Wedding Photos of Hats

The following “Hats” 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 “Hats” 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.

Engaging couple photographed by a Çanakkale wedding photographer in a vintage shot near a forest, capturing the afternoon light in a fine art composition.

Dynamic Love Story: Turkish Engagement Portrait in Enchanted Light

A couple express their love for each other by sharing a tender moment, wrapped in each other's arms, while resting together in a hammock amidst the beautiful Grateful Woods of Kerhonkson, New York

Kerhonkson, New York: Couple Shares a Tender Moment in the Beautiful Grateful Woods Hammock

black and white portrait resting together Kerhonkson hats New York Engaged Couple Grateful Woods New York - Upstate

A couple in front of a vibrant, hand-painted bus in the scenic Grateful Woods of Kerhonkson, New York, captured in a creative engagement wedding photography session

Engagement wedding photography session in the scenic Grateful Woods of Kerhonkson, New York - Vibrant Bus Photoshoot

colorful backdrop hats Kerhonkson Engaged Couple Rochester hand painted bus Grateful Woods New York - Upstate

At the Oaxaca City ceremony, the wedding guests' hats were in perfect harmony against the sky

The hats of the wedding guests created a pleasing contrast against the backdrop of the sky

guests Oaxaca photographer hats Sky Oaxaca Oaxaca City

A Colorado, on location lifestyle portrait at Maxwell Falls for a couple wearing hats in bokeh

Maxwell Falls Colorado Colorado photographer bokeh portrait hats

Cappadocia couples lifestyle street photography in Turkey in a vendors booth of rugs and hats

Turkey Turkey couple Cappadocia couple street photography Cappadocia vendor booth

Reception in Spain artistic wedding detail image of women and their hats

Detail image of women wedding guests and their fancy hats at this outdoor wedding

Fashion wedding reception Spain accessories facinator artistic wedding photography Spanish wedding

Engagement photo session with a couple wearing hats in Arezzo, a medioeval city in Tuscany

Engagement photo session with a couple wearing hats in Arezzo, a medieval city in Tuscany

pre wedding locations Arezzo Tuscany medieval city hats matching Arezzo engagement photos

Pre-Wedding Photo with matching hats in the sunshine

Lviv engagement photographer Furkan Akarsu Ukraine hats matching sunshine Pre Wedding Photo

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

black and white indoors getting ready Spain Cadiz wedding photographer hats

Netherlands Appelscha Engagement Photography - Image contains: pine, trees, couple, hats

Engagement Photography with pine trees, a couple, and hats

Appelscha Netherlands pine trees couple hats

Some guests during the cocktail

Tombeboeuf ladies hats Chateau de Boisverdun France hats

Private villa, Tuscany wedding portraits | Kissing with hats frame

wedding portraits of the couple Kissing with hats framimg

Tuscany portrait Private Tuscany wedding wedding portraits kissing Tuscany Private Villa Private villa portrait

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

Fuzhou fine art wedding photo friends Vinci Wang Fuzhou Fuzhou artistic wedding photographer ceremony location Fuzhou artistic wedding photography

The groomsmen posed for a portrait at Museo Textil in Oaxaca, Mexico, having fun and wearing their hats in the tree shadows of the wedding venue

The groomsmen playfully posed in the shadows of a picturesque Oaxacan wedding venue, hats cocked and ready for a Museo Textil portrait

groomsmen groomsmen portrait Museo Textil tree shadows Oaxaca Oaxaca wedding portrait hats

St Mary le Strand, London wedding photography showing hats at church ceremony

color wedding photography showing hats at church ceremony

wedding photography church ceremony church St Mary le Strand colorful ceremony

Ho Chi Minh wedding photographer captured this photo of bridesmaids in matching dresses and hats getting ready for the ceremony

Ho Chi Minh wedding photo of bridesmaids in matching dresses and hats getting ready for the ceremony

Ho Chi Minh matching dresses getting ready bridesmaids before ceremony hats Ho Chi Minh wedding photo

Casa do noivo Pré-wedding portrait session at dusk - silhouetted couple profiles

Pré-wedding portrait session at dusk for a silhouetted couple profile picture

dusk profiles Casa do noivo Goiás engagement photographer silhouetted hats

Igreja N. S. Fátima Patos de Minas Church ceremony celebration with hats being thrown into the air

Igreja N. S. Fátima Patos de Minas Church ceremony celebration image with hats being thrown into the air

church ceremony Brazil bw Patos Igreja N S Fátima hat

Rosario, Argentina groom and best man wear hats and have drinks at the wedding reception

the groom and best man wear hats and have drinks at the wedding reception

groom drinks best man hats reception Argentina Rosario

military color candle hats lily note

bw hats river

Devon Documentary Wedding Reportage| Image contains: bouquet, flowers, wedding guests, bouquet toss, outdoors

bouquet toss hands Sky bouquet low angle catch excitement

comedy black and white woman man gloves garter hats

tatoo guests hats groom bride

Victoria Wedding Photography | Image contains:bride, groom, bridal party, outdoors, silhouette, portrait, trees, lake

bridesmaid water hat color outside bridal party

groomsmen clouds cross bridesmaids guests field

Austin bridal party portrait painted faces kids bride groom

Photo by: Bill McCullough - Austin Texas

lighting shadows hats picture makeup

Landes Wedding Photographer | Image contains: black and white, cowboy hats, couple, groomsmen, outdoors, sunlight

groomsman clouds groomsmen shadows sky silhouette

lighting men black and white hats

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