Wedding Photos of Archway

The following “Archway” 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 “Archway” 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.

True Love Engagement Picture Session at the Louvre Museum in Paris showing a couple kissing in front of a France archway

Granada, Spain portrait e-session with dark tones, silhouettes and a lit archway

Granada photographer Night silhouettes Granada archway dark tones arches

Ermita Virgen de la Cabeza, Cazorla, Spain portrait e-session above the steps in a lit archway

Cazorla lit Spain Ermita Virgen de la Cabeza steps archway Spain couple portraits

Syracuse, Sicily creative wedding day portrait of the bride and groom, after saying "yes"

The newly-weds embraced beneath an archway, captured in a low-angle portrait. Inside, they shared an intimate session against a balcony, commemorating their special day.

Sicily photographer archway Syracuse silhouettes balcony portrait Sicily low angle

The High Line Park, NYC mini urban pic shoot before the wedding day created through the door to their future

archway nyc wedding engagement New York framed doorway opening Casey Fatchett

Aviano, Italy engagement photo session On the top of the hill

Aviano framing aviano engagement session opening framed Italy

Grado, Italy Arches framing in creative pre-wedding photo

Italy arches framing framed grado engagement photography opening Grado

Turkey engagement photo session in formal dress under an arch with a light

formal dress engagement ruins Turkey engagement photography framed Turkey historical building

Dumbo couple's Silhouette during a pre-wed engagement photo session

dusk portrait NYC couple portraits creative portrait slihouette portrait contrast silhouette

Isabela, Puerto Rico Engagement photographer "We saw how the light created a LOCATION ICON, so we added a light for subjects and created this." in Tunel Guajataca

Puerto Rico shadows Puerto Rico couple image sunshine Isabela archway

IT pre wedding portrait session with engaged lovers in Portopiccolo, Trieste, Italy with some creative Framed happiness

framed portopiccolo couple portraits archway stone building framing Trieste

England engagement portrait with a posed couple under a bridge at Rivinngton Pike

archway framing Liverpool under bridge liverpool engagement photographer doorway Rivington Pike

Pyrénées-Atlantiques pre wedding portrait session with engaged lovers at Jardin secret - Marrakech

archway framing marrakech engagement Pyrénées-Atlantiques doorway Charline Eberhardt Marrakech

The bride and groom framed in an archway at the Castello di Buttrio while they have their first dance

bride and groom Castello di Buttrio first dance archway Julian Kanz black and white Castello di Buttrio outdoor weddings

Puglia wedding dress hanging from the archway at the reception venue

Puglia fine art wedding picture Puglia wedding photography blackand white Puglia dress getting ready

China b&w couple engagement photos at MuTianYu Great Wall, Beijing, China

archway framed couple silhouette Beijing pre wedding portrait engagement photos Beijing China Great Wall Beijing

Canada wedding photo from the Alberta Ceremony location captured through archway

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Engagement Photos | Florence Love and geometry

Engagement Photo of Love and geometry

Florence engagement photographer archway Florence pre wedding portraits framing architecture Florence Florence e shoot

Great wall engagement session

Beijing engagement images archway Beijing engagement photography China Beijing Beijing pre wedding portrait

Vignamaggio, Florence, Tuscany prewedding photography | Engagement image in black and white

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Vignamaggio tunnel Florence pre wedding session Vignamaggio archway Tuscany

Portrait during engagement shoot in Puglia

city alleys pre wedding locations Puglia Puglia archway Puglia engagement photos

Miami engagement session with giraffe statues and arched doorway

pre wedding session Miami USA Miami engagement photographers archway giraffe statues Miami

Seven Steps Canyon Brasov Engagement Photographer: Couple kissing in the door frame

Seven Steps Canyon Brasov Engagement Photo with aCouple kissing in the door frame

Romania engagement shoot 7 Stairs Canyon pre wedding image Romania archway Seven Steps Canyon couple framed in doorway

Seven Steps Canyon Brasov Portraits. Engaged Couple in the entrance of an abandoned building near the seven steps canyon In Brasov during photo shoot

doorway Seven Steps Canyon Silhouette portrait framing Brasov opening

Istanbul couple shooting at Sultanahmet during photo session for new engagement

sultanahmet sultanahmet engagement photo opening Silhouette portrait framing Sultanahmet pre wedding portrait

Couple sitting down in bar

doorway night engagement portrait framing framed Stillwater pre wedding portrait Stillwater engagement photo opening

The engaged couple were kissing in front of the incense burner of the temple

archway Xiahai engagement photo Xiahai pre wedding portrait Chenghuang Temple opening framing Will Tee

Couple at the door, at the end of the street

doorway archway public places city portraits city photos framing

Castilla-La Mancha dancing couple pointed by two diagonal branches

archway Castilla La Mancha Toledo engagement photo framed framing Toledo

The happy couple celebrated their special day at the Martra Centre in the UK, embracing each other from behind in a beautiful Japanese archway

The couple embraced in a Japanese archway to celebrate their wedding day

United Kingdom Japanese architecture archway UK wedding portrait Martra Centre UK couple portrait garden setting

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