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.

Pre-wedding reggio calabria couple | happy Times in the sun with a blue wall and shadows

A couple enjoys happy times in the sun, with a blue wall as the backdrop and shadows from a tree adding depth and interest to the scene

Love shadow on the clothesline - Mersin Engagement Photo

The couple's shadows fall on clothes hanging on a clothesline as they stand close together, their faces captured in a tender moment during their engagement photo

Mersin hanging clothes silhouettes Turkey laundry line clothes line shadows

Ho Chi Minh wedding cake cutting ceremony - super groom transfiguration with "to infinity and beyond" shadowed on his face

Ho Chi Minh wedding cake cutting ceremony image of the super groom transfiguration with "to infinity and beyond" shadowed on his face

transfiguration Ho Chi Minh cake face Ho Chi Minh wedding cut

sanya getting ready photograph in silhouette and black-and-white

bride getting ready photograph in silhouette and black-and-white

Hangzhou City China bride silhouette bw getting ready Miller Yao trees

The Arizona engaged couple embraces as their shadows are cast onto the rocks

In a playful picture session at sunset, the engaged couple embraces as sun shadows are cast onto the rocks in the background

rocks shadows Arizona engagement photography Couple embracing Arizona

A traditional Hangzhou City couple portrait with their shadows cast upon the oil paper umbrella

The happy engaged couple stood hand-in-hand beneath a cascading array of red trellises, their shadows cast upon the oil paper umbrella held aloft

Hangzhou City umbrella silhouettes shadows China Hangzhou PreWedding Session red trellises

A nature loving Illinois couple stood close in the shadows of the trees

The happy, engaged couple stood close to each other, in the shadows of the towering trees around them, feeling dwarfed by their grandeur

towering trees trees shadows Illinois engagement photography Illinois

portrait of the groom and groomsmen shadows reflected in water

Longyan fine art wedding photo portrait Joy Qin water Longyan artistic wedding portrait shadows China

Wedding photographer in Murcia for Spain engagement photography

The happy couple stands in the shadows of a tall tree, the blue sky providing a stunning contrast to the shade

shadows shade blue sky Murcia tall tree Murcia engagement photography

Lancashire documentary wedding photo from reception speech - couple kissing with shadows

Eternal Blessings: Lancashire Love Captured in Shadows

love Lancashire marriage venue speech kissing blessings reception eternal

Parents cheer at end of indoor lodge

stirling ridge stone house nj wedding image New Jersey shadows

Sunlit engagement photos of a couple embraced | Rhode Island photographer pre-wedding portrait session

The sun illuminated a beautiful engagement photo of a loving couple embraced, with graphic lines, shadows, and patterns against an industrial background

Patterns industrial Rhode Island Providence Engagement Photography RI New England illuminated

Shadows and Light engagement pictures of a couple silhouetted | Murcia photographer pre-wedding photo shoot session

The couple's engagement photos were filled with shadows and light, silhouetting them against the ruins of a graffiti-filled wall that the spotlight shone brightly on

graffiti spotlight Murcia engagement photo Murcia shadows light ruins

Baltimore Country Club wedding photograph of the bride and groom climbing steps with their shadows on a brick wall

Baltimore wedding image shadows Country Club Baltimore photographer stairs Johnny Shryock Baltimore

A strong England groom standing tall on his wedding day.

An artistic black and white street scene featuring a groom and shadows paints a creative narrative

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Bride getting help with her wedding dress

Vermont bw bride black and white shadows gown dress

The bride, groom, and guests mingle in the sunny courtyard

bright light wedding guest sunshine sunlight bride and groom married couple Cambridge

Bride walks down the steps in front of the flower girls

Nevada stairs flower girls ceremony shadows South Lake Tahoe bride

The wood roof of this Portugal building created wonderful shadows and patterns for this engagement portrait session

shadows Portugal engagement photography Daniel Monteiro Patterns Portugal couple portrait session Portugal

Larger-than-life shadows created during this Brazil providing portrait shoot

Larger-than-life shadows created during this Brazil portrait shoot

Brazil engagement photography lit portrait Brazil shadows couple portrait session Brazil

Chicago engagement portrait photography | slatted sunlight and shadows on the couples faces

Chicago engagement portrait photo with slatted sunlight and shadows on the couples faces

IL engagement photos couples faces slatted sunlight pre wedding locations IL Chicago shadows

East Midlands Engagement Photographer | light, shadows and wind for this potrait couple shoot

East Midlands Engagement Photo with light, shadows and wind for this couple

wind East Midlands uk engagement session pre wed shoot location UK hair shadows

Victoria, Australia Black and white engagement photo of A couple with sunlight and shadows

engagement photos Australia Jiake Yang Australia black and white Australia pre wedding portrait shadows couple

a Warsaw kissing couple portrait in the park under tree shadows

Warsaw Warsaw pre wedding portrait engagement photos Warsaw leaves shadows trees

Sand dunes pre-wedding engagement session - Desert couple portrait

Sand dunes pre-wedding engagement session for a hot Desert couple portrait

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Seattle sunlight shaft finds this embraced couple in a bolt composition engagement portrait

Seattle engagement session engaged couple Seattle pre wedding location Seattle shadows Warm sunlight Logan Westom

Black and white engagement photography using shadows

NYC Metro engagement session holding hands shadows pre wedding location New York City wall New York City Metro

Square portrait with the couple in sunlight. Siena Engagement Photographer

Square portrait with the couple in the sunlight of Siena

minimalism IT pre wedding portrait Warm sunlight shadows Siena engagement photos IT

California Engagement Photo in the trees of San Francisco in the Sun

pre wedding locations SF couple Jon Sun SF engagement photos California sunlight CA

bride groom sunburst countryside black and white shadows

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