Wedding Photos of Newlyweds

The following “Newlyweds” 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 “Newlyweds” 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.

St. Albans, UK marriage reception party award-winning photo that has recorded Newlyweds kissing during the quiet tent reception

Jardin Etnobotanico, Oaxaca City outdoor marriage reception party award-winning photo that has recorded the Cheers to the newlyweds

Mexico photographer Jardin Etnobotanico Oaxaca City wedding photography newlyweds drinks bride and groom marriage reception party

The China WPJA is proud to award this non traditional and colorful Chengdu wedding image of newlyweds and flying fireworks and the happy smile of the newlyweds as the child in red shrugged his shoulders

Cheng Guo flying fireworks Chengdu wedding image China Chengdu shrugged

View this aesthetic Santa Marina wedding day Portrait of the newlyweds during the sunset, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Sozopol, Bulgaria from the WPJA

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Digital artistic Chengdu wedding detail image created after the newlyweds kiss the brides hand is wiping the lipstick off the grooms lips and groom is wearing a military uniform, at right side of the picture is the national flag pattern on the groom

Asia groom wiping brides hand Chengdu wedding image national flag kiss

KFarm Vicenza artful style wedding detail picture of Detail of the newlyweds hands holding glasses for a toast

Vicenza artful style glasses hands holding wedding detail picture detail toast

Veneto wedding couple artistic image session - a portrait of the newlyweds while driving through a beautiful landscape

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Los Angeles wedding photography contest award winning gallery picture at The Lombardi House wedding venue showing The newlyweds laughing at the speech of the brides brother

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Zhejiang wedding couple artistic image session of the newlyweds framed in the doorway

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A French wedding photographer captured a heart-warming moment of laughter between the bride and groom during their ceremony

Best wedding photography from Mairie de Saint-Maur-des-Fosses showing a pic showing a moment of laughter during ceremony

smiles laughing laughter bride and groom Mairie de Saint Maur des Fosses Jean Baptiste Chauvin a wedding couple

Estes Park, CO wedding couple artistic image session of the newlyweds sharing a walk at sunset

newlyweds CO wedding couple Estes Park sunset walk artistic image session

Butte, MT wedding couple artistic image session of the newlyweds embracing one another, happy to be married

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Ruse wedding photographer contest award winning image sample at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Bulgaria created as Grooms mother is welcoming the newlyweds with a traditional round bread giving a piece of bread to both of them

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Dublin City best wedding reportage photography in Ireland showing a pic of A crowd of revellers outdoor drinking during Covid rules react to seeing the newlyweds

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Wild Basin Lodge, Allenspark, Colorado wedding venue outdoor reception photography of the newlyweds sharing a last dance of the night on the back patio

Allenspark Night Allenspark outdoor wedding newlyweds Lucy Schultz back patio last dance

A Colorado wedding photographer at Aspen Mountain created this image of The newlyweds skiing down the snowy mountain following their winter wedding ceremony

Aspen groom Colorado wedding photography skiing snowy mountain Aspen Mountain newlyweds

Best wedding photography from Venice showing a pic of The arrival of the newlyweds at the reception venue in a vintage convertible automobile

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West Lake Tahoe, CA wedding couple artistic image session of the newlyweds in the woods, backlit, in-between framing trees

Tahoe wedding portrait woods artistic image session CA wedding couple backlit trees

Creative wedding photo from the Hotel Ritta Hoppner - Gramado - Brazil Against late afternoon light with newlyweds

The newlyweds touched noses in front of a late afternoon light, capturing the perfect wedding photo

Creative wedding photo from the Hotel Ritta Hoppner late afternoon light Brazil newlyweds Brazil Bride and groom Gramado

Lazio wedding couple posed portrait session of a silhouettes of the newlyweds looking at each other on the background of windows with beach umbrellas

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Basilica di San Magno, Legnano, Italy wedding photo showing A storm of rice on the newlyweds

Italy wedding photo Basilica di San Magno Legnano newlyweds church storm of rice

Thracian Cliffs Resort, Kavarna, Bulgaria creative wedding day portrait against a wonderful sunset for the newlyweds to go outside and take that lovely sun

A lovely sunset outside provided a wonderful backdrop for the newlyweds' wedding day portrait

newlyweds silhouette outside Thracian Cliffs Resort sunset Kavarna sun

Bulgaria wedding photography from Church "Vyzdvizhenie na svetiya kryst gospoden" in Sofia as The father places the cross on the heads of the newlyweds

Sofia newlyweds cross bulgaria church father Lubomir Jiponov heads

Sofia wedding photography from Esterra Vini showing First look between the newlyweds before the wedding

newlyweds Esterra Vini first look before the wedding Sofia wedding photography Lubomir Jiponov Sofia

Wedding photo from China - The newlyweds are having a wedding ceremony. A group of military training students nearby are watching the wedding ceremony.

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Wedding photography from Mogilovo, Bulgaria. Midalidare Estate showing The newlyweds kiss during the fireworks

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Wedding photography from the Sichuan venue of The bride throwing the flower in her hand, which is a symbol of love and happiness, behind her. Friends of the newlyweds are snatching flowers, and many hands reach high

hands symbol of love newlyweds Cheng Guo flowers bride throwing wedding photo

Sichuan wedding photography from When the newlyweds arrive at the bridegroom's home, the bridegroom's mother needs to walk around the couple three times with a rooster, On the far right is the groom's father, He holds one end of the firecrackers

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Lodz wedding photographer captures the newlyweds hugging in the palm house at Yuca Wedding Hall

hugging newlyweds Lodz Yuca Wedding Hall Lodz wedding photo Poland

Artistic Polje Planina, Slovenia wedding photo of newlyweds on the carriage on the water surface with the reflection when one of the horses spot the reflection of themself and got scared

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