Wedding Photos of Sunshine

The following “Sunshine” 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 “Sunshine” 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.

The couple's new day together, captured as they step out of the door from inside the Great Wall of Beijing Juyongguan

A couple emerges from the Great Wall into the warm sunshine, ready to create an unforgettable engagement portrait

The newlyweds shared intimate looks facing each other under the sunshine, with a soft lens flare circling them at Uhlandhof Hattenhofen

At Uhlandhof Hattenhofen, the couple shared intimate looks under the sunshine with a soft lens flare circling them

Hattenhoften Photographer Baden-Wurttemberg Uhlandhof Hattenhofen Hattenhoften sunshine lens flare

groom to be whisper a word for the bride to be

sunshine Lyon Couple Session Florian Maguin whispering Lyon photographer France Lyon

The kissing couple in the Parc de Wesserling in Alsace, surrounded by a thousand and one flowers and unmeasurable love, basked in the sunshine of the flower fields for their wedding picture

In Alsace's Parc de Wesserling, a couple kissed amidst a thousand flowers and unmeasurable love, basking in the sun for their wedding portrait session

field of flowers kissing Alsace Parc de Wesserling Alsace photographer sunshine

A close up BW of a couple sitting in the sunshine

Pierre Cassagne Nouvelle-Aquitaine bw portrait sunshine Le Porge Gironde Photographer Gironde

A Poland couple in the city of Lodz, posing on a bench for an urban engagement portrait in the sunshine

A couple in the city, posing on a bench for an urban engagement portrait in the sunshine

Lodz Photographer urban Engagement sunshine Poland Lodz

A Siena engagement session in the Tuscany sunshine near some dark trees

An engagement session in the sunshine near some dark trees

sunshine Siena Tuscany Siena photographer Italy dark trees

At Bendida Beach Bulgaria, the bride and friends react at the end of the ceremony

The bride and her friends shared warm embraces under the outdoor sunshine at the end of the ceremony

sunshine Bulgaria wedding photographer End of ceremony Black Sea Kavarna warm embraces friends

Outside on the lawn at the Lillibrooke manor, the wedding couple play the shoe game in the sunshine

Outside on the lawn, the happy couple beamed in the sunshine as they played the shoe game, seated back to back in chairs

shoe game Lillibrooke Manor England Berkshire Lyndsey Goddard Berkshire photographer sunshine

On a sunny day in the South of France, a professional photographer captures a bride cutting ribbons while playing the traditional wedding bouquet game

On a bright and cheery day, a photograph was created of the bride playfully cutting ribbons during the traditional wedding bouquet game

sunshine South of France cutting ribbons France photographer bouquet and ribbons Jerome Villard wedding bouquet game

At the outdoor ceremony at Wequassett Resort and Golf Club, Harwich MA, the groom and his parents enter the ceremony

The groom and his parents entered the outdoor ceremony at the Golf Club in the sunshine on the grass lawn

Wequassett Resort and Golf Club sunshine Harwich MA groom and parents Cape Cod wedding photographer grass lawn Cape Cod Outdoor Ceremony

The Monflanquin Photographer captured the beautiful moment of the bride driving a tractor at the outdoor wedding venue on the grass, as guests watched the ceremony exit in the sunshine

The sunny afternoon was brightened further by the sight of the bride joyfully driving a tractor across the grass after the outdoor wedding ceremony

sunshine Lot-et-Garonne ceremony exit Monflanquin Photographer tractor Monflanquin

Vácrátót couple portrait in nature showing intense Love in the sunshine

couple portrait in nature showing love in the intense sun light

Hungary Hungary photographer Attila Ancsin couple embrace sunshine Vacratot

Guests gathered to celebrate a wedding ceremony on the sandy shores Help Beach, Fethiye, Turkey, on the Aegean Coast, surrounded by sunshine and picturesque views

Fethiye, Turkey, Help Beach: Guests celebrated a wedding on its sandy shores, bathed in sunshine and picturesque views of the Aegean Coast.

Fethiye Photographer sandy shores Aegean Coast Turkey Aegean Coast Ceremony Fethiye sunshine

Montpellier lifestyle couples photography session in Herault, France showing the lovers hugging in a park setting in the sunshine

Montpellier France park setting sunshine Montpellier photographer Herault Couple hugging

Italy bride and bride's father come down the outdoor aisle towards the groom in Castello di Spessa, Capriva del Friuli, Gorizia

The bride and her father walked down the family and friends lined outdoor aisle in the sunshine, surrounded by the trees

aisle Gorizia Capriva del Friuli Gorizia wedding photographer trees Gorizia Outdoor Ceremony Castello di Spessa

A wedding couple celebrates with their guests as they leave their ceremony in Estes Park, CO

The wedding couple joyfully celebrated with their family and friends as they left the ceremony under a cascade of flower petals in the bright sunshine

sunshine Estes Park outdoor ceremony estes park wedding photographer flower petals CO friends and family Colorado Estes Park

The bride walks down the aisle with her parents outside at Willowdale Estate - Massachusetts

The bride walked arm-in-arm with her parents down the aisle of the estate wedding venue, surrounded by sunshine and the loving gaze of family and friends

MA family and friends sunshine arm in arm Massachusetts Topsfield MA massachusetts wedding photographer parents

A Fort Collins, Colorado couple embraced on a bridge surrounded by trees and sunshine on their special wedding day

The couple in Fort Collins shared a romantic embrace on their wedding day amidst the trees and sunshine

bridge Fort Collins Photographer sunshine embracing trees Fort Collins

An after the wedding proposal engagement picture session in Crete Senesi, Siena in the sunshine, wind, and grass fields

Siena photographer Siena sunshine grass fields wind Crete Senesi

A Save the Date in Dallas. Texas portrait of a couple in the sunshine showing her Golden smile

golden smile Dallas photographer Texas - Northern sunshine Dallas-Fort Worth

Saint-Jean de Poudge engagement photo session at Chartreuse de Dane in Gers, France for A couple face to face under the trees in the sunshine

Gers Saint Jean de Poudge Gers photographer France sunshine Chartreuse de Dane

A pre wedding photoshoot from Old Lyon, France of a couple sitting against a stone wall in the sunshine

Lyon photographer stone wall sunshine couple sitting Lyon France Castille Alma

Monte Lussari post proposal engagement session with a Tarvisio wedding photographer showing some Sunset love in the mountain sunshine near the trees

Tarvisio Wedding Photographer Tarvisio Monte Lussari trees sunshine mountains

Cap Ferret post proposal portrait session with a Gironde engagement photographer of a French couple holding hands in front of two red doors in the sunshine

CAP FERRET Gironde Engagement Photography holding hands Gironde sunshine red doors Patrick Lombaert

Venice post proposal portraits from an Italian couple engagement session with some romance in the sunshine

romance Venice Venice photographer Italy sunshine Italian couple

Rialto Bridge post proposal portrait photos of a happy Venice couple during a Gondola ride on the waters of Italy and in the sunshine

Venice Michele Agostinis Veneto gondola ride Venice photographer gondola Rialto Bridge

National Gallery post proposal portrait photos of a happy Singapore couple lying on their backs in the sunshine

lying on backs Timothy Sim Singapore National Gallery sunshine Singapore Singapore photographer

Singapore post proposal photography showing a smiling Asian couple touching each others faces in the sunshine

Singapore Singapore photographer Asia sunshine Timothy Sim touching faces

St Petersburg couples portrait lifestyle sessions with some Rockside Chatter on the ocean jetty

St. Petersburg jetty water ocean FL lifestyle session sitting beach

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