Wedding Photos of Getting ready

The following “Getting ready” 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 “Getting ready” 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.

Jay Peak wedding photography of a Vermont Bride kissing her lovely dog while she is getting ready

Westbury Castle, Prestatyn, UK wedding reportage photo | Groom getting his turban tied before the ceremony

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Monte Alegre do sul wedding venue photo - bride getting ready with lipstick in silhouette

black and white São Paulo wedding photographer lipstick makeup getting ready Monte Alegre do sul

Cadiz (Spain) | Wedding picture spanish hat of bride family at getting ready

Cadiz Spain Wedding picture of spanish hats on bride family at getting ready

Cadiz wedding photographer indoors family Spain black and white hats

Cadiz Spain blue and symmetrical artistic groom portrait on wedding day

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Xangri-lá - Rio Grande do Sul wedding day portrait of the bride at the venue with a reflection of a hand

Rio Grande do Sul reflection portrait getting ready Xangri lá porto alegre bride

Gouda, The Netherlands wedding photography | The sister of the bride is tying her yellow shoestraps on an yellow bordered honeycomb carpet

Gouda Dutch artistic wedding photographer getting ready detail Patterns Dutch wedding image

Tuscany groom getting ready | Black and white wedding detail photo of shaving

groom Tuscany black and white Donatella Barbera Florence wedding photography getting ready shaving

Hotel ca' Sagredo Venice photo during getting ready | Dress hanging with little girl

Hotel ca' Sagredo Venice photo during getting ready | Dress hanging with the young, little flowergirl

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Estein Hotel, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam Details Photo in Black and White

Estein Hotel, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam Details Photo of groom's tux and hands in Black and White

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Miranda Venezuela wedding photographer captured this group hug around the bride at the getting ready party

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England wedding reportage photography at the Radisson Hotel, Heathrow - The groom putting his tie on while Getting ready

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Eye make-up applied

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Mom watching bride getting her make up done

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Bride exclaims as she puts on her shoe

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Pera Palace Hotel make up before the wedding ceremony | Photography of the Bride

make up before the ceremony

Nilufer Nalbantoglu Pera Palace Hotel getting ready turkey wedding photographer bride Istanbul wedding venue makeup

The bridesmaids help the bride into her wedding dress

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Father of the Bride sees his daughter

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Bridedsmaids removing brides Bra

Wolverhampton wedding photographer black and white bride West Midlands weddings Nick Brightman Halesowen getting ready

Haarlem Staatshotel, getting ready bride suite photography | getting ready wedding dress bridesmaid in egg chair

getting ready wedding dress flower girl in egg chair

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Calabria Wedding Photographer At the Bride's house | During the bride's preparations

a dog At the Bride's house During the bride's preparations

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Brothers of the bride waiting

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Convento dell’Annunciata, Medole, Mantova | Wedding photo of the Getting ready Bride.

Getting ready Bride with her dress helper

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the hair stylist tends to bride

getting ready uk bride bride Lulworth Castle bridesmaids Dorset wedding photographer Linus Moran

Dolna Strehova, Slovakia wedding pictures of the Groom and mother

the Groom hugs his mother

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Bridesmaids cleaning the bride's dress

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The bride enjoys a drink as she prepares for her wedding

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kids Getting ready for the ceremony

Valencia wedding photographer Antonio Calatayud ring bearer spain weddings L Eliana spain wedding photographer makeup

NJ Wedding Day Venue Photography - The Brides Father and her Brother sipping tea as they wait on guests to arrive so they can start the ceremony

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The groom checked his tie again

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