Wedding Photos of Shoulders

The following “Shoulders” 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 “Shoulders” 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.

A playful young boy sits on a young man's shoulders, peering at the celebration event with wonder, captured on the wedding day at Ritz Carlton Al Wadi Desert.

Joyful Young Boy Riding Young Man's Shoulders Gazes at Wedding at Ritz Carlton Al Wadi Desert

World's most visionary and best wedding couple portrait image from Castel d'Ombrone with The flare being the subject of this photo, the married couple are face to face, while the flare that comes from their shoulders illuminates the contours of the faces

Face to face married couple Castelnuovo Berardenga Castel d'Ombrone venue portrait image bw contours

A wedding photojournalist in Brittany captured this moment from the ceremony location at home of the Happy bride

wedding photojournalist Brittany ceremony location shoulders happy bride Elodie Gentit Brittany brittany bride

Outdoor Maceió, Alagoas couple engagement photography portraits showing the woman is on her fiances shoulders, they look at each other and smile

smile Maceió fiance Outdoor alagoas couple shoulders engagement portrait

Lier indoor wedding reception party award-winning picture showing bride and groom dancing on guests shoulders

shoulders guests dancing bride and groom wedding reception venue Lier dance

Suburban Collection Showplace, Novi, Michigan indoor wedding reception party award-winning picture showing End of the night celebration with bride and groom on the shoulders of friends

Michigan dancing friends dance floor Michigan wedding picture Suburban Collection Showplace Michigan indoor wedding

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

shrugged flying Chengdu wedding image happy Cheng Guo smile balloons

EL Neveral, Jaén outside forest picture session before the wedding day with a couple enjoying nature outdoors

shoulders enjoying nature Jaén Jaén pre wedding photo outdoors Jaen couple Jaén picture session

Granlibakken Resort wedding image of the groom, perched on his friend's shoulders, dances as the Ohio State mascot kicks a leg up in the air in Tahoe City, CA

perched air CA Ohio State mascot Nicky Byrnes friend Tahoe City

Party time with a little girl on shoulders

shoulders little girl Party time

Bride paying attention to the shoulders

Italy Italy church wedding Italy church ceremony shoulders ITALY wedding photography S Fedele

groom and his dad on the shoulders of other guests drinking limoncello

guests Julian Kanz groom Tuscany Tuscany wedding venues Castello di Meleto Tuscany wedding photography

On his shoulders | wedding photographer engagement portrait of a couple | Washington DC pre-wedding pictures

Pre-wedding engagement portrait of a couple with the woman sitting on the man's shoulders, holding hands and having fun

holding hands dc engagement portrait shoulders DC couple woman sitting having fun man

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