Wedding Photos of Bay Area

The following “Bay Area” 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 “Bay Area” 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.

A couple portrait in the cypress forest by the ocean captured by a North California wedding photographer.

Love Amidst the Cypress: A California Engagement Portrait

In this stunning engagement portrait captured by a top California engagement photographer, the adorable couple beams with love as they stroll along the sandy beaches of San Francisco.

Love on the Golden Shores: A Breathtaking Engagement Portrait amidst San Francisco's Stunning Beaches

San Francisco Bay San Francisco walking shoreline landmark formally dressed bridge San Francisco engagement session

A couple posed for their save-the-date engagement announcement portrait at a hut in San Francisco, USA

San Francisco, USA: Engagement Announcement Portrait of Couple at Hut

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The newly engaged couple enjoyed a warm morning embracing in love while resting on curved railings in San Francisco for their pre-wedding lifestyle portrait

San Francisco, CA: Newly engaged couple embracing at curved railings for urban lifestyle portrait session

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A San Francisco couple poses for a scenic bay portrait together as they prepare to announce their engagement while sharing a sweet hug on the headland overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge

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A newly engaged San Francisco couple poses outdoors for an engagement announcement portrait showing the loving couple in the fog and mist at the bay

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A rustic wooden plank displaying boutonnieres captures the beauty of a wedding day in Northern California's San Francisco

In the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, a rustic wooden plank with boutonnieres displays on a beautiful wedding day

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San Francisco post proposal portrait session with a Bay Area engagement photographer of a Northern California couple caught in a romantic embrace by the bay

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Sausalito post proposal portrait session with a San Francisco engagement photographer of a Bay Area couple sitting on the steps above the busy crowds walking on the sidewalk below

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Sausalito post proposal portrait session with a Bay Area engagement photographer of a Northern California couple posing on the streets in the sunlight for a BW portrait

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Los Gatos pre-wedding engagement photoshoot for a couple who is whispering sweet nothings by the lake

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Saratoga engagement photo showcasing the natural ease of their sweet love at the villa

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A pre-wedding session in Santa Cruz highlighting the lovers and their shadows on the sand at the beach

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A pre-wedding San Francisco engagement session with a couple that knows its time to get on this journey together

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San Francisco engagement photo showcasing the natural ease of their Dazzling love in the afternoon sun flare

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San Francisco bride and groom to be, posturing for a Bay Area engagement image of lovers happily strolling on the beach by the Golden Gate Bridge

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Battery Spencer Fine Art Engagement Session in Sausalito showing See you on the other way

Bay Area bridge Sausalito Sausalito Photographer Tyler Vu cliff portrait Golden Gate Bridge

San Francisco Romance pre-wed portrait session on a steep city street with awesome view of the bay

urban portrait Downtown SF CA San Francisco Bay Area buildings

Fort Point, San Francisco engagement photography at the Golden Gate Bridge

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San Francisco Engagement Portraits

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Engagement Portrait from San Francisco at dusk

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Lovely couple by Golden Gate Bridge - California Engagement Photograph

The engagement photo taken near a bridge featured a peaceful scene with calm water and bay sailboats, creating a sense of quiet serenity

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The engagement shoot shows the couple holding hands with a view of the bay and bridge in the background

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