Wedding Photos of Background

The following “Background” 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 “Background” 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.

Ricevimento, Villa Eden, Bagnolo San Vito, Mantova, Italia artful style wedding detail picture created while While waiting for the cake, a part of dress and veil with a swimming pool background

Anakeesta, Gatlinburg couple e-session in TN hugging against a railing as we see the great smoky mountains in the background in a beautiful sunny day

great smoky mountains Sunny day Gatlinburg engagement railing background Anakeesta hugging

San Miguel de Allende couple e-shoot at Parque Juarez showing she she decided to bit his ear in a street full of colors and with a 50 mm lens this spectacular background is formed

background colors bite Jorge Alcala Goded street Parque Juarez ear

San Miguel couple e-session using a a 50 mm and some red bougainvillea in the background, as close as possible and made a romantic posed image

romantic background Jorge Alcala Goded posed image 50 mm San Miguel couple red bougainvillea

Italy best wedding photography from the Castello di Cernusco in Lombardone showing a pic of the bride and groom dancing while in the background all the guests watch them excitedly

wedding photography dancing excitedly Lombardone bride and groom background

An Italian wedding photographer in Venice created this image of Shocked kids looking at the fallen wedding cake while, in the background, the angry bridesmaid is yelling at the guy responsible for it

italian wedding photographer shocked kids angry bridesmaid background fallen wedding cake venice wedding

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session at the Hacienda Montemar in Carrizal Alajuela, Costa Rica illustrating a couple at a background with all its beautiful scenery

Mauricio Urena CR Pre Wedding Portrait Session Hacienda Montemar district CR background Alajuela province

True Love Engagement Posed Portrait in Lake Tahoe, NV capturing a couple embraces while sitting on a rock with the expanse of the water in the background

Nevada NV photographer sitting beach expanse rock NV couple

True Love pre wedding Photoshoot at the Calle Recreo in San Miguel de Allende of a couple with The intention to capture the church in the background with a fun dancing pose

low angle Jorge Alcala Goded urban Mexico pre wedding Photoshoot dancing church background

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Paris capturing a couple with the France tower in the background

Paris Paris PreWedding Portrait Ronan Jégaden France background Paris couple tower

Istanbul, Turkey on-location portrait e-shoot for a couple portrait with historical background

Nilufer Nalbantoglu Turkey portrait arch background Istanbul Turkey symmetry

Liberty State Park environmental engagement e-session for a silhouetted image of couple and NYC skyline in background

silhouetted Liberty State Park couple nyc background Warren Lane nyc engagement

Volunteer Landing Park, Knoxville on-location portrait e-shoot - the couple holds hands at the park with the Henley Street Bridge and the Tennessee River as their background

holding hands Knoxville couple TN Volunteer Landing Park Henley Street Bridge Bryan Aleman TN engagement image

Sunset Cliffs Artful Engagement Picture in San Diego, CA with the beach and waves in the background

sunlight background San Diego engagement shoot CA CA beach San Diego Sunset Cliffs Engagement Picture

Australian couple engagement pic session at Wanneroo Pines showing off the engagement ring details and expression of joy in the background

engagement ring details Wanneroo Pines Naz Razak background Australian couple engagement Wanneroo pic session expression

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

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

Breda mini city pic shoot before the wedding day with the couple posing with on the background an artistic wall part of an art project

city Breda couple posing Breda pre wedding photo artistic wall art project

Breda mini urban pic shoot before the wedding day showing the couple is posing on the background you see a graffiti wall

graffiti background Breda pre wedding photo couple posing Breda urban

Chengdu, Sichuan fine art wedding picture showing the The bridegroom holding the bride's hand, and the dynamic red skirt forms a good background. I think it's a romantic moment

Cheng Guo red skirt background Fine art holding dynamic bridegroom

Under Chao Phraya Sky Park, Bangkok, Thailand mini urban pic shoot with a view of the bride and groom with the atmosphere, the colors of the capital as a background.It makes the image interesting

Vutiporn Supanish background Thailand atmosphere Under Chao Phraya Sky Park capital Bangkok

Crested Butte, CO bride and groom standing for a quick portrait with Gothic Mountain in the background for this wedding portrait session

background portrait session quick portrait wedding Gothic Mountain Crested Butte bride Crested Butte

Desmond Hotel Malvern, Pennsylvania wedding photography showing the Groom lifted up in the air for the hora with bride in the background

bride Pennsylvania wedding photo Desmond Hotel in the air Hora background

Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, Colorado bride-to-be hand made her red dress to set off against the evergreen background during their foggy morning engagement at Emerald Lake

foggy red dress Colorado bride to be Rocky Mountain National Park morning engagement Evergreen CO engagement image

Wedding photo from Oude Kerk, Dongen - the kiss during the ceremony, the wedding guests in the background

ceremony Wedding photo Oude Kerk kiss background wedding guests Dongen

England artistic wedding detail picture from the Reception venue as Guests clink glasses with the bride and groom in the background

England Reception venue bride and groom England clink Patrick Mateer glasses guests

Izlake, Slovenia wedding portrait of a couple ouside the church with their VW beatle in the background

Slovenia VW beatle car Izlake Slovenia wedding portrait background couple Dejan Zagar

Istanbul wedding portrait of the bride and groom walking through the streets with a colorful graffiti background

graffiti background Nilufer Nalbantoglu Istanbul bride and groom walking streets

Black Canyon Inn, Estes Park, CO bride and groom dancing in fall foliage with mountains in background while posing for a wedding picture

background fall foliage Black Canyon Inn co wedding picture posing Estes Park dancing

CA pre-wedding photo session at Skylandia Beach, Tahoe City, CA with a couple walking down a dock with mountains and a large blue lake in the background

engagement image Tahoe City couple walking background dock CA Nicky Byrnes Skylandia Beach

Villa Anna - Ispica artistic wedding photo with thousands of lights

A mirrored wedding photo of the thousands of lights of the city skyline in the background, the couple being the centerpiece

background Villa Anna wedding Ispica couple Sicily wedding Villa Anna wedding couple city

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