Wedding Photos of Nature

The following “Nature” 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 “Nature” 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.

Los Gatos bride and groom to be, modeling for a pre-wedding picture in the serene woods

Couches, France outdoor marriage ceremony award-winning image showing some runners in the middle of the ceremony

trees couches joggers runners ceremony France outdoor marriage nature

TN True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session at Foothills Parkway in Tennessee illustrating a couple looking at each other as they stand next to a tall tree

woods tennessee couple TN tall trees Bryan Aleman Foothills Parkway TN PreWedding Portrait

True Love pre wedding Photoshoot at the Foothills Parkway in TN of a couple looking at each other as they hug in the middle of the forest

embrace hug Foothills Parkway Bryan Aleman TN pre wedding Photoshoot woods nature

True Love Engagement Portrait Session in Steinhausen showing Love Is In The Air

nature Mischa Baettig dip Steinhausen Steinhausen couple trees rural

Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil environmental engagement e-session in nature with palms and dark tones

Brazil e Session Aracruz Espírito Santo Brazil environmental engagement dark tones palms nature

Rio Cerezuelo, Cazorla, Spain on-location portrait e-shoot on a small wooden walking bridge over a creek

Spain couple portrait Cazorla photographer bridge Cazorla wooden trees

Nashville on-location portrait e-shoot of a couple kissing in great afternoon light

Iris Hu afternoon nature kissing outdoors Nashville couple portrait light

Montpellier, France portrait e-session of couple kissing in nature at sunset

France portrait e session sunset kissing France nature Montpellier

Camargue portrait e-session of couple embracing with nice light

Camargue portrait e session nice light French Couple embracing sunlight France

Sintra Pre Wedding Photoshoot w Fine Art Style showing the Couple enjoying and in connection with nature

Lisbon nature Sintra Couple Sintra Sintra Couple Portugal

Siena, Tuscany Fine Art Pre Wedding photoshoot with their lovely dog

sunlight woods nature trees Siena couple Siena pets

Siena, Tuscany Pre Wedding Photoshoot w Fine Art Style for a couple planning to get married in '22

Arturs Sulainis meadow Siena couple trees field woods grass

Udine, Italy Artful Engagement Picture from under the blue skies and showing strong Silhouettes

contrast trees forest silhouette dusk woods Italy

Witten Ruhrgebiet couple engagement pic lovebirds session at the water with submerged feet and a reflection

nature reflection Witten Ruhrgebiet Germany engagement session submerged feet lovebirds session

Saratoga engaged couple picture session with some Peeking through the giant tree trunks

woods Saratoga nature sarasota engagement session tree trunks

Clear Creek, Golden, Colorado pre wedding engagement session in nature embracing in the hot summer sun on this green pathway

summer embracing Colorado pre wedding green sun Lucy Schultz nature

Fort Collins, Colorado pre wedding couple session in nature in the summer greenery with the golden light of the evening sun

Colorado couple session summer Colorado Colorado pre wedding nature Mark Creery sun

Prainha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil outside forest picture session before the wedding day while enjoying time together in nature

enjoying forest time together nature Rio de Janeiro pre wedding Rio de Janeiro Prainha picture session

Two Jacks Lake, AB, Canada mini beach couple photography session before the wedding day while Holding each other outdoors in nature

nature Two Jacks Lake pre wedding outdoors beach Two Jacks Lake photography session AB

Romantic Riversong Inn, Estes Park, CO creative nature wedding portrait session near a pond

Estes Park weddings pond creative Romantic Riversong Inn Wedding Portrait Session Estes Park photographer nature

Sintra fine art wedding couple portrait showing Two tree leaves that symbolizes the nature and couple's roots

Sintra couple portrait Sintra Sintra fine art wedding tree leaves symbolizes nature

Breckenridge, CO outside forest picture session before the wedding day of a couple on a dirt road

CO woods trees Breckenridge engagement photography nature Breckenridge

Rancho Sierra Vista, Satwiwa outside forest picture session before the wedding day of a couple in a grass field

grasses outside Rancho Sierra Vista grass field nature Satwiwa outdoors

Plateau de Valensole, Alpes de Haute Provence mini photo session before the wedding day - couple in a flower field

outdoors grasses Alpes de Haute Provence tall grass Plateau de Valensole grass field Jennifer Voisin

Katy, TX mini photography session before the wedding day with the Couple having a fun time at a tall grass nature park

Katy nature grass field grasses Texas tall grass outdoors

Houston Arboretum outside forest picture session before the wedding with a Couple under a lush tree awning

forest Arboretum TX Texas Houston Arboretum woods

Nazère, Saint-Léornard, Gers, France outside forest picture session before the wedding day with A couple in the countryside

Gers engagement photography woods France trees forest Gers

Dolly Sods - West Virginia pre-wed picture session on a Foggy afternoon in the woods

outdoors wv foggy trees West Virginia West Virginia engagement picture

A Dolly Sods State Park West Virginia couple picture session while Hiking out to a campsite with their pup

puppy State Park forest woods hiking Dolly Sods State Park

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