Wedding Photos of Hot air balloons

The following “Hot air balloons” 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 “Hot air balloons” 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.

Goreme, Nevsehir, Turkey: A captivating lifestyle couple portrait in Cappadocia's enchanting landscapes. The playful and romantic shot showcases the man lifting the woman towards a sky filled with hot air balloons.

Enchanting Love Soars | Captivating Portrait in Cappadocia's Dreamlike Landscapes

In the rocky landscapes of Cappadocia, Turkey, a wedding photographer captured a beautiful scene. The bride and groom share a tender embrace under the warm desert sun, with a backdrop of a stunning blue sky dotted with hot air balloons.

Desert Sun Embrace: A Stunning Wedding Snapshot in Cappadocia

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In Cappadocia, Turkey, this award-winning wedding portrait showcases a bride and groom embraced under a veil, with the desert sun illuminating their love. Hot air balloons dot the blue sky, creating a romantic backdrop.

Cappadocian Dream: Sunlit Love Embraces under Veiled Desert Sky

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Cappadocian Dream: Sunlit Love Embraces under Veiled Desert Sky

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In Cappadocia, Turkey, during a pre-wedding photo session, the couple is embraced with a dramatic sky filled with hot air balloons overhead, capturing a romantic pose illuminated by the photographer's lighting.

Cappadocia's Enchanting Sky: Capturing Romance in a Pre-Wedding Portrait

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In Cappadocia, Turkey, the couple stands side by side against a dramatic blue sky filled with hot air balloons. Her scarf flows in the wind, creating a picturesque scene, beautifully lit by the photographer.

Beautifully Lit: A Cappadocian Love Story with Hot Air Balloons

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In Cappadocia, Turkey, a wedding photographer from WPJA captured a stunning engagement picture of a couple during a pre-wedding photo session at Cavusin, with several hot air balloons floating in the background and the couple elegantly posing

Eternal Love and Balloon Dreams: A Captivating Engagement Portrait in Cappadocia

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A wedding photographer from WPJA captured an engagement photo in Cappadocia, Turkey, featuring a couple in an Istanbul grass field with a sky filled with hot air balloons

Love in the Air: A Whimsical Engagement Portrait in Cappadocia, Turkey

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A beautiful wedding day portrait taken in Cappadocia, Turkey. The couple poses amongst hot air balloons and horses in a peaceful green pasture.

Dreamy Destination: Love Ascends with Hot Air Balloons and Equestrian Elegance at Cappadocia Wedding

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This romantic pre-wedding photo was taken in Cappadocia, Turkey at sunrise, when the sky was beautifully transitioning from fiery oranges to crystal blues, accompanied by hot air balloons for a stunning silhouette effect

Sunrise Pre-Wedding Photo in Cappadocia, Turkey: Fiery Oranges and Crystal Blues with Hot Air Balloons

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A perfectly balanced composition captures a couple's picture session as they sit in a stone alcove at the Museum Hotel in Uchisar, Nevsehir, Turkey, with a stunning backdrop of numerous hot air balloons filling the sky

Nevsehir, Turkey: Stunning couple's picture session in stone alcove captures hot air balloon backdrop

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At Love Valley, in Goreme, Nevsehir, newlywed couples posed for wedding day portraits while hot air balloons soared under cloudy skies behind their embrace

An artistic wedding photographer captured a moment of newlyweds posing for portraits under cloudy skies and hot air balloons

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The couple posed for their save-the-date wedding announcement picture in Göreme, Nevsehir, Turkey, beneath a pastel sky filled with hot air balloons

Göreme, Nevsehir, Turkey: Couple posed beneath hot air balloons for wedding announcement

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They danced gracefully while hot air balloons flew overhead, launching in the sunrise over Goreme Village in Cappadocia, Turkey, during a lifestyle engagement portrait

In Goreme Village, Cappadocia, the engaged couple danced under hot air balloons at sunrise

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The couple's engagement was celebrated with a sunrise portrait, hot air balloons flying over the valleys and Goreme Village in Nevsehir, Turkey, her face lit from the side

At Goreme Village in Nevsehir, the couple's engagement was celebrated with hot air balloons and a sunrise portrait

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Engaged couple lifestyle session in Cappadocia, Turkey, with vibrant colors in the sky, hot air balloons filling the sky, and silhouetted embracing couple

A prewedding couple portrait session featuring a silhouetted embracing couple with vibrant colors in the sky and hot air balloons in the background

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An engaged couple had a pre-wedding photo session in Cappadocia, Turkey, embracing under a deep blue sky as hot air balloons lifted off of the desert floor

A couple embraced under a deep blue sky as hot air balloons lifted off the desert floor for a prewedding portrait session

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A Turkish couple at the Cappadocia UNESCO World Heritage Site, near chimney rocks during an engagement announcement portrait session

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A Turkey couple poses for a panoramic portrait with some of hundreds of hot air balloons, as they prepare to announce their Cappadocia wedding engagement

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She said yes, post marriage proposal picture session in Cappadocia, Turkey with the bride wearing a red dress at the desert cliffs

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A romantic engagement session at Cappadocia, Turkey above the rock cliffs and below launching hot air balloons

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Cappadocia Engagement. A young Turkey couple posing during a pre wedding portrait session at the launching zone of the hot air balloons

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Cappadocia post proposal engagement session with a Turkey wedding photographer showing her long red dress and the low sun with hot air balloons rising above the desert floor

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Cappadocia couples lifestyle portrait session in Turkey with a flowing red dress and hot air balloons

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A Turkey lifestyle couple photo session in Cappadocia with silhouettes against an orange and blue sky

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A Istanbul Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this lovely, desert portrait of this Cappadocia couple huggging and kissing with hot air balloons behind them

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Epic Cappadocia, Turkey engagement session with a light, formal clothes and hot air balloons

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Cappadocia, Turkey pre-wedding engagement session capturing her flowing red dress and hot air balloons

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Cappadocia bride and groom to be, posturing for an engagement image with beautiful light hitting the couple with hot air balloons in the distance

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Cappadocia couple e-session in Turkey with a tender kiss below the colorful hot air balloons

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