If you're looking to get into wedding photography, editing is one aspect that can easily be overlooked. But it makes a significant difference to images. If you're not a fan of the editing process, wedding presets in Lightroom are a great way to make quality edits quickly.
Today, I will show you some of the top wedding Lightroom presets available for download. The majority of these presets were created by well-established wedding photographers. And you can see how well these presets work on wedding photos.
So take a look through this list. Be sure to choose the aesthetic that works best for your wedding photography.
Three things separate these packs. Warmth is the first. PBX, Cascade 01, and Cine push amber and gold, while Slate and Ivory takes the color out altogether. Size is the second. The Preset Pro bundle hands you hundreds of options, where Dolce gives you six and Atlas nine. Control is the third. The Meridian and Archipelago sets ship toolkits that adjust grain, contrast, and skin tones after the base grade. The cheaper packs do not.
Every pack below is paid. If you want to try free ones first, start with our free Lightroom presets.
Top Wedding Presets for Lightroom
10. Be Art Presets – Wedding Lightroom Presets
- Number of Presets – 50
- Price – $
This set of wedding Lightroom presets is the cheapest you will find on this list. At $19 you get 50 desktop presets, 50 mobile presets, 50 Camera Raw presets, 60 toolkit presets, and 23 brushes.
Be Art built this collection around soft tones and even color rather than a strong stylistic look. It is aimed at a clean, polished finish that suits engagements, elopements, and bridal portraits as readily as the wedding day itself.
I think the toolkit presets are the useful part here. They let you push exposure, contrast, and color after the base grade instead of starting the edit again.
Skip this one if you want a signature look. The pack is deliberately neutral, so it will not stamp your galleries with a style of their own. It may be worth paying more for wedding presets made by a photographer whose work you already follow.
9. Preset Pro – Pro Portrait Bundle
- Number of Presets – 450+
- Price – $$
This option is great if you want to produce different aesthetics for each wedding you shoot. Or maybe you're not sure how each Lightroom preset will work on your pictures. You get so many options!
The bundle is $89 and runs to over 450 presets and matching profiles across six collections. Inside the portrait presets sit 80 dedicated wedding presets, plus 85 portrait and 78 bright ones that give you soft edits.
Preset Pro says the collections were built by working portrait, wedding, and film photographers, and the wedding set is the one to audition first. Every preset ships with a profile version, so you can dial the strength down rather than accept or reject the whole look.
This is the wrong buy if you want one considered look. Four hundred options is a decision to make on every image, and a photographer who already knows their style will edit faster with the nine presets in Atlas than with this.
8. Trey Wallace – Atlas
- Number of Presets – 9
- Price – $
Wallace's Lightroom presets are primarily made for landscape photography. But they can work great for wedding photography if you shoot weddings in beautiful locations.
When used for portraits, the colors and tones draw you right into the subject's face. Some of the presets will turn natural greens brown. This is a stylistic choice that could work out in your favor. It would make the wedding scene seem a bit unrealistic. But it will also reflect the uniqueness of the special day.
7. LKO – Sierra Presets
- Number of Presets – 13
- Price – $$
The key in Lukas Korynta's set of presets is softness. As wedding photographers know, the key to great wedding photography is taking out the rigid “realness” of photographs and making them look relaxed.
These Lightroom presets aren't just easy on the eyes. They also remain surprisingly natural. It is due to the tones he chose, where each image looks as if it's been shot during golden hour.
6. Archipelago – Afterglow
- Number of Presets – 6
- Price – $$
Afterglow is Archipelago's cinematic set, and it is the one to reach for if you shoot weddings in a dramatic style. Six color grades carry bold, deliberate color without wrecking skin tones, which is the trade most heavy looks ask you to make.
The pack leans on darker contrasts and tonal depth more than saturation. Blacks stay dense, midtones stay clean, and the subject keeps the attention instead of the background. It handles mixed reception lighting better than most sets in this price range.
You also get 12 dedicated tools and AI subject masking on top of the six grades. That is what makes six presets enough: you pick the grade, then use the tools to shape exposure, atmosphere, and skin separately.
It is $120, or $96 if you join the Archipelago Society for $15 a year. Do not buy it for a bright, airy gallery. Afterglow is built for weight and mood, and a couple who asked for light and romantic will not recognize their own wedding in it.
5. Jennifer Moher – Slate & Ivory
- Number of Presets – 10
- Price – $$
Every wedding gallery needs black and white, and most photographers get there by desaturating a color preset. Slate and Ivory is 10 presets built as black and white from the start, by Canadian wedding photographer Jennifer Moher.
That matters because mono is where a deep tonal range either works or falls apart. These hold detail in a white dress and in a dark suit in the same frame, which is the one job a wedding black-and-white preset has to do.
It comes with Meridian's toolkit, so you can add grain, lift contrast, and adjust each image after the base conversion. That is how you get moody tones out of a reception and clean, quiet ones out of a ceremony from the same 10 presets.
It is €59 for the desktop set and €89 with the mobile presets included, and Meridian discounts it often. This is not a whole workflow though. You still need a color set for the other 90% of the gallery, so treat it as an addition to one of the packs above, not a replacement.
4. India Earl – Cine
- Number of Presets – 20
- Price – $$$
Cine is India Earl's pack on DVLOP, and it is the closest thing on this list to a finished house style. The Utah wedding photographer built it around skin tones first: Cine Base lays down golden, creamy highlights over olive midtones, and Cine Soft swaps those for brighter, peachier skin and gentler contrast.
You get 13 color presets and 7 black and white ones, along with modifiers, brushes, and mobile versions. Cine Natural and its cooled variant pull the warmth back for daylight ceremonies. Cine Cobalt takes the shadows blue for evening and reception work.
The camera profiles are what justify the price. DVLOP ships dual-illuminant profiles and ISO-adaptive presets, so the same preset behaves differently on a clean daylight file and a noisy ISO 6400 dance-floor frame instead of breaking on the second one. Those need Lightroom Classic or Camera Raw, and Classic 9.3 or later for the ISO-adaptive part.
At $199 it is by far the most expensive set here, and that is only worth it if you are shooting enough weddings for a house style to pay for itself. If you shoot a handful a year, Cascade 01 or PBX gets you a similar warmth for a quarter of the money.
3. White In Revery – Dolce Presets
- Number of Presets – 6
- Price – $$
This set of six wedding Lightroom presets will set a calming tone for your images. The presets mimic a fairytale-like aesthetic, which would go well with any wedding story. This dreamy aesthetic adds a soft touch to the scene, amplifying the intimate emotions of the event.
I am a fan of Dolce 2. I like how the preset handles the highlights, pushing them close to the limit. This makes the image reminiscent of an angelic dream. Who wouldn't want that to reflect the photos of their day to remember?
2. Benj Haisch – Cascade 01
- Number of Presets – 12
- Price – $$
I am a fan of Haisch's wedding Lightroom presets. He manages to give each image a warm tone without going over the top. Even the photographs taken in the snow seem to have a slightly warm touch.
There is a common theme of blowing out the highlights in these Lightroom presets, which I think works well. This is especially true in indoor settings. The highlights make the lighting look perfect.
The Seattle wedding photographer built the set around a single shooting day, and the naming shows it. Ten color presets and two black and white ones cover the day, the indoor portraits, the dance floor flash, and the sparkler exit, each with a warm variant. A toolkit for grain and contrast comes with it.
Cascade 01 is €79, or €109 with the mobile presets. If you find the 12 too restrictive, Haisch's Cascade 02 is 32 presets for €99 and covers desert, tropical, urban, and mountain light. Neither is the right buy if you want cool, neutral color. Warmth is the whole point of this set.
1. Pablo Beglez – PBX Presets
- Number of Presets – 24
- Price – $$
When it comes to choosing wedding Lightroom presets, the tint and tone of the color is the most crucial factor. You are given a rose-tinted view of the world with the PBX set. This fills your image with romance and positive connotations.
These Lightroom presets work wonderfully on all skin tones. Wedding portraits pop, and there is a soft, warm tone throughout the photographs.
The 24 presets are 6 color looks and 2 black and white ones, each in 16 variations, plus a toolkit for grain and contrast. Beglez built them on amber, brown, and gold underlying tones and deliberately kept them off-trend, so galleries shot this year still look right in five.
At €49 for desktop and €79 with mobile, this is the best value on the list. The catch is that Beglez expects you to nail white balance and exposure in camera. Get those right and it is one click. Get them wrong and you will spend longer fixing PBX's output than you would starting from a flat file.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are paid wedding presets worth it when free ones exist?
Paid sets earn their money on volume, free ones do not. Free presets are fine for one-off images. Paid wedding sets are built as a system, with a base grade, warm and cool variants of it, and a toolkit that adjusts grain, contrast, and skin tones afterward. That is what keeps 800 photos from one wedding looking like one wedding. If you shoot two weddings a year, start with our free Lightroom presets instead.
How many presets do you actually need?
Fewer than the bundles suggest. Dolce is six presets and Atlas is nine, and both are complete looks. The packs quoting hundreds get there by shipping every look in warm, cool, and film variants. Preset Pro's portrait collection is 85 presets built from about a dozen base looks that way. Judge a pack by how many distinct base grades it has, not by its headline number.
Do these presets work on Lightroom Mobile?
Usually, but as a separate purchase. Meridian and DVLOP both sell a desktop version and a desktop-plus-mobile version, and the mobile edition typically leaves the toolkit out. Be Art's $19 pack is the exception here, including 50 mobile presets in the base price.
Will a preset fix badly exposed wedding photos?
No, and the vendors say so. Pablo Beglez asks you to set white balance and nail exposure in camera so PBX can be one click. DVLOP's ISO-adaptive presets go furthest towards handling a noisy reception file, and even those need a correctly exposed frame to start from. A preset is a color decision, not a rescue.
Conclusion
After looking through this selection of professional Lightroom presets, you can see that the choice will come down to your personal preference. Wedding photos often benefit from a slightly unrealistic color tone, whether subtle or obvious.
Choosing this color tone is entirely up to you. As you can see by this list, I tend to lean toward warmer tones. This gives the viewer an instant uplifting feel.
The best way to find the best wedding preset in Lightroom for you is to study examples of each preset. So go through this list and find the right aesthetic to match your shooting style!
If you want one place to begin, buy PBX. It is €49, it is warm without being heavy, and it holds up on files from any camera. Run it over one full gallery before you spend more. If it fights you on a lot of frames, the cause is usually white balance in camera rather than the preset, and that is worth finding out before you spend $199 on a full workflow.
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