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.

a Cool portait of couple in evening sun of Ani ruins, Turkey

Engagement portraits in the afternoon sunshine outdoors

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Pre-Wedding Photo with matching hats in the sunshine

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Engagement photo session in Florence at the early morning

Engagement photo session in the early morning

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Grado, Italy engagement couple portrait - Smiles and sunshine on the boardwalk

engagement couple portrait with Smiles and sunshine on the boardwalk

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Paris pre wedding image on the boardwalk in the sunshine

a pre wedding image on the boardwalk in the sunshine

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Essen, Germany Couple Engagement Shoot - Pre Wedding Pictures in the Sunshine

Couple Pre Wedding Pictures in the Sunshine of the afternoon near the woods

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Backlit photo of a loving couple touching heads in a forest Engagement Portrait Session

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Photo from the Wedding Ceremony in New Jersey | Right after the ceremony on the family property barn everyone steps outside where people say a few words about the bride and groom

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Smoke and Love wedding portrait in the sunshine and trees with the bride and groom

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Provence wedding pictures | A couple in the yellow flowers with bright sunshine

wedding picture of A couple in the yellow flowers with bright sunshine

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Engagement photo session in Lincoln Park, Chicago with warm light

Tamara Gavrilovic Chicago engagement photo sunshine light IL Chicago pre wedding portrait shadows

Treviso PreWedding Portrait of a couple near the corn fields

Treviso Outdoor nature corn fields picturesque country grass field

Engagement shoot couple facing the sunlight during dumbo portrait session

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Almería - Spain Pre Wedding Portraits for a Couple with Movement

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Nailsworth, Gloucestershire Wedding and Engagement Portraits - Couple against wall with vert stripes and great light.

Nailsworth wall shadows Gloucestershire sunshine Nailsworth engagement session

Hoi An Photographer for Weddings and Engagement Portraits.

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Holambra engagement portrait of a couple in the flower fields

Holambra engagement photo sunlight picturesque flowers rural country

Cape Town engagement portrait of couple using shadow to create a contrast

Cape Town pre wed shadows formal wear posed couple sunshine light Cape Town wedding couple

Prewedding portraits with a couple and two dogs in Dalat, Vietnam

smiles Dalat engagement photo puppy Dalat Vietnam sunshine

Saignon Luberon France Engagement portrait session in the afternoon sunlight

Saignon Luberon engagement photo scenic France countryside hills trees rural

Great Addington, Northamptonshire engagement portrait of couple sitting among the tall grasses in a field.

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Ouro Preto, MG Engagement Session - Couple holding each other in the afternoon sunlight

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Brazil engagement session with lovely couple late in the day

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Couple laughs together in a ray of sunlight during an engagement session in Roscoe Village in Chicago

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Krabi engagement session in the shadow in the blue

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Old Montreal Pre Wedding Portait - Geometric engagement photo of couple in stark sunshine and shadow

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Cape Town portrait of the engaged couple using the light and architecture of the place

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Key West Engagement Session in the Florida Sunshine

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Union League Club, NYC wedding venue photography | A Bride & Groom portrait using light and shadows

Capture the special day at the Union League Club in NYC with a bride and groom portrait featuring light and shadows

Humorous Manhattan Union League Club light and shadows laughing shape shadow

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