Wedding Photos of Shadows

The following “Shadows” 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 “Shadows” 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.

Ruda wedding documentary photographer created this image at Villa Iachia showing purple Lights add shadows during the first dance

A Tuscany Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic portrait of this Lucca couple embracing at at Forte dei Marmi

Lucca Tuscany shadows Forte dei Marmi hat Lucca couple

Yonne, Burgundy wedding day bridal portrait at Chateau de Vallery showing the bride relaxed during getting ready

Relaxed wood floor Burgundy bridal portrait getting ready burgundy wedding Chateau de Vallery Yonne bride

Tuz Golu, Turkey pre-wed portraits for a fun couple out at sunset with long silhouette shadows

Turkey tuz gölü Turkey engagement photographer shadows Istanbul silhouette

World's best and most unconventional Allgäu couple wedding portraits using the sun and the veil

veil Germany wedding portrait Bavarian Swabia Allgäu couple sun silhouette Allgäu

World's most innovative and best Adana wedding day bride portrait after the reception in warm sunlight against a wall with flying birds

Turkey Warm sunlight Adana wedding bride portrait Adana after outdoor reception shadows wall

World's most innovative and best Nanping wedding photography of The bridegrooms hand to get the ring and vows

written vows shadows China light Nanping wedding photography rings bridegrooms hand

Bangkok fun-loving couple modeling for a pre-wedding session with an airplane toy in the sunshine and shadows

Bangkok wedding photography Patterns Wasan Chirdchom airplane toy shadows Bangkok grids

An esteemed Florence bridal portrait session at an Italy wedding with the bride against a wall with tree shadows and dappled light

Dappled Light Italy wedding bride Florence bridal portrait wall Florence tree

A distinguished San Galgano Abbey wedding image from a Siena couple photo session inside the Abbey with filtered light from the window frames

Abbey wedding portraits window frames San galgano Abbey shadows Siena couple photo session Siena wedding image

World's best and most unconventional wedding photography from Blue Hill Farms, Virginia showing the bride and groom Shadows over the tent at dusk

Blue Hill Farms venue dusk tent Blue Hill Farms VA wedding photography Virginia bride and groom shadows

World's best creative wedding photography from Chateau des Chézeaux, Indre showing The bride, helped by her friends, is getting ready

France Gaelle Caré getting ready friends Indre bride shadows shoes

Chicago pre wedding engagement session capturing the nature of a couple as they pose under a willow tree at Tom Ping Park

trees Chicago couple pose Tom Ping Park Chicago shadows Chicago pre wedding engagement

High quality Villa La Favorita wedding portrait session with this Mantua bride and groom with The engaged couples on the left amidst strong lights and shadows and behind bars the newlyweds toast in full light

strong lights shadows Mantua bride and groom Villa La Favorita Fabrizio Demasi newlyweds Engaged Couples

Pre-wedding Cannaregio engagement image-session in Venice, Italy showing a couple of lovers kissing over a bridge and so are their shadows in the background

sunset Cannaregio IT couple shadows venice wedding photographer lovers

View this creative Bodrum Villamaçakızı Hotel wedding image during a group portrait, drone shot, with meaningful shadows, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Turkey from the WPJA

drone shot group portrait Turkey harbor Nautical boardwalk shadows

View this creative Dalat wedding day detail pic of heart shaped hand shadows on a tree, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Vietnam from the WPJA

Dalat wedding day detail pic of heart shaped hand shadows on a tree, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Vietnam

Dalat wedding Dalat photographer tree Vietnam Dalat heart shaped detail wedding pic

An upscale black and white Occitanie wedding day portrait at the Domaine de Lalanne Groom of the grooms shadow on the wall

black and white Occitanie wedding portrait French Groom bw Domaine de Lalanne shadows Occitanie

View this dramatic Baden Baden wedding image of a bride and groom with sun and shadows, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography from the WPJA

dramatic Baden Baden wedding image of a bride and groom with sun and shadows, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography

germany wedding photography Lights sun bride and groom shadows Baden Baden wedding image dusk

View this graceful Darmstadt wedding image of the bride and groom in BW with strong Light and shadows, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography from the WPJA

graceful Darmstadt wedding image of the bride and groom in BW with strong Light and shadows, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography

graceful couple portrait germany photographer shadows Darmstadt wedding image bride and groom DE wedding photography

A sophisticated Germany wedding portrait of the Neckarwestheim couple at Schloss Liebenstein in Baden-Württemberg creating a study of Light and shadows

Baden Wurttemberg bride and Groom Baden-Wurttemberg shadows sophisticated Schloss Liebenstein Neckarwestheim

View this stylish Brewster wedding image of ceremony details with hands and shadows, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Massachusetts from the WPJA

Brewster wedding image of ceremony details with hands and shadows, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Massachusetts

Brewster wedding image Brewster hands MA wedding photography ceremony details shadows MA photographer

View this dramatic Abbazia di San Galgano image showing the Bride and Groom are coming, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Italy from the WPJA

dramatic Abbazia di San Galgano image showing the Bride and Groom are coming in Italy

Dramatic guests church sunlight Abbazia di San Galgano image Abbazia di San Galgano ceremony

Outdoor Temple Street Night Market, Hong Kong engagement photography portraits as the Couple pose in the shadows

HK engagement photography Temple Street Hong Kong Night Market shadows Outdoor HK portrait

A stylish Oaxaca City wedding portrait of the Mexico bride and groom standing against an orange painted wall, holding hands in the shadows of the trees

Mexico bride and groom painted wall trees Oaxaca City orange standing

On location Paris, France couple engagement portrait shoot while chasing the sun

Paris engagement shoot Paris photographer shadows light chasing sun France wedding photography

Annecy bride and groom to be, posturing for a France engagement image created in the sunshine shadows

Annecy bride France shadows Patrick Lombaert Annecy bride sunshine Annecy

View this dramatic San Galgano Abbey wedding pic of the couple with courtyard shadows, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Italy from the WPJA

wedding photography Italy bride and groom Italy San galgano Abbey shadows courtyard

LA bride and groom to be, sitting for a pre-wedding engagement session at the Arts District giving an Industrial feel for the shoot

DTLA LA bride to be LA Arts District window light Los Angeles The Hendrys

Sopley Lake, Dorset wedding art image in the United Kingdom of the brides Bouquet on the grass with shadows

shadows United Kingdom bride Sopley Lake Dorset wedding image bouquet United Kingdom

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