Wedding Photos of Lit portrait

The following “Lit portrait” 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 “Lit portrait” 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.

National Gallery of Art couple portrait on stairs

Duluth Engagement Photographer - Couple hanging out in the nocturnal room during portrait session

nocturnal room Night Duluth pre wedding portrait lighting Duluth lit portrait

Silhouette image of couple dancing funny at sunset

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Engaged couple is standing in front of an amphitheater highlighted with colour orange at Bilkent University Main Campus, Ankara

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Couple is standing on a building highlighted with purple

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Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) Pre Wedding Photo shoot with atistic jars - universe with couple shilouette

lighting Lights evening dusk Castilla La Mancha Toledo

Sunset loving couple shilouttes during engagement photo session

alley Toledo engagement photo Castilla La Mancha Toledo pre wedding portrait kissing Toledo

Shanghai City Reflections during Engagement Shoot with a Couple at Night

Moana Wu China Lights lighting lit portrait evening low light

Liberty State Park, NJ - Engaged couple standing for portraits

lit portrait evening dusk low light blue hour NJ engagement photo sunset

Hradcanske Namesti, Prague Castle, Czech Republic Pre Wedding Portraits | A couple shares a late summer night kiss underneath the impressive gas lamps at Prague Castle

lit portrait Prague Castle low light Lights Prague engagement photo lighting

portrait of the bride and groom under umbrella with rain

Lit Portrait Umbrella Sicily in Spring Palazzolo Acreide Bride Groom Umbrella Borgo del Carato lit portrait bride groom

North Carolina wedding portrait of bride and groom outside Duke Chapel, lit by strobe for silhouette of church

Duke Chapel church bride and groom NC North Carolina wedding portrait silhouette lit portrait

Fort Fisher, North Carolina Couple Portraits - Engagement photo of future couple with bride's son running in silhouette

low light lit portrait dusk Wilmington North Carolina Fort Fisher NC pre wed

Sunset silhouette engagement potrait in Melaka, Malaysia

lighting sunset Melaka Lights low light Melaka engagement session

Using some available light to highlight the engaged couple against the Union Station in downtown Denver during a portrait session.

Denver wedding couple Colorado dusk Denver pre wed Night Denver engagement session

Discovery Park Engagement Photography - Couple walks on rocks near light house

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Gers, South of France Engagement Portrait Shoot - Just before a big storm

blue hour South of France lit portrait Gers pre wed Lights low light

Madrid, Spain Engagement Photographer - A couple smiling inside a kind of tent

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Villa Toscana - Bagé - Brasil wedding venue portrait photo of the bride in good light in black and white.

Bride portrait in B&W, lit well, at Villa Toscana, Bagé, Brazil

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The cloudy skies at Burg Rheinstein created a beautiful contrast of light and shadows, with the groom silhouetted in the foreground and the bride standing in the light near the castle

The groom's silhouette against the cloudy sky highlighted the bride's beauty near the castle

cloudy skies Germany silhouette castle Burg Rheinstein Groom silhouetted Germany wedding portrait

The bride and groom celebrated their special night at Villa Valenca in Brescia, posing for a lit portrait

The couple beamed as they captured the moment of their wedding in a beautiful urban photograph at night

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Chicago Engagement Portrait Photographer: "I asked the couple to walk down the street. and the light and shadow accentuated the two of them."

Engagement Portrait Photo of the couple walking down the street with the light and shadows accentuated the two

IL night portrait Chicago stairs Chicago engagement photography lit portrait

san francisco bride and groom | lit portrait with creative framing

A stunningly captured lit portrait of the bride and groom with artistic and creative framing

San Francisco Creative wedding photo Bay Area wedding portrait Bay Area wedding couple San Francisco bride and groom creative photography bride and groom portrait

The newlyweds had a romantic portrait taken at Peckforton Castle, silhouetted in the night sky

They had a romantic photo shoot at Peckforton Castle, Cheshire

Peckforton architecture castle Medieval castle Peckforton Castle Castles silhouettes

lovers lane California engagement photographer

A lovers lane with massive tall trees serves as the dark background for a lit engagement photographer's session

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Alternative pre-wedding session - Laguna de Duero pre-wedding shoot

An alternative pre-wedding session captures romance in a lit portrait, with a dramatic sky and clouds adding depth and interest to the scene

Valladolid romance captured Valladolid pre wedding Laguna de Duero pre wedding shoot alternative lit portrait Valladolid Engagement Photography

Golden Gate Bridge at night

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London Eye Engagement Photo Shoot at Night with Couple in Red

Lit Engagement Photo Shoot at Night with Couple in Red

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Ouro Preto lit portrait of engaged couple at a church

The lit portrait featured the engaged couple at a church, with green light illuminating the scene and the couple framed in the door of the building as silhouettes

Ouro Preto Ouro Preto Engagement Photography lit portrait framed in doorway green light church silhouettes

Brazil pre wedding portrait of a couple near a church - Ouro Preto

The pre-wedding portrait featured a couple posing near a church, with the couple at the far left of the frame and historic buildings in the background

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