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.

Sagrado - Castelvecchio Family emotions capture in great wedding photos.

Family emotions captured in a great wedding photo

Wedding guests congratulate the bride, immediately after the ceremony

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

Marseille Bouches-du-Rhone Engagement Session with a couple - Portrait contains: hug, hold, laugh, smile, cliffs, water, coast, look, posing

Engagement Session with a couple and a hug and a laugh

hold water Bouches-du-Rhône hug cliffs engagement photo Marseille Bouches du Rhone look

Aachen Engagement Portrait of a Couple - Image contains: woods, trees, forest, grass, embrace, hug

Engagement Portrait of a Couple in the woods at night

forest hug woods grass Aachen trees

Bedouin Bar, Bulgaria wedding image contains: Cake cutting, kiss, hug, bride, groom, candles

Cake cutting with a kiss

bride and groom Bulgaria wedding photographer Bulgaria bulgaria weddings kiss candles

the groom's mother in full emotion holding her son

mom Spain Spain groom mother of the groom groom emotion

Umbria Engagement Couple Session - Image contains: sitting, couple, stairs, village, hug

Umbria Engagement Couple Session with a sitting couple stairs

stairs pre wedding shoot Umbria Umbria engagement photographers village couple Umbria

Cannes, French Riviera wedding photography | Couple silhouette and a palm tree

wedding photography of a Couple silhouette and a palm tree

blue sky French Riviera tree couple silhouette hug Cannes French Riviera wedding photography

San Marco Mtn. Engagement Picture Session - Portrait contains: snow, trees, piggyback, hug

San Marco Mtn. Engagement Picture Session with snow, trees

piggyback hug snow trees Mt San Marco engagement session Mt San Marco

Cascais, PT Engagement Photo Session - Portrait contains: points, bokeh, light, hug, smile, red dress

Cascais, PT Engagement Photo Session with bokeh light in orange

PT Cascais red dress Cascais engagement photos hug light smile

Hohenstaufen Engagement Portrait of a Couple - Image contains: hug, embrace, winter, jackets, joy, love

Hohenstaufen Engagement Portrait of a Couple in a hug

embrace Hohenstaufen love winter Hohenstaufen engagement photos joy hug

South Tyrol Engagement Photo Session - Portrait contains: bokeh, indoors, hug, window, light

South Tyrol Engagement Photo Session with bokeh

light indoors hug South Tyrol pre wedding location South Tyrol South Tyrol engagement session bokeh

Napoli, IT Engagement Couple Photography - Portrait contains: shot, tight, faces, hug, embrace

Napoli, IT Engagement Couple Photography with tight cropping on faces

Italy shot warm embrace faces Napoli tight

slow shutter of a Hug of bride and groom

Parnay Patrick Lombaert slow shutter bride and groom hug

Engagement Photography - Image contains: Alicante Portrait in the trees - blue sky

Engagement Photography in Alicante for a Portrait in the trees with a blue sky

blue sky trees hold Alicante engagement photos Alicante Alicante pre wedding portrait

Bridge, Kent, UK portrait photos - an engaged couple have a laugh with one another.

Bridge, Kent, UK portrait photos of an engaged couple have a laugh with one another.

Kent bridge fun black and white laugh pre wedding locations Kent

Khanh Vinh, Vietnam pre wedding pictures - A hug to warm you up with fog and mist in the trees.

Khanh Vinh, Vietnam pre wedding pictures showing A hug to warm her up with fog and mist in the trees

mist pre wedding locations Vietnam Vietnam warm hug trees

Quimiac (Brittany, France) Intensity - Black and White Intimate Couple Portrait at the Water

Quimiac Brittany, France Black and White Intimate Couple Portrait at the Water

Quimiac Brittany engagement photographers water black and white France Quimiac Brittany hug intimate portrait

A bride hugs her daughter after her wedding ceremony

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Guests giving bride a super emotional hug

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Couple having a nice warm hug in the sunlight

RJ Nova Friburgo pre wedding portrait hug Hotel Oberland Nova Friburgo engagement images Nova Friburgo e session

W Hotel, Bangkok venue - love hug on wedding day

venue image of a love hug on wedding day

Bangkok hands Bangkok wedding photography hug W Hotel Thailand

bride and bridesmaid hug after toss of bouquet

hug Seyches Nouvelle-Aquitaine Seyches bride Seyches bridal photo bridesmaid France

MILL BARNS Wedding Venue | Bride and daughter share a hug while Groom looks o

Bride and daughter share a hug while Groom looks on

uk bride photos bride groom UK Mill Barns Wedding Venue UK wedding uk brides

Emotional moment, two sisters in warm embrace

Haarlem haarlem bride Peter Kos hug haarlem wedding

The Gables Inn, Long Beach Island, New Jersey Wedding Photography - Two young ladies hug while dancing at The Gables Inn LBI NJ

The Gables Inn, Long Beach Island, New Jersey Wedding Photo of Two young ladies hugging while dancing

long beach island New Jersey dancing LBI hug The Gables Inn

Photography showing Family love at Islington Town Hall, London wedding ceremony

hug UK London England kiss ceremony Islington Town Hall

The groom is hugging his brother in law after he delivered his speech

FR speech Lyon french hug France

Everyone is emotional and trying to hug the bride to say good bye

say good bye the Bride London England emotional hug

Engagement Photos from Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario - Portrait contains: gazebo, beach, water, couple, hug, embrace, ocean

Engagement Photos from Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario at the gazebo and beach

ocean Ontario gazebo Niagara on the Lake water embrace

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