Wedding Photos of Speeches

The following “Speeches” 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 “Speeches” 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.

At the Olde Beau Resort & Golf Club in North Carolina, the couple can't contain their laughter during a speech revealing everything about the groom, capturing a joyous and lighthearted moment

As a speech revealing everything about the groom elicits fits of laughter from the couple, their funny smiles and joyous expressions highlight the love and humor in their relationship

At the outdoor Antwerpen Wedding Reception venue, guests watch while speeches are given

Family and friends at the outdoor wedding reception venue watch the speeches given by the happy couple under parasol shade

shad sunglasses parasol Antwerpen Belgium Antwerpen outdoor reception antwerpen wedding photographer

showing tears and emotion during the speeches

speeches tears Bordeaux France emotion Bordeaux photographer

Documentary style photography from a Cotswolds wedding at the Stone Barn in Gloucestershire capturing how the groom is embarrassed during speeches

the groom is embarrassed during speeches

Lyndsey Goddard speeches Stone Barn groom embarrassed Gloucestershire Cotswolds Photographer Cotswolds

groom and best man toasting during speeches

best man toasting Lyndsey Goddard London photographer speeches United Kingdom Balham Bowls Club London

Documentary BW wedding photographer in Vosges captured Son and daughter of bride and groom laughing during their speeches

microphones Vosges photographer speeches France laughing Siblings

San Diego wedding image from a Southern California vacation rental showing The grooms mother in law gives a nice speech during the wedding reception

Vacation Rental San Diego San Diego Photographer California - Southern speeches wedding reception

Nievre wedding venue photography of the bride laughing during speeches

speeches Oliver Saillard bride laughing Nievre Photographer Nièvre Bourgogne-Franche-Comte

Best Steamboat Springs, Colorado wedding photojournalism picture showing Bride and groom listening to speeches during the reception

Colorado wedding photojournalism Steamboat Springs bride and groom reception listening speeches Autumn Parry

An extraordinary Perth wedding image by a professional Western Australia photographer conveying The bride and groom laughing during reception venue speeches

Western Australia photographer speeches Jacob Gordon Western Australia Australia reception venue laughing Perth bride and groom

An exceptional Northumberland wedding photojournalism sample by a professional UK photographer at Oxford Barns wedding venue communicating Wedding guests cheering and toasting their bride and groom right after the speeches

Northumberland Northumberland wedding photojournalism Oxford Barns toasting Patrick Mateer United Kingdom cheering

Best Burgundy documentary wedding photojournalism image of the wedding guests enjoying themselves during the speeches

tables dinner France speeches burgundy wedding guests

View this fine example of the best in the world wedding photography from Paris during an indoor Iranian ceremony

Lea Torrieri reception venue indoor Iranian ceremony Paris photographer Paris wedding photography Paris

A London wedding photojournalist at the Greenwich Tavern captured this moment from A busy scene during the speeches

Documentary Wedding Photographers London UK reception busy scene London moment reception venue

A top wedding photojournalist from Utrecht in Netherlands created this image of the bride and groom laughing during the outdoor speeches

laughing bride and groom Utrecht wedding photojournalist Netherlands wedding image speeches Leonard Walpot Utrecht

A Nattingham documentary wedding photographer captured this moment at Picalinos of the Bride shutting up one of her guests during speeches

bride Nathan Walker Nattingham documentary weddings Picalinos speeches reception toast

A top Surrey documentary wedding photographer at the Gate Street Barn created this image showing the groom kisses bride during speeches

Lyndsey Goddard Surrey photographer Surrey Surrey documentary weddings groom bride speeches

This Thailand wedding photojournalism picture is a first rate example of what candid, nontraditional Phuket wedding photography looks like, as the bride and groom are found laughing during the speeches

Thailand Thai bride and groom speeches Phuket Wedding photography laughing Phuket Thailand wedding photojournalism

Whitley Hall, England marriage reception party award-winning photo that has recorded The bride and groom and guests chat and congratulate each other after some wonderful speeches

guests England marriage reportage speeches congratulate chat reception party photo bride and groom

West Peckham, Kent nuptial day award-winning image of The best mans speech, superbly delivered in the driest possible way

best man Kent Kent nuptial day West Peckham photographer Kent outdoor wedding venue speech

Kent, UK outdoor marriage reception party award-winning photo that has recorded the family dog during speeches

family wedding reportage photographer speeches UK outdoor marriage Lyndsey Goddard Kent photography UK reception party

Nanning outdoor marriage reception party award-winning photo that has recorded a funny kid on mic moment

Nanning outdoor marriage speeches funny Nanning wedding photo Children kid Nanning

A top Rome wedding photographer at Villa Pocci captured this picture showing The bride couldn't hold her tears during the ceremony when her sister had their speeches

The bride couldn't hold her tears during the ceremony when her sister had their speeches

outdoor vows speeches venue Rome outdoor ceremony bride tears

Muggia, Trieste, Italy wedding image from Emotional speeches during the ceremony

ceremony trieste photographer Italy emotional Trieste Muggia bride and groom

Renaissance Event Centre, Kingston wedding reception moment photo from Canada created as Bride and groom cry and holds hands while listening to after dinner speeches

Kingston holds hands Renaissance cry Ontario CA wedding photo dinner

Portmeirion, Wales wedding image of emotion and love with an Emotional groom during speeches

groom Gwynedd bride and groom Lyndsey Goddard Portmeirion wedding reception Portmeirion venue emotion Wales wedding image

French wedding photography from the Ritz Paris of The bride and groom during the best man's speech

french Wedding photo France Ritz Paris best mans speech France outside reception France outside weddings

Image of the speech by the sister of the bride at the reception venue of Pollepleats

speeches Utrecht reception Pollepleats sister Utrecht Utrecht wedding venue Leonard Walpot

Montpellier, France wedding reception image of the Shadow speeches

bride and groom speeches Montpellier wedding image silhouette France Montpellier

Backyard wedding ceremony image from St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada of the speeches, moved to the tent area during a major rainstorm - the show must go on

rainstorm raining umbrella St Thomas wedding couples St Thomas bride with groom rain St Thomas

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