Wedding Photos of Horizon

The following “Horizon” 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 “Horizon” 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.

A picturesque sunset portrait captures a bride and groom at the Baronesse Tacco in San Floriano del Collio, Gorizia, Italy. Their gaze stretches to the horizon, just moments before a looming storm approaches.

San Floriano del Collio Wedding Photography: Sunset portrait at Baronesse Tacco capturing a bride and groom

Scenic Easton Beach pre wedding portrait shoot in Newport, Rhode Island that was cloudy with intermittent rain showers but the sun broke through the clouds at the horizon and gave a rainbow and then an incredible golden sky

golden sky Rhode Island RI pre wedding portrait Easton Beach orange sky cloudy sun

Fort Zach State Park portrait e-session with a couple sitting on rocks at the beach with a sailboat at the horizon

Fort Zach State Park sailboat beach horizon sitting FL photographer

Alqueidão da Serra, Leiria, Portugal pre-wedding portrait session with a Newly engaged couple sitting watching the horizon beneath the propellers of a windmill

Portugal couple sitting propellers Alqueidão da Serra watching windmill Nuno Lima

Gladbeck Engagement Session with a couple - Portrait contains: silhouette, dancing, low, horizon, black, blue, hat

Gladbeck Engagement Session with a couple in a silhouette while dancing

hat dancing pre wedding locations Germany Patrycja Janik Germany engagement photos silhouette low

Dark horizon Wedding Day Photography

Radějov BW Photography dark Radějov horizon wedding day portrait Dark horizon

The beautiful silhouette of the bride and groom at the DUMBO Loft in Brooklyn made for a perfect wedding portrait

The joyous union of the bride and groom, beautifully captured in the magical skyline of the DUMBO Loft in Brooklyn, created a romantic portrait on their special day

NY wedding day portrait urban cityscape portrait of bride and groom shade shadow

Udaipur couple captured at sunset by India Wedding Engagement Photographer

The romantic couple posed for a photograph, their silhouettes framed with the ancient temple structure as the sun set in the horizon

framed romantic Sun Set temple Udaipur couple posed horizon

Portugal engagement images of a couple jumping in the sun at sunset | Braga photographer pre-wedding session for portraits

The ecstatic couple leapt joyfully into the air, silhouetted against the sky at sunset, while golden rays of sunlight shone brightly from the horizon, radiating up toward the heavens

leapt couple ecstatic joyfully Portugal silhouetted horizon

Boston Wedding Photojournalism | Image contains: sunset, telephone poles, bride, groom, bridge, portrait

silhouettes ramp horizon silhouette dusk blue

lighting black and white silhouette guests trees horizon

British Columbia couple reimagine Dirty Dancing in this sunset image beside the water in Canada

bride groom horizon sky portrait water

Black and White Wedding Photographer | Image contains: hugs emotion groom bride guests

embrace black and white horizon hug

Doing things differently in Krakow Malopolskie the wedding party makes their way by horse under sunny blue skies in this one of a kind pic

color horse horizon horses animals field

Wedding Photographer | Image contains: portrait sunset bride groom

orange portrait clouds sun mountains bride

An outdoor wedding image featuring blue skies, cowboy boots and bocce balls in Durango Colorado

horizon sky color boots bocce

Vail Wedding Photographer | Image contains: outdoor ceremony black white bride groom seated guests clouds storm

Vail black and white horizon mountains ceremony clouds

Jakarta Wedding Photographer | Image contains: palm trees, distance shot, sunset, lights, bridesmaids, groomsmen, bridal party, portrait

horizon bridesmaids bridal sunset bridesmaid palm trees

color lights city town kiss strobe bride

Lisbon wedding photographer created this beautiful distance shot of the bride and groom walking down the balcony of a tall yellow building

rocks yellow cloud Sky Lisbon building mountain

portrait sky black and white horizon clouds

Northern California wedding photographer caught this amazing aerial shot of the bride and groom standing on the peak of a mountain as the sun sets behind them

horizon rocks bride hills sunset hill

groom field horizon sky bride color ocean

Bali wedding photographer created this portrait of a groom riding a horse while his bride stands nearby on a beach at sunset

Bali wedding day portrait of a groom riding a horse while his bride stands nearby on a beach at sunset

groom water sun bride horse horizon ocean

grass city skyscrapers color water green ceremony

San Diego wedding photographer captured this detail image of a table full of servicemen hats sitting in front of the city skyline

capc Blue Night cover hats water

Wedding photograph from Bali | Image contains: white birch trees, couple, light, sunset, outdoors

sand white trees portrait sunset horizon

Hangzhou City Wedding Photographer | Image contains: portrait, city, balcony, blue, bride, groom

Hangzhou City Wedding Photo in the city, with a balcony, blue, bride, and the groom

China Hangzhou City town buildings portrait groom Lights

Brazil Documentary Wedding Photographer | Image contains: car, outdoor, rural country, black, white

waving tractor transportation driving car black and white

Guernsey Wedding Photography | Image contains: portrait, trees, blue, light, groom, bride, sunset

silhouettes strobe horizon silhouette sky dark blue

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