Wedding Photos of Hug

The following “Hug” 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 “Hug” 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.

A Worcestershire documentary wedding photographer captured this moment at The Wood Norton showing A hug between the bride and her mother and a handshake from the brides dad for the groom

A documentary wedding photographer at the Domaine de la Baraque de Sèrignac captured this picture of a hug and a kiss for the bride and groom at the outdoor marriage ceremony

France wedding venue Orthoux Sérignac Quilhan hug France France documentary wedding photographer bride and groom

A wedding photojournalist in Lille captured this Sad moment as the brides father never came to the ceremony

ceremony Lille brides father bw wedding photojournalist Lille hug

Pre-wedding BW engagement image-session at UC Berkeley with A quiet sweet hug inside the library in BW

California photographer CA Pre wedding UC Berkeley hug bw BW engagement image

A Sicily documentary-style wedding image showing a moment at Baglio Strafalcello, Castellammare del Golfo of the Hug and toast of the bride and groom

A Sicily documentary wedding image showing a moment at Baglio Strafalcello, Castellammare del Golfo of the Hug and toast of the bride and groom

Sicily cheers Sicily documentary wedding image toasting Castellammare del Golfo wedding venue

Pre-wedding Forlì couple portrait-session in Italy in a river bed with autumn foliage

Italy Caterina Errani river bed Autumn Italy Pre wedding Forlì couple portrait flowers

A Hoeve Engelendael documentary-style wedding image showing a moment when a woman spills her drink on the back of a mans suit during a hug

A Hoeve Engelendael documentary wedding image showing a moment when a woman spills her drink on the back of a mans suit during a hug

back hug Hoeve Engelendael documentary wedding man cocktail hour Hoeve Engelendael spilling

Pre-wedding Juiz de Fora couple photo-session in Minas Gerais with a framed hug in the open windows

Juiz de Fora open windows framed Prewedding Juiz de Fora RJ couple photo RJ photographer

View this stylish Sofia wedding image of A love hug between tropical plants which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography from the University Botanical Garden in Bulgaria from the WPJA

Sofia wedding image tropical plants Sofia photographer University Botanical Garden stylish Bulgaria wedding photography hug

View this poetic Pyrénées-Orientales wedding Couple portrait under a flag, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Notre-Dame de l'Ermitage from the WPJA

Pyrénées-Orientales wedding Couple portrait under a flag, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Notre-Dame de l'Ermitage

kiss Pyrenees-Orientales embrace flag hug Notre Dame de l Ermitage Pyrénées Orientales wedding

View this dramatic Sichuan wedding image showing The newlyweds hug, smile happily and have a beautiful light, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in China from the WPJA

Sichuan wedding image showing The newlyweds hug, smile happily and have a beautiful light, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in China

Sichuan wedding image hug beautiful light newlyweds smile happily wedding photography Sichuan photographer

View this aesthetic Frigiliana wedding detail pic of the hands of the couple as they hug, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Málaga from the WPJA

Frigiliana wedding detail pic of the hands of the couple as they hug, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Málaga

hug Malaga couple Malaga wedding photography wedding detail pic Frigiliana Frigiliana photographer

Bar Harbor, Maine indoor wedding reception party award-winning picture showing The bride and groom hug close friends

bw hug Kate Crabtree friends bride and groom Maine couple Bar Harbor

Sao Paulo nuptial day award-winning image of the groom and his father in an emotional hug

emotional groom hug sitting father sao paulo wedding image couch

Lamar Valley, Yellowstone outdoor marriage ceremony award-winning image showing a scenic, country style first kiss

Lamar Valley bride and groom mountains hills First Kiss Yellowstone

View this aesthetic Savannah, Georgia wedding pic illustrating - Nevertheless she prevails, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography at Kehoe House from the WPJA

Georgia flowers hands Savannah bw Georgia wedding pic

Maceio couple e-session in front of the sea with a romantic lifting hug

Renner Boldrino romantic Maceió bride sea hug Maceió couple lifting

Maceió, Brazil couple e-session at the beach with a piggy back laughing hug on the sand

hug Renner Boldrino Brazil Couple sand Maceió bride laughing Maceió wedding

Maceió couple e-session in BW with an intimate hug and full white background

Maceió weddings hug intimate Maceió couple Renner Boldrino white background bw

Muggia, Trieste couple e-session in BW at the beach with a Happy hug

hug bw Trieste smiling Trieste couple laughing happy

A top wedding photographer in Utrecht captured this picture showing a drive trough reception due to Corona

utrecht bride wedding transportation winter wedding Leonard Walpot hug Utrecht

A top wedding photographer in Bodrum Villamaçakızı hotel captured this picture of the Groom hugging the bride and the groom turns her around

hug Bodrum bride and groom guests Turkey Bodrum Villamaçakızı

A wedding photographer at Appleford Estate in PA created this image of a mothers hug their children after intimate ceremony outdoors

Appleford Estate PA intimate hug ceremony outdoors wedding photographer

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Perth illustrating a couple caught during Such a beautiful hug together

AUS Pre Wedding AUS Portrait Session hug perth couple Jacob Gordon

Occitanie wedding photography contest award winning candid moment at the Church during ceremony showing Bride with her bridesmaid with emotion

Occitanie wedding photography hug bride bridesmaid Marion Pomes Occitanie during ceremony

True Love pre wedding Photoshoot at the Foothills Parkway in TN of a couple looking at each other as they hug in the middle of the forest

trees embrace TN pre wedding Photoshoot TN couple forest woods hug

Maceió, Brazil environmental engagement e-session in BW with A warm hug on the beach

white background laughing white sky hug beach Renner Boldrino Maceió e session

Ravenna Wild Beach portrait e-session - couple hug on a log delivered by the sea

Ravenna Wild Beach Ravenna Ravenna Wild Beach portrait hug Italy photographer sea log

Ravenna Wild Beach, Italy environmental engagement e-session in black and white with a hug around the neck

hug beach bw Italy Ravenna Wild Beach Caterina Errani Italy photographer

Nantucket, MA portrait e-session of the couple sharing an embrace with flowers in the foreground

MA couple MA MA portrait Nantucket engagement image embrace foreground Nantucket

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