Wedding Photos of Couple

The following “Couple” 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” 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.

CR True Love Engagement Portrait Session at the Doka State in Alajuela, Costa Rica displaying a couple Shot from above of the couple holding hands on a garden

True Love Engagement Posed Portrait at the Patios de Viana in Córdoba capturing a couple under 3 arches with a red backlight spot

Córdoba Posed Portrait arches couple Córdoba Patios de Viana red

Best wedding photography from Wicklow, Ireland showing a pic of a real candid moment in the car with the couple and a child during a private kiss with a toast

Wicklow Wicklow reportage wedding private kiss couple car child Stefano Ferrier

Jaén True Love Engagement Picture Session at Pantano de El Jándula showing a couple holding colorful smoke grenade bombs

bombs Jándula Reservoir Jaen photographer smoke Jaén colorful

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session at the Parque Juarez in San Miguel de Allende illustrating a couple in a a natural and peculiar place, with really striking colors

natural San Miguel de Allende park couple Mexico portrait session striking colors Jorge Alcala Goded

True Love Engagement Portrait Session at the El Chorro in San Miguel de Allende showing a couple where red pillars were used to frame the couple and The red color makes it beautiful

couple engagement portrait session San Miguel de Allende couple Red color El Chorro frame Jorge Alcala Goded

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Crete Senesi capturing a couple enjoying the Tuscany countryside

Crete Senesi countryside Tuscany photographer Crete Senesi Pre Wedding Tuscany couple

Tuscany countryside True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Crete Senesi illustrating a couple having fun in the grass fields

Crete Senesi Pre Wedding Portrait Session fields tuscany wedding photographer Tuscany countryside Tuscany couple Crete Senesi

True Love Engagement Portrait Session in Jesuítas displaying a couple dancing in the sun under the huge tree at sunset

Heloisa Todescatt tree silhouette Jesuítas Engagement Portrait sunset couple dancing

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session at Foothills Parkway in Tennessee capturing a couple Holding hands admiring the beautiful scenery of foothills parkway

blue sky clouds Tennessee couple Session foothills Bryan Aleman parkway TN

TN True Love Engagement Picture Session in Foothills Parkway showing a couple standing on a rock at one of the parkways overlooks

overlook TN couple Session rocks rock hills Foothills Parkway TN

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Castle Hot Springs showing a couple having a laugh at the top of a mountain

couple mountain Phoenix laugh pre wedding portrait Castle Hot Springs

True Love pre wedding Photoshoot in Singapore's Golden Mile Tower of a couple overlooking the city at sunset

overlooking Singapores Golden Mile Tower Timothy Sim sunset Golden Mile Tower SG pre wedding Photoshoot Singapore

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Arnold Arboretum capturing a couple with umbrella in rain

rain botanical research institution Boston Roslindale Harvard University couple public park

Crozon, France portrait e-session with The couple high above the water created while shooting toward the sun

Patrick Lombaert France photographer water couple high above beach France portrait e session

Golf du Morbihan, France portrait e-session using a low camera angle on The couple and shooting up into the clouds

couple clouds low camera angle Patrick Lombaert France portrait e session Golf du Morbihan embrace

Old Montreal, Canada on-location portrait e-shoot with the couple looking into setting sun against a blue backdrop

Canada portraits blue backdrop Old Montreal couple setting sun

Fullerton Beach in Chicago, IL portrait e-session for a Couple kissing in front of Lake Michigan

IL portrait water couple fullerton beach Lake Michigan IL Chicago

Punta Sabbioni, Cavallino-Treporti, Venice, Italy on-location portrait e-shoot with a couple that will give you something spontaneous, cute and beautiful to photograph

Italy portrait e shoot spontaneous holding hands blue sky italy wedding photographer Cavallino Treporti dancing

Jaén, Spain environmental engagement e-session with a couple relaxing in a soft embrace above the city

city relaxing Jaén Spain couple Spain engagement e session view

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

Liberty State Park couple skyline Warren Lane silhouetted nyc nyc engagement

San Vito Lo Capo Beach portrait e-session from a drone plane of a couple listening to the waves of the sea

Beach Portrait sea plane waves ocean e Session cliffs

San Vito Lo Capo Beach portrait e-session for a couple Strolling by the sea past two palm trees

water IT walking palm trees San Vito Lo Capo couple

Carmel Downtown, California environmental engagement e-session with a couple Behind the Painted Door

Carmel photographer California California engagement couple Painted Door Tyler Vu Carmel

Murcia wedding photography showing The friends of the couple after leaving the church

glass leaving church couple Murcia friends reflections

Hotel El Convento San Juan portrait e-session Landscape shot of the hotel with the couple

Hotel El Convento San Juan couple portrait landscape couple hotel San Juan

Marina Los Sueños - Herradura environmental engagement e-session of a couple during blue hour at a beach

Herradura e session Los Sueños blue hour Herradura Marina couple Costa Rica

Doka State, Alajuela portrait e-session of an intimate moment between a couple

Alajuela portraits couple Doka State Costa Rica Alajuela e session Mauricio Urena Alajuela

Orvieto countryside environmental engagement e-session of the couple in the middle of the wheat field

wheat field Umbria e session countryside couple Orvieto environmental engagement Italy

Lake Tahoe, California environmental engagement e-session - a couple on a boat

Lake Tahoe, California environmental engagement e session for a couple on a boat

California engagement e session boat California couple Lake Tahoe California portraits

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