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.

Bari Wedding Photojournalism | Image contains: groom, getting ready, groomsmen, hairdryer

A groom's brown wedding suit hangs in the window backlit with beautiful Paraná sunshine and a green tree completing the pic

getting ready reflection suit window color groom

Bronx Wedding Photographer | Image contains: black and white, bride, groom, getting ready, bird

eating hand bird fork black and white food

Paris wedding photographer captured this black and white photo of the bride getting the finishing touches put on her hair while the bridesmaids all watch in matching silk robes

bridesmaid black and white bridemaids hair bride Paris getting ready

This detail shot of the flowers in the brides hair was created by a Lyon wedding photographer

Photo by: Franck Boutonnet - Lyon

flower flowers ring Lyon white hand hands

In this image, a Beijing wedding photographer uses a small mirror to capture part of the brides reflection

smile Color beijing weddings Beijing beijing wedding preparations getting ready beijing getting ready

Detail photo of a woman reading a magazine while the bride gets her makeup done taken by a Sydney wedding photographer

Color reading getting ready Sydney hair

Color curtains Devon groom window silhouette getting ready

make up face detail eye hand preparation getting ready

San Francisco wedding photography in black and white of the bride being embraced by her mother before the ceremony

embrace hug hugging preparation San Francisco veil getting ready

Lower Saxony Germany getting ready photo of bride helping flowergirl with her hair

hair Lower Saxony black and white preparation child getting ready

Wedding Photography in Paris | Image contains: black and white, groom, father, coats getting ready

dressing black and white getting dressed getting ready suit Paris suits

Baden-Wurttemberg Wedding Photography | Image contains: groom, getting ready, shave, mirror, reflection

robe groom black and white shaving getting ready reflecting reflection

New York - Long Island Wedding Photography | Image contains: getting ready, bride, mother, mirror, reflection

bride getting ready hands reflection mirror focus

veil dress smiling getting dressed getting ready face bride

Image of a New York City groom putting on his shirt near the window as he prepares for his wedding ceremony

getting dressed shirt white window bed color

Documentary Wedding Photographer in Lima | Image contains: silhouettes, dress, pink, window, bride, makeup, getting ready

make up window windows dress silhouette silhouettes

A Venice bride has some help getting ready in Veneto with a Renaissance painting serving as a striking backdrop

art getting ready getting dressed color bride artwork

New Jersey Documentary Wedding Photographer | Image contains:bride, getting ready, dress, hands, detail shot

detail Color dress yellow hands getting dressed

Denver wedding photographer shoots the moment of the bridesmaids getting ready in this black and white photo

Denver black and white getting ready mirror getting dressed reflection reflecting

A wedding photographer captured this black and white image of the bride getting her gown laced up before the ceremony

hands arm getting ready gown Latvia dress black and white

Rome wedding photographer captured this black and white image of a bride wiping her eyes as she reads a letter before her ceremony

hands bride black and white getting ready hand tear

Baltimore wedding photographer captured this photo of a young groomsmen checking his boutonniere in the mirror, while older groomsmen are seen in the background

child boy getting ready mirror reflection kid

tile hands Lecce reflection shoes black and white getting ready

Wedding Photographer Ben Chrisman of South Carolina, United States

getting ready rainbow preparation makeup make up reflection

Hangzhou City wedding photographer captured this black and white photo of the bride showing off her dress as she gets ready for the ceremony

Hangzhou City bride getting dressed China dressing getting ready black and white curtain

Paraná wedding photographer captured this image of the bride checking her mirror in an antique hand held mirror

mirror hands getting ready bride hand

Documentary Wedding Photography in Lower Saxony | Image contains: reflection, window, indoors, outdoors, bride, makup, getting ready

make up Lower Saxony window reflection black and white makeup

Varese Wedding Photography | Image contains: garter, groom, bride, dress, indoors, glasses, shoes, foot

foot shoe laugh laughing getting ready getting dressed

North Carolina Wedding Photographer | Image contains: getting ready, mirror, preceremony, sihouettes, blue tone

Photo by: Christobal Perez - Raleigh North Carolina

windows Chapel Hill getting ready silhouette silhouettes Blue reflection

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