Wedding Photos of Engagement

The following “Engagement” 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 “Engagement” 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.

Tenderness engagement couple portrait with colorful artwork

engagement portrait session love story with motorbike before sunrise

motorcycle moscow engagement images love story Engagement sunrise bike Moscow e session

engagement kissing portrait session On the hill

Malhostovicka Malhostovicka engagement images Engagement portrait session Malhostovicka e session kissing Malhostovicka Pecka

engagement couple portrait with the setting orange sun

Czech Republic pre wedding portraits Czech Republic e shoot couple portrait setting Engagement Czech Republic engagement photographer

silhouetted couple portrait at the rocks during engagement shoot session

Czech Republic e session shoot session silhouetted Czech Republic Czech Republic engagement photography Engagement

engagement portrait session at the beach - closer backlight faces

Maui portrait session Maui engagement photography Maui pre wedding portrait Maui e session faces

Ioannina Greece engagement pre-wedding portrait - Contrast is my friend

Greece engagement pre-wedding portrait with harsh Contrast

Ioannina pre wedding portraits harsh Contrast Nikos Roussis Greece Ioannina e shoot Pre Wedding Ioannina engagement photos

turkey couple in cappadocia for engagement shooting session in the sun

engagement couple session in the sun

Cappadocia engagement photography Cappadocia engagement images Turkey Engagement sun Cappadocia pre wedding portrait

engagement photo session with a couple in formal clothes

Kyrenia Kyrenia engagement photography photo session formal clothes Kyrenia e session Cyprus

Hot air balloons in cappadocia, turkey during a tender engagement photo session

Hot air balloons during an engagement photo session

Cappadocia pre wedding portrait photo session Cappadocia engagement photography Hot air balloons Cappadocia e session balloons Cappadocia

Pure Joy engagement couple portrait in black and white

Portsmouth NH engagement photographer black and white Casey Durgin Engagement Portsmouth NH pre wedding portraits NH Portsmouth NH e shoot

A couple enjoying the seaside beach in York Harbor Beach, Maine during an engagement photography session

A couple enjoying the seaside beach during an engagement photography session

York Harbor Beach e shoot Engagement York Harbor Beach engagement photos York Harbor Beach Casey Durgin Maine maine photography session

San Francisco couple silhouetted against a building during their engagement portrait session

a couple silhouetted against a building during their engagement portrait session

San Francisco engagement photography SF portrait session San Francisco e session San Francisco engagement images San Francisco pre wedding portrait Engagement

Kiss on the Bart platform in San Francisco of a couple during an engagement photo session

Kiss on the Bart platform by a couple during an engagement photo session

Bart platform kiss San Francisco engagement photographer Bart San Francisco pre wedding portraits Engagement

summer love indoors during intimate engagement portrait session

summer love indoors Marzamemi e session Marzamemi engagement images Engagement Marzamemi pre wedding portrait

England engagement photographer in a portrait session in Plymouth

engagement portrait session in the Plymouth woods

Plymouth engagement photography woods portrait session Plymouth e session Plymouth Plymouth engagement images

engagement session in the warm light

Giulianova engagement photos Giulianova Giulianova e shoot warm light session Giulianova pre wedding portraits

engagement portrait shooting in the nature at sunset

Kirchheim an der Teck pre wedding portrait Kirchheim an der Teck engagement photography nature Kirchheim an der Teck e session sunset Engagement portrait shooting

Engagement love session dans le vieux Lyon in black and white

Engagement love session in black and white

love session Castille Alma Lyon engagement photos Lyon black and white Lyon pre wedding portraits Lyon e shoot

A laughing couple has some fun during their engagement portrait shoot

Stone Mountain e shoot Stone Mountain engagement photos GA portrait shoot laughing Engagement

Engagement portrait session of a couple framed within an arch

arch Rome Italy Rome engagement images Rome pre wedding portrait couple framed portrait session

Engagement photo shoot amongst tall, narrow trees with the sunlit peeking through

Caledon pre wedding portraits Engagement Caledon sunlit trees Aniket Sananse photo shoot

couple sporting their baseball attire with ball and bat during their engagement photo shoot

california photo shoot baseball couple sporting bat Tyler Vu Stockton e shoot

couple show affection to one another during their engagement photo shoot amongst a network of stone buildings

Penghu Chao Chin Yang Penghu e shoot Engagement Penghu engagement photographer photo shoot couple

Engagement photo session in Florence at the early morning

Engagement photo session at the early morning

Florence engagement photography Engagement photo session Florence early morning Florence engagement images

Engagement photo session in the early morning

sunshine photo session Florence pre wedding portraits Florence e shoot Engagement Florence

Fun couple pose beside an art poster for their engagement portrait session

Fun couple Paris pose art poster Paris engagement photos Paris e shoot Paris portrait session

Mojacar - Spain couple Strolling down the road next to the painted line during engagement portrait session

a couple Strolling down the road next to the painted line during engagement portrait session

spain weddings road Engagement painted line spain wedding photographer couple Strolling

Beijing China engagement pre-wedding session in the sunlight

engagement pre-wedding session in the sunlight under fall colored trees

pre wedding session Beijing wedding photography Beijing engagement photographer Beijing e shoot sunlight China fall color

engagement portrait Session in the fall colored trees

Kássio Silva Brazil wedding Engagement Brazil brides Brazil wedding photography Brazil Pedra Azul

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