Wedding Photos of Formal wear

The following “Formal wear” 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 “Formal wear” 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.

Cape Town engagement portrait of couple using shadow to create a contrast

China Engagement pictures using reflections in water

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a Guangdong couple leans their foreheads against each other and close their eyes peacefully in this pre-wedding portrait session

Fill the frame China engagement photos close up China wedding engagement Shooting Tight tight crop China

fuzhou Park pre-wedding portrait photo shoot for a couple in formal wear

Asia couple Fuzhou engagement photos drone Fuzhou pre wedding portraits park fuzhou Park

Pre-wedding portrait Photography in the deserts of Dubai

The couple posed for a stunning pre-wedding portrait in the desert, walking through the sand in their formal black clothes as they celebrated their love and commitment to each other in the beautiful and vast wilderness

vast wilderness uae Pre wedding portrait Dubai e session formal black clothing desert engagement walking on sand Dubai

Pre-wedding portraits from Downtown Los Angeles - Diamonds in the rough with street graffiti in formal wear

The couple posed for elegant pre-wedding portraits among the street graffiti and rough surroundings of the downtown area, dressed in formal wear as they celebrated their love and commitment to each other in the midst of the urban landscape

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Pre-Wedding Engagement Portrait at the waves

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Legion of Honor engagement session - fun with couple

The engagement session featured the couple having fun in formal black clothes as they peered around tall white columns

white columns CA engagement formal black clothing fun portrait California e session Legion of Honor formal wear

Fujian, China Pre-Wedding Engagement Portraits with strings of lights

Joy Qin China Fujian pre wedding portraits Pre Wedding Engagement Portrait formal Fujian e shoot dancing

Paris couple poses in formal wear against impressive architecture

A happy couple poses in formal wear against a towering backdrop of impressive architecture, their love illuminated against the tilted horizon

towering backdrop Paris Paris Landmark Paris engagement session formal wear eiffel tower tilted horizon

Seance wedding engagement photography in Paris - France | Hotel Shangri-La - Paris

A man and woman, dressed in their finest, enjoying an intimate bath together, celebrating their engagement

womans pumps Paris Hotel Shangri La France sitting in bath formal wear Paris engagement photography

Shanghai pre-wedding engagement pictures of a couple kissing in formal wear | couple photography session

BW engagement pictures of a couple kissing in formal wear photography session

Shanghai shanghai couple China BW engagement picture Asia Shanghai PreWedding Photography kissing

Wedding engagement portrait of this couple hitting the hiking trail in formal wear

hiking trail San Francisco Black clothing formal wear San Francisco engagement photography

San Diego engaged couple during their pre-wedding portrait photoshoot at concrete parking structure

formal wear ANZA foto and film CA Kristina Cazares Neri San Diego concrete parking structure urban e session

California Engagement Photograph of a couple with fall leaves

san diego e session autumn leaves San Diego ANZA foto and film Kristina Cazares Neri formal wear

cappadocia engagement photo session in Turkey

The couple poses for their desert engagement photo session in formal wear, with the arid and dry surroundings adding to the hot and vibrant atmosphere of the scene

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District of Columbia engaged couple kiss by the fireside for their engagement portrait

couple kiss DC engagement photos fireside District of Columbia Mari Harsan pre wedding locations DC formal wear

Lima Peru engagement portraits at the beach during the magic hour of light

Warm sunlight formal wear pre wedding location Lima engaged couple Jamil Valle Lima Peru Peru engagement session

A rome embracing couple in the warm sunlight for a street portrait session

pre wedding location Rome Warm sunlight Rome engagement session formal wear street Rome

Milano Engagement Photos in the coloseum

Milano Engagement Photos while seated in the coloseum

pre wedding location Milan sitting Milan engagement session Milano formal wear coloseum

Guernsey formal engagement shoot - Beach portraits while dressed in black with black umbrella

Guernsey formal engagement Beach portraits while dressed in black with black umbrella

Nick Despres Guernsey engagement photos beach pre wedding locations Guernsey Guernsey formal wear umbrella

Malaysia couple embraces at the jetty by the ocean for their pre-wedding Photos

beach formal wear Malaysia engagement session pre wedding location Malaysia lens flare Malaysia

Extremely fun Seattle pre-wedding portraits in the public water fountain

formal wear wet Seattle engagement photos water Logan Westom USA pre wedding locations Seattle

Lake Tahoe engagement photographer | California pre-wedding session with a couple in formal wear

California pre-wedding session with a couple in formal wear by a Lake Tahoe engagement photographer

couple hug from behind Lake Tahoe engagement photos Lake Tahoe formal wear

Black-and-white intimate Lake Tahoe couple portraits

engaged couple Lake Tahoe pre wedding session Lake Tahoe black and white formal wear Lake Tahoe engagement photographers

Ontario Engagement Photographer | Pre Wedding Photo Shoot in the sun with Flag holders

Ontario Pre Wedding Photo Shoot in the sun with Flag holders

pre wedding location desert Ontario flags formal wear flag holders desert engagement session

Intimate engagement portraits for London couples | England pre-wedding photograph of a tender embrace

England pre-wedding photograph of a tender embrace - Intimate engagement portraits for London couples

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District of Columbia monumental portrait session in a red dress

red dress pillars columms DC pre wedding portrait low angle formal wear

Rome formal pre-wed portrait session in the city in black and white

black and white Rome pre wedding session couple Italy Rome formal wear

Rome couple prewedding portraits in the city with soft light and shadows

IT pre wedding session IT engagement photos couple architecture formal wear Rome

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