Photography, including wedding photography, changes over time. As in any creative field, professionals in the genre of wedding photography experiment and try out new techniques putting them into practice. Recently, wedding photography has become increasingly creative, inventing new trends.

Let's look at the hottest trends in wedding photography in 2023!

Pre-wedding photo session

There are many benefits to organizing a pre-wedding photoshoot. It's the perfect way to make sure the vision of your chosen or potential wedding photographer matches your taste while making friends and letting the photographer get to know you better. A pre-wedding photoshoot will make your wedding day photos much more natural and genuine, revealing your true character, as you will feel more relaxed in front of the camera than when you work with a photographer for the first time.

True and real

Wedding photography is the documentation of a very special day. Modern wedding photography no longer includes artificial shots and staged poses. Yes, there is a place for it, the posing has not disappeared completely, but the majority of wedding photographs consist of genuine and vivid shots, reportage-style photos that reveal the celebration of life with everything that belongs to it – tears of joy, moments of surprise, all the unstaged wedding moments.

Delicate and romantic filter

What can be better scenery for romantic wedding photos than soft and airy lights, the evening sun, which make the photo and skin tone golden? Slightly blurred lines make the shot especially romantic and lovely, and this year strict silhouettes are replaced by blurrier ones.

Bird's eye view

It has become especially important to capture wedding moments from previously uncharacteristic perspectives. Wedding photos taken with a drone are more and more in demand, thus capturing gorgeous and effective shots from above that we would not even see otherwise.

Captured personalized details

The smaller the wedding, the more it is possible to invest in high-quality and aesthetically pleasing details, which is like a treat for the wedding photographer. A big part of the wedding budget at grand wedding receptions goes to catering and accommodation for guests. While a more intimate wedding is a great opportunity to spend these funds on decorations and accessories – exactly the ones you want.

Natural tones

More genuine and natural – that's what we strive for, and it also appears in wedding photography. Earth and deep green forest tones are complemented perfectly by nude and peach tones in decorations, flowers, and wedding attire.

As from the pages of a lifestyle magazine

Brides who pay special attention to fine details and devote a lot of time and effort to finding a wedding dress, shoes, accessories, and decorations will be happy with the trend to create elegant wedding photos as from the pages of a fashion magazine. Although wedding photographers are great at noticing and highlighting details, you can be sure that nothing will pass the photographer's eye in an editorial-style wedding photo session.

Artistic minimalism

This style of wedding photographs is characterized by individual details that are highlighted, leaving the rest of the shot blurred. You should look at this type of wedding photoshoot as a whole, as it will make the collage of pictures arranged in the wedding photo album especially aesthetically pleasing. Let the wedding photographer's creativity run free, carrying out an artistic vision and capturing the magical feeling of the wedding day.

Author: IEVA KRASTINA

Photo: ELĪNA UPMANE, EINĀRS FREIMANIS, LINDA LAUVA, MIKS ŠĒLS, KLAIDS LIELBIKSIS, ZANE KRŪMIŅA