Wedding Photos of Couple smiling

The following “Couple smiling” 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 “Couple smiling” 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.

Couple portrait by an Alagoas wedding photographer, Marechal Deodoro - AL. Couple smiling at the window of an old house.

Love in Alagoas: Engagement Portrait by a Marechal Deodoro Photographer - Old House Window Smiles

A couple is smiling in the sunshine of Montpellier, France, while the woman is being given a piggyback ride

Montpellier, France: Couple smiling in the sunshine while woman receives piggyback ride

Montpellier PreWedding Session piggyback ride sunshine couple smiling Occitanie Montpellier

The couple smiled happily as they posed for their engagement portrait on Monte Subasio, with a beautiful horse gazing beside them, captured in black and white

Engaged couple smiled happily posing for portrait on Monte Subasio, horse gazing beside them in black and white

bw portrait Monte Subasio couple smiling Perugia horse Umbria Umbria engagement session

Couple smiling surrounded by the fall foliage in Hunterdon County, NJ during their engagement session

A couple enjoyed a romantic engagement session, surrounded by the vibrant autumn foliage, against a backdrop of dark tree trunks

New Jersey dark tree trunks new jersey e session autumn foliage Hunterdon County couple smiling

A Bangkok wedding photographer captured a glowing couple, hand in hand, on an outdoor portrait shoot

Bangkok outdoor portrait | the couple smiling with a tree behind them

Bangkok Chaiyasith Junjuerdee bw portrait Bangkok photographer couple smiling

A French wedding photographer captured a couple embraced and smiled, poised to kiss as the sun set behind them

Gimouille, France image of the couple smiling and embracing for this close-up La Ferme Intention portrait

France Couple embracing couple smiling France photographer close up La Ferme Intention

Muggia pre-wedding photo-session in Trieste, Italy of a Couple smiling with a sad lamp against a blue sky

blue sky Muggia pre wedding photo lamp Trieste trieste photographer Muggia

Downtown Denver environmental pre wedding image session showing A couple smiling at each other in front of an old brick mural

pre wedding session downtown Denver msw photos Colorado brick mural couple smiling

Pleumeur Bodou pre-wedding photography of the couple smiling in the warm sunlight

pre wedding location Pleumeur Bodou Pleumeur Bodou engagement session couple smiling tight shot Patrick Lombaert Warm sunlight Pleumeur Bodou

Freshly engaged, madly in love, laughing together in the setting sun at the Columbia River Gorge in Washington

Columbia River Gorge engagement photos Washington couple smiling wind couple Washington

Colorado sunlight couple engagement photography at Vail, CO

engagement photos Vail Vail pre wedding portrait couple smiling CO standing Vail

Warm and intimate couple engagement photos face to face in Paris

Paris Paris pre wedding portrait embracing engagement photos Paris minimal couple smiling Charline Eberhardt

Macae engagement photo shoot shows the couple smiling happily at each other while holding their dog

A windy engagement photo shoot shows the couple smiling happily at each other while holding their dog high above the water

dog windy couple smiling Macaé Macae Engagement Photography

A CA engagement photo captures the couple smiling in a dry grass field, with the warm glow of sunlight adding a romantic atmosphere to the scene

An engagement photo captures the couple smiling in a dry grass field, with the warm glow of sunlight adding a romantic atmosphere to the scene

dry grass romantic field sunlight warm glow CA engagement couple smiling

Flanders engagement photography | portrait of a couple embraced in a tunnel of love

Flanders engagement portrait of a couple embraced in a tunnel of love

tunnel pre wedding locations Flanders Flanders Flanders engagement photos Sven Soetens couple smiling indoors

A lush green environment for this Rio de Janeiro couples pre-wedding portrait session

flowers leaves pre wedding session Rio de Janeiro couple smiling Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro engagement photographers

crashing waves drench this Valencia couple during their engagement session at the beach

pre wedding location Valencia Valencia water Valencia engagement session wave couple smiling

Malacca Malaysia engagement session - pre-wedding portraits with a couple wearing matching striped outfits at the beach

Malacca Malaysia engagement session with a couple wearing matching striped outfits at the beach

lens flare Malacca matching clothes pre wedding session malacca couple smiling Malaysia Malaysia engagement photographers

Minas Gerais pre-wedding portrait session at dusk with a wall mounted streetlight behind them on the building

beard couple smiling mg engagement photographers pre wedding session MG street lamp Minas Gerais

Santa Fe Argentina Black and white engagement photography | pre-wedding portraits for this loving couple

Santa Fe Argentina Black and white engagement portraits for this loving couple

Santa Fe AR engagement photos hug from behind Santa Fe-AR pre wedding locations Santa Fe AR couple smiling black and white

Intimate Pre Wedding Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Engagement Session with a beautiful couple

pre wedding locations Lyon couple smiling Lyon holding hands grass Lyon engagement photos

Brazil night wedding engagement pictures by a Rio de Janeiro photographer

Rio de Janeiro pre wedding portraits Brazil Rio de Janeiro e shoot Rio de Janeiro engagement photos Rio de Janeiro engagement photographer flash

Bronx destination wedding photo through henna hands | New York engagement session photography

Bronx pre wedding photo through henna hands

Bronx e shoot Bronx hands Bronx engagement photos couple smiling Bronx engagement photographer New York

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