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.

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

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

home Preparations father Italian italian bride Italy

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

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

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.

JD Land bride walk father Pennsylvania wedding photo church best man groom

Zurich wedding photograph of the groom, his father, and his brother and their special dog getting ready

brother dog getting ready groom father Zurich wedding photo

Bulgaria wedding photography from Church "Vyzdvizhenie na svetiya kryst gospoden" in Sofia as The father places the cross on the heads of the newlyweds

heads father Lubomir Jiponov Sofia newlyweds bulgaria church cross

North Carolina wedding photo from South Nags Head showing the Bride is emotional as she dances with her father

North Carolina wedding photo South Nags Head emotional father bride Neil Thurston Outer Banks

Sichuan wedding photography from When the newlyweds arrive at the bridegroom's home, the bridegroom's mother needs to walk around the couple three times with a rooster, On the far right is the groom's father, He holds one end of the firecrackers

coronavirus bridegrooms home rooster masks Sichuan covid 19 mask

Taranto wedding photo from Apulia at the house of the groom as the groom and the father adjust the buttonhole of their jacket

groom wedding photo Apulia jacket Taranto buttonhole father house

Sofia wedding image of a bride dancing with her father at the Terra Residence in Bulgaria

Bulgaria Sofia wedding image Sofia father dancing Terra Residence

Arizona outdoor wedding photo from Hacienda del Sol Resort- Tucson, AZ showing the bride walks down the garden aisle with her father

father bride walks AZ garden aisle Hacienda del Sol Resort Tucson

Rhode Island wedding photography from Westerly showing the Bride with father just before walking into ceremony

walking father bride ceremony Rhode Island wedding ceremonies RI

Outdoor garden wedding photo from Grand Hotel Baia Verde, Aci Castello with the The elegant gesture of the father who hands over his daughter to the future husband

Salvo Moroni father Aci Castello outdoor weddings daughter future husband Aci Castello ceremonies outside elegant gesture

Siracusa bride receives help with her dress from her father and help from bridesmaids with something on her teeth

Siracusa teeth Siracusa bridal photo father dress Siracusa bride image

The mother of a ring bearer picks a booger from his nose while the boy's father adjusts his boutonniere in Carmelian Bay, CA

Carmelian Bay father boutonniere Carmelian Bay wedding image booger mother CA

Château de Puyrigaud wedding photo of the bride just meeting up with her father and she is touched

bride cyring Château de Puyrigaud wedding Château de Puyrigaud bride image touched FOB

French bride hugs her emotional father on one of the biggest days of her life

hugs french FR Jerome Villard France France Bride father

Martha's Vineyard backyard ceremony image of the bride and her parents at the point where the father is giving his daughter to the groom

backyard ceremony Marthas Vineyard outdoor weddings groom parents daughter Marthas Vineyard ceremonies outside

porto - Portugal menino conhece menina wedding photography of the bride about to enter the church with her father

Portugal enter church father FOB menino menina Portugal wedding

Church of Poussan France wedding image of the bride's dad kissing her hand after leading her down the aisle

Church of Poussan France COVID FOB Dad France church ceremony aisle

The thrilled groom embraces his father at the Catedral de Sao Carlos Borromeu on his wedding day

São Carlos church ceremony thrilled Cathedral of São Carlos South America hugs embrace

Sudbury, Ontario pre-ceremony image of a father giving the groom a reassuring hug in the "emergency use only" room before the ceremony

ceremony Sudbury groom pic Sudbury grooms reassuring hug groom Sudbury

Italy black and white wedding photo from Da Vittorio restaurant, Brusaporto of The Groom hugging his father

Italy Italy wedding photo Da Vittorio Restaurant hugging Brusaporto black and white

Birmingham, UK wedding photo of legal signing of marriage certificate - Father of the groom signing the Muslim wedding certificate

bw photo UK wedding photo wedding certificate groom Muslim signing father

Mersin Silifke Turkey wedding photo of the bride surrounded by guests and live musicians - Bride and her father's emotional goodbye moment

father live musicians goodbye moment Silifke Mersin guests emotional

Pennsylvania wedding photo of Grooms mom hugging him after walking down the aisle and tears up as his father looks on

tears up Pennsylvania grooms hugging Grooms mom JD Land Pennsylvania wedding photo Pennsylvania

wedding photography from a Private venue, Birmingham, UK of an Emotional father of the bride

emotion Birmingham UK brides father Birmingham UK fob Emil Boczek UK Birmingham father

Antwerpen wedding photo from Flanders at the reception venue of the bride hugging her palliative dad goodbye before he leaves

Flanders photographer Antwerpen Flanders wedding image cancer Flanders bride Fille Roelants

Belgium Wedding Image | the bride carresses her palliative dad right after the ceremony

Belgium Wedding Image taken as the bride carresses her palliative dad right after the ceremony

Belgium church Fille Roelants Belgium fob father bride Belgium bride and father

Belgium Wedding Photography | the bride's father evokes a sad response while entering church (he passed away 1 month later because of a tumor)

Belgium Wedding Photography of the bride's father with a sad response while entering church

Belgium church ceremony Dad bride handover bride groom father Fille Roelants

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