Wedding Photos of Outside church

The following “Outside church” 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 “Outside church” 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.

Lyon Rhône Church Exit: Guests and the bride and groom celebrate their wedding day with a burst of color and joy, as they play with smoke bombs outside the church after the ceremony.

Celebratory Burst: Lyon Rhône Church Exit in Colorful Smoke Bombs

A scene at Cahors where a priest is under attack from young girls wielding bubble guns outside the church, captured by a wedding photographer

Cahors Chronicles: Priest Takes the "Bubble War" Plunge as Mischievous Girls Unleash Sudsy Fun!

Occitanie outside church Young girls bubble guns priest Cahors Documentary Wedding Photography Cahors

In Vienne, a young girl joyfully celebrates the love of her parents outside the church on their wedding day.

Capturing Forever: A Radiant Celebration of Love in Vienne

outside church Vienne Documentary Wedding Photography Vienne guests celebrating young Girl

In this WPJA Purple-awarded photo taken in Paris, Île-de-France, the bride and groom are showered with lavender by guests outside the church, with the bride even getting hit in the face

Paris documentary wedding photography showered with lavender lavender tossing outside church Ile-de-France Paris

The bride's son squeezes and kisses her after her wedding ceremony at Saint Bernadette's Church, Belfast, Northern Ireland

After her wedding ceremony at church, the bride's son affectionately squeezed and kissed her outside

Northern Ireland Belfast Wedding Photographer Saint Bernadette's Church kisses son Belfast hugs

Turin wedding reception photography | groom spraying champaign outside church in Racconigi

The bride ducked as the groom celebrated their union by spraying champagne outside the church after the wedding ceremony

Turin spraying champagne outside church Racconigi post ceremony Turin Photographer

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