Wedding Photos of Wood

The following “Wood” 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 “Wood” 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 Peufeilhoux's Castle in France, a touching detail is frozen in time as the groom gallantly helps the bride free her shoe caught in the wooden planks of a quaint bridge on their wedding day, symbolizing care and support in marriage.

Groom's Gentle Gesture: Bride's Shoe Rescue At Peufeilhoux's Castle In France's Enchanting Setting

Lifestyle couple portrait at Palo Alto CA showcasing a sweet couple practicing their wedding dance moves. A high camera angle captures the wood deck planked dance floor.

Palo Alto Love | High Angle Glamour Portrait Showcasing Couple's Wedding Dance

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Finca Vikingos in Santa Barbara, Heredia, Costa Rica serves as the backdrop for a captivating lifestyle couple portrait. Bathed in warm, golden hour light, the couple sits before a charming wooden door.

CAPTIVATING LIFESTYLE COUPLE PORTRAIT | Finca Vikingos: A Costa Rican Love Story

Santa Barbara CR Engagement photography engaged couple light Heredia Heredia engagements Heredia photography

Capturing the essence of cocktail hour at Saint Martin de Ré, Île de Ré, an artistic wedding photographer composes a striking image featuring glasses on a table, set against a wood plank wall with the shadows of toasting guests.

Cocktail Charades: Toasting Guests Blend Shadows at Saint Martin de Ré

Charente-Maritime wedding detail shots plank Saint Martin de Ré wedding photographer glasses artistic wedding photography close up wedding photography

In Morbihan, Brittany, near their home, a couple stands together in a classic portrait. The high angle shot captures their love, framed by rustic wooden boards.

Love in the Countryside: A Classic Portrait of a Couple in Morbihan, Brittany

Morbihan high angle Morbihan Wedding Portrait Brittany wood bouquet classic portrait

From Santa Barbara In the woods near a wedding venue, a groom waits for the bride to arrive

The groom, seated on a bench in the woods near a wedding venue and fixing his stylish top hat, eagerly awaited the bride's arrival

stylish top hat waiting for bride bench wooded ceremony top hat Santa Barbara Wedding Photography wood

In Cappadocia, Turkey, at a museum hotel, a vintage and rustic looking detail pic of rings on an old wooden stick

A vintage-looking ring photo was taken on old wood at the museum hotel in Cappadocia, Turkey

Cappadocia wedding rings wood Museum Hotel rustic Turkey Cappadocia Photographer

A Nova Friburgo Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, black and white portrait of this Brazilian couple sitting on some wood

sitting wood Nova Friburgo Engagement Photographer black and white Brazilian couple Nova Friburgo

A superb example of a wedding detail in this San Jose, California picture of the CA couple holding hands

California outdoor weddings Jipeng Han holding hands CA couple chairs San Jose wedding photography San Jose

A striking Saint Julian des Landes wedding picture of a France bride and groom embraced on a wooden boat dock by the water with reflections

France Pays de la Loire france bride and groom Vendee wood boat dock water

An inspiring Paris wedding image from France showing the Beauty of the brides shoes

rustic brides shoes shoes France wedding pic Paris France

Mártély pre-wedding portrait-session at Tisza-holtág Tanösvény, Hungary on a narrow wood walking bridge

Hungary wooden path Szilveszter Szabados Tisza backwater wood Martely Mártély pre wedding portrait

Pre-wedding Montpellier couple photo-session while sitting by the water on a boat dock made from wood

dock sunset boats sitting wood Montpellier couple photo session Montpellier

Hove Beach outside environmental couple prewedding photos against wood and concrete

West Sussex couple Hove beach concrete wood prewedding photos outside

A creative Buena Vista wedding picture at The Barn at Sunset Ranch in Colorado showing the boardwalk that leads to the ceremony site takes center stage in this creative composition

composition planks deck creative Colorado wood outdoor ceremony site

Romantic Leadville, Colorado wedding portrait at FREIGHT with the bride and groom seated in chairs indoors by stacks of wood

Colorado wedding portrait chairs Bonnie Sizer romantic CO bride and groom indoors seated

Montpellier, France Fine Art Engagement Image of a couple kissing on a wooden foot bridge under a blue sky

Montpellier foot bridge France wooden kissing dock planks

Hasselt mini photo session before the wedding day for a couple with a vintage background of wood slats

Kobe Vanderzande slats Hasselt couple background Hasselt pre wedding wood Hasselt photo

Ongal complex, Karpachevo, Bulgaria wedding detail photography showing The wedding rings and the feather

This wedding detail photography is a double exposure, showing the wedding rings and a feather

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Caeté couple during e-session in Minas Gerais

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Engagement Photographer for Dalat, Vietnam - Image contains: couple, shadows, trees, pine, wood

Engagement Photos in Dalat, Vietnam with a couple in shadows

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Documentary wedding photograph of Jenga wood block tower falling at Goldstone Hall, Market Drayton, Shropshire

Toppling Tradition: The Jenga Tower at Goldstone Hall

Market Drayton Shropshire wedding picture Goldstone Hall strategy Jenga game night excitement

Denekamp wedding photo | wedding photography of wood block game, Jenga

Towering Love: The Denekamp Jenga Wedding

Denekamp reception grass photography blocks towering game block

couch Color wood green groom painting

dance floor reception color bouquet toss wood bouquet

Chicago wedding photographer created this photo of the bride and groom cutting their wedding cake at their rustic reception

bride Color Chicago wood groom cake cutting cake

push up groom bride dance reception wood

An image from Lower Silesian of a young boy clutching his tractor toys at an indoor wedding reception in Poland creates a pleasing contrast at a special celebration

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London wedding photographer gets a shot of the bridal party getting ready and enjoying a snack before the ceremony

London Color wood reflection eating mirror windows

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