaction Hamble England photographer father hampshire bride bw

Joe Mann Best wedding moment photograph from The Netherlands captured as the Bride hugs father who suffers from dementia

hugs NL photographer Netherlands bw father dementia Elke Teurlings

Toulouse father-daughter wedding day moment photo from South of France showing the Bride taking care of her father before the ceremony

photo France Toulouse toulouse bride Occitanie father

Villa Pestalozza, Miasino wedding day moment image created in BW as the Bride caresses the face of her sick father before she leaves to the wedding ceremony

Villa Pestalozza venue Villa Pestalozza Piedmont Julian Kanz Italy bw weddings Piedmont bride father

Palazzo Borghese, Florence wedding moment pic from Italy showing the dance of the bride with her father

Florence weddings father Palazzo Borghese dance bw Florence Florence bride

Nantucket Island emotional wedding day moment of a MA Bride and her father sharing an emotional and tearful hug before the ceremony

Massachusetts father moment Nantucket Island wedding hugs MA bride

Wedding photo from a New Jersey ceremony showing the father prayerful embrace with son and brother

Kenneth Clapp father embrace son prayerful brother New Jersey ceremony

Istanbul wedding photography from Turkey showing the uncle of the bride is giving advices instead of her father because the father has recently passed away

Nilufer Nalbantoglu uncle giving advice father wedding photography Turkey Istanbul bride

Seacoast Science Center, NH wedding photo showing While the bride was walking down the aisle while her father was almost crying

down the aisle father NH wedding photo bride crying walking

French wedding photographer captures the bride embracing her father at the Church of Bagnols sur Cèze

Bagnols sur Cèze France father embracing french Wedding photo bride church

Sofia, Bulgaria wedding photography showing a traditional custom in which the father leads the bride out of her home

Bulgaria wedding photo the Bride traditional custom Sofia home father

Italian bride helps her father with the preparations at home in Suisio

Preparations Italian Suisio home Italy Italian bride image Italian bridal photo

Pennsylvania wedding photograph of the Bride & Groom getting married on his father's sailboat as the families shadows show on the adjacent sailboat.

shadows Bride & groom families father Pennsylvania wedding photo getting married JD Land

Pennsylvania wedding photo of the groom's reaction to seeing his bride walk into the church as his father/best man takes it all in.

bride walk father Pennsylvania wedding photo groom reaction church best man

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