Wedding Photos of Dunes

The following “Dunes” 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 “Dunes” 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.

At the Ritz Carlton Al Wadi Desert, the couple exchanges rings amidst a backdrop of endless dunes, sharing a joyful laugh in the desert sun.

Rings and Laughs: Desert Wedding Delights at the Ritz Carlton Al Wadi Hideaway

This romantic portrait captures a loving couple at the stunning dunes of Scheveningen beach in the Netherlands during their pre-wedding shoot, beautifully photographed by an artistic NL wedding photographer.

Scheveningen Sands of Love: A Breathtaking Pre-Wedding Moment in the Netherlands, Immortalized by an Artistic NL Wedding Photographer

Scheveningen Engagement Photography dunes clouds blue skies The Hague beach grasses Scheveningen Beach

In Montpellier, France, an engaged couple embraces the overcast day as they playfully run on the dunes. The soft sky fills the frame as they lovingly hold hands.

Dancing Amongst the Clouds: A Delightful Engagement Portrait in Montpellier, France

running overcast day Montpellier holding hands soft sky dunes Montpellier Engagement Session

During a pre-wedding photoshoot at Ouddorp Beach in the Netherlands, the couple is captured at sunset, sitting on the dunes, with beautiful pockets of dune grass surrounding them

Captivating Coastal Love: Enchanting Engagement Portrait Amidst Ouddorp Beach's Serene Sunset Bliss

golden hour Ouddorp Beach dunes Netherlands dune grass sunset Ouddorp Engagement Session

A couple embraced in the dunes of Plage de l'Espiguette in Grau-du-Roi is captured in this creative wedding engagement portrait

Plage de l'Espiguette Engagement: Creative Wedding Portrait of Couple Embracing in Grau-du-Roi Dunes

dunes hug from behind Gard Engagement Photo Gard embracing Plage de l'Espiguette Grau du Roi

The ceremony at Snow Canyon State Park in Utah was framed by the bright red rock walls and held on the sand dunes

A Utah Snow Canyon State Park intimate wedding ceremony was framed by red rock walls and held on desert sand dunes

red desert Utah UT red rock walls sand wedding ceremony dunes

In Estuaire de l'orne, the bride and groom jump from the dune while holding hands with free arms in the air

Jody Priour dunes couple jumping Calvados holding hands Calvados Photographer Estuaire de lorne

At the Good Harbor Beach, Gloucester, Massachusetts, a couple is embracing on a path in the dunes with a bird in the sky

dunes Gloucester Couple embracing Massachusetts Good Harbor Beach Simi Rabinowitz Gloucester Photographer

Epic Cappadocia engagement picture in the dunes of Turkey with a jumping couple

jumping couple Cappadocia Cappadocia engagement picture Turkey pre wedding dunes

Adventurous Great Sand Dunes National Park pre wedding portrait in Colorado as the Couple dances in the desert sand

Medano Creek huge dunes Star Dune southern Colorado Preserve Bonnie Sizer canyon

Epic Great San Dunes National Park engagement session created as the CO Couple poses in the desert under the blue sky with clouds

Medano Pass canyons creek Preserve Sky southern Colorado Medano

A creative South Kingstown pre wedding session at East Matunuck State Beach working to utilize some of the iconic features of the beach, like the lifeguard chairs and the beach fences that snake through the dunes

lifeguard chair beach fences Kathryn Wallace Yeaton South Kingstown iconic features East Matunuck State Beach beach

Namibia wedding art detail picture at the Wolwedans Dunes Lodge in Africa of the grooms suit hanging in the desert shade

grooms suit shade Namib Rand dunes sand lodge Wolwedans

True Love Engagement Portrait Session in Atacama Desert displaying a couple enjoying the sun and wind in the dunes

wind sun couple Atacama Engagements dunes Atacama Portrait Session

Al Awir Desert, Dubai Couple walking in the desert during a pre-wed photography session

dunes Al Awir Desert sand Dubai red dress adventure couple portraits Dubai engagement session

Sand Mountain, NV Beautiful light between the couple during a pre-wed photoshoot session at sunset

afternoon sunlight warm light dunes adventure NV nevada engagement session

Sand Mountain, NV Smoke bombs in hand on sand dune during a pre-wed photoshoot in the desert

dunes Smoke Bombs desert nevada engagment image NV sand

Arizona Valley of rain couple portraits during a pre-wed engagement session

adventure dunes arizona engagement photo desert sand Tyler Vu Arizona Valley

UAE pre wedding and engagement photography from Maleiha Desert, Dubai of a couple walking and Exploring the desert

Dubai desert dunes adventure Dubai engagement photography sand

UAE pre wedding portrait session with engaged lovers in the Maleiha Desert, Dubai hugging in the warm wind

UAE adventure Maleiha Desert desert dubai engagement sand

UAE engagement photo shoot from Fossil Rock, Dubai Desert using the desert light

dubai engagement sand adventure dunes desert UAE

UAE pre wedding portrait session with engaged lovers in the Maleiha Desert, Dubai walking through the sand dunes

UAE dubai engagement photo Maleiha Desert Dubai dunes adventure

Turkey engagement photography from cappadocia during a pre wedding session at the sunrise

sand Turkey Hot air balloons adventure Cappadocia engagement e session desert

China engagement photoshoot & pre-wedding session with dancing on the sands of Fuzhou

adventure dunes red dress Shubin Shen sand dunes desert Fuzhou engagement photographer

Marrakech engagement photo shoot in the Agafay Desert of Morocco with a couple kissing

Agafay Desert dunes sand Marrakech e session couple kissing Audrey Morisson adventure

FR engagement photoshoot & pre-wedding session in The dune of Pyla, France with A couple on the sand dunes

The dune of Pyla desert dunes adventure pyla engagement France Audrey Morisson

FR pre wedding portrait session with engaged lovers embracing at The dune of Pyla, France

dunes The dune of Pyla desert France pyla engagement adventure Audrey Morisson

France engagement portrait with a posed couple sitting on the sands of Espiguette beach south of France and kissing

sand Espiguette beach South of France sunset kissing couple dunes Ludovic Lieffrig adventure

Hauts-de-France engagement portrait with a posed couple in the sand dunes of Fort-Mahon-Plage - Somme

couple posed Jean Baptiste Quillien Fort Mahon Plage Hauts de France adventure Somme sand dunes

Hauts-de-France engagement photo shoot with a couple kissing in the desert of Fort-Mahon-Plage - Somme

adventure desert somme engagement photo Hauts de France Somme Fort Mahon Plage dunes

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