Wedding Photos of Storm clouds

The following “Storm clouds” 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 “Storm clouds” 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.

Portrait of a couple taken by a wedding photographer in Hertfordshire. The photo captures a couple in a dramatic pre-wedding shoot, with a break in the storm clouds and the use of off-camera flash to create a striking image.

DRAMATIC DUO: CAPTURING LOVE UNDER DARK SKY - HERTFORDSHIRE PRE WEDDING PORTRAITS

Couple's first kiss during the ceremony outdoors on the grass under questionable storm clouds in New Haven, Vermont

The Stormy Passion: A Love Sealed Under Vermont Skies

Vermont wedding grass storm clouds Vermont Passion Vermont outdoor vows New Haven

A picturesque photo captured at Shupe Homestead, Longmont, Colorado, where a couple embraces in a lush field, contrasting against the dramatic backdrop of an approaching thunderstorm

Love in the Storm: Embracing the Elements at Shupe Homestead Wedding

thunderstorm Shupe Homestead Longmont Colorado Colorado wedding portrait dramatic backdrop lush field

An engagement portrait was taken at Great Sand Dunes National Park, CO, USA, with the couple standing in front of a dramatic lightning storm against a vibrant purple sky

Engagement Bliss: Capturing Love and Lightning at Great Sand Dunes National Park, CO

purple sky Colorado engagement photography dramatic sky Great Sand Dunes National Park Colorado storm clouds

In an engagement portrait taken at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, USA, a couple is seen posing together on the roadside under the colors of a rainbow

Couple Strikes Pose Under Rainbow Colors at Rocky Mountain National Park Engagement Portrait in Colorado, USA

roadside storm clouds Colorado kiss rainbow Colorado engagement photography Rocky Mountain National Park

French Riviera engagement session of a couple posing near a beautiful building with storm clouds filling the sky

Romantic French Riviera BW engagement session of a couple near beautiful building, stormy sky above

French Riviera black and white French Riviera Engagement Portrait storm clouds old building

The couple's wedding day portrait at Briza on the Bay in Miami is dramatically framed by dark clouds in the background as they cross the road

The couple's wedding day portrait is poetically composed against a backdrop of ominous storm clouds as they traverse the thoroughfare

Miami middle of road wedding portrait dark clouds storm clouds Florida Miami photographer

A storm was looming, but this couple still danced in the Tuscan countryside, captured by a wedding photographer

Agriturismo Baccoleno, Tuscany, Italy photgraph | The couple dance in the middle of the Crete Senesi with a storm coming

Agriturismo Baccoleno storm clouds Tuscan Photographer Crete Senesi couple dance Tuscany Italy

bride groom ceremony during storm

ceremony Canada photographer storm clouds Frances Morency bay ceremony outdoor ceremony Canada

Fun Rocky Mountain National Park engagement announcement picture in the nature of Colorado With a storm moving in on the mountains the couple were playing around on top of a hill

storm clouds piggy back ride mountain engagement Gretchen Troop Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado Colorado photographer

A newly engaged Boulder couple poses in front of storm clouds for a Lost Gulch Overlook engagement announcement portrait

boulder storm clouds Bonnie Sizer Lost Gulch Overlook Boulder photographer Colorado

Meuse best wedding photography at Château de Saint-Senoch in Varennes from a rural photoshoot with the groom and bride under dark skies

storm clouds dark skies Varennes Château de Saint Senoch rural portrait Jean Baptiste Chauvin Meuse Photographer

Bulgaria best wedding photography at St. Sofia Golf Club showing the Couple walking in the field just before the storm

storm clouds St Sofia Golf Club Bulgaria Sofia Sofia photographer couple walking

Lookout Mountain post proposal portraits from a Golden, Colorado couple engagement created as The storm was coming in fast and just before the clouds swallowed the sun a burst of light shot onto this couple

burst of sunlight storm clouds Lookout Mountain Colorado golden co Gretchen Troop Colorado photographer

Maceio bride and groom to be, running for a pre-wedding engagement photo shoot as they are avoiding the rain

Gustavo Sarmento Brazil Maceió engagement fields Maceió storm clouds

Tsarevo, Bulgaria Couple walking portrait under storm clouds by the old church on the hill

Tsarevo artistic weddings Tsarevo wedding photographer storm clouds Bulgaria old church Tsarevo bride and groom walking

Wailea, Maui, Hawaii Sunset engagement shoot with crashing waves

Wailea engagement image Wailea crashing waves lit portrait storm clouds Hawaii Maui

Couple running in the clouds over Edmonton, Alberta during engagement portrait session.

Sky Alberta edmonton engagement image couple running storm clouds clouds

Engagement photo of a couple standing on top of a snowy hill at sunrise surrounded by storm clouds

Iceland top storm clouds sunrise snowy hill couple standing

Poipu, Kauai, Hawaii Engagement PhotoShoot | Silhouette portrait of a couple during a storm after sunset

Engagement PhotoShoot for a Silhouette portrait of a couple during a storm after sunset

Hawaii storm clouds Kauai Engagement Photography sunset portrait Poipu Kauai silhouette

Hungary pre-wedding engagement shoot in the hills before the storm

The pre-wedding engagement shoot took place in the dry hills, with storm clouds overhead

Hungary dry hills clouds storm clouds Hungary Engagement Photography

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