Wedding Photos of Friends

The following “Friends” 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 “Friends” 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.

Flanders Wedding reception image contains: The bride was throwing away her wedding flowers and I love the power she's throwing the flowers away to her best girlfriends.

The bride throwing away her wedding flowers

friends demonstrating their love for the bride

friends wedding reception bride guests brazil bride Brazil Monica Guimaraes

The bride reveals herself to her friends and family on the morning of her wedding

UK Norwich reveal norfolk wedding photographer family Norfolk bride Norfolk

Wedding guests congratulate the bride, immediately after the ceremony

friends scotland weddings hug scotland wedding photographer Ravensheugh Log Cabin scotland bride

Wedding day detail of the hats of friends as they watched the couple leave the ceremony location at the end of the ceremony

Vinci Wang couple Fuzhou fine art wedding photo ceremony location wedding day detail Fuzhou fine art wedding photography Fuzhou artistic wedding photographer

The bride and groom toast with their friends

VT bride and groom Vermont wedding image Vermont wedding friends toast Farmhouse Inn

Sheraton Hotel Downtown Montreal wedding photographer: Groom was sitting listening to his friends and the light hit him perfectly here - love this type of light.

wedding photo of the Groom sitting listening to his friends and the light hit him perfectly

Sheraton Hotel Sheraton Hotel Downtown Downtown Montreal groom wedding photography listening light

friends of all ages as they dance happily at the wedding

the wedding Marsala sicily wedding image Baglio Oneto dance happily black and white friends

the a groom getting ready in a mirror as his friends watch him

mirror friends A groom getting ready Trapani

man with his mouth wide open about to receive a drink from his friends on the dance floor

Paulinia friends drink dance floor

Wedding Photos from after the Ceremony at Pasadena, CA, St. Andrew Catholic Church | The bride and groom eat fast food with their friends and family after their church ceremony

Pasadena, CA bride and groom eat fast food with their friends

bride and groom Brett Butterstein pasadena eat fast food pasadena wedding friends

Goa, India Traditional Wedding Photographer | When your friends take revenge for all the pranks you have pulled on them!

friends can take revenge for all the pranks you have pulled

India Traditional Wedding Photographer take revenge pranks friends goa

Wedding Photography from Venue Adamson House, Malibu, California - The bride and her friends dance on the dance floor.

The bride and her friends on the dance floor

the Bride Malibu wedding friends Adamson House dance floor

Monte Alegre do Sul - São Paulo venue - wedding photo of drinking friends

drinking friends at the reception

the reception drinking friends Monte Alegre do sul

Monte Alegre do Sul - São Paulo wedding photographer - Image in black and white of the Couple dancing

the Couple dancing with friends

friends Monte Alegre do sul the couple dancing

bride with friends at the water fixing her dress

outdoor wedding venue dress Netherlands outdoor wedding venue photo friends fixing Leonard Walpot water

Bride dancing with her friends

Netherlands Reception Party venue Leonard Walpot bride Dutch wedding reception image Bride dancing friends Dutch Bride

United Kingdom wedding reception image of the bride and frineds singing with the groom's brother

the bride and friends singing with the groom's brother

singing friends brother the Bride United Kingdom wedding reception image Lyndsey Goddard groom

the bride and groom coming out of the church

guests Illinois friends Chicago church wedding bride and groom church Chicago

Mother of the groom and friends

friends Chipstead Chipstead wedding image tent reception traditional clothing Chipstead photography UK

Groom and friends at the bar before shot'o'clock

Bucharest reception venues friends bar Gradina Lahovari groom bucharest wedding venue

Gradina Lahovari wedding venue photo - Groom gets a hug from friends

the Groom gets a hug from friends

hug Bucharest reception venue groom Gradina Lahovari friends

Reception Venue Photography of Flash Friends at the Wedding Party Outside

Flash Friends dancing at the Wedding Party Outside

France reception venues France wedding photography flash France wedding venue Henri Deroche wedding party Centre Val de Loire

Groom and friends are getting ready

France intimate wedding Annecy friends Abbaye de Talloires France France small wedding

Bride Dancing with friends

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Groom jumped on his friends during dance

dance London Weddings London wedding venues Lakeview Marquee friends groom

Shaanxi Actual Day Wedding Photographer - New people and friends are playing games.

New friends are playing games

Shaanxi wedding games friends Shaanxi door games Shaanxi door games Shaanxi gate crashing

the groom is thrown up in the air by his friends

The groom friends varese wedding venues thrown varese wedding photography varese weddings

A groom enjoys some time with his friends drinking wine

A groom Ho Chi Minh wedding Swan Restaurant Ho Chi Minh wedding image friends Ho Chi Minh actual weddings

Bride waves to her friends as she leaves in a car, and her guests hang out

guests leaves Kasteel van Ruisbroek friends waves Joshua Dhondt bride

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